Summer Poems

We have written some poems about summer. Here are all the things that we think of when we use our senses in summer. 

We also did some art relating to summer. We used water colour paint to create a beach scene. Once the background dried we got to splatter white paint to make it look like waves crashing. You might have noticed that our school uniforms came home splattered with white paint! 

What do you like about summer?

Shared Class Poem

This week we wrote a shared poem about the colour blue. We each had to write a sentence about what the colour blue reminded us of. We had to use descriptive words to make it more interesting. Once we had written our sentences we got together to edit them and add more descriptive words in and make sure each sentence made sense. After that we put the sentences together in a way that we thought flowed. 

We enjoyed talking about everything that reminds us of the colour blue. 

Can you add a sentence to our poem about the colour blue?

The Enormous Crocodile

We also did some writing about the characters. We described them and used a thesaurus to look for more interesting words.

What do you think we could do to improve our writing?


The Enormous Crocodile
The Enormous Crocodile was rude and cunning.He gets scary and nasty.The Enormous Crocodile had giant teeth and was brave.He was cruel and evil but his plans always failed.He was ugly with an attitude.The Enormous Crocodile was hateful and bad.He’d always eat children and he’d be beastly and had strength.He is villainous.

By Varin

Muggle wump!

Muggle wump is a monkey of “The enormous crocodile” Book. He is very kind caring and full of energy. He tries to stop the crocodile in the book. Muggle wump is brave, he is strong, he is mostly happy and is fun! Muggle wump is friendly and if someone is hurt or scared or worried or needs help Muggle wump will come charging in. Muggle wump is very clever and sneaky, noble and smart. He’s very gentle and full of love for one another. There is one time when he gets furious angry cross and rough and that is when he sees that someone is trying to hurt kill eat or do something that is not very nice to someone else. Muggle wump is very adventurous, determined, expreseve, enthusiastic, fearless, friendly, honest, independent, knowledgeable, loyal, passionate, reliable, responsible, supportive and wise. Muggle wump is really cool!

By Olive

Pygmy seahorses

We have been learning how to take notes and then using our notes to write an information report.
We enjoyed watching the Youtube video about the Pygmy Seahorses.
Have you ever heard about the Pygmy Seahorse before?

Pygmy Seahorses

Pygmy Seahorses are one of the smallest seahorses in the world. They are normally 2 centimeters.

Camouflage is critical to their survival because they can hide from predators.

Here is a question.
Do they find a coral that matches them or do they change colour to match the coral?

The babies pop out of the dad's tummy. When the Pygmy seahorses are born they are a chocolate dull brown colour.

If the baby Pygmy seahorses are by an orange sea fan they will turn orange and if the baby Pygmy seahorses are by a purple sea fan they will turn purple. The babies grow bumps that are called tubercles to match the coral.

The Pygmy seahorses don’t travel to different corals because the predators might see them and eat  them.

By : Arniekay 

Some writing

Here is some of writing from last term.

Our holidays

A room full of friends

We are learning the different features on Google Slides. We can change the background, add 'Cool Text'  graphics, add photos and GIFS, and change our writing font, colour and size.

We enjoyed writing the facts about our selves and learning about our friends in the classroom.

Can you make a slide as cool as ours?
What do you want to know about your friends?

Bike Helmet Safety

We are learning to wear our helmet correctly to protect our head.
I enjoyed trying to put the helmet on in different ways.
Do you know how to protect your head while riding your bike?

Happy Fathers Day

We have been learning how to write a character description. Luckily Fathers Day is coming up giving us someone special to describe - our Dads!

We enjoyed describing the way our Dads look to a buddy and thinking about all the special things our Dads do for us and with us.

What is something special about your Dad?

Wearable Arts Invitation

We are learning how to display and share information on a Google Drawing. We enjoy making colourful and awesome backgrounds.

Do you think our writing is readable with our backgrounds?
Are you coming to the Wearable Arts Show?
Are you going to be in the show?

Who am I?

We are learning to describe someone using lots of detail so another person can guess who. We had lots of fun doing this and creating a google slide that slowly reveals who our character is.

Can you guess who we are?

Puppet Time

We are learning to retell stories using puppets.

We also enjoy using the puppets to make up a show to help us with our writing ideas.

Keep an eye on our blogs to see some videos of us doing puppet shows!

Do you like to play with puppets?

Motat Trip

Matariki

26.6.19
Matariki 
By:Maraea

Today I went to Hawkins theater just across the road.Nearly the whole entire school went. I had fun watching The Matariki Glow show. When I was watching the show The thing I liked about The Matariki show was the acting. In moari culture Matariki to them is happy new years so they celebrate Matariki for representing a new year.Sometimes celebrations of Matariki can last for 3 or 4 days.If you also didn’t know Matariki is also a legend ,their legend name is “eyes of god” but their username that we call them is Matariki. In our year 2019 we can also celebrate Matariki even today! Cause like I said Matariki can last either 3 or 4 days and Matariki was yesterday! The time is 10:00 am in the midnight.

 Room 1's collaborative art for Matariki:

Happy Mothers Day

MOTHERS DAY

. MY favourite thing to do with my mum is going to  my mums work

.my mum is good at doing her work like the dishes and cleaning

. MY mum teaches me handwriting

.my mum tells me to do her work sometimes

.my mum makes the best fried rice

. my mum loves me because I am cute

.my mum is beautiful pink flower

Mother’s Day.

My favorite thing to do with my Mum is go to rainbows end.

My Mum is really good at driving.

My mum makes delicious dinners.

Whenever we go shopping she buys my cool shoes

My mum is beautiful as a rose

I love my mum because she looks after me. My mums favorite color is pink.

Mother's day

My favorite thing to do with my mum is watching movies like harry potter and charlie and the chocolate factory. my mum is really good at being nice and she teaches me to go with the flow. Mum always tells me to remember manners. mum gives the best loving  hugs. my mum loves me because i love her. my mum is as beautiful as a unicorn.

My Mum

Mum is good with taking care of me because she gives me medicine and some hugs. My mum always tells me that she loves me and she said I'm valuable to her heaps of times.my mum makes the best banana cake in the world.

WANTED! Jack and the beanstalk

In Room 1 we have been reading Jack and the beanstalk. We have been discussing the characters and what makes them good and bad. Here are some wanted posters we created on Google Draw. We wrote about why the characters were wanted and described their looks.

All about me

Our 'Get NZ writing' poems

Here are the poem postcards we wrote this week. We have been building up our word banks and word knowledge over the past couple of weeks to complete these based on the 13 items we were giving from Warehouse Stationery. We will be posting these to another school soon and we will receive some postcards back!

Our 13 items

Get NZ writing

As part of the Warehouse Stationery 'Get NZ Writing' initiative we have been writing poems. Warehouse Stationery has sent us a bunch of ideas, resources and stationery to help us with this.

For our first poems we had to pick a colour and then write a sentence each that contained that colour. Next we put them all together in a flowing order and edit the writing so that it read nicely as a poem

We spilt the ideas and made 2 poems. We will try this activity again with a different colour another day!