Reminders


Friday: Room 12 'PLAYS' performances

Plays begin between 10:00 and 10:15 am. We will have 3 plays performed before morning tea, and 3 after. We should be finished by 12:15 at which time we will have a shared lunch.

We will post the order of performance schedule tomorrow.

EVERYONE is welcome, for as long as you like.


WINNING HOUSE - KOWHAI

Kowhai have won this year's House Competition and as such , get to go to Halswell Pool next Monday from 9:45 - 2:15.

Students in Kowhai were given a permission notice yesterday. It is due back FRIDAY. Students who do not return the notice are not allowed to go. Permission slips can not be returned on Monday morning.

I have added a copy of the notice to the blog, for your information.

Writing

Welcome to the Writing page

This term we are focusing on vocabulary development.

To make our writing more interesting we are learning about

 -  POWERFUL VERBS ( not the boring old  'run' but rather ' bolted, sprinted, catapulted' etc)

- ADJECTIVES ( like the huge, colourful, plastic parachute)

- ADVERBS ( like he walked quickly towards the door as he looked worryingly behind him)


We have been using pictures to get us inspired.

Here are TWO that we have used.



 STUDENT SENTENCES


I can hear the water rustling as the bulls rush through it.     -by Beth
I can smell the stinky bulls   -by Tamsin
I can see my reflection in the polluted water  -by Hannah
I can feel the powerful bull tugging rope burning my hand - byRudo



STUDENT SENTENCE

I can see the lovely mountains in the background    -by Beth
I can feel my mothers arms swishing up and down   -by Tamsin
I can hear the delicious rice bouncing up and down in the bowl  -by Hannah
I can smell the scrumptious rice falling onto the rocky mountain - by Rudo





PARACHUTE

We also went outside with a parachute to inspire us to write.
Here are the pics below with some sentences.




   





















 I can hear students shouting and laughing as they run happily through the parachute  - by Beth
I can taste the excitement in peoples mouths     -by Tamsin
I can smell the discusting grass as I run through the floating colourful parachute-by Makayla
I can smell the parachute like it was a tent-by Jayden
I can smell the fresh cut grass as we run through the parachute  -by Hannah
I can see desperate classmates yanking down the parachute   -by Ella 
I can see my desperate classmates racing to get out - by Rudo



FIREWORKS!!!!

Here is the picture starter for writing about fireworks. Imagine you are the person taking the photo. Describe what is happening at that moment in time, the sound, small, taste, what you can see and feel.







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