Ava-May; Workhouse Musician

 Part of our learning this term has been around identifying and using adjectives in writing. Ava-May has a description using adjectives for the writing task 'WORKHOUSE MUSICIAN'. 

How many adjectives can you find? 

One day this little boy he had no home so he found this place wear these people

used to live their and when they moved out he thought yeah I should move in here

because I have no home.

But he had no clothes so he said to himself maybe I can only wear these clothes

because I have no other clothes.

Then when he moved into the house he found this violin and he said may as well

practice violin cause that’s all will keep me occupied. So he found this bird when

he was looking for somewhere to live so he took care of him. He had to find food

everywhere for both of them. But until then they will do the exact same thing 

everyday always find food and take care of his pet bird. By Ava-May

School Kit - Let's get NZ Writing

Today, we finally got to try on the 3D glasses and read our poem that we wrote together! We even got to have a look outside with our glasses on and the sky looked AMAZING! 

How to make Panipopo - By Ava May

We have been learning about procedural writing and using Samoan dishes to write recipes for. Here is Ava-May's Panipopo writing. Click on the image to take you directly to her Doc.

Samoan Language Week - Koko Alaisa

Today we learnt about a traditional Samoan breakfast. KOKO ALAISA. 

We watched a video to help us learn about the samoan dish. This is Veni and he is a vlogger. We watched how he made Koko Alaisa. We then had to write the instructions based on the video. 

Mrs Faalili, Ava-May, Uheina from Room 9 and Moe and Nadal from Room 8 made koko alaisa for the entire syndicate. That's about 70 students altogether. 

Ingredients: Samoan Koko, Rice, Water and sugar to taste. 

It didn't take very long to cook. And by the time it was ready to be served, Mrs Faalili forgot all about the ipad and we missed out on the photos of all of our team enjoying the deliciously hot koko alaisa. 

Strong Connections

This week we get to celebrate all the strong females that we have in our lives. This might be your mum, your nana, an aunty, a cousin and even a sister. Check out our padlet below as we start brainstorming for our writing this week. Our padlet is called 'A letter to my mum'... 

Who are the strong females in your life? Comment down below.  

A moment in time

Here is Drevyn's piece of writing today describing this moment in time

Animal Town - by Mrs Faalili

For work on writing, one of the activities is to use pobble 365 and write about the picture. Here is my writing. 

Animal town

Gareth the Grizzly bear grouchily waiting for his meal

Gizelle the Giraffe gazing gleefully out the window

Zane the Zebra zig zagging across the crossing

Otis the Orangatang oh so lonely 
Mia & Micah the meerkats magically awaiting their friends

Peta the parrot peacefully keeping watch 

Lazza the Lion looking, lying, leading. 

Nutella Toast by Monique

Last week Monique had Nutella toast for breakfast. She wrote down the instructions on how to make it. Have a look down below. 

Now it's your turn to try and make nutella toast. Have fun! 

We are different - but the same

This week, we have been learning about what makes us unique - but also, what we have in common with others in our class. We're really proud of our work because we know that we are special and our writing reflects that. One thing that we are really surprised about is that we have more in common with each other than we thought.

Check our writing in the slide deck below.

More writing fun - DIRECTIONS

Part of our writing this week was about what IMPERATIVE VERBS are. We like to call them BOSSY WORDS because they tell us very strongly what to do e.g. TURN, POUR, MIX, GO STRAIGHT.

Today, we wrote directions for writing. We were given the task of writing a set of directions from a starting point to the library. After the writing we came back into class for the next instructions.

The fun part was when we had to swap books, be blindfolded and then follow the directions exactly in the hope that we will make it to the library without getting hurt.

Writing to come. But here are some photos.

How to make butter

Last week we made butter.

Here is a slide deck sharing our 'Procedural' writing on HOW TO MAKE BUTTER

Butter Making

This week we made butter. We had so much fun.

We made butter because we are learning to write instructions but also because we were learning about how the rates of reaction differ when there are other elements involved.

Here are some photos



 
 

Recount Writing - WW1

In Room 10, we've been working on adding more detail to our writing by using our senses and recrafting our sentences so that there is more than one idea in them. 

We watched a short video called Canada's 100 days and we had to imagine as if we were there, a soldier battling for our country. 

Some of us worked with Mrs Faalili to enhance our paragraphs and used visualisation to really think about what we could see and hear around us.

Here are some of the amazing drafts that some of the awesome students in Room 10 came up with. 

Be sure to check out the individual blogs for more amazing recounts. 

Detailed writing

This week, we have been working on adding detail to our writing. 

We watched a short video about The Old Lady in the Junkyard and had to describe what she was doing. We had to make sure that each sentence told 3 pieces of information. We then had a sharing circle and had to share ONE of our sentences that has really good description. 

Here they are 

Old Lady in the Junkyard - Recount. 

Tiana

One average morning I was in my house that was in the junkyard. I went to the junkyard and searched high and low around the junkyard because I was looking for useful random, objects that I could use for my house. 

Miracle

I was looking through the junkyard and I saw a ring and decorated my house high and low. 

Jonay

When I got home I grabbed my stuff I found and I thought I made something. 

Jordan

Today I was planning to escape from the junkyard so I can have a good life and not die in the junkyard and starve to death. 

Liston

One day I was at the junkyard looking for stuff. I saw lots of cool objects and grabbed those materials to make an amazing invention. 

Lucky

One day when the sun was setting down I was picking up some stuff.

Demitrius

In the morning I was looking for stuff so I can make my house look like Christmas.

Tracey

I’m happy with who I am and what I can do. I have collected things that satisfy from me, Sherry.

Lesileli

I was poor but I was creative. 

Mone

I’ve been living in this place for several and I have created my own little world. 

Leeroy

I’ve been living in this junkyard for years and made my own little house. Everyone always judged me but I didn’t care. 

Zeta

For 15 years I’ve been living in a junkyard. I didn’t know who my parents were or my family. 

Tee

For 27 years I’ve lived in this junkyard and no one has ever visited me. 

Olive

One night I was at the junkyard and I found some JUNK!

Skyla

I went to an old rugged box and searched through it and found a yellow and orange spotted umbrella that I could use. 

Moni

For 30 years I lived in this junk yard and never ever knew who my parents were or my family and no one ever visited me. 

Lexi

I opened the old rusty box and found and old broken umbrella. It looked like doritos with cheese on it. 

Kahnye

Although I didn’t own much, I am happy and appreciate everything.