Last term we were talking about the values of motivation and resilience. This video show the children's ideas about these values.
The end of the video shows some co-operative listening work that we tried. The children had to sit back to back with copies of the same picture and the same set of colours. They took turns to tell each other how to colour in the sheets. You can see what a great job they did.
Drip drop went the rain.
The end of the video shows some co-operative listening work that we tried. The children had to sit back to back with copies of the same picture and the same set of colours. They took turns to tell each other how to colour in the sheets. You can see what a great job they did.
Drip drop went the rain.
I got wet.
Very wet.
The rain got my home wet but luckily we lit the fire and it got warm
inside but not outside.
Outside it was cold and I had to wear my jacket and my school jacket
and my umbrella.
On the roof of my umbrella, it made the sound . . .
drip drop.
Rhyley Gardyne June 2014.
Some acrostic poems that we worked on last term
Respectful
Happy
Yummy
Loving
Exciting
Youth
Manager
Inquiry
Amazing
Dachshund
Octopus
Nails
Alphabet
Listen
Dance
Sun
Orange
Nana
Magnificent
Awesome
Terrific
Excited
Unusual
Super at maths
Cheerful in
every way
Happy every day
Excited
everywhere
Loves everything
Smiles at
everyone
Everyone likes
me
Astounding at
climbing
Nice to everyone
I like
my friends and family
Cute animals I
like best
Hoping with
excitement
Always
helping friends in trouble
Likes Mum
Loves Dad
Super at smiling
Clever
Amazing
Inventive
Liking
Action
Nice
Daring
Awesome and
adventurous
New games
Terrific,
tearful, tame
Eating champion
February 2014
Many of our dioramas
Stories
I was camping. My sister and cousin went to the swing. My cousin saw
the fire.
She said,
“Let’s run.”
My sister said, “Can I have one more go?”
My sister got on the swing. She saw the fire. She got off.
Myiah and my cousin came running back screaming
Emelia February 2014
Aa
I am red
I am hot
I am angry!
Jordan February 2014
I have a new lunchbox. I
love my new lunchbox. It is the only lunchbox I have.
Lily-Rose Sanders March 2014
My necklace is a whale. It
is made of cow bone. It has black string on it.
Lukas Kissell-Smith March 2014
When I was little I cut my finger. I screamed. Mum came and told me,
“Are you okay, Riley?”
I said, “Yes.”
Riley February 2014
Pooooor Max!
Meow! Max is sad.
He is going to have an operation. He didn’t know that he was going to the vet.
Mum and Caleb and I will go to pick him up at 3.30. He will be pleased that it
will be over. I feel sorry for Max.
Mia Donaldson March 2014
October 2013
Read some of our holiday stories.
We tried to think about a moment in time in the holidays when we felt a strong emotion and then to write about it in such a way that we showed rather than told our feelings.
See what you think.
“Are we nearly there yet?” we all asked.
“No,” said Mum.
“Oh!” we yelled.
A while later we got to our destination, Staglands.
We all hopped out of the car on to the rocky shingle and hurried to the
wooden counter. When we got to the front of the queue the lady at the desk
asked us if we would like to toast marshmallows on the campfire next to the
barn yard.
“Yes please,” we chorused.
We each grabbed a bag of marshmallows and a stick and ran to the barn.
When all of us got to the barn we toasted our marshmallows. When Millie and I
had toasted ours we got tons of ash in our eyes. After lots of coughing and
spluttering our marshmallows were cooked. After we ate some of the creamy treats
mum told us to leave the rest for later.
We moved on to the duck and swan pond. When we got to the pond,
something caught our eye. It was a massive, white swan and do you know what he
was doing? He was chasing a poor mother duck that was trying to look after her
12 baby ducklings. The swan chased her all around the pond. Once he even pulled
out one of her tail feathers.
The duck quacked and the swan hissed and the ducklings cheeped. They
swam around the pond madly trying to find somewhere to hide. I felt like I
could just kick that swan. The duck and ducklings swam and swam until they
found a nice sheltered place where the swan couldn’t find them. When the last,
littlest, duck got in the clump of bushes and they were all snuggled up, we
went to toast our last marshmallows.
Rafi Cabrera-Martin October 2013
Sam Westgarth
October 2013
Kiha Ratima
October 2013
I went on a really long trip to Twizel. My
uncle and I found a BMX track. The jumps were enormous like boulders and first
I went down a humungous hill. When I went down it was super fast like Usain
Bolt. When I went up the jump I went flying like a bird. I landed on my face.
Ow!!
Ben Williamson October 2013
In the holidays I invited Lana and mum and dad
to Granny Mac is Back on an exciting Saturday night. It was about penguins at
Caroline Bay, Granny Mac and dogs and cats. It was amazing. Then I started to
finish the lights turned on and we went out and met the characters and got a
free ice cream.
Lucy Hinde October 2013
After that Lucy stayed the night at my house.
In the morning we got up, got dressed and we decided that we’d go on the
trampoline. Then after that we filled some water balloon up and we threw them
on the ground. The water balloons flew like a shooting rocket. Then we put
make-up on and we danced until we got puffed like a puffin bird. I felt really happy
Lana Goodwin October 2013
My eyes lit up. My breath was heavy. I jumped
as my movie started.
In the movie, I walked up the stairs as the man
slowly shifted.
“Excuse me, sir.” I said.
Suddenly the man turned around to reveal a
bloody face.
I laughed as I watched myself as I screamed and
ran down the stairs.
I felt very happy and proud.
The end . . . or is it?
Lucius Raine October 2013
My sister went to the same place over and over
again. Then I got confused. I got a free meal at Chipmunks because they mixed
up my meal. Then I got more confused my nana went then she came back. Well.
When my mum said Nana was just coming up but granddad came up too so I got
confused again.
Tyson Richardson October
2013
Splish! Splosh!
The waves splashed on the dashing rocks.
I saw a big fish flopping in to a rock pool
that was only big enough for it to swim around and around in it.
I felt sorry for it.
Artemisia Redgrave October 2013
The
Longest Bike Ride Ever
I puffed and panted, the port zooming past, the
fishy smell in my nostrils. My heavy legs were going to die with the blazing
sun. We had been biking for two and a half hours, training for the Timaru
Triathlon. Suddenly, I fell off my bike; my leg started bleeding and that was
the end of training for that day.
Amalia
Cabrera-Martin October 2013
We had to get back to Timaru because Riley had
an appointment for his arm but the tyres went down. We were coming back home
from Middlemarch and then we went around the corner and we went on a lean.
There were stones flicking up on the windows. Then we tipped back onto our
wheels and we got back to Middlemarch. Now Riley’s appointment is tomorrow
after school.
Felix Gillam October 2013
I
was happy.
I
was surprised.
It
was cool.
It
was exciting.
It
was a long day making my boat.
Max
Lyons October 2013
“That
doll looks so cute and extremely little.”
My
cheeks turned red when I took the doll home.
“Now
what can I call her?’ I mused as I walked on to our soft, lovely floor. A name
dropped into my head as I took the doll out of a cardboard box that the little
doll was in. The name I was thinking about was Sophia Lily Barge.
That
name will suit the baby perfectly.
So
that’s what the baby’s name turned out to be!!
We
knew that the doll was a girl because of its clothes.
I am
so happy that I am a mum and my sister is happy that she is an Aunty.
I
love Sophia.
Annabel
Barge October 2013
At one o’clock a Westpac helicopter was taking
off. The engineers checked it two times. The helicopter was reaching 5,000 feet
and the altitude lever was stuck. The engine was stuffed. Radio control, ask
for emergency landing. Then the propellers stopped and we hit the power pole.
Thud!
Jack Gillespie October 2013
September 2013
Here is some of our spring writing work.
Signs of Spring
1.Blossoming trees
2.Flowers growing
everywhere
3.Baby lambs are
cute
4.When the sun is
out, it is warm
5.Planting
vegetables in the garden
6.I’m happy in
spring
Connor Nutsford September 2013
The sun shines like a
diamond. It gets very windy. I think spring is the best season. There are lots
of sunny days. I also think that spring is great because you can go outside and
read a book!
Lucius Raine September 2013
What is Spring?
Spring is warm.
The flowers are sprouting.
The birds are chirping.
Leaves are green and the sky is blue.
The sun is shining bright.
Baby lambs are crying to their mothers.
Ryan Donehue September 2013
Sunny days
Perfect weather
Rushing rivers
Ice melting
New flowers sprouting
Gleaming sun
Artemisia Redgrave
September 2013
We are working on poetic language at the moment and trying to make our writing more interesting by adding details, in this case sounds to make the setting more alive.
Here are some of our ideas.
Someone was singing while a train was going
rattly-clattly across the shining tracks.
Lucy and Annabel
People laughing like hyenas while we worked
as hard as honeybees making honey and feeding the hive.
Annabel and Rafaela
Enjoy the lovely way Artemisia has described her trip to Otago Museum
Flapping fluttering butterflies in the
butterfly house.
There are white ones, blue ones, yellow,
orange ones, even purple ones.
Artemisia
There was also a very, very big tree. I
climbed up it. The branches were as fat and strong as giant’s fingers. I
climbed up so high I couldn’t climb any more. I felt like I was floating away
on a cloud. From the cloud I could see the playground.
Amalia
Read the start of Lucius' story here. Isn't it amazing? He told us about using a thesaurus to find interesting words to include in this work.
Beware of the Full Moon
Chapter One
Our story begins.
Horror!
They shuffled long the alleyway, stopping
at the edge of the dark. They stared at the man standing under the beam of
light, then they emerged out of the dark. Their slow but loud breath echoing in
a gloomy way down the deep, dark, damp damaged and very stinky alleyway.
“Moan!” moaned the creatures. The man froze
then turned. The man was para;ysed.
“Ahhhh! It’s a . . .” CRUNCH! And with that
the creatures bit his head and started biting it more! Seven minutes later,
after finally biting through the skull, one of them got the brain.
“Brain! Brain! Brain! Brain! Brain! Brain!”
shouted the creature happily but still gloomily. Then they licked all picked it
up and shuffled back down the alleyway.
Humans in Habitat
These creatures thought that now the man
was dead the humans would leave their cosy and relaxing home (to them) alone.
But what they didn’t know was that there were at least another thousand humans.
12 miles from the cemetery was a town. A very peaceful town called Happyville. The
citizens of happyville were obviously happy, except one. A young boy called
Bruce. He was an orphan at only the age of 7. Bruce’s parents had died in a car
crash in U.S.A. Bruce had no siblings but he did have friends. Three boys, two
girls and a talking dog called Sam. The funny thing about Bruce was that he
could see and talk to the dead.
Scooter Fall!
On Tuesday I was going home with Foster.
I was going with Foster and George because
George lives on the same street as Foster. I had brought my scooter that day
because of scooter safety.
When I was going down the hill to the back
exit, I was going really fast and then I put my foot down and I fell off my
scooter!
“Ahhhhh!!!!!”
There was blood from my forehead down to my
chin!
Lucius
April 2013
Rocky Shore
Gabbu took me to the noisy rocky shore. We swished the water about to make smooth waving seaweed into rapid and vicious seaweed so all the animals that lived there came out. Gabbu said, "You are awesome at finding sea anemones."
I stood on the rock. I didn't know this but I learnt, that if you sing, seals will come. Gabbu took me home.
Artemisia
April 2013
Who
Am I?
I am a daughter.
I am a grand-daughter.
I am a sister.
I am also a twin,
And a cousin.
I am a friend.
I am …
Rafi
March 2013
Mum
Fun, special, awesome, crazy
Counting, hugging, reading
Making me tidy up my room
Mum
Lucy March 2013
I was excited because we were going camping in Hanmer Springs. On the way there, we stopped at a paddling pool and we had a paddle,
We finally go there. W put up the tent. Then me, Rafi, and Carmina went to the playground. There was this fireman’s pole. It wasn’t a normal fireman’s pole. It had tyres up it to climb up it. I tried it but I couldn’t do it. I knew I would be able to do it before we left. There were lots of other cool things.
The next day we went to the Lolly Pot. It was a sweet shop. I got some jelly beans. Rafi got Nerds and Carmina got eatable letters. That night we went our for dinner.
In the morning we went to the swimming pool. There was a hydroslide called the Super Pol. You had to walk up the steps to get to a place with a tiny pool with the hydroslide going out of it. Then you had to sit in a tube and you were off!! It was as fast as lightning.
We went in hot pools and cold pools. They were all awesome.
The next day, I could do the fireman’s pole. That day we drove home.
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