Shared Big Book - Lost

This week our shared big book is Lost by Kylie Parry.

You can listen to it on the following page: http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/Media/Instructional-Series/Ready-to-Read/LIVE-Ready-to-Read-audio-versions/Lost-audio

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Descriptive Sentences

We Are Learning To: use descriptive words to make our sentences have more detail

We started with one thing and kept adding more detail to it. Here are some examples we looked at and discussed.

Here are some of the interesting sentences we came up with during writing this week:

Valentine: The mad bird flew to the sky.
Azayah: The good small bird few away to the hotel fast.
Isileli: The blue bird.
Shaista: The colourful bird.
Althea: The angry bird.
Makayla: The beautiful and colourful bird flew to the beach.
Aaliyah: The happy bird was sleeping on top of a nest.
Keevian: The ginormous eagle in the desert flew far, far away.
Verity: The gentle river flows peacefully and quietly in the forest.
Charlotte: The haunted house got struck by lightening in a storm at night.
Lucas: The super bird eats 1000 worms and feeds little birds the the nest.
Kahlia: The tui bird is flying to the ground.
Kahn: The huge happy city is by the volcano.
Jaydah: The snake slithered and slid until it got tired and lay down and had babies.
Will:  The devil bird was cruel and nasty.
Irmhild: The dolphins are swimming in the ocean happily together at the same time.
Aidan: The colourful cat ate his yummy, yummy food.
Oden: The evil bird killed everything that came next to it.
Harmony: The grumpy blue bird ate seven worms a day in his nest.
Zak: The yellow bird flew to his house.
Molly: The mummy bird had a sleep on the nest.
Carlos: The very fast bird flew across the world to his nest.

Team Assembly - Week 8, Term 1

We hosted a team assembly this week. All of us had to stand at the front. We shared some of our letters to the Queen and sang Motueka with Ms Watts. Some lucky people received certificates for great learning. Keep it up Learning Hub 17.

 

Writing to the Queen

We have been learning to: write formal letters in the correct format and write suitable questions.

We decided to write to Her Majesty, the Queen of England to wish her a Happy Birthday and ask her some questions. Mrs Derrick found out that we had to be very polite when we wrote to her and start our letter with either 'Your Majesty' or 'May it please, Your Majesty'. We also had to end the letter very formally too. We thought of some questions we would like to ask her and chose two of them to write in our letters. We hope that the Queen or one of her Ladies in Waiting writes back to us.

Here is us writing our draft letters, our good copy of the letter and  copies of our letters on the classroom wall. We used our H.E.A.R.T value of Excellence while writing our letters in our neatest writing.

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How does my brain help me?

This term our Inquiry topic has been How does my brain help me learn. The children learnt many things from all of the teachers in Team Kahikatea then the children in Learning Hub 17 & Room 18 made posters with information that they had learnt about the brain. 

Everyone worked with at least one other classmate they would not normally work with showing our school value of Togetherness. We also worked on Excellence to try and make our posters as neat as possible and to the highest standard.

You can come and see the finished posters created by our class in Learning Hub 17.

Shark Art

Look at our fantastic sharks we created with Ms Sullivan during Art recently!

Reminders - Week 7

Just a few reminders for parents and whānau this week:

• If you have not returned your Swimming permission slip, these need to be returned this week as swimming at Aqua Gym starts in Week 8.
• Religious Education permission slips (circled) need to be returned to school.
• Please bring a box of tissues if your name is still up on the whiteboad. Thank you to all of the children who have already bought them in.
• Learning Conversations have now finished, thanks for coming along and supporting your childs learning. School finishes at the regular time all week!

Home Learning Links

During our recent Learning Conversations many parents asked what other activities they can be doing at home to support your childrens learning - we now have a page with links to these activities including Studyladder.

Please click the tab above that says 'Home Learning' or click here

Remember - there is reading homework everynight Monday - Thursday with a class reading book, Poetry comes home on a Friday and there is Spelling Monday - Thursday (with a test on Friday!)

Recently we took part in a New Zealand wide writing project called 'Get New Zealand Writing'. We had to each write a metaphor about ourselves on the back of a postcard and then we sent them to a school we were buddied up with in Point Chevalier, Auckland. We also completed a class poster (see the picture below) and sent that along with our Metaphor postcards. 

We can't wait to receive our package from our buddy school soon.

#getnewzealandwriting

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