Busy writers

Today we practiced writing a procedure. Ms Sullivan showed us how we can write out instructions to make a sandwich, then we wrote our own instructions to make a Marmite and Cheese sandwich. It was tricky for some of us as we had never eaten a sandwich with those ingredients so we really had to think about it.

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.

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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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

Writing, writing, everywhere!

We took our writing out of Learning Hub 17 yesterday and wrote in the library. It was really nice to have a different setting to do our writing in.