Writing Week 7 Term 2 2021 Environmental Writing: The Old Playground

 In Week 7,  we went outside and looked at the old wooden playground  to see if we could think how to write about it using personification. We tried to think about the old playground as if it were an old person. We wondered what the old playground might look like or do that was like an old person. Here is my work:

Reading Week 8 2021

 In Week 8, Term 2  our school librarian, Mrs C, retired. On her last day, we put on a  Book Character Parade. We dressed up in costumes like book characters and then we went on a parade through the Daycare Centre next to the school, past the shops in the village, along Hobson St and back upTennyson St to the school. 

 I chose to dress up as...

Young Leaders 2021 Term 2 2021

 On 22 June 2021, I got to go on a two day trip to Auckland to take part in the Grip Leadership Conference. Mrs Edwards, Mrs B and Shiah’s mum, Nardea were our drivers. We had a great time and the conference was really interesting.

Play Make Create Wk 7

 In Week Seven of Term 2, we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation.  This week Mrs Craig Read the book: The Day the Crayons Quit.  It was about the different coloured crayons who were moaning because they were tired of only being used to colour some things.

 I chose to make a Lego creation with some of the crayon colours and a video.

Te Reo-Asking and answering He aha tenei? questions.

 We have been learningTe Reo. The question was :

 E aha tenei? This means: What is this?

Then we had to be able to answer that question several times using different Te Reo words for things in the classroom.

Here is my work.

Play Make Create Week 6

  In Term 2 Week 6  we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation.  This week Mrs Craig Read the book  Twig

It is a story about a stick insect called Heidi who has trouble getting noticed because she looks just like a twig.

 I chose to a poster.

Writing Week 4 Term 2 2021 Recount

 In Week 4, we wrote a recount about a fun event we took part in recently. This could have been at school, at home or at sports/ on a trip etc. Here is my recount.