Tihi's paragraph about P.E

Do you know what P.E is? Listen as Tihi explains to you what we do in P.E. He wrote his paragraph independantly. Great writing Tihi!

Maurice's compound sentences

The Suns writing group have been working hard to improve their writing by including compound sentences. Listen carefully to hear what conjunctions Maurice has used.

Fun with Bubbles!

Alexis is in the Rainbows writing group. This group has been learning to include speech marks and a question mark in their paragraphs. Here is her writing. Well done Alexis!

We went outside to make bubbles. Me and my friend said to Sarai "you look like Santa Claus!" Then we made it into a milkshake like a big foam mountain. I thought what is everybody doing with the bubbles?

Wonderful Bubbles!!

The Stars writing group are learning to add detail to the front of word groups to write interesting sentences. Here are the sentences that Zaphanata and Sateki came up with. Well done boys!

Sarai looked like Santa Claus because she had bubbles on her face.

Inside the plastic bucket, was bubble mix.

There was a fountain of bubbles coming out of the bucket.

Bubbles Everywhere! By Stevenson

The Rainbows have been learning to write a paragraph that included "speech marks" and a question mark ?. Here is Stevenson's writing. Great writing Stevenson!

I wondered what everyone was doing? Miss Lavakula said "We're making bubbles". We put water in a bucket with dishwashing liquid and oil. Miss Lavakula gave us some coloured straws. When we got our straws lots of bubbles came out. Falefehi's team was puffing and puffing away. Soon their plastic bucket looked like a volcano was erupting.

A Pirate Limerick Poem by Room 10

Over the last week, we have be learning about Limerick Poems. Do you know what a Limerick poem is? We looked up some examples from this website about Pirates that had lots of good information and activities to do. Here is what we came up with as a class.

There once was a pirate named Peter
He loved to sit next to the heater
He tried to go to sleep
But was hungry for sheep
And he ran a hundred meters

If you have any ideas or would like to share a limerick poem with us, feel free to do so. Here are some pictures that Kavaliku and Calvin have drawn of a pirate.

Tafaoata's Mihi

Listen as Tafaoata shares with you her mihi. Coming soon will be some video footage of our mihi practise in Maori. This is also Tafaoata's first post for the year.

Making Silly Sandwiches in Room 10

This term as part of a writing motivation we made Silly Sandwiches in partners. One was blindfolded their arms were making the sandwich and the person sitting down on the chair and wasn't blindfolded acted as the guide and gave their buddy directions and instructions on what to do. Below are some photos of this experience. As you can see it was a lot of fun and laughs. Stay tuned for stories that the children have written.

The Lion and the Mouse by Anamei

This is Anamei's writing of the Aesop Fable, The Lion and the Mouse. Listen carefully as she reads with lots of expression.

Little Red Riding Hood by the Rainbows

This term the Rainbows have been learning to use interesting words to write simple and complex sentences. Can you listen and hear what interesting words they have used? You might like to leave them a simple or complex sentence using these incomplete phrases. You might even like to share with them what they mean.

gazing thoughtfully, peaceful sleep, deep slumber, curious glare, looked on inquisitively

Jouan at Assembly

This is Jouan's recount of her story. Listen as she explains in her own words what happens.

Gloria retells a funny Assembly story!

Gloria wrote a recount about the acting that went on at our assembly. We've been learning to use different vocab to make our writing more detailed. Listen and see if you can hear what she uses and says to make her writing even better.


To see the movie of what she's talking about click here. It's on one our other school blogs.

Andee's Holiday

This is Andee's first post. He has written a recount about what he did in the holidays. You might like to leave him a comment and tell him what you did in your holidays.

The Gingerbread Man on VoiceThread

For writing the Rainbows group have been learning to write sentences with more detail to phrases and word groups for this picture of the Gingerbread Man. They were given phrases and word groups like: ran with haste, in hot pursuit and towards freedom. The children then came up and wrote their sentences in their books. This is what they came up with.

Daley's Acrostic Poem

This is Daley's acrostic poem using his name. It was quite tricky writing something for Y but he did it in the end.


Doing the right thing
Athletic, likes to run around
Likes to play XBox 360
Energetic
You're my best friend

Othaniel's alliteration writing

This is Othaniel's alliteration writing using the first letter of his name.



Olivia the Octopus ate oranges and oysters in the oven.
Olivia lived with the octopus in Otahuhu and put oranges and oysters in the oven.

Robert's Alliteration Writing

Listen to Roberts alliteration writing and find out who was rapping.

Jouan goes up the hill like Jack and Jill

This is what Jouan has written for alliteration. She also drew a picture using kidpix to go with her writing.

Jouan went up the hill like Jack and Jill.
Jouan jokes with Jane while doing jump jam.
Jane jokes with Jouan while the jet lands in Japan.

Jeryco's Alliteration sentences

This is what Jercyo has written for his alliteration and a picture he drew in kidpix.

Jeryco was juggling with James while jumping on a jet.
James was jumping on Jercyo while juggling the jet.

Robert makes a horse shadow puppet

This is Robert's recount of making Shadow Puppets. Listen and find out which shadow puppets he made using his hands. You might like to give it a try and let us know how you went.