Tuesday, 16 August 2016

Sasa Practice

We have been practising the School Sasa everyday in Room 8. Today we started learning the last part, check out these clever, coordinated cookies! We need to fix up some of our kupu (words) but our beat is nearly spot on!

We are all very excited for Polyfest in Week 6!

Ko Pokatu mātou - AUE!



Monday, 15 August 2016

Writing in Room 8

Wow! I am so impressed with all of our descriptive writing! All of us have been working on a moment in time piece and we finally got to publish them yesterday.

Earlier in the term we were learning about the rule of thirds in photography. We each chose something to photograph using this photography rule. We all chose something non-living/non-human to photograph, which meant we had to use lots of personification in our writing.

When you are reading our booklets, open one tab at a time and see if you can guess what we are. Maecy shared her published writing with her mum yesterday and she was able to guess what Maecy was while reading the second tab! Well done Maecy! Our photos are in the middle of our booklets so you can see them as you open up the last tab (some of our photos went missing after we were given new iPads so we have used photos from google images).


Personification: giving human or human-like characteristics to something non-human e.g. The autumn leaves danced across the damp grass.

Below are photos of some outstanding examples produced by: Connor, Logan, Maecy and Jackson. Ka pai koutou! 





























Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Reading With the Kikorangi Group

Today the Kikorangi group read a fictional text called Rowing to the Olympics. We had great discussions about this story and then talked about answering questions with more detail. Here is a photo of us working really hard today, tino pai koutou! Check out the detailed answer these three clever boys wrote together. I can't wait to read your independent activity answers!