TERRIBLE TWOSOME - PUBLISHED WRITING

There are two cats.  Their names are Fred and Bob.  They're getting into mischief.  They ran into the bathroom.  They wrapped themselves in toilet paper.  Then they blamed it on the dog when Mum got home.
By Jack

THE LOCH NESS MONSTER - PUBLISHED WRITING

Hooray! I got a snorkel.  I am going to go and pretend to be a dinosaur.  Everyone was scared of him.  He was sad but someone thought that it was an elephant.  It was an elephant.  Everyone found out.  They laughed and laughed and laughed.

By Kate

Dumbo found a Brachiosaurus neck.  Dumbo used his feet to make a snorkel.  He ran to the lake.  He was the Loch Ness Monster.

By Liam

For Christmas, Dumbo's family was wrapping up presents for Dumbo.  He was so excited to open his presents and guess what he got .. a diving present.  Do you know which one it is?  The Loch Ness Monster!

By Alyssa

The elephant wanted to scare the people in Scotland.  When he comes back to his family he is going to say ... "I scared a lot of people.  Hundreds of people.  Then the family said to the elephant, "did you see any fish" . "Yes I did.  I saw clown fish."  His snorkel likes the Loch Ness Monster.  The elephant put his trunk in this snorkel.  The sea is close to the forest.  The elephant is stepping on rocks.

By Jacob N

"It is just what I wanted!" said Dumbo, unwrapping his new snorkel.  "Thank you Mum and Dad. Please can I test my present."  

"Ok," said Mum.  He ran fast.  Suddenly, Splash! Everyone thought it's a scary monster!

By Jacob P

Dumbo always wanted a snorkel.  It was his birthday.  He got a snorkel.  "Thank you Mum and Dad.  You know what I always wanted."  Dumbo raced outside and through the woods and the mud.  He just realised it had his favourite dinosaur.  It was a Brachiosaurus.  He didn't want to take it off.

By Brooke

THE DOG AND THE DOLPHINS - PUBLISHED WRITING

 

Skye the little dog was on the boat.  Skye jumped off the boat and had fun with the dolphins.  He leapt with the dolphins.  The dolphins helped the dog.  I was happy that Skye was having fun with the dolphins.  I wanted to jump in but my Mum said "no."  When we got to the house.  We gave Skye a bath.
By Braxton

The dog wanted a drink of water but the dog fell in the water.  Then the dog saw two dolphins.  Then the dog started to copy the dolphins.  The dolphins have short fins and a long mouth.  The dolphins are diving.
By Jacob N

Ruby was a small, white, furry dog.  Suddenly she fell into the sea.  She jumped of his owner's boat.  Suddenly the dolphins saw the dog from falling in the sea.  The dolphins gave the dog back to the owners on the boat.
By Ruby

I went to a boat chase the stunt dog was driving a car by himself.  Suddenly the dog did a flip because everyone clapped hard and hard.  The dog won the prize.  Inside the prize, was a bone.  It was a golden bone!
By Jacob P

Skye is a white dog.  She is small.  Her family went on a holiday to the beach.   Skye saw a pod of dolphins and she ran into the sea.  The she started to jump with the dolphins.  The owner saw Skye.  He smiled.
By Neva

Max my stunt dog is out of a movie.  Max my little dog, had lots of fun with the dolphins and the dog was jumping with the dolphins.
By Kruz

PARTNERS IN CRIME - PUBLISHED WRITING

 

Mum made hamburgers but Mum forgot the mustard.  Mum went to the shop to buy some.  Some time later, the dogs came and stole them.  Chihuahua climbed up the big dog escalator to the bench.  Just then the car came into the shed.  Mum came up the stair.  Just the Mum opened the door. "Get out!" she shouted.

By Mason

The Chihuahua jumped up on to the big dog's butt because the dogs wanted food.  So the chihuahua jumped up on the bench.  Just then Mum came in.  She told the dogs off.  "Go Out!" said Mum.By Bonnie
"Hee, hee, hee" said the chihuahua.  The big dog said to the chihuahua "Gosh... hamburgers! Look!"  "Good! Can you help me said the little dog.  "Yes, I would like to have some too," said the big dog.Mum came in... "Get out!" By Liam
The dog sat down and the chihuahua jumped up on the dog's back.  The kids wanted Mum, so Mum went to them.  When Mum opened the door, she shouted, "Get out!"  So the chihuahua ran for the cat flap.  The other dog tried to go through too but he got stuck.  So the Mum smacked his butt so the dog got out.  His butt was still sore!By Neva

OUR NEW ARIKI

This is Kruz.  He is a leader in our class.  Kruz leads the Pou Mihi everyday.  He sets a good example of behaviour on the mat and is a role model for others.

Great stuff Kruz!

HE AHA O TE ÃHUA O TE RANGI NEI?

We have been talking about the weather today.  We sang a song about the weather in Maori today.  Sophia was a wonderful leader.

Could we be any cuter? 😁

MYSTERY KETE

This week, we started a new routine.  The Mystery Kete is an oral language activity that we do in our Literacy groups.  A child takes the Mystery Kete home and choose something to put inside it.  They have to keep it a secret but they can write down a few clues to tell the kids.  On Wednesday Jacob shared his clues with the class.  We were stumped!  After asking a few questions we FINALLY guessed that it was some money!  Jacob's Dad brought it home from South Sudan.

HAPPY 100 DAYS!

We are 100 Days Smarter!

On Wednesday we celebrated our 100th day of school.  The teachers set up lots of activities for us all over the classroom.  We were able to cruise around and do the activities that we wanted to do.  There was lots to choose from. Possibly the favourite was making fairy bread with Hundreds and Thousands!

Thanks to the Mums, Dads and Nanas that came to help us celebrate!

Making something with 100 pieces of Lego

Making a 100 board puzzle

Ava can write 100 words

Friends making fairy bread

Making a paper chain - 100 links long!

Our table of 100 things!

Busy at work

Happy kids!

Busy making paper chains

Dressing up

I CAN SEE YOU - WRITING PROMPT

We have to share our amazing writing with you!

Whiskers saw the fish bowl and jumped up on to the bench.  He quietly said, "I can see you!"  Then Mum came in.  Whiskers carefully put the fish in his mouth.  Mum shouted "put it down!"  Whiskers put it down.  So Whiskers put it back into the fish bowl.

By Neva

Whiskers was in the kitchen but then Whiskers spotted a goldfish.  So he jumped on to a stool and for a whole hour, he looked at him.  Then Mum came in and said "Get off! Naughty Cat!" As she pushed him off.  She saved the goldfish.

By Reuben

Lily jumped up on the kitchen bench to get the goldfish.  The bowl was glass.  I went to go to the kitchen bench and I saw Lily on the bench.  I called to Mum and she came and she told Lily off.  Mum pushed Lily off the bench.

By Ruby

Whiskers the cat jumped up on the bench and stared at the fish.  "Meow, meow!" said the cat.  He was while and the fish is orange.  Suddenly the cat put paws on the glass.  "Yummy" said the cat and then the cat ate the fish.  The fish was gone!  Mum came in a the fish was gone.  It was in the cat's tummy.  Rumble, rumble!

By Jacob P

PIGGY BACK BUDDIES

  

Yesterday Mrs Lunn's Writing Group wrote some stories using this picture prompt.  Here are a few of our stories...

Hamish is in the kitchen.  A cat jumped on to Hamish's back.  Hamish dropped a coin that is sparkly.  Hamish picked up the coin.  The coin jumped off Hamish.
By Jack

Charlie and Max look cute.  Charlie dropped a golden nugget there in half of the kitchen and half of the lounge.  Max is fluffy.  Charlie looks like a T.  The cat has cute eyes the cats is blacks and white.  It is winter their city.
By Jacob N

Max was walking into the kitchen and suddenly... Max dropped his shiny Palmy Rocks and Rosie jumped onto Max.  Back Mum came the to the rescue.  Mum carefully lifted Rosie off Max's back and Mum said "Yay are a naughty cat Rosie."
By Ava W

In this picture there is a toddler.  The toddler's name was Charlie.  The cat jumped upon Charlie back but... Charlie was trying to get a rock  from the floor.  The cats name was Max and Mum was trying to get Max off and Mum was lift Max off.
By Ruby

WE GOT A LETTER!

This afternoon we received a letter from the teachers in Piako Tahi.  They miss us so much that they have invited to come and play with their kids at the end of the term.  They want us to bring some games to share with their kids.  The trouble is that some of the Piako Tahi kids, haven't been at school very long so we need games that they can play.  The teachers included the criteria that the games we bring, have to have.

Here's a copy of the letter they sent us...




We decided that we would love to go to Piako Tahi.  We are just a bit worried that we haven't got very many games to take with us. We might need to make a few to take.  That got us WONDERING...

We needed to brainstorm all our ideas.  We went in our whanau groups and filled out a brainstorm sheet with our teacher.  Then we got back together to discuss our thoughts.

Tomorrow we are going to play some of the games we have in our classroom to assess if they meet the criteria the Piako Tahi teachers set.  If they don't, it looks like we'll have to make some that do!

Watch this space!!!

RIGHT CHOICE DAY - TERM TWO

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 The last Friday of the term was Right Choice Day.  

This is where we get a reward for being the super kids that we are.  Term's two reward was Box Car day.  We got to make Box Cars at home and bring them to school.  We watched a movie together in the hall and got popcorn. 

The PTA mums and dads, cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch.

 It was a great day!

See you in Term Three!!!

           

STEEP RIDE

We used this picture as a prompt for our writing today.  We talked a lot before we started writing, about what we noticed in the picture, what we wondered and what we though might happen.  Here's what we came up with....

I saw a boy riding on his skateboard.  He fell off it.  He cried and cried.  His Mum came running to help him.  He had a big graze on his head.  His Mum carried him home.
By Amelia


On a massive hill, I think he will brake his head before he goes for his long swim.
By Liam

I see my brother on my friend's skateboard with no helmet, at our friend's house.  My Mum did not know, so I called out to Mum and she came out.  She called him to come inside and he did come inside and he got grounded.
By Sophie

I see a boy on a skateboard . He is riding on the steep hill.
By Bana

I noticed that he might fall off.  I noticed that there is a drain.  I can see that there is a ramp.
By Kruz

I see a boy riding down a hill.  It is a steep hill.  I think that he might crash into the water.  There is a brown drain.  All of the houses have orange roofs.  There is a white fence.  The hill is ginormous.  The water looks very cold.  I think he should put a helmet on.
By Madison