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