Making Movies in Team Awa

Last week we made movies to show our learning on how bees make honey. We were able to choose we video, google slides or stop motion to make our movie. We used screencastify on our slides to add voice. Here are some examples.

Partly Cloudy

Last week we used this cute little video to inspire our writing. We watched it scene by scene and the children had to describe what they saw using descriptive language and ensuring they had a full stop and capital letter for each sentence.

Partly Cloudy

The bird quickly swooped down to give the gift to the huge dog. Swiftly they swooped through the white shiny clouds. The birds house was the clouds. They have lightning hands. The cloud made a puppy out of a cloud and grabbed the cloud off the puppy and gave it a bone. The dark cloud made a crocodile and then it bit his finger then the bird came over and the cloud wrapped it up and gave the bag to the bird. The goat quickly charged into his stomach. Then the cloud put it in a bag. Slowly the bird picked it up and the goat was jumping around. The hedgehog's spikes poked his wings. The bird came back quickly and saw the shark. The dark cloud squashed the shark and made a storm. But the bird came over with football stuff. Then the cloud made an electric eel.

By Traeh

Speedily the bird dropped the bag down here was a cat. The bird slowly found a cloud house. The cloud made a real pet with magic. One cloud was all by himself and the cloud went to make a baby. The cloud made a baby crocodile and the bird came and the crocodile bit the bird's face. The cloud made a baby goat. Boom!! The bird got hit on the tummy. The goat was in the bag and the goat kept hitting the bird on the face. The cloud made a hedgehog and the bird came back and the cloud pulled the spikes out. Slowly the bird went away from the cloud. The cloud was sad and he looked at another cloud. The bird came back and the cloud made an eel.

By Anthony

Slowly the crazy brown bird laughed through the wind. Lazily the cloud grabbed the zooming birds. Loudly they turned on the lightning and struck the clouds. Sadly the cloud cried out rain.

Finally the crocodile jumped on the brown bird. The teeth from the crocodile bit him.

The bird gazed up at the white cloud. The hedgehog jumped on the bird. Quickly the bird flew away when he saw the shark. Angrily the cloud started to cry. Happily the bird flew back with armour.

By Sunita

Quickly I saw birds swerve through the gentle wind. Happily the white birds burst off power lines and flew through the pink clouds. The clouds were like fluffy people that make presents. They all made cute little animals except for the grey cloud. He made a crocodile and it nearly bit the white bird's head off. The bird that helped the grey cloud was bald and it could hardly fly. The white bird came back to the grey cloud. The cloud had a surprise and it was a goat and it ran into the bird. He came back again and the grey cloud made a hedgehog, a spiky one too, and it pricked the bird. Sadly the white bruised bird flies up to a white cloud. Sadly the cloud split with tears and burst with lightning. The bruised bird came back with amour on just to keep it safe.

By AnneLise

Narrative writing

We are learning to write a narrative.

Our picture inspiration:

(Ball. M. (2005).  Footrot Flats: Sports Edition.  pp 129.)

The World Cup

Once there lived two rugby players called Mitchel and

Jack. Jack was the strongest at rugby. Mitchell was the fastest at rugby. They played at Ohaeawai rugby club. Jack was a fat wide man, Mitchell was a skinny tall man.

One day Mitchell and Jack played for the All Blacks. They were playing against England. The All Blacks star Jack ran and bowled England over and scored a try. Next Mitchell stepped England and he scored a try too. Then England got the ball and nearly scored a try but Mitchell and Jack saved the try.

Finally they scored a two man try and they got the World Cup and that was the end of the rugby.

By Mitchel

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Playing Rugby

Once there lived two boys called Cole and Rick who liked to go to the ruby field to play rugby. Cole was skinny and white. Rick was fat and brown. They both wore black gumboots when they played rugby.  

One Sunday morning at the rugby game, the people were cheering for Cole and Rick’s teams. Cole scored five tries and Rick scored seven tries. Cole’s team lost the first half. Rick’s team lost the second half and the score was even.

At the end with a minute to play. Cole kicked the ball into the air. Coles gumboot landed into Rick's face then he landed into a big pile of cow poo. It went slop then Cole said to Rick, “are you alright?”

By Reagan

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Stinky Boys

Once there were two little boy’s, their names were Lukas and Finn. They played at Ohaeawai rugby club. Lukas was fat and as tall as a tree. He was very good at kicking rugby balls. Fin was skinny, they were both very, very stinky. They had a black and white dog, his name was Max. He liked to roll in cow poo.

One day at rugby it started pouring with rain.They did not have any towels. So they got drenched with rain. They like to be stinky but the stinky was gone. They did not like it at all. They ran to the trash and they got as stingy as possible.

All the other people ran away blocking their noses. But Lukas and Fin were so excited and happy.

By Brooke

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Playing rugby

Once two little boy’s were playing rugby in Ohaeawai. They were called Max and Ben. Max was the smart one and Ben was the hairy one. Ben did not know how to play rugby at all so Max trained Ben. “Oh no!”yelled Max. “There is cow poop behind you!” Flop! Ben slipped in the poo.

“I told you!” laughed Max. “Hahaha. You slipped in cow poo!”

“I’m going home.’’ Shouted Ben.

By AnneLise

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Volcanoes erupting

We are learning to write about a moment in time. 

We used our language experience of an erupting volcano and you tube videos to help us write about the moment a volcano erupts.

Here are some examples with pictures we created using our volcano vocabulary.

“Bang, crash, bang!” The rocky volcano erupted! Red and orange lava ran as fast as rockets taking off. The ashes and sparks flew around like butterflies. The smoke shot out of the red hot volcano. The lava killed all the plants that were in its pathway. The volcano lava did not stop.

By Ronan

Kaboom pssss!! The giant brown volcano erupted. It started with grey steam like a raincloud. Red sticky ash jumped all over the volcano. Round rocks spat everywhere. The ash was orange and sticky like gross slugs.

By Leonor

Ssssshhhhh! Boom!!! Bang!!! The volcano hissed as it was booming out flaming rocks. It is dripping out lava. Bubbling on the the inside. The lava was burning like fire. It was so noisy. Sssshhhh boom!!! Boom!!! Bang!!! Bang!!! Smack!!! Smack!!!.The volcano is hard like rocks. The grey smoke was foggy, grey and strong and smelled dusty it blended in with the ash.  

By Denym

Fire rocks rolling down the side of the enormous volcano. Lava killing all the plants in its way as it makes its way through the villages garden. Enormous piles of smoke cover the wonderful view of the extinct volcano.

By AnneLise

Bang! The volcano is erupting. It was throwing hot rocks. The lava slowly slipped down the volcano. Lots of smoke came out. The lava was very very hot.

By Kyle

Boom! Loud red lava spitting out of the steaming volcano. Big hot rocks rumbling down the brown fiery volcano. Kaboom! The hot steaming rocks tumbling down faster and faster. The hot steaming lava destroying the city and town. The smoky volcano erupting.

By Kelly.

Wow! Everyone screamed when the volcano erupted and it was like red blood coming out of the volcano, I couldn't believe that was real. The teachers were tipping water and vinegar in. The volcano exploded lava out of the sand. The real volcano spat hot red rocks and black ash out of the big hole in the top.

By Brooklyn