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.)

  

Once there lived two boys called Harold and Dankata at the Kaikohe rugby field. Harold had brown hair and Dankata had black hair.  Dankata had a special rugby ball and Harold had brown skin and Dankara had brown skin too. Dankata did a big kick, the ball went in the sky and the ball got in the tree. Dankata had to climb the big tree. The ball  popped out. Dankata starts running away. The two boys had fun and one of the boys had a stuck foot and he threw the ball and then they got Harold’s foot out of the hole. Harold kicked the ball in Dankata’s face. The boys had fun kicking the special ball and he couldn’t get his gumboot out of the deep deep hole.  He had red boots with a black and white rugby jacket.  He was so fast he could get a try.  The two boys pulled Harold’s gumboot out of the hole.  They lived happily ever after.  

By Lukas
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Once  upon a  time  there lived  a  dog  Jay, Mitchel was the skinny  one and  Jack the fat  one.  It  was  12  o'clock. It  was  loud  Jay  was  playing in the mud.   “Pass  it  to  me " said Jack,  “no  I  will  kick it to  you " yelled Mitchel.   So  he  did  and the  boot  landed  on  Jack's  face  but  he  took  it  of f and  ran  to  the  try  line, then he tripped  and  Mitchel scored  the  try.  

By Lakin   
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All blacks

Once there lived two Ohaeawai football players, who played for the Warriors and the All Blacks. The All Blacks cheered for them. The skinny one is called Shon Joshin. The fat one is called Johnny Bo who has a dog and it is lying in the cow poo. The cow stood on Johnny Bo, he had to go to the hospital. Then Shon Joshin had to go back to the NRL.  Johnny Bo got back from the hospital and he could play rugby again but Shon Joshin wasn't there.  

By Brooklyn

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Once upon a time it was a sunny day. The fat dude was Fin and he slipped over the ball, Then the ball hit Fin in the face. Fin fell over and Jack kicked the ball very high. Jack got hit from the ball then Fin got up and he picked up Jack . They went to McDonald's, Fin and Jack got chips and pudding. 

By Anthony

Multiplication Problem Solving

We have been learning to show our understanding of multiplication using pictures, materials, repeated addition and counting. We had one expert and one learner working collaboratively.

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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.

The volcano is spitting on the road and the volcano was brown and black. It was hot and smokey. The lava was rolling on the train track. Bang bang! It crashed down on the road too.

By Anthony

Bang! Crackle! The sun rocks are rolling down the volcano. Sloppy hot goo is slowly bubbling. Sounds like drums rumbling. Sizzle sizzle, here is the bubbles, the red and yellow rocks tumble down. Very, very hot rocks go everywhere.    

By Brooke

BOOM CRASH BANG! The gigantic hot rocks burst out of the volcano. The red fiery hot lava slithers down the volcano like a snake. Everything in the lava’s path turns into ash. The lava stops flowing and turns into hard rock. The rock sizzles for 2 hours before it slowly starts to cool down. It is scary but also amazing.   

By Sam