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

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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Writing

We have been learning to add powerful verbs and adjectives to our writing to make it shine. Here are some gems from this week. 

The Climb

I was so tired I could hardly move. I spotted the trees swishing in the air back and forth. When I got to the top of the mountain I was exhausted. I heard birds chirping it sounded wonderful. The fresh green grass was as soft as a pillow. The mountain was bumpy like a hippopotamus back. I fell on the soft fresh green grass. We listened to uncle Hone tell us Maori stories. Then I ate my lunch yummy lunch.

By Denym
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Wow! I ran up the hill a little bit. I found a cow horn, I put it in my bag. I kept on walking up the hill. There was a brown gate I climbed over the gate. It is a long way, I said to myself. Then there was another gate, then another gate, one more then we were there. Next we were so high up I could almost see the whole world. From here it was a long way down. We walked up the last bit of the mountain.

By Charlie.

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“WOW!” That is the biggest rocky mountain I have even seen in my life. Bang bang! I hopped off the rusty old bus. We lined up like clever dogs standing up. After that we started to climb. Heave ho! I climbed the green pathway. It got steeper every minute. Louisa and Sara had to hold onto my hand. Finally we reached the tippy top of the mountain. When we got to the top of the rocky mountain it had lush green grass. l could see the other children and the black and white cows. “Wow!” I could see the glistening blue water in the lake. After that we raced down the rocky mountain like cheetahs chasing mice.     

By Ronan                 

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The bus sped across the bumpy metal road. When the bus stopped at the green grassy mountain Sam and I raced up the high mountain. Sam and I saw the little kids and we saw the teachers too.

By Sunita

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Wow! The bus screeched to a stop it was dusty on the gravel. When we got to the steep mountain we walked up the mountain. There were black cows and white and brown cows. I puffed up the hill, it was like an adventure. It was bendy, it made me feel dry so I had a drink then we kept walking.

By Reagan