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Thursday 15 September 2016

Week 8

How nice is it to see the sun back, and with that sun were some very happy tamariki to be outside enjoying it!

This week we were busy getting stuck into our wearable arts performance where our tamariki did an awesome job! They were very talented actors and they were also very amusing comedians as well.
As well as putting on an amazing performance they were also very respectful audience members.






This week we have also been busy with New Worlds Little Garden seedlings. Thank you to all the whanau who have been sending them to school. Room 3 have had a blast planting them, and have been fascinated by the way the soil discs grow with water. Hopefully our seeds will be up soon and we can view our little garden growing on our windowsill!

If you do happen to have any Little Garden sets at home which you are not wanting, we would love to have them.






Thursday 8 September 2016

The BFG



We have slowly been reading the BFG by Roald Dhal in Room 3. We put our imagination caps on and we can close our eyes while we listen because there aren't many pictures to look at.

On Wednesday we were practising using really impressive describing words to describe the BFG in our writing. We started with the word tall and we brainstormed all the better words we could use instead of tall. We also thought about the things we knew were tall and how we could compare them to the BFG.

Here is Alyss, and Cleo's writing about the BFG:

The BFG has humongous feet. He is long like a sky scraper up to the sky. He has gigantic clothing. He has giant eyes. He has a large home.

By Alyss


The BFG is gigantic, just like Miss Hickling and just like a giraffe. He has big ears and he has long legs. He has big eyes and he's big just like Paddy.

By Cleo



Thursday 1 September 2016

Rereading and sentences!

Today we were writing a plan for how we are going to construct our wearable arts!

The "Comma's" writing group were focussing on rereading as they wrote their plan and making sure all their sentences have fullstops and capital letters where they needed them.

We looked at what we wanted our costumes to look like, what materials we would use to create it with, and how we would attach it all together.

This is Lucy's plan for her costume:

My costume is going to be green because I am in the earth group. My costume is green and my group is using green things. I am using green flax. I am going to use tape and the flax to hold it together.