Creating an image in the mind of the reader...

In term one, Riordan, Rodda and Stine have been learning about using words and descriptive language to create a visual image for the reader.  We drew the creature our friend described.

Luscious lemons - using our senses for descriptive writing

Term one descriptive writing

Anzac Day

We had a great day investigating what life would be like in a trench during WWI. We made wordles describing the soldiers, made poppies, wrote paragraphs describing life in the trenches, played a KAHOOT based on ANZAC DAY and baked ANZAC cookies.

Tika, pono and aroha

The Year 4 children have been learning about tika, pono and aroha in Religious Education.  These are our collaborative ideas about showing tika, pono and aroha at school.

Creating a visual image in the reader's mind

Riordan, Rodda and Stine have been learning about creating a visual image in the reader's mind.  To begin with, we all sketched a description that Mrs Bellis made up.  We are currently making our own descriptions to share.

Holy Week Presentations

WAL: about Holy Week and what it consists of.

The year 5 and 6 group made presentations about what they knew about Holy Week. Here is some of their work.


Bodie





Tom Libby



The year 4 children also made presentations about Holy week.


Aiden D

Pyper

Problem Solving

WALT: work together to solve problems.

On Friday we were very busy trying to solve some problems that were set for us by our teachers. We had to work collabratively  - making sure everyone had a chance to contribute, that we listened to each other and that we all participated. We got some great answers and will share them on our slideshows.