I'm A Poet And I Know It

In writing today we explored the language of poetry. We read a poem about scootering around the town and used it as inspiration for our poems. It was a challenge to try and write in this way. Here are some poems we composed:

Riding on my skateboard
Balancing, balancing, balancing
All around the city
-Oscar Carey

Swishing on my skates
Around, around, around
Spinning, spinning, spinning, 
All around the town
-Luana Kirchoff Pereira

Once went I was riding
I was doing 360s
With my sister
I listened to my Mum
And I loved it
-Noah Reid

I am on my bike
I am turning on my bike 
To jump
I fell in the pond
I was covered in frogs!
-Angus Roberts

Riding my waterski
All around the lake
Doing some tricks
And back flips
On my waterskis
I was going and going 
Until I was stopping
I got into the boat
-Cruz Schwalger

Riding on my skates
Going swishing round the gates
Seeing all my mates
Holding on the gates
Seeing the whole estates
Faceplanting!
Waaaaaa!
I WANT MY MUMMY!
-Tessa Hurndell

Message To An Artist

We have been looking at change outside our window and using it to inspire us in art. We talked about spring and how it's almost here. Yesterday we created some floral artworks using paint but no brushes! Check them out below.

We also all wrote an email to a local artist Bridget who creates digital prints. Here is a bit of the writing we did:

To Bridget, 

I like your art. It is good. How do you draw so neatly?

Angus

To Bridget, 

I like your picture. Your pictures are cool. How do you do them?

Benjamin

To Bridget, 

I like your art. You must have worked really hard. I would like to send you a message. 

Felix

To Bridget, 

How do you do wonderful drawings? I love wonderful drawings. You must have read my mind. 

Tom

Bridget's reply:

Hi Eve,

Wow that's so cool. Please thank the children for the lovely messages and let them know that this kind of art is done on the computer so I use the computer mouse like its a paint brush!

Thanks again,

Bridget

Collaborative Writing

Today we wrote about our experiences in the sandpit. We collaborated during shared writing. Some of the words we used were dig, dug, smooth, sand, pat, volcano, pit, hole and potion. 

Sound Detective

I'm working hard to find sounds on my word card. I've written "I like motorbikes." - Neo

This Is My Castle

We are showing growth mindsets in writing. We are using our word cards to help us find words and sounds. Here William shows the results of hard work and a lot of thinking.

Words we were finding on the word card:

I
can
see
my
the
this
is

My House, My Castle

In writing we are using our study of homes to look back a few centuries at castles. Miss Eve showed us real castles she's been to such as Edinburgh Castle in Scotland and the Hohensalzburg fortress in Austria. Some of us have been to a real castle - Lanarch Castle in Dunedin. Hunter C went to a castle in Australia that had real jewels. We explored the parts of a castle, photos of real castles and even used a 'how to' video on YouTube to get ideas for how to draw our castles. We're going to use our castles to do some writing this week.

"Castles normally have rocks and wood. And also castles have flags, drawbridges and windows." - Tom

"A castle is a safe place where you can hide from people." - Felix

"My castle has a drawbridge, walls and a roof." - Benji

"Castles can have bricks and stones." - James

"Some castles have flags." - Lily

"They have walls and rooves." - Ashton

"Castles have really good hiding places. The enemies can fall into the moat." - Luka 

"Castles have canons and drawbridges. They pull them up and down for people to come and fight." - George 

"Castles have flags on the top of the roof." - Hunter C

Literacy Experiences

We love having literacy experiences outside of a book, too. Here Kimi Aakau are showing different ways we are writing. Tessa is enjoying chalk pens on the window, Olivia and Anja are writing on the large lines in the modelling book and Felix and George are writing in their books. Maybe at home we could show you new words we have learned.

There's No Place Like Home

We are using our study in to homes to inspire us in writing. We have been creating houses using different materials. Check out our amazing homes. Would you like to live there? 

A Hovering Visitor

We were so lucky to have a visit from a helicopter! Mrs Clarke's husband Shaun is a helicopter pilot and Shelly is a paramedic. They work together to help hurt people in the Wakatipu. It was so exciting to wait for the chopper to land on our school field. We use experiences like this to inspire us in writing time. 

Children's responses:

Olivia: It was noisy. Helicopters start with 'h' Miss Eve. (It's our sound of the day!)

William: It was cool going inside it and I liked the propellers.

Elsie: I thought it was weird that they didn't have a boot in the back of the helicopter because when I saw my first helicopter they had a boot where they put all their stuff. 

Thomas: It has a spinning thing on the back and on the top. On the top it had a lot of things. The rescue helicopter comes when you need it. 

Tim: I liked going through the helicopter. When I went up the steps and when I went down the steps myself.