Showing posts with label literacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literacy. Show all posts

Saturday 8 August 2020

Collaborative Poetry- Tuakana Teina

 

Last week, our Social Positive Purpose Group worked collaboratively with the Year 3 students to create some poetry. The aim was to teach the juniors about the poetic devices that the seniors have been using in their poetry. It was great to collaborate and learn from each other!

When I feel Excited By Nikita and Sitara 

When I feel excited 
I bounce off the walls 
When I feel excited 
I explode excitement 
When I feel sad 
I burst into tears 
When I feel sad 
I read a book 
When I feel sad 
I slam the door 
When I feel nervous 
I freeze into a ball 
When I feel nervous 
I shiver with scaredness 
When I feel hangry 
I scream angrily 
When I feel loved 
I get happy and my heart bursts


Childhood Tracks by Soma and Nina 

Hearing tui waking me up in the morning 
Hearing the teacher talking to my class 
Hearing kids and me playing at playtime 
Eating toast in the morning 
Eating orange for lunch at school 
Eating pizza for lunch 
Drinking water in the afternoon 
Drinking orange juice 
Drinking fizzy drinks at home 
Smelling pizzas cooking in the oven at lunch

Anger by Oscar & Charlie

Anger 
It flies through our head 
like a bullet 
Causing happiness to scramble away 
Making everyone grumpy

Childhood Tracks by Ethan Gigi and Oli 

Smelling delicious flowers 
Smelling pollen in the flowers 
Hearing tui sing loudly 
Hearing beautiful getting pollinated by bees 
Eating delicious KFC 
Eating the burning pizza 
Feeling water on your face 
Feeling the fresh breeze on my face

Love By Charlotte and Cara

Love is form of relationship 
Flying through the air 
as its formed 
Love is a red hot heart 
Burning through 
The soul

Childhood tracks- Sam and Mastani 

Hearing my Dad screaming 
Hearing my little brother throwing dishes on the ground 
Hearing seagulls stomping on the roof 
Seeing my neighbours jumping on the trampoline 
Seeing seagulls flying past the window 
Seeing harakeke bending in the wind 
Eating chocolate caramel goody-goody-gumdrop ice-cream 
Eating pancakes with chocolate and raspberries 
Eating tacos with guacamole and black beans

Sunday 7 July 2019

'The Great Waka of Tama Rēreti' - Matariki Whānau Day

Our 2019 Matariki Whānau Day was a huge success, with each whānau group coming together to celebrate Te Ao Māori through the Arts.

Carl and Nik's whānau group (with fantastic support from Cloe!) watched and listened to some different versions of The Great Waka of Tama Rēreti.

We then got in to groups to create backgrounds and moving figures for a paper theatre.



With the help of Carl's height, we filmed our movie in just a few takes.


Later, we used GarageBand to record some background noises, such as the Taniwha, water and fire.

A special mention must go to Matilda, who did an exceptional job of narrating the story.

Check out our finished product below!



Friday 3 August 2018

Friday Whanau Groups

Today we started our Friday Whanau Groups. We will be spending 20 minutes in our Whanau Groups every two weeks, after assembly. This week we focussed on writing. We shared some writing with each other and asked each other questions about our writing. It is really great to work with buddies across the school!

Monday 14 November 2016

Imagine Poems

We read a poem called Imagine by Pie Corbett. We closed our eyes and imagined. We played with words to paint a picture. Some of us used repitition, similes, metaphor, alliteration and personification.

Imagine
A hot moon and a cold sun
A worm with a bazooka chasing a bird
The solar system exploding
A bee chasing a car
Imagine
Count Dooku was tiny
A Jedi defending Darth Vader
Kylo Ren destroying his own base
Imagine
Plastic bags were not made of plastic
A Jedi with the lightning force
You don't see yourself in a mirror
Peace is war
Imagine
Everyone was bald
The sun was not light
By William

Imagine
imagine a thirsty drink bottle waiting for water.
Imagine… a dull pencil waiting to get sharpened.
Imagine… a sharp hook waiting for a crazy fish.
imagine yummy food waiting to get eaten.
imagine chewing waiting to get chewed.
imagine hair waiting to get shaved .
Imagine… lases waiting to get tied.
Imagine… a tooth waiting to fall out.
By Cruz
 

Imagine .
Imagine a bad bumblebee biting your bum.
A cat sprinting after a dog.
A princess riding a tricycle.
Imagine a pink fluffy unicorn dancing on a rainbow .
A queen riding on a sparkly unicorn wearing board shorts and sweaty t-shirt.
A goblin turning blue and a blueberry turning green.
Imagine a tiny kitten breathing fire and setting fire to a house.
One orangutan eating an orange while sitting on an oblon.
John jiggling joyfully jumping on a jam jar.
Imagine glasses giggling grimfully. .
A huge mouse in a tiny house.
Imagine all that.
By Nela 

Imagine

A beautiful butterfly blushing,
A hippo hating hip hop dancing,
A chameleon crawling carefully
Along a colourful cantaloupe.

Imagine
A water as angry as a rhino,
A rose as pink as a pig,
A moon as big as a balloon.

Imagine
An avalanche is a cheetah,
A piece of watermelon in a watery sea,
A tornado is as angry Pikachu.
By Edward

Thursday 10 November 2016

Our students have been writing their own end of year reports linked to character strengths

Lily Ji
Lily’s key character strength is bravery. When she hurts herself she is brave. She loves to do computer maths. She loves to do cartwheels and flips. Hand stands are her goal. Lily is very creative. She loves to do art. She can weave a heart. Lily loves to read, it is one of her favourite things to do. She likes to read Alice in Wonderland. She thinks that the story is magical. She thinks that it is the coolest book in the world. Lily loves playing on the iPad and playing games. She loves hopscotch, climbing trees and planting. Lily loves playing outside with her friends.

Molly 
Molly's key character strengths are love, kindness and creativity. She loves to learn and she is helping her friends when they are hurt. Molly loves to write she is creating new things every day. Molly likes playing with her friends every day. Molly likes helping her teachers.


Ginas report
Ginas key character strength is zest and a bit of bravery. She enjoyed the kitchen science and tasting of the athlete snacks. She loves to read. She has got a lot of friends. If she could play all day she would. She is a big Minecraft fan. Gina has 2 bunnies and she loves animals. She is sporty smart and ... awesome!  


Marnie’s year in Tautoru!!
Marnie’s key character strengths are kindness and creativity, Marnie likes reading and doing art. She likes learning new things and playing with her friends every day and helping them when they are hurt. Marnie always likes helping teachers too.  

Jupiter
Jupiter’s character strength is creativity. He enjoys walking, sports, lego and video games. He is very joyful he has a lot of friends that he likes to play with. Jupiter shows resilience when he is sad. Jupiter sets goals. He is very smart. He like’s maths.

Nela’s report
Nela’s best character strength is a sense of humour. Nela’s favorite subject at school is reading. Nela likes helping anyone who needs help like students and teachers. Nela’s best subject is writing.
she loves animals because they are cute and awesome. She loves sport. Nela has lots of friends and family and she loves them too. She has also a lot of teachers that she loves!


Violeta
Violeta’s best character strength is creativity. She likes to read and draw. Violeta likes hatchimals. She has lots of friends. Violeta likes to be helpful. She enjoyed a trip to Island Bay to teach Spanish. She loves soft toys. She writes two pages in quiet time. She likes to play with her friends. Violeta likes to climb trees. Violeta enjoys doing handwriting. She uses a lot of bravery. She loves cute animals. Her thing to calm her down is climbing. She usually goes to the library every day. She uses resilience when she gets upset. Violeta also likes writing long stories. She doesn't like avocado.

Sunday 30 October 2016

Travelling Tales: Fred the Lonely Teddy

We have been involved in a story project called Travelling Tales. This time we wrote the beginning of the story, then it was sent off to a school in Luxembourg and then to Island Bay School, then to Luxembourg and then back to us. 

This is us working on the beginning of the story. Gina wrote the first 5 slides and Nicola and Scott's base group wrote the last five.

Wednesday 21 September 2016

Flynn's Poem- When you are sleeping...


Today in Tautoru, for our reading some of us read Flynn's poem, "When you are Sleeping". We liked it because he chose the best words for the purpose. It also paints a picture in our mind. During Independent writing, some of us decided to write our own scary poems. Thank you for the inspiration Flynn!

When you are sleeping...

When you are sleeping, sneaking through streets,
Snatching, eating, gobbling, slithering, he whispers,
In Parseltongue “kill, kill, kill, KILL!”
                          
Cats meow, dogs bark, wind flows, rain flies,
Trees drip, no one sees the monsters,
Roaming feet thudding, houses crushing,
Water rising, trees falling, ground ripping.

People growing, ideas flowing, time spinning,
Coming, going in and out, blackness falling over,
Mountains growing, trucks towing,
Rivers Flowing,
Things Roaming.
By Flynn, WBS,  (Year 4)

Tuesday 20 September 2016

Elephant Toothpaste


Today we did an experiment called "Elephant Toothpaste". We asked students to do a creative piece of writing. This is what we came up with:

Elephant Toothpaste

It looked like ice cream
It looked like an ice cream maker
It went into swirls
How amazing
Elephant toothpaste
It looked like it had invisible hands
Slowly rose up like bubbles  

By  Hadley


Elephant toothpaste
Elephant toothpaste oh my did it erupt?
Elephant toothpaste lots of bubbles rising up.
Elephant toothpaste lots of slime.
Elephant toothpaste it kept going.
By Ruby


Elephant Toothpaste
Slow explosion
Rising up
It looks like ice-cream and don't eat it because it's gross vinegar
disgusting
It's bubbly like bubble mixture
By Blaze



We made some elephant tootpaste art too...

Tuesday 13 September 2016

Auntie Dot Poem

Some of us read a poem called, "Auntie Dot" today. We have been learning to read poetry in different ways. 



Saturday 10 September 2016

If Poems

Art by Yoshi
We read a poem called "IF" and as a reading response we wrote our own poems:

If the sea was purple and the clouds were pink and yummy,
if the sun was green would everything be green too?
If trees were chocolate would it taste like chocolate too?
What if the birds were rainbow and cats were Orange?
By Violeta and Georgina


If skies were Black
How wood we see?
What if the grass was pink?
It would change the world.
If the trees were gold?
By Greta

If cheetahs chirped
It would be berserk
If blue were red
Then bookbags would be dead
Choclate gold
Hairy bold
By Jupiter


If sun sets were white
And skies were green,
What colour would trees seem?

If dolphins were orange
And sea turtles were red
Would they have to change their name?
To red turtles?

What about watermelons?
If they were purple?
What would happen?

If coconuts were pink
And bananas were grey,
Would everything be the same?

I’ve known orangy pinky sunsets,
Grey dolphins and more
So if the colours were bored and switched around,

I wonder what the world would be?
By Charlotte and Leola

If clouds were blue
And crabs were yellow
Turtles were purple
The trees were plastic
that will not be fantastic
Caves were orange
Floors were caravans
And pigs called inky
We call them stinky.
Maybe ghosts were not invisible.
Flies were gold.
Paper was a cape-flying paper.
By Will J

Friday 9 September 2016

Green eggs and Ham

Our poem last week was Green Eggs and Ham. Chrissy's literacy group got to make green and eggs and ham this morning and started to write about it. Look at how funny it looks!! In week 8 we will writing about it and add to this blog post so keep a look out!








Tuesday 30 August 2016

Performances- A moment in time


Last week we performed in our Music Festival. We have been writing recounts about our show. Here is one from each Tautoru base group...




The Junk Bot Aliens
Tap, tap went the drums, I had to keep the beat up for audience. There was only me and Reuben so if I stopped everyone would know (because there was a small group). The group had to do it 7 times for two days and each scene was a minute. But the time went so fast. We all participated and got a gummy. “yay!”
Our  beat was confusing because every scene had a different beat.
By Jupiter


Story of the Cooks      
My stomach urged me on but my brain said this is going too far.I sucked in my cheeks took a deep breath and plunged into what I needed to say, “this is the story of the breakfast cooks...” I used up all my energy, it all just ran out like it was being chased by a stampeding elephants,like a dam had just broken inside my mouth.I felt like I was going to collapse. But my brain changed its mind and urged me on so then I changed my mind and shot up and down like an arrow stretched and curved and at the end we got a big round of applause.
By Nela

Eagles V Dragons
My brain exploded as it was awesome. Parents cheering and clapping and music playing. It was better than I thought it would be. Fingers pushing, my breath was breathing into the piano. Suddenly it stopped and I was amazed. That was the first night, only seven more times to go. It was tiring but fun. At first I had butterflies in my tummy but then I was  as strong as a soldier. It was spectacular and in my head I thought “isn't this amazing!”
By Gina  

Beats and Haka
Did you ever go to school at night?
I did. I had to perform seven times in a row.It was amazing! There were lights of all colours. I enjoyed a lot the drumming with all different instruments. Our audience was giant! I loved doing the haka though it was hard to keep in time with our recording of the haka. The audience went crazy clapping a lot. Chrissy explained how we made our show.
By Leola  

Monday 29 August 2016

Glurp, the purple alien

We are learning to read aloud with fluency and expression. Today we read Glurp, the purple alien. Here we are reading the poem...


glurp-the-purple-alien
I’m Glurp, the purple alien.
I come from outer space.
I have a purple body.
I have a purple face.
I use my purple tentacles
to dine on purple food.
The treats I find the tastiest
are purely purple-hued.
I’ll eat a purple burger.
I’ll slurp a purple shake.
I’ll feast on purple pickles and
partake of purple cake.
I’ll nosh on purple noodles.
I’ll feast on purple fries.
I’ll munch on purple macaroons
and purple pizza pies.
I haven’t seen your planet,
but, if I ever do,
you’d better not wear purple.
I might just dine on you.
--Kenn Nesbitt

Monday 22 August 2016

Noodles in my Nostrils by Kenn Nesbitt


Today we read a poem called, "I have Noodles in my Nostrils" by Kenn Nesbitt. The poem is about noodles that fall onto parts of the body. The person who says the poem is a bit silly and calls himself a nincompoop. He falls asleep while eating his lunch of chicken noodle soup. The poem is very funny. 
By Adam and Dylan

I Have Noodles in My Nostrils by Kenn Nesbitt

I have noodles in my nostrils.

I have noodles on my nose.
There are noodles on my cheeks and chin
and dripping down my clothes.
I’ve got more upon my forehead.
Some are sticking to my neck.
It’s completely disconcerting.
I’m a noodle-covered wreck.
I can see them on my kneecaps,
and I know they’re in my shoes.
(When I stand, they’re somewhat squishy,
and I feel them start to ooze.)
There are several in my pockets.
There’s a handful in my hair.
And I’m pretty sure that some are even
in my underwear.
So try not to do what I did:
I’m a total nincompoop,
and I fell asleep at lunch
while eating chicken noodle soup.

Here are some of us reading the poem:

Friday 5 August 2016

Peace Poems at Assembly

Next week is Peace Week. We will be connecting with a school in Pakistan- a place that is not as peaceful as ours. We have been writing "Peace" poems and will share these with the school in Pakistan.


This is shared writing by Nicola's literacy group:

Peace is

A calm, graceful day

A friendly, open hand

Happiness, all together

Friendship and calmness

Peace is

A serene jungle

A good day

When families come together

Love on Valentines Day

Peace is

Relaxing on a hot, sunny beach

Wedding bells ringing

A world without rubbish

A calm ocean with lots of life

Peace is

Non-violent and no hate

A quiet library

Showing empathy

4 am in the morning

Peace is

Breathing deeply in and out from your lungs

Starry Matariki at night

A smile

A beautiful sunrise

a spectacular sunset on a summer’s night

Reading a good book

Peace is…

A place to understand

Sitting in a spa with jets and bubbles

Feeling the sand between my toes

Snuggling in your bed with your teddy

Sleeping in a cosy bed with soft pillows and a blanket