Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Thursday 14 November 2019

I am Connected through writing

This week some of us got to visit Autahi to share our writing and to practise being connected learners. We were keen to share our stories about getting to school.. with a twist.

We had used this story about children in Colombia who use a zip line to get to school as a writing prompt. We imagined what it would be like to have to do that every day!

Then we went to Autahi to share our stories and some of the things we have learned this year to help us become great writers. We all remember our early days as writers and we feel proud of how far we've come. We shared tips like:

- Re-reading our reading to check for meaning and full stops.
- Sounding out words and writing all the sounds we can hear.
- Adding more ideas to make our writing longer.

We really enjoyed connecting with our Autahi buddies and sharing our learning!














Thursday 20 June 2019

I am a Thinker- Finding problems and Thinking of Solutions.

Can we change the world with Maths and Writing?


We have been using statistics to find our favourite animals and also to find out how much plastic we bring to school.

Our favourite birds:
How much plastic is in our lunch boxes:



The link is that many animals are getting sick from all our plastic rubbish. We have been writing about what we think about it. The green highlighter means that we are checking our writing and using our writing goals:




Thursday 8 November 2018

I Am Connected- Pen Pal Letters


At Worser Bay School we want to be connected locally and globally, so we have enjoyed connecting with our pen pals from Killara Primary School in Australia through letter writing.



We know that letters used to be used so much but not so much anymore. We really enjoy getting letters from our pen pals and writing back. It feels special to get something someone else has taken time to create for us. Our pen pals tell us how much they like it too.




We work really hard at making them special to read and when we write we think about sharing what we do at school and things that are special to us. We feel proud of our letters.

They are ready to go on their journey to Australia!




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!

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.

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Jack and the Beanstalk Writing

As part of our inquiry about change, we will be growing plants. In literacy we have been retelling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We will be putting some of these on display during the week. Come in and have a look!

Writing by Evan

 
Writing by Jasmine 

Writing by Sammy C

Monday 10 October 2016

Travelling Tales



We have been working on a story project called "Travelling Tales". Some of our students helped to write the story. The story started in a school in Luxembourg then was passed on to a school in Taiwan/ Taipei. It arrived with us today. We're really excited about finding out how the story will end... watch this space!

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...

Saturday 17 September 2016

Down the Back of the Chair

We were inspired to write "Down The Back of The Chair" poems after looking at the Mahutonga Blog. They did such a great job and we thought that we could do the same. 


We read the story by Margaret Mahey story, then we wrote our own poems and recorded them on Seesaw. Here are some of them...

 

This is the shared poem that we wrote together: 

A fox, some blocks and polka dots
A plane, a train an airport lane
A mat, a bat and hairy cat
Down the back of the chair

A chair, a bear, pink underwear
A king, a ring, a chicken wing
A queen, a bean, a magazine
Down the back of the chair

A can, a man, a chinese fan
A dog, a log and a spotty frog
A cat, a mat, a stinky rat
Down the back of the chair

An orange peel, an electric eel
Some diamond rings, emerald things
A kung fu Kangaroo,
A sparkly old high heel shoe
Down the back of the chair

Tuesday 13 September 2016

The Dot- Planning for Writing

Drawing by Eloi
On Thursday, it is International Dot Day. International Dot Day is named for the classic Peter H. Reynolds storybook The Dot. Today we read the story and retold the story in pictures. What character strengths does Vashti have?

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

Thursday 1 September 2016

Mystery Skype Questions

We are very excited to learn that we will be doing a Mystery Skype tomorrow. It is when you ask questions to find out where the other school is. Today we wrote some questions that we can use to guess the school. 

Some questions we thought of:


  1. Are you in NZ? Are you in Australia? Are you in London? Are you in Asia?
  2. Are you in Wellington? Are you in Hamilton? Are you in Auckland? Are you in Adelaide
  3. Is your school in the city?
  4. Is your school big?
  5. Is your school a primary school?
  6. What temperature do you normally live in?
  7. Does your school go to year 6, 8, 10, or 13?
  8. Do you have a uniform? What colors are your uniforms?
  9. Is it a private school?

By Pippa and Leola 



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  

Thursday 25 August 2016

Performance Night: Shared Poem by Tautoru


Music Festival


Costumes Clashing
People Shivering
Music Playing
Children sneaking
Dishes cleaning
Night Sky Darkening
Stars twinkling
Moon shimmering
Turntables turning
Drumsticks banging
Shakers crashing
Pots booming
Bells ringing
Butterflies flapping
Gorrilas thumping
Clothes shining
Fingers pushing
Pots donging
People singing
Parents clapping
Dragons flying
Aliens dancing
Lights flashing
Bugs shaking
Cheetahs crawling
Kids screaming
Birds flying
Buckets banging
Heads nodding
Babies crying
Magic flying
Haka chanting
Audience listening
Parents cheering
Face painting

Thursday 18 August 2016

A time I lost...writing

We have been exploring a time when we lost and reflecting back on what character strengths we need when we do lose...here are some examples of our writing.

A time when I lost by Nela


Have you ever lost? Did you feel pretty stink about it? Well I'm gonna tell you when that happened to me.


It was my third cross country race in some cross country series. I heard the gunfire I shot off like a bullet off but it felt like my legs were propelling me back. I started getting lung burn but I kept on going, I past a couple of people but I still didn't feel good.
My eyes were blurry with tears I wiped them away because I would of
felt very embarrassed if other people saw me crying. I stopped
for a rest, looked around at the other people passing me.

My family were cheering me on then I caught sight of flags
waving around like crazy in the wind and they both said finish.
That encouraged me, I ran on and finished the race. I felt so proud
and after all that chatter on about “oh you finished the race” we went for lunch at a cafe.

Cross country by Jupiter

The sand rushed through my toes, my heart was pumping, the sun was shining. I ask to myself “how am I going to get first place”?
It was each year group boys and girls....
I was racing against my friends and I knew we did this for fun.
We did this every year at Worser Bay beach and this time it was a miracle I came 4th!
I was so happy and puffed. I think I persevered and it felt good!