Spring Time!

 Room 9's student teacher (also Miss Smith!) is doing a great job on her full control so far! Today in class, the students are learning to use the 5 senses to describe a spring scene.

How to brush your teeth!

 Room 9 has been learning about procedural writing. Here are two cool slideshows Habibah and Kodi have made about how to brush your teeth.

Keep working hard Room 9!

By Kodi

By Habibah

Picture Prompt writing by Jamal

One sunny day me and my family went to the zoo in the afternoon at 12.30. I was so happy going to the zoo. We arrived at 1.00 and it was crowded with people. The keepers were busy doing the paperwork. We waited until the keeper was free.

 Later we signed up and went to look at the animals. First we saw a majestic zebra running across the field like a cheetah. Second we saw a walrus swimming along the pool. Third we saw a tamarin monkey having an enjoyable time swinging along the monkey bars. Then we saw a dangerous lion feasting on meat. Five we saw a wonderful spot to eat. It was so exciting and interesting because there were birds flying on top of our heads and it was blocked out. 

After eating, we went back to the lion. It got noisy cause the lion started roaring. Then we went to the giraffes. People were so entertained because there were people riding on the giraffes back! It was fascinating.

 Lastly the elephants. They were wild but beautiful. Then at 3.00 we went home and it was a fantastic day.

By Jamal.

Back to school by Jamal

I am scared of going back to school because I haven't gone to school for more than 7 weeks.

I am excited about going back to school to play with my friends and see all the teachers again.

I am afraid if anyone is going to bully me and my sister at school.

I am happy to learn at school and play.

I am happy to be back at school.

By Jamal.

What Jamal did for Mothers Day

On  Sunday 10th of May, my family and I celebrated Mothers Day with my uncle, aunty, sister, cousins, and my nana.

We bought KFC for breakfast and some chips. It was so yummy. My aunty planned to go on a Pokemon hunt. But first, we went to my nana's house and said Happy Mothers day to her. 

After my sister and I stayed and did some things together.

After about 2 hours, they came back and said it was cool and fun. 

I wish I could do it again.

School starting back!

I missed school because at home was boring. I am looking forward to math, reading and art.

 I also missed my friends and I missed all of the teachers. I missed doing my work in class.

I am scared of my math my work. I felt happy when I heard school was opening again. So then I jumped up and said "YES" because I've already wanted to come back to school for a long time. 

By Mele K.

Mothers Day with Mele

Here is what Mele did on Mothers Day!

Mothers Day Recount by Irene

On Sunday I helped my mum with the food because we were making heaps of food for the people that were coming. We got the vegetables out and other stuff like meat. I was so excited for the people to come because I haven’t played with their kids in a very long time since the lock down started. 

The food that we had was BBQ, oka, taro, banana {not the yellow, the green ones we cooked} fish, chicken hearts - I think we had more but I can’t remember it. Oka is a food that you put coconut cream in and cucumber and tomato you also fish in which is why I love eating oka. 

The people coming to my house were the people that come to my church. What I mean by my church, I mean my dad's church because he’s the pastor {leader} so they were coming to my house. 

My mum was so happy because we had so much fun. I also had fun throughout the day because I could play with the kids and watch the mums dance. We had a happy mothers day.

I hope you enjoyed my story.

By Irene.

Melepalu during Lockdown

At home I haven't been up to anything but doing my homework. During the couple days the weather has been pretty bad so we can't go outside and it hasn't become colder. Since we can't go outside, I have had lots of fun talking to my friends over the internet and playing inside games with my family.

Lock down is not that bad. We have had some nice and relaxing times which is pretty cool. So until level 2 comes, I will be inside. I can't wait to go outside and go to school. I miss school but I like staying home and doing my work here.

By Melepalu.

Dinner with Tasmah

Thanks for sharing what you made for dinner Tasmah! It looks yummy. 

Well done for spending quality time with your whanau.

Mothers Day Letter

Well done to Irene for writing a beautiful letter for her mum for Mothers Day.

Dear Mum,

Thank you for everything you have done for me. Thank you for giving birth to me. Thank you for always looking after me until now. Thank you for taking me to school when dad was busy with work. I wouldn’t be writing this card to you if I wasn’t born so I just thank you for that. Thank you for always being there for me and Fred. Please forgive me for being naughty and lazy. I promise you that when you and dad grow up I’m going to look after you two because you and dad have been looking after me and Fred for a very long time. I thank you for always making sure that we are safe. I love you 50 million mum.

From your only daughter Irene.

Sentence Challenge!

Students have been working on fixing 'sick' sentences. 

Well done to Jamal who completed his daily sentence challenge.

during the locdown i spent lots of time wif my family

During the lockdown I spent lots of time with my family.

i playd lots of fun games wif my whanau such as monopoly an cards

I played lots of fun games with my whanau such as monopoly and cards.

covid - 19 started in china and spreaded all around the world. that is why we went into lockdown.

Covid_19 started in China and spread around the world. That is why we went into lockdown.

What Kodi has been doing

In the lockdown in level three, my family and I went fishing in the night. We cast our fishing hooks because we don't know if the fishing line might break. We waited a little while, then my papa caught a snapper then my uncle caught a little snapper. Then he put the little snapper back in the water so the snapper could grow.

Five minutes later my uncle caught a big snapper. It was amazing. I caught a little fish. I didn't know the name of the fish.

By Kodi.

Writing Prompt

Here is a story Irene wrote using the picture prompt below.

On a beautiful day I decided to go for a walk with my family. While me and my family walked along the path we saw heaps and heaps of rubbish on the floor, so we went over to it and went to put it in the right bin. Before we started to pick up the rubbish, we could smell something horrible and that was the dirty rubbish bin. 

The reason why it was smelly was because there was food that was wasted and got old and made the horrible smell. I heard two birds singing together on the tree with their nest waiting for their babies hatch. When we went to pick up the rubbish, we saw food on them that was gooey. Then I said that I didn’t want to pick up more rubbish because it was too yucky for me and I didn’t like it.

But then my mum said to me “oh come on you can wash your hands when we get home”. Then I said to my mum “ you are right”. So I started to pick up as much rubbish as I could to make the park clean. When me and my family were done, we went out of the park and looked back and was proud of ourselves for cleaning the park for the kids. Then we went home proud and happy. 

I hope you enjoyed my story. When you see rubbish on the ground please pick it up and put it in the right rubbish bin.

By Irene.

Picture Prompt Writing

Here is a story Melepalu wrote using the picture prompt below.

Strolling through the smelly park, I can see birds flying around the rubbish bins. After all, it was quiet but it was very dirty and smelly.

 As I kept walking the piles of rubbish kept on getting bigger and bigger. Suddenly there was a sound coming from back where I had been walking. It was like someone was nibbling something behind the humongous trash piles. A raccoon jumped up quickly, trying to hit me in the face. I quickly slid to the side and it fell on the floor and ran away. Phew! That was close, I almost got a raccoon scratch in the face. So as I dusted myself off  I ran down the road to see why it was so quiet. 

I knocked on people's doors with no answer. Since it was so quiet I decided to just pick a few bits of rubbish. I picked up about three of those disgusting bits of rubbish and stood those rubbish bins up. I then left for the day. 

The very next day I saw that the roads were very clean. I then saw people outside playing and they were also cleaning up their rubbish. That day I realised a lot of people were showing up to help to clean up the mess. I felt very happy that everyone decided to clean up for the good of the environment.

By Melepalu.

Picture prompt writing

Well done Mele for using a picture prompt and sentence start to create a story.

Here is what she wrote:

Thump! He slammed  his enormous, grass-covered foot into the middle of the road, sending dust in all directions.The giant monster carefully put back the roof down and he felt lonely and sad because he just wanted to play with someone but they thought that he was a strange monster. But then a little boy came to the monster and said “are you alright” and the monster replied “no, I am not alright, I am looking for a friend to help me fix my boat's engine for the monster's boat race tomorrow". "Oh I can help you", said the little boy but only if I can come and watch your boat race. The giant agreed.

Picture Prompt Writing by Irene

Well done to Irene who finished her story based on a picture prompt. Here is what she wrote:

One day there was a giant who lived on the mountains. The next day he was so bored looking at trees and rivers, all he wanted was to have something to play with. So he climbed a very tall tree and saw a boat on the ocean. He climbed down and ran as fast as he could to get that boat. When he got to the ocean, he walked to the boat and just grabbed it. He didn’t even care about the people trying to swim to land.

When he grabbed the boat he went to a city that was right next to the ocean. He then opened a roof from someone's house and looked through it. All the people that were on the ground were screaming and running away from the giant because they thought that he was there to eat them. The person on the ground in the blue van was so scared to be stomped on that he went crazy and needed to calm down before he could drive probably.

When he finished looking into the houses, he got bored again and went to have fun playing on the mountain with his new boat. The people that ran away came back and saw that the giant was gone. Then they were happy because they did not get eaten by the giant.

I hope you enjoyed my story about a giant who lived on a mountain.

By Irene.

Picture Prompts

This week, Room 9 students will be using picture prompts and sentence starters to create exciting writing.

This is the picture prompt they will be using.

I look forward to seeing some wonderful, creative stories from Room 9 students!! 

Keep an eye out over the next few days!

Creepy House by Melepalu

Today students used the below picture prompt and key words to create an interesting story.

For their follow-up activity, they had to create their own spooky house using google draw. 

Here is an awesome finished example created by Melepalu!

EXCITING writing prompts!

WOW!!! Room 9 students couldn't keep their eyes of this exciting short animated film we watched for writing today.

At the moment, we are learning how to retell a story in our own words. This short film had every single student fully engaged! 

I can't wait to see all their wonderful writing pieces and their creative art they will do about this short film.

The short animated film is called The Catch! 

You can find it on the Literacy Shed.