Our Poems

We have been learning how to write poems.

We will know we have done this when we have done the following:

Followed the structure
Started each sentence on a new line
Used puncuation correctly
Expressed thoughts and ideas that are special to me

Here are some of our poems.

Courtney
It means great and pretty
2004
It is like a beautiful flower
We went roller blading
My gran
My gran showed me how to knit
2 weeks ago when I stayed the night
Courtney
I will never give up

Sophie
It means honest speedy and bright
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It is like a river
It is going to Hamner
It is the memory of my pet puppy
When we bought her
Sophie
It means I believe in doing my best and never giving up

Milly
It means delightful playful and glad
2001
It is like luscious ripe grapes
It is going to Australia
It is a memory off my step brother
Mum and Dad taught me to walk
9 years ago
Milly
It means all my lovely family

Dathan
It means joyful, brave honest
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It is a river with crocodiles sand snakes
It is going camping
Its a memory of my Nana
Who taught me to be honest
When she was alive
Dathan
It means to never quit

Building

We built a ship, it was massive and cool.  Our group worked co-operatively together to make it. It was awesome. We had a good idea for it.

Fractions

We like eating Mrs Bourkes banana cakes.  She makes them from some of the banana's that people forget to eat and leave in the classroom. Today the banana cake had chocolate in it.  We cut it up into fractions.  We had to make sure that everyone got a piece.  First we had to work out how many people there were in the classroom. We have 26 children, but 3 were away so that made 23 but we had 2 extra people so that made 25. We then decided that we had to cut the cake into 25ths.  So each  person got 1/25th of the cake.  It was yummy. It had chocolate icing on it.

Earthquake

Emergency busy
Aftershocks still hitting
Road came up and bumby
Terror everywhere in Christchurch
Hard earthquake
Quake damage houses
Unexpected earthquake
Aid kit people buying
Kats terrified running away
Electricy off

By Dathan

Rhythm Interactive

We went to Rhythm Interactive, I thought it was really cool and interesting.  I liked that somehow they got the West African Drums.  I liked doing the patterns on the drums. By Dathan

Mind Maps

Each day we think about the way we have been learning at school. We are using some new mind maps and they look like this.

Learning Celebration We Are the World.

We had our Learning Celebration about the perfect world.  Here are some of the models we made.  We liked parents and caregivers coming in to see them.

All Blacks

Dathan went and saw the All Blacks at QE2

Book Week

Clifford visited our school. Clifford loves reading and so does Dathan.  They are both really good readers because they use reading strategies.

Inquiry

We have been getting ready for our learning celebration. We are the World and we know how to make a difference to the world to make it a better place.  

Callen and Dathans graphs

e have been gathering data to make and present graphs.

Graphs

We have been collecting data and displaying it.

Have a look at Dathan and Callens graph, and, Olivias graph.

I like Maths

I like maths because I have to do it every day and I like doing + and tims tables and divison.