Thursday highlights

We love singing in the morning when we start our day at school. At the moment our favourite songs are, 'Have a good day', 'Oh Mr Sun', 'You are my Sunshine', and 'School is Number One'.

For our writing inspiration this morning, we watched a short video of the story 'Little Red Riding Hood'. We wrote a great story together, then went off to write our own stories. Dinarah has started another really great story!

After lunch we listened to the story, 'Grandad's Medals'. We have been learning a little bit about the world wars from stories this week because Friday is Armistice Day and our teacher wants us to know why it is an important day.

We tried to make some pois today. First we had to plait the handles but that was really tricky. It was a bit easier to squish the stuffing inside a piece of plastic. Our teacher had to finish the job for us. Now we will use the poi when we are singing some Maori songs.

Narrative Stories

We are learning to write Narrative stories. This week we have been looking at a picture of a soldier who looks very sad. We thought that he might be sad because his friends died in the war.

Here is Ofeyliah's story:

Long, long ago there was a soldier. He was sad. All of his friends died. He went back to see his friends at the cemetery. That was the end of that.

This is Kalo's story:

Long, long ago in New Zealand there were soldiers who went far far away from New Zealand to fight. Some went back to see their soldier friends that had died. Then the soldier went back home.

Testing ideas

In our Technology lesson we tried making a small bag or box to carry a cupcake. Because it was a trial, we used paper. 

Some of us had great ideas but we are thinking that we should use stronger glue. If we had a cupcake it would help us to get the shape of our box or bag right. 

Friday fun

During Math we measured some giant footprints using paper clips, match sticks and pegs. 

Photo by Cing

Photo by Luke

Photo by Lucas

Most of the class produced amazing poem illustrations today. We even drew pictures of the first car which was invented by Henry Ford!

We started to warp our paper plate looms, but it was really tricky!

Respectful Communication

At Kiwi Can we learnt that greeting people with a smile, and by name is respectful. 

Performing

We loved performing for our parents and friends this evening. Thank you to our amazing audience, for coming to support us. 

Writing

We had a fantastic writing session this morning. 

First we looked at a picture and thought about the words we might use in our story. 

Next, we made a picture plan, then started to write. Here is the beginning of Lucas' story. 

Dinarah has also made an e cells to start!