Term 4
We started the term off by writing a descriptive piece on owling. This piece was based on the story "The Owl and the Moon". It also tied in nicely with our novel that we are reading which is Awful Aunty. Here are a couple of photos of students collaborating together to come up with some descriptive language for their writing piece.
Term 3
We started the term with narratives. These narratives have been published and made into a book. This book is now in our classroom library for all to enjoy. The students are doing some amazing writing around our Inquiry - movement. I have attached some pieces of writing below.
Term 2 - Procedural writing
To stimulate ideas for writing we are playing the "Game of Awesome" at school. This game motivates and excites the students during writing time. We are using this game to stimulate ideas for writing so they can practise using language features such as similies, metaphors, alliterations and using WOW words and adjectives.
L5 students have successfully written an instructional piece of writing and during week 2 we learnt how to use google slides. There were some experts in our class and they shared their knowledge on using google slides. Parents if you get some time please have a look at their piece of writing in their drive.
L5 are working hard towards successfully writing an instructional piece. During week 1 we discussed imperative/bossy verbs and precise words that could be included in our writing.
We started the term off by writing a descriptive piece on owling. This piece was based on the story "The Owl and the Moon". It also tied in nicely with our novel that we are reading which is Awful Aunty. Here are a couple of photos of students collaborating together to come up with some descriptive language for their writing piece.
Term 3
We started the term with narratives. These narratives have been published and made into a book. This book is now in our classroom library for all to enjoy. The students are doing some amazing writing around our Inquiry - movement. I have attached some pieces of writing below.
Hiding at the Border
Dear diary. We’ve been traveling for days, we finally meet the border. We walk up to the border, a guard sees us,he refuses entry. Mother pleads but he pushes us back. Mother says we're not leaving! We run back as fast as we can. We search for a place to stay. There were trees looming over our head, bugs scattering. We hear birds flapping but we finally find a bed, it was a bunch of leaves. Mother holds us tight. I finally get some sleep I hear footsteps that wake me up. Mother tells us to come we go to follow mother. We find a hollow log we race in. The guards don’t see and trip over it .We stay there for the night. In the morning we will climb over the border.
Hiding at the Border
Whosh the wind went. Dark creepy shadows crept behind me. I shivered as the leaves slowly landed on my head. I hear creepy sounds around me. Trees look like monsters bushes look like bears who have sharp teeth. Argh I say. What is that I said. It was just a dinosaur tooth I freaked out!
Hiding at the Border as a Refugee
One dark night I was with my mum and my brother we are trying to escape the war it is scary and dark but mum says we are safe as long as we are together. Then we arrive at the border and we see the guards they start to chase us. As we’re running I have scary thoughts going through my mind. I was thinking are we going to make it? Are we going to get caught? Or are we going to survive? Then the guards find us so we have to run even faster! Snap I step on a twig which scares me and made me fall and I hurt myself but I get up quickly and run as fast as I can. Then we lose them. Phew we are all tired so we build a nice little hut and go to sleep.
Term 2 - Procedural writing
To stimulate ideas for writing we are playing the "Game of Awesome" at school. This game motivates and excites the students during writing time. We are using this game to stimulate ideas for writing so they can practise using language features such as similies, metaphors, alliterations and using WOW words and adjectives.
L5 students have successfully written an instructional piece of writing and during week 2 we learnt how to use google slides. There were some experts in our class and they shared their knowledge on using google slides. Parents if you get some time please have a look at their piece of writing in their drive.
L5 are working hard towards successfully writing an instructional piece. During week 1 we discussed imperative/bossy verbs and precise words that could be included in our writing.
During the end of term we have been focussing on recounts. We have really concentrated on our words and making our sentences sound more interesting. As a class we have brainstormed adjectives and come up with some great metaphors we can use in our writing. Come in and see our published work on our wall.
Week 8
It was exciting this week as we wrote our metaphors, created postcards and created our classroom poetry page to send to Christchurch. Have a look at our photos below.
L5 is participating in the "Get NZ writing" programme. We are putting together postcards and a L5 community page to exchange with another class in New Zealand. There are quite a few schools participating nationwide!
During week 7 we began our writing journey on metaphors. L5 now know what a metaphor is and have successfully constructed metaphors to share. We are aiming to create individual metaphors which will be written on their own postcards to be sent to our exchange classroom.
It's all very exciting as the students begin to realise that metaphors can make their writing sound more interesting! As we embrace metaphors L5 are also continuing to consistently use correct punctuation, spell high frequency words correctly and learn to check that our writing makes sense!
We look forward to receiving our package from another school! Watch this space...
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