Showing posts with label Te Māuru-e-taki-nei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Te Māuru-e-taki-nei. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 April 2018

Descriptive Writing


Miss Bannan's writing group have been working on descriptive writing. This week we have been writing about lemons. We used wow words and our senses to describe what they were like to look at, touch, taste and smell. We also watched a buddy eat the lemon and watched their face to see their reaction. Taylor, Turanga, Ella-Pearl, Cole and Sophie wrote some amazing descriptions and got to read their stories out to Mr M, who was very impressed and gave them a gold sticker! 


Read some of our amazing descriptive writing below:

The room was filled with excitement and anticipation as the class stared at the object that looked like a yellow fruit and an L&P ice block. As I bit into the juicy, sour, stinging and a little bit transparent lemon my tastebuds were running away from the lemon because they didn't like it. My eyes crunched and scrunched up like a crunchy bar. It was extremely yellow and sour. When I looked at the skin, I saw some little gold freckles. It was really strong. - Ella-Pearl.

When Mrs Harris took the white bowl of who-knows-what out of the fridge I felt anxious. As I touched the lemon it froze my hand! My taste buds stung! It also tasted sour. Zara's eyes scrunched up and her hands flapped as she bit into the lemon. When I bit into the lemon I was disgusted. - Cole.

Have you ever eaten a whole lemon before? I have. It was yellow like the sun. It was squishy. It smelt amazing like lemon perfume. It was juicy. I loved the lemon. It was so loud when Mrs Harris brought the gleaming bowl out of the fridge. The room grew with anticipation. When we all bit into the lemon our faces crinkled with disgust. Our taste buds stung as we threw the lemon out. - Taylor.

The room buzzed with excitement. Everyone was so excited because Mrs Harris said we would have something to eat. Everyone was yelling. My ears blew up!! My ears didn't actually blow up. The inside of the lemon looked like mars. When Lucas bit into the lemon his eyes disappeared because the lemon was so sour. - Turanga.

As Mrs Harris pulled the shiny bowl out of the cold fridge I got excited! If I tell you it was sour, can you guess what it was? If you guessed a lemon you're right! There was a lemon in the bowl! WARNING! Never taste a thing that looks like a little yellow planet. The lemon gleamed in the shiny bowl. When Rylan ate the sour fruit his eyes scrunched up and his tongue poked out. - Sophie.




Monday, 5 March 2018

Descriptive Sentence Writing

 Miss McLeod's writing group have been working on writing descriptive sentences. Last week we used a picture of a beach and thought about what we could see, hear, smell and feel at the beach. We made a plan using wow words to describe.
Today we used our plans to turn our ideas into sentences. We used whiteboards so we could practise editing them and making them better.
Here are two sets of work that Miss McLeod thought were amazing!



Kobe's Writing


I can see colourful shells and I can see sparkly waves and I can see the sun reflecting on the water. The sun is making the water shiny. I can hear squawking seagulls.


Lee-Chin's Writing 


I can see sparkly shells splashing in the sparkly waves.
I can hear rolling splashing waves on the muddy sand.
At the beach the crabs are crawling in the shimmering hot sand. 
The crabs are going to the shimmering waves.


Stay tuned to see what we do next!

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Lennox's Fantastic Writing!

Wow! Lennox was showing truly his Learning Powers on Tuesday in his writing.  He worked hard to create a piece of writing about a picture of a giraffe stuck up a tree. Lennox came up with some incredible ideas about how the giraffe may have climbed up the tree because it was hiding from predators! 
Lennox was very proud of his work and the effort that he put in and so was Miss McLeod, so he got to show Mr M his work, who was also very impressed!

Well done Lennox, keep up the great work!

Read Lennox's writing below!

One day a cheetah was chasing a giraffe. The giraffe climbed a tree. Then the cheetah gave up eventually. The giraffe climbed down because the giraffe was safe.

Friday, 23 February 2018

Hero Awards

Congratulations to our first heroes who were awarded a Hero Certificate at our very first Celebration Assembly of the year. 
You are fabulous - great to see you all using your People Powers and Learning Powers.


BEING GUARDIANS

Yesterday when Mrs Signal was on lunch time duty she discovered this little group of "guardians" who were picking up rubbish (other peoples rubbish) around the school.  They are doing a fantastic job at looking after our brand new school!


Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Term 1 Newsletter

Our first newsletter for the year is available here.  Future newsletters will be emailed out like the school newsletter so please make sure we have your email address.
Thanks

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Zones Athletics

Today we were super proud of Tyler, Caleb and Kahu as they went to represent South Hornby in the Zones Athletics.  They were the only Year 3's in the school team with the Seniors.
Well done on winning the 8 year old's relay (with Noah from the Seniors)!
The boys getting ready to leave in the morning.
The winning 8 yr old relay team - looking very pleased with themselves.

Saturday, 14 October 2017

Term 4 Newsletter

2 more sleeps until Term 4 begins - check our Term 4 Newsletter for important information.

See you all on Monday at our brand new school!!

Friday, 29 September 2017

Pizza Winners!

Te Māuru-e-taki-nei and Whakarua won pizza from our school cleaners today for being the cleanest block this term.

Te Māuru-e-taki-nei's Visit to the New School

This morning we were so lucky to be allowed to visit the new school site.  This was a taonga (a gift) as the builders gave special permission for us to visit before the end of term.
It was absolutely amazing!!
We can't wait until next term!!





Thursday, 21 September 2017

Lexia Core 5 Super Stars!

Congratulations to Chase, Dylan, Darin and Jacob who received certificates at Celebration Assembly today for their hard work and progress on the Lexia Core 5 programme.
You are working so hard - well done!

Friday, 8 September 2017

Returning the Sod and Blessing Ceremony at the new School

Link to folder of all photos - CLICK HERE


Te Ope Ruaraki and the Junior playgound 

Kapa Haka singing

Te Māuru-e-taki-nei

Blessing group

Signs on our doors

Our ROCK!! - at its' new home outside the new school office

Thursday, 31 August 2017

Ariana the Puppy

This morning Ella-Pearl's mum brought in one of their puppies, Ariana.  She was so cute, cuddly, soft and adorable!
We just fell in love with her - Mrs Cutler especially like the cuddle with her.
Thank you Ella-Pearl for letting us see her.





Congratulations Heroes

At Celebration Assembly today these heroes were awarded Hero Certificates for all their hard work at school!
We are so proud of you!


Lexia Heroes

Today at Celebration Assembly Oliver, Nathaniel, Darin, Chase and Jacob got certificates for completing levels in their Lexia programme.  They are working so hard on Lexia.  Great work boys!


Sunday, 20 August 2017

Facts About Tornadoes

Riding the Skateboard Ramps

This week one of the Reading groups in Te Māuru-e-taki-nei read a book called "Riding the Skateboard Ramps."
They created their own skateboard parks using play dough.







Friday, 11 August 2017

Reading for Information

The Kakapo Reading Group in Te Māuru-e-taki-nei have been learning to how we can read to find information and facts. This week they have been learning about the Sun.