Learning: Literacy Lyrics

On the afternoon of 17th November, we found out about some really awesome songs that we can listen to and watch on YouTube that will help us to remember our spelling rules... So we thought we'd share them with you, too!

W.A.L.H.T. spell and use homophones...

W.A.L.H.T. spell the long vowel sound-letters correctly by using the'silent E'...

There's also this one that tells you some word phrases you can use to make your good writing EVEN BETTER by helping your reader to VISUALISE...

W.A.L. what good writers do...

Creating: Kiwiana Visual Art

This term, our Inquiry Learning topic is Kiwiana. In response, we are doing a Level 3-4 Visual Art unit as planned by Ms Osborne. We had modelled examples, where we all worked out together how to draw the lines by first breaking them up into shapes we could see, before adding the finer details:

We used the designs we had drawn to then create our own versions of the designs using oils pastels. Again, Ms Osborne modelled how to use these:

Our 'success criteria' were: using lightest to darkest colours and making sure we moved the paper to avoid smudging it or mixing the colours, to get the best result we could. We had a lot of fun creating our own images to share with others. Here are some of the images we have created in response to this 'so far':