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...

Pohutukawa Group - Letter to Mrs Irvine - Persuasive Writing

Tuesday 8th September 2015

WALHT write a letter to persuade someone.

SC :

-Opinion

-Three reasons

-Conclusion

-Strong vocabulary

Dear Miss Irvine,

I strongly believe we should all have a chromebook each to ourselves.

My first reason is that if we have a chromebook we will not need to buy any pencils or stationary.This will save us lots of money that we can put towards buying the chromes. It will also save us precious time we waste on looking for pencils.  

We feel  that if we work on chromebooks, we will be able to work from home too. When we are sick we will be  able to catch up on our work  from home.This will help us to keep up with the classroom learning.

Mrs Irvine, if you agree to buy chromebooks for all us, we can help too.

We can help by fundraising for the chromebooks for our class.

We can organise a garage sale or a bake sale to help raise the money

Lastly we feel that we can use the chromebooks to do lots of research. We will be able to finish or work on time.At the moment we have to wait four our turn on to go on the computers or chromebooks. Do you agree with us, Mrs Irvine ? If you do , then please consider our request. We hope you will buy chromes for all of us soon.

FROM: POHUTUKAWA GROUP E2

All About Me - Scorpio

All About Me - Mana

This is something that the children have done for the first time using Chrome Books and Google Drawings.

Poetic Writing

For our creative writing lessons, we have been learning how to use our describing words to express our responses to the things we have been learning about during the course of our integrated studies. 

What is extra special about this heartfelt poem written by Lyric, is that she has written at home, in her own time, and because she wanted to share her thoughts and feelings about these brave men in a poem she could share with the rest of us at school!

Our poems were written at the beginning of Term 2, when our whole school had been learning all about the ANZAC soldiers in the lead up to the 100 year commemorations of Gallipoli this ANZAC Day. 

In E1, we had been developing our own understanding of what life may have been like for our fallen soldiers, and how they made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. 

Lyric's poem is a great example of how her own response to what she had learned around this topic allowed her to create an extremely thoughtful piece using poetic writing. 

Well done, Lyric!

Welcome to our Jungle

This jungle themed classroom display was inspired by the animal cards available at the supermarket. The students had lots to talk about and then decided to research a wide range of animals. They learnt, created and shared their projects with each other in the jungle.