Stu Duval Cartoons

This week for Book Week students got to draw Stu Duval cartoons in the library at lunchtime. Mikayla published her cartoon on kidpix. Can you guess what letter you have to start with to draw this animal?

Haikus

We have been learning to write haikus about the seasons. The first line has 5 syllables, the middle line has 7 syllables and the last line has 5 syllables.

Wet Winter
You can splash and splosh
Winter is a wet season
You can see some fog

By Hannah

Summer
The sun is shining
People playing at the park
The leaves will turn green

By Caiden

Tornado Cinquains

We used ideas from the Albany Tornado to write cinquains. Chalmers drew the image on kidpix.

Tornado
evil, powerful
blowing, howling, spinning
people trying to escape
disaster

By Thomas

Tornadoes
powerful, shake
crashing, howling, screaming
wrecking and destroying the community
twister

By Jessica

Tornado
dangerous, scary
spinning, running, dogs barking
sucking up like a vacuum cleaner
twister

By Reuben

Tornado
angry, violent
spinning, throwing, crashing
powerful energy throws everything
emergency

By Eric

Literacy and Book Week

To begin Literacy Week Miss Rodger gave us a sentence starter. We worked in buzz groups to add on to it.

I was reading a book when I looked up. There in the window I saw ...
a swarm of bees hovering in midair, flying around their beehive. They looked furious because we had knocked their old beehive down. They all dashed into the window and tried to sting us. They looked like they were all saying, "fly through the window and sting any humans you find!"

By Judy, Isabella, Jamie and Te Rangi


I was reading a book when I looked up. There in the window I saw ...
a wizard. He released some ghosts and skeletons from his chest. His name was Ghosthead and he was a wicked wizard. He was 10 000 years old and wore a bright purple hat. People say he was a legend. His favourite snack was Ogre eyeballs.

By Mikayla, Jack and Bailey

Hearty Fun Acrostic Poem

We have been learning to write acrostic poems. Mere wrote her poem about doing Hearty Fun for fitness.

Jamie's Rhyming Poem

Una's Rhyming Poem

I Know a ...

We have been learning about rhyming words with Mrs Smith.

Term Two Music

Miss Rodger came to watch our performance at the end of Music with Mr Ramsay on Monday.