Character Description

The students have worked over a 2 week time frame to produce some stunning character descriptions! We used the unit plan outline in our favourite resource by Gail Loane.
In this she outlines how we start with a sentence about the character that is a physical description. One thing about how your character looks. This must be very specific and also use rich describing vocabulary.
We all closed our eyes and visualised our character, we discussed things they did, said, what made them the personality and influence in our lives.
Then we wrote a sentence about a behaviour of our character, how they walk, laugh, speak.. What makes them unique?
Then we wrote about one thing they love to do , are passionate about or successful at.
This was to build on making our character come alive!
Lastly was crafting the writing to publishing stage.
Some of the group had to start again a few times, reworking our sentences was hard.
Some of the students found this hard but I think you will agree all have experienced success! All will be revealed tomorrow! Watch this space!

My Puppy Punched Me In The Eye

This weeks Poetry Winner!!!

This week Miss Sophie took out the chocolate bar prize for memorising and beautifully reciting our Mashed Potatoes on the Ceiling poem!
Congratulations Sophie! Persistance and self management were the secret to your success, we are very excited for you!

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Today we tried something new! First we all chatted about our weekend... valuing the oral language opportunity to share our experiences.
Kane had some exciting language retelling his motorbike excursion at Oreti Beach.
Each child had something fun to share about their weekend adventures.
We revisited our poem Mashed Potatoes on the Ceiling from last week, due to illness we did not manage to memorise this poem so we are continuing on with this challenge this week! 
Who will the winner be?
Then...
We shared our pet descriptions from last week, we wrote William's up and together we selected parts that had rich descriptive language and we edited some little joining words.
This made Williams description of Cooper more interesting for our audience!
Then we all re worked our beginning sentences about our pets.
This was hard for everyone!
But we persisted and all agreed that we had each improved our writing quality!
We discussed that real published authors get feedback all the time which means they have to rework their writing!
This was a great learning curve and one we will revisit as we go along our pathway to being real authors!

Bluff Photos

Bluff Adventure Continued...

Woof! Woof! Went Jess while we were coming up the driveway. 

Jess quickly ran to the gate.  We had to guess who’s house we were at and we were at Miss Sherlock’s house!

Then we went to Bluff School and William went on the flying fox.  Shaana pushed William, he went up in the air and into the garden.  Everybody laughed and we went to the shop and got some ice cream.  I had banana ice cream with chocolate chips and it tasted yum.

Then we went back to school and we went to the classroom and we went into the cloak bay.  All ten of us sat down on the chairs and put our hands on the table.

We had lots of fun! 

By Casey

When we went out of the drop off zone, Miss Campbell went TOOT! TOOT! TOOT!  The window wipers went swish when we wanted the blinkers on.  At the Police Station we saw the taser and we got to see the pistol.  But he didn’t shoot it. 

Zoom, I went so fast on the flying fox and I was scared but it was awesome.  Kane fell off and William and Kane did a double.

On the way back we got an ice cream.

By Connor

Jess, Miss Sherlock’s dog ran to Miss Sherlock and we got to pat the dog. 

We went to the Bluff Police Station and we saw a rifle and we got to see a pistol and a taser.  The taser makes you paralysed. 

Weow, Weow went the police car and after that we went to Bluff School.  Some of the kids went on the flying fox.  William went really fast on the flying fox.  He was so wild that he got muddy and after that we to the fish and chip shop and got some ice cream.

Then we went to Marlene’s house and got to see her dog and then we went to school.

By Tim

Swish went the window wipers.  I got some delicious ice cream.  My flavour was chocolate and lime ice cream.

Wizz went William on the flying fox.  Then William went off it.  Miss Campbell and Miss Sherlock bought fish and chips.

We went to Bluff School and Bluff Police Station.  Jordon showed us a police car.  We heard the siren and the speaker. 

We went up Bluff Hill.  It was freaky!

By Tyler

Toot went the van.  Swish went the window wipers.  We saw Mary with the boat radios. 

We went to the Police Station and Jordon showed us a rifle, a taser and a glock!

Wizz, I went flying in the air and I fell off the flying fox.  WEEEEEEEE I went off and I went ZOOM.

My ice cream was green and brown and we went to the wharf and we couldn’t get out because it was too windy.  It nearly pulled the van off the wharf. 

Bluff Adventure!

Crunch went the van gears!  Marlene tried to back up. Clang, bang went the van! Yay, the van is going, off we go!

Jordon the policeman showed us the Police Station.  We saw the guns, they were scary.

On the way back to school, we had ice cream.  I had chocolate.

By Sophie

Crunch went the gears! Marlene was having trouble driving the van, the wipers went swish, swish.  Marlene honked the horn while we went through the drop off zone. 

Then we drove to Bluff and we went to get hot chips and we ate then at Bluff School.  After we had our lunch we got to play on the flying fox.  It was scary. 

When William went on the flying fox he fell off it.  Kane was holding onto the flying fox and he fell off too. 

We went to the Police Station and he showed us his guns and bullets.  We got to have ice cream.  I had chocolate, it tasted fantastic!

By Shaana

Crunch went the van gears!  Marlene tried to drive the van.  Marlene tried to put on the indicators.

Jordon the policeman showed all ten of us around.  We got to hold a taser, a glock and a pistol.  Jordon tried the taser and it went ZZZZ!

We went to Bluff School.  They have a flying fox and they have a new swing.  Then we went to the dairy and got yummy ice cream.  Then we went back to school.  At lunch we got fish and chips. 

By Kane

Honk, honk went the van when Marlene drove through the drop off zone.  Jordon the policeman showed us around the Police Station.  The policeman showed us ten of the guns and they were called, rifle, pistol and taser and the taser looked like lightning and it zoomed. 

On the way back Marlene bought the ten of us some ice creams and we got to meet Shiro, Marlene’s dog.  Marlene’s dog was as cute as can be and then we went back to school and it was the best day ever in Bluff. 

By Adam

Toot! Toot! We went out the drop off zone.  We went to Bluff.  It was fun and we went to the Police Station.  We went to Bluff School.  It was fun.  We all went on the flying fox.  Kane went out of control and we laughed and we played table tennis.  Shaana kept hitting the ball down the back.  It was funny.  I hit Tim on the head. 

Then we had to go back to school but we got an ice cream.  I got a candyfloss ice cream.  I got a brain freeze.  It was cold. 

When we got back to school we got to play on the playground and I told the class we had a fun time.

By Caleb