The Junior Poetry Recital

Today we had the Junior Poetry Recital. All students in New Entrants, Year 1 and Year 2 learnt a poem off by heart, which they then recited in front of their own class. 

Three lucky students from each class were selected to perform their poem in the finals. From Room 6, we had Anabelle, Indi and Grace. You all did a fabulous job girls, its a huge ask to stand up in front of over 250 people when you're only 5 or 6 years old! Well done!

Geometry

This week we will be learning about Geometry. Here are a few games to help reinforce the students learning at home...

Click on the Links, which are in BOLD below to try out these games...

Shape Pictures

Symmetry Matching

Symmetry Garden

Shapes in Space

Make the Tangram using different shapes

Author of the week ~ Julia

Each week one of our fabulous writers will be published here on our classroom blog, in celebration of their hard work.

 Long, long ago deep in the wide, blue moana lived seven little fish and their mother. One day their mother said to her fishes “I need to get some food for you. Listen, this is vital, because you might meet Tataraimaka”. Looking out into the clear, blue water she said to her babies “I have to go”. The babies were playing in the moana. They forgot everything that their mother said to them. They played and played. Then they saw a black shadow, it was Tataraimaka! The net dropped into the water. They cried for their mum. Their tears made the water salty. Tane, the guardian of the forest snatched the net. Then Tane tossed it as far as he could. They turned into seven stars. We now call these stars Matariki.

By Julia

 As Matariki celebrations are occurring all around the country right now, we learnt about one of the many stories of Matariki ~ The Seven Fish of Matariki. The children then retold the story in their own words. We were focusing on using a range of different sentence starters to make our writing more interesting to read. We also collected a range of interesting vocabulary from the story for the children to use, and Julia independently used several of these -  moana (ocean), vital, Tataraimaka. This is a well thought out and very detailed piece of writing Julia, keep up the great work!

Author of the Week ~ Grace

Each week one of our fabulous writers will be published here on our classroom blog, in celebration of their hard work.

Ocean

Deep, enormous, stunning,

Why is the sea not warm?

Strong, wild, vast,

The sea is so beautiful,

Pure, broad, vital,

Why do you put the water in the beach?

Eternal, calm, tranquil,

We will protect you.

By Grace

For World Oceans Week, we wrote descriptive poems about the ocean. We were focusing on using strong adjectives, and brainstormed these together. The students also had to use questions in their writing, which was a new skill for many of them. This is a fabulous piece of writing Grace, keep up the great work!