Wet day lunch

I was very impressed with how the children worked together and entertained themselves during our wet day lunch.

Entertainer - Saxophone with Mr Grieve

The Rua Team had a great time listening to Mr Grieve explain about and play Yellow Submarine on the Saxophone.

Bubbles the Clown

Bubbles and Buddy came to entertain us with some amazing magic tricks.  We loved the swallow the balloon trick and her bottom pants😄

We have some cards for bookings if you want to book her for a party.

Costume Hire

Today we had Christine visiting from the Rangiora Musical a Society to tell us about a wardrobe mistresses job and show us the costumes from the animal cast of Footrot Flats.  Some children got to dress up - Maddison was the Ewe😀

Kahurangi Culture Group

We were lucky to have a visit from the Kahurangi Culture Group from Hastings.  They performed their show called Taonga - Treasures from the a Heart.  

The Great Writing Competition! Group A v Group B

Both groups were given the following writing plan.

An iguana lived (choose where)....  He played tricks on the other animals.  He got caught.  He learnt his lesson.

The whole class wrote the beginning paragraph together then children moved off into small groups to write about the tricks the iguana played.  The stories are a work in progress still until each group has had a chance to work with the teacher to develop their paragraph so that the story flows and makes sense.

Click the links below to read both stories.  Vote by commenting A or B.

Group A: The Mischievous Iguana

Group B: The Iguana

Black Peach Theatre Group

We were really lucky today to have a visit from the Black Peach Theatre Group as part of our Art Inquiry on 'Entertainers'.

Writing - unpacking narratives and planning using S.O.L.O taxonomy.

Our writing groups are learning to use S.O.L.O taxonomy to unpack narratives so that we can write our own great narratives that have

- a setting

- interesting characters

- a complication / problem / plot

- a solution / resolution

Today we read Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (this is a link to a child reading the picture book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inG6_DFMaMQ) and completed a S.O.L.O describe map.

We then read another version of Lost and Found that was expanded on for an animated movie.  We used a S.O.L.O compare and contrast form to look at the similarities and differences between the 2 books.  We decided we preferred the script of the movie version because it had more adjectives and more detail.  Click this link to watch the movie Animated Movie Link

We then read Toad by Ruth Brown.  This is a delightful picture book that is a descriptive narrative about a Toad that gets eaten by a Monster. But, because he spits poisonous venom, the Monster spits him out.  (Story link read on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9xm8H3Viag)

We completed a Describe Map then identified all the adjectives in the story.  This is helping us plan our descriptive narratives on a reptile of our choice.  

We then used a describe map to plan our own story.

Te Wiki o Te Reo

We were fortunate enough to have a group of children from Te Māhuri who came and shared their knowledge of Te Reo with us then we shared our He Mihi with them. 

E tū -E noho ( stand up , sit down)

Heads down, thumbs up - Matua oho koromatua ake