Beautiful Butterflies

Creepy Things

In The Hall With A Bunch Of Bugs!

Excitedly, creeping into the hall, I sat down and everyone went quiet waiting for the immersion assembly to begin.

We heard a hissing sound coming from the aisle and a weird voice behind us. I turned around and Mr Burt was dressed as a mosquito. I got a really big fright from Mr Burt! He was crawling on his hands and feet down the middle of the all scaring all of the kids.

Entering the stage, Team 1 performed Eency Weency Spider. Ms. George had a spiderman mask on and Ms Wild was squirting water. Team 1 also performed Little miss Muffet. Ms Wild, who was Miss Muffet, looked weird jumping off the chair after the spider scared her. Their performance was cool.

As Team 4 entered the stage, Mr. Barks sat on a chair on a table on the stage. I just knew that they were going to perform a funny act. Mr. Barks was playing the queen bee. When he said, "Wait for it," he would pull a teddy bear wrapped in a sheet pretending to be a baby bee, from his abdomen. Team 4 performed a really funny act.

I liked watching all of the acts. They were all very funny!

Digging Up Loot

Commanding the men to bury the forbidden loot, he realized that he needed to locate his ships. While the men were burying the loot, the captain was busy building a raft to find his ships. He took some men with him and after all their hard work, they eventually found the ship. Digging up the loot, they carried it on board.

Mysterious Parchment

Along the golden, sandy beach, a boy was walking his dog when he discovered a leather wallet peeking out of the sand. Anxiously opening the wallet, he found two pieces of folded parchment.

Kaycee's Disaster Animation

Passport Photos

Here is another great example of a paragraph with a group of sentences that are related to one main idea.

At seven p.m., my mum and auntie told my brother, cousin, and me to get in the car. We were going to St. Lukes to get our passport photos done. When we arrived at St. Lukes and got to the shop, I was the first to have my photo taken.

Severed Power Lines

Kaycee's detailed sentence about fires that start after an earthquake.

As severed power lines sway side to side in the breeze, they touch buildings, shops, and houses - starting fires.

Mum in a Rush

We have been working on adding details to the beginning of our sentences, and to make sure that our paragraph sticks to one main idea or topic. Read Kaycee's and let her know what you think of her work.

In a hurry, my mum jumped in the car trying to get us to school on time. Unfortunately we got caught up in traffic, so we listened to Michael Jackson. When we arrived in Onehunga, we had a little snack.

Kaycee - Lava

I wonder...

In term two, we are learning about 'Active Earth.' I wonder which volcano is the oldest volcano? I wonder what would happen if Mt. Wellington erupted? One thing I know, is that Rangitoto is the youngest volcano. I feel good about learning about volcanoes.

Too Sour!

Candy Warheads From Canada

On the first day of Term 2, Mrs. Barks opened a bag that said 'Warheads.' Everyone in the class got one each and we had to describe them. The candy was as soft as chewy bubblegum and tasted like Thumb Suckers. The shape of the candy was a small cube like a dice. I liked eating Warheads!

The next day, Mrs. Barks opened another bag of Warheads except these ones were extremely sour! It tasted like my mum had just poured 12 lemons into my mouth! The shape of the Warhead looked like an egg or a marble squashed a little. When I put the candy in my mouth, my face just went puckered! These were too sour!

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Term 1 was fun!

Wow term one is coming to an end.This is Kaycee and Ashlee.Our favourite things this term were Art and Swimming.In art we drew a portrait of ourselves with Miss Wood. We liked to do everything that Mrs Barks had for us.

Our guess for next term is Movie stars.Our goal for next term is to get better at listening and Maths also everything.

All about Kaycee

Kia ora. This shows me at School and at home.We have been learning about taking charge of our class and ourselves. How do you take charge?

Room 12's Writing Experience

Room 12's Writing Experience

First we walked to the field and Mrs. Barks told us to lie down nice and quietly on the grass in the hot sun, and close our eyes. We had to just listen. I could hear loud sounds of clicking cicadas up in the trees, and seagulls calling. Then we moved under the trees to the nice cool shade to listen some more. I could hear much more under the trees. I could hear cicadas, seagulls crying, traffic nearby, and branches of trees swaying side to side, and then my hat blew away! Trees were waving and branches were shaking - that's how windy it was! I felt cold because it was so windy.

Christmas at Nana's

Guess what?...I went to my Nana's for Christmas! We got to her house late. The next morning, I woke up and it was early, and while I was awake, everybody else was still asleep. I decided to wake everyone up because I wanted to open my presents. When everyone had woken up, it was late so we just opened our presents straight away. Me and my brother Zane got a dance mat and a game of Monopoly. When we opened that present, we were really surprised and then started ripping open our other presents. My cousin TuAriki, got a big truck filled with racing cars. When we had opened all of our presents ...we had lots of presents, we started to play with them. Me and my Auntie's friend Toni played Monopoly while my brother Zane and my mum played with the dance mat. Then we all went outside to see the chickens, cows, and calves. After that, we went to Shrek's pond which was green - that's why we called it Shrek's pond. I saw a trampoline which was for my cousin TuAriki. When we started to play on the trampoline, my big brother Mareva came on and he bounced us high. That was really fun. While he was bouncing us, the others were still by the chickens. Later, everyone went inside except for me. I was playing on the swing for two minutes. Soon it was time to go home, so we packed our stuff and went home.