Get NZ Writing Kit

This term we have been involved in a writing task called Get NZ Writing, we were posted a package that had a variety of tasks in it for us to complete for our buddy school. Our tasks were to complete a poster all about our class (some random information was needed like how many people can lick their elbow or waggle their ears), and we also had to complete postcards titled 'I am..' and were based around metaphors. 

Today we received our mail from our buddy school 'Tunohopu 1' from Rotorua Intermediate. We have enjoyed reading their poems and finding out about their class. We also got some special gifts from them, two woven flax flowers and some Tibetan Prayer Flags. We have had heaps of fun learning about the history of the flags and hanging them up outside our classroom. 

Thanks so much to Tunohopu 1, it's been fun! 

 

  

The photos below are our posters that we sent to our buddy school.

School Camp 2017

Last week we packed up and went on an adventure of our lives creating memories that will stay with us forever by experiencing many once in a lifetime opportunities. We have about 2000 photos to choose from, so many awesome things to do in Fiordland. If you ever get the chance to go to Doubtful Sound we recommend that you make sure you get there.

Here is a piece of writing from Lucy:

I stare at the water, waiting. I know I must be patient, but I’m starting to grow bored. The wind bites at my skin, and makes my hair seem like it has a mind of its own. I watch, annoyed, as the sneaky fish take it in turns to dart forwards and nibble the bait. But they all fail to get hooked. I jerk it up and down as they swim forward, but it doesn’t work. There is still a little bait on my hook. One fish decides to be brave. But it wasn’t the best option. It swims forward and tries to grab the rest of the bait, but i pull the line up at just the right time. The hook gets caught in its skin, and it then realises it's in trouble. It won’t give up without a fight. It begins to struggle as I pull it up. Water sprays my face as the fish comes out into the air. It flips around for a few seconds, then stops. I wrap my hand around the fish to get the hook out. I grab the hook and pull it. It comes out. I decide to let the fish live, and lower it towards the water. It decides to get payback and bites my finger. I drop it in surprise. Whoops. The fish forgets how to swim. I watch as it sinks to the bottom.

NZ Writing from School Kit

We have had a busy two weeks completing our task for School Kit. Part of this project was to collect various things around our school to put on a poster to send to another school, this took longer than we expected as everyone has different ideas about what the best thing at our school is. We had to fill out google forms to make sure we had the majority of responses on our poster.

Another task was to write a poem titled 'I am..' using metaphors, this was very difficult in the beginning but once we got started we couldn't stop. Here is the slide to view all our poems, hope you enjoy!

Senior Class 2017

Welcome to the Senior Class, 2017.
We have been very busy already this year with competing at Small Schools Athletics and many of us making it to South Otago Athletics. A few of the seniors even made it to Southland to compete.
Our class has done lots of awesome art work already, it has all been based around what makes us special. 
The first art task was called circular art we had to create a piece of art work in a shape of a circle - 3 different aspects to show how we belong

• something we like doing,
• something that links us to NZ,
• something that links us to where their family has come from.

 

We also completed some awesome word art using words to describe ourselves and people and things special to us.

         

Our self portraits were created using words about ourselves, we wrote sentences, took a photo, traced around the photo, then wrote words on top of the lines to create our masterpieces. We think all our art looks pretty cool and our classroom is bright and colourful.