Onomatopoeia

Today, Friday, we learned about sound words, or onomatopoeia.  Everyone really enjoyed using onomatopoeia to grab the reader's attention.  We also tried to describe in detail.

Here are some of the sound words we enjoyed using in our writing:

Moo! Moo!    Baa! Baa!    Swishhh!  Swishhh!    Boo! Boo!      Chuga Chuga    Wuff! Wuff!

Thump!    Gurgle!    Meow    Bang!    Clang!     Whoooo!      Oink!     Shush!

    Woosh!  The wind blew in my face.  Splish, splash, as I jumped into the water.  The water wet my clothes as I went back on the concrete.  I slipped and I scraped my chin and I was crying.

Coby

Drip, drop went the rain on my car as I went to the school bus.

Mere

A dog was running after the cat.  “Go away.”

Meow! Meow! Meow!

"Go away,” said the man  "Thank you, I didn't like that dog"
     Meow!

Atutahi

Boom!  Boom!  As tears dropped to the ground.  But they were happy tears.

MacKenzie

Meow!  Meow!  went Tinker.

Makayla

Shing!  Shing! goes a blade getting sharpened.

Lyrik

More Labels

On Wednesday, Rosemary came to make labels again. All of the students skipped through the door to the gardens!

Wer'e planting the signs in the garden.

We were planting the signs that labeled Poppies and Primula.

Ryan and Shyanne are labeling Sage and Thyme.

Writing - "Show not Tell"

We have been using "Show not tell" to bring our writing alive for you readers.
Here are some examples of our work,and there are more on our classroom walls!

Happiness

“Whoo!  Whoo!   Thanks Nana, thanks for this awesome BMG scooter!” I screamed loudly.

I threw my hands up in the air and I screamed, “Whoo!  Whoo!”

Ryan

Scared

The lights went out.  I was trembling. 

The shadow of my cupboard looked like a monster.  The drawers looked like a smiley face.

Alexander

Happiness

When I first saw Gizmo I screamed!  I told Mum I wanted him.

Kaila

Fraser Williamson Art Style By Room 3

By Friday 11th in the afternoon, thirteen students had completed their paintings in the style of Fraser Williamson. Some had done large ones together, some had done paintings by themselves.  Whaea Vicki came in, "Those are amazing!" she said.

Our principal called in to wish us a good weekend, and also was wowed by our artwork.

We borrowed the tall ladder so Mrs Turner could put them on the wall, high up.  Mrs Hart loaned us her staple gun with the long staples.

The paintings have taken a long time to complete, in four stages counting the frames.  

When we did the chalk outline it was very hard to do the right shape. We also had to keep rubbing it out.   Kaila and Frankie's dog is definitely a Fraser Williamson copy.  

By Frankie and Kaila.

Kingsley and Karoria painted this spotted cat.

Coby's cat and spaceships.

By Shyanne
I used yellow,orange ,green, red and blue.  I looked at Fraser Williamson's pictures. It was hard putting the pastels around the edges.

Ryan and Lyrik's ghost and dog

Makayla and Mere painted this...

Great job, Rishant and Billy!

MacKenkie did this all by herself.  Look at how she put the white outline around to make her animal stand out.

This is a Mina's picture.  She bossed Mrs Turner around to get the right colours!

Atutahi and Sam painted this ,in the style of Fraser Williamson.

Billy's Birthday

Billy`s Birthday.

In three weeks I am having a birthday and we are going to the movies with Ryan and Turoa.

Tuesday's News

Ian says spinning tops are three great tricks in one!  They spin, they flip, and they also can be balanced.
Atutahi  says he went to Coby's house, he left his leggo Steve at Coby's house.
Kaila's Dad had a birthday yesterday, they made him a Spiderman cake!
Today is Kingsley's friend Ella's birthday!
Sam saw Mrs Turner's Mum in the front of the ambulance yesterday, she was going to Phoenix house from hospital.
Tomorrow is Kororia's Mum's birthday!
Henka is having a birthday too!

Planting

Today at 11.30,Billy's nan Gail came and took Billy and Rishant gardening, I believe they had a great time, they were gone for ages.  They planted Italian parsley (please tell Mr Phillips, Alyssa) and beetroot.
Next we would like a potato grower to come and help!!
If you have some spare plants,bring them along!!