30 days of Singing for Palmy
Hey! Check out MonaJh, Ashleigh and I jamming out to "Never take that away from me" by Jamie McDell. This is for a 30 days of singing in Palmy - a project Jen is doing. The mayor, Jono Naylor, is...
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Concrete poetry:
We were learning to write concrete poetry. Concrete poetry means that your writing looks like the thing you are writing about. Check out James' awesome mine craft poem!
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Focus - Persuasive writingPurpose (Why are we writing)- to persuade people to read my book.W.A.L.T make a book trailer - Think of a book trailer as something like a movie trailer. It is a short preview...
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e9 Does Gym!
I love how at Russell Street School, instead of asking to watch a video for a class prize, we ask to do Gymnastics! OK! Let's do gymnastics! Thanks Alex for putting this together!!
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Kia ora whanau, if you have checked you emails recently, you may have noticed an email from me telling you that you have been "shared into" a document called 'Writing L3' or something like that. These...
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Grasshopper Tennis Assessment
Check out Olly's grasshopper tennis assessment. Please use this WALT and focus questions to complete your PE portfolio sample.What was your favourite part about Grasshopper tennis?What was the hardest...
View ArticleWilliam's Writing
William has been making some great progress with his writing! I am very proud of his progress! Here is one of his latest stories... It is scary and funny at the same time! Well done William :)
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WALT Explain - using maps to plan for writing
Going through our writing samples and assessments, I have noticed that we need to do better at planning our ideas into paragraphs:The sentences in a paragraph should all have the same idea; they should...
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The Science of art
I am so proud of our efforts to put together our exhibition today. Each person has 3 pieces to their section plus a written explanation. Here is Kaleb's explanation he wrote using the plan. It is...
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"e9" Learner centered: Learning centered
Kia ora whanau! Welcome back to Term 4. I hope you have had a great break. Term 4 is going to be amazing! I am really looking forward to tackling all of your challenges with you.Today we implemented a...
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Mid-Week Check
Here are the Learning Priorities for Literacy (Reading/Writing) and Maths. We are halfway through the week. How are you getting on? These are our learning priorities to be completed by Friday.
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Learning Specials
Here is a screenshot of a Learning Conference with Sophie, Malachi and James. They have written a 'proposal' to show how they want to share their learning. Great proposal guys! You are really showing...
View ArticleWriter's Club Focus: Personification
SnowflakeA fragile winter butterflyFlutters from the skySo soft and yet her heartIs cold and made of iceBut if I warm itShe will melt and die ~~~Author: Elaine GeorgeToday, we used this example of...
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This week we had a Writer's Club focus on persuasive language. Georgia chose to present hers as a movie. I love the song!
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STAR Results
I am very proud of our efforts e9! We have been working so hard with our learning this year and it has paid off. We completed our STAR (Reading Assessment) last week and have, collectively, made some...
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