Term 4 Writing

Today we wrote about what we did in the school holidays.  Then we looked back at the first story we wrote at Elm Park School.  Look at the difference!

Kaeden says:  I did lots of words in my new story but I only did 1 sentence in my first story.

Making words.

Making the words with play dough is a fun way to learn your words.

Kaeden says:  I think my reading is good.  I can read lots of words now.

Learning about 'teen' numbers.

 You are using equipment to help learn that double digit numbers are made up of groups of ten and ones. This was pretty tricky work!

Kaeden says:  putting the rubber band around the sticks was tricky.  My whiteboard numbers are good now.

Our Poupou

For one of our art projects we learnt to draw a poupou.  Poupou are traditionally a wooden carved Maori statue.  Poupou tell the stories of the meeting house, the local iwi and the iwi's ancestry.  We sketched our Poupou and then painted them using cotton buds and dye.  We learnt about symmetry and proportion.