Term 3, Week 10

Our Performance

Last week the Junior School geared up for their big performance! It was about a little girl named Lily (Lily C from Room 11) who had to think of a story to write about at school while riding on the bus one morning. The problem was that NOTHING exciting ever happened to her! Or so she thought... Next thing a group of dancers performing a Maori Haka dance jump on the bus! Lily still didn't know what to write about even though she met some Cavemen, Irish dancers, Pirates, Trolls and alien catching Men in Black, along her journey to school! It was a wild ride on the school bus that day and all of the Junior School children performed their dances and song to their best. 

Miss Smith was incredibly proud of her Room 8 students and how they got up in front of the big audience with smiles on their dials. Room 8 would also like to thank all of the parents and whanau that came out for the afternoon to watch our presentation - your support was appreciated!

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Term 3, Week 8

Junior School Performance

Room 8 are busy practising their Dino Stomp dance ready for our Junior School Performance next week.

Our performance will be on:

 Wednesday 20th September

First show: 12pm

Second show: 2pm

We hope you can come and watch!

Please remember also to bring your child's outfit to school in a named plastic bag by this Friday. Room 8 have a cave girl/boy and dinosaur theme. They need to wear a plain black, white or brown top with plain shorts/tights. If you have a caveman themed costume they are welcome to wear this - including dinosaur onesies!

Term 3, Week 7

Quick Writing

Room 8 have been learning to use descriptive language in their writing. We have been using Sheena Cameron's quick write models to help us form ideas about a topic quickly. To do this we work with our 'mat buddy' to describe a picture. Miss Smith sets the timer for 10 minutes and we have to come up with as many exciting words and phrases to describe the image as we can. A winner is even chosen at the end, so we all try our best to use exciting vocabulary. Then we come together to share our ideas onto a large whole-class brainstorm, so that everyone can see/borrow each other's words to make their writing the best it can be. After completing our brainstorms we have to take these ideas and put them into sentences - with focus on starting with a capital letter and putting a full stop at the end of each idea. We have produced some outstanding pieces of descriptive writing using this model. 

Take a look at some of our brainstorms...