Our winter

We wrote some sense poems and descriptions about our Winter experiences. We focused on interesting vocabulary and adjectives to help the reader experience what our senses experience in Winter. 

I can see bare trees with no delicate leaves as they have disappeared into thin air. 

I can hear absolutely nothing but a few children chattering to each other and my own feet treading lightly on the hard concrete path. 

I taste creamy hot chocolate burning my hot tongue. I smell a delicious, tempting roast chicken with a tender middle. 

I feel the brisk wind nipping my skin harshly. 

By Mika

I see white fluffy snow like cotton and thick fog like a blanket. 

I hear jingly icicles, chirping birds and a splash of puddles. 

I smell the scent of baking, noodles and damp air through the house. 

I taste pumpkin and chicken soup, hot chocolate and cookies. 

I feel my warm blanket around me when I am freezing and cold. 

By Veronica 

The white fluffy snow looks like a lot of cotton balls stuck together. 

The sinking of the snowy foot prints makes a sound of 'poof, poof' on each foot step. 

I cant resist the smell of my mum's corn soup. 

I can taste the damp air and going down my throat. 

I can feel the freezing air sucking up my warmth. 

By Anne 

I see thick fog like a blanket sitting on my backyard and rain like a flood is going to come. 

I hear birds chirping loudly as the alarm clock from my bedroom, car engines coming from the road outside my house. 

I smell the scent of hot chocolate spreading through the house. Breakfast for us, spreading butter on the toast. 

I taste pumpkin soup spreading through my mouth and crunchy cookies with chocolate chips on top. 

I feel warmth sliding down my throat as I drink warm fluffy milk and coldness freezing my hands. 

By Mone

I see thick fog like a blanket. 

I hear jingly icicles, chirping birds and splashing puddles. 

I smell chicken soup and the scent of hot chocolate running to my nose. 

When I wake up, I taste the noodle soup my sister is making. 

I feel the cold fluffy snow going in my window and onto my face. 

By Maia

I see thick fog like a blanket of fluff floating 

I hear crashing rain drops dropping on the deck as I walk outside. 

I smell burning sausages on the barbecue ready to eat, nice and hot. 

I taste the cold air slowly going in and out of my mouth. 

I feel freezing as I hop into bed with my warm fluffy blanket wrapped around me cosy and warm. 

By Molly 

FRIENDSHIP

This week, our focus as a class has been friendship and what it means to be a good friend.
We wrote an acrostic poem together about what we thought being a friend meant.

Friendly, fun, fabulous

Respectful, reliable

Independence, inclusive

Excellence

Nice

Don’t hurt each other, don’t say mean things

Sharing, success, stand tall

Helpful

If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all.

Positive, polite, play together

We then practised cooperation and wrote about what it meant to be a friend in pairs. Here are some of our explanations about what friendship looks like, sounds like and feels like.

A friend is a person that wants to play with you. 

A friend looks like a person that is kind. 

A friend is a person that says nice words. 

A friend feels good and confident, friendly and nice. 

A friend is important because you need people to play with. 

Oliver and Anica

A friend is someone who is not a family member but is still important to you. A friend looks like not hurting each other and playing with people who are sad and alone. A friend sounds like not hurting each other's feelings and not saying rude things. It sounds like asking if they're ok and encouraging them. Being a friend feels like showing your friend that you care about them and taking good care of them when somebody is being mean. 

To have a friend you have to be a good friend too. 

Maddox and Petelo 

A friend is someone who is trustworthy and will stand up for you but they normally aren't in your family. A good friend looks like helping someone who is sad, inviting someone into your game and holding a friend's hand. Being a friend can sound like encouraging others, telling funny jokes and sometimes quietly giggling. Friendship feels like a flower blooming in the spring. It feels confident, respected and joyful. To be a good friend you need to show all of these things. 

Eve, Mika and Smrithi 

A friend is someone who is not in your family but you choose to hang out with and you think they're nice. A good friend looks like being kind and showing RICE (Respect, Independence, Cooperation and Excellence). A good friend sounds like someone who uses manners. A good friend shows respect when the other person talks. It feels like someone who listens to you and thinks you're a good person. 

It is important to have a friend so you won't be lonely. 

Will and Felix 

A friend is someone that is not in your family but is someone that is important to you. Friendship looks like being respectful to someone else's toys and not being lazy and making your friend tidy up for you. Being a friend sounds like  saying "are you okay?"when they are sad, being polite and not saying mean things. A friend feels like being respectful and trusting each other. It feels like not hurting other people's feelings. 

To have a good friend means you also have to be a good friend as well. 

Anne and Mone

Cricket

For the last 4 weeks we have enjoyed taking cricket lessons.  Have a look at some of our thoughts!

We love drums, We love drums, We love drums, drums, drums!

After our amazing drum experience we have been looking at how music and drums have and still impact our society. We have been researching drums and have even had the chance to make our own.

This week we took our drums and we practised making beats - some that we have learned in class, some we learned at our Drum Experience and some we made up! Check out some of our videos of our beats

Will, Blaze, Maddox, Ayden

Eve, Zara, Smrithi, Anica

Breanna, Mone, Ivy

Mika, Anne, Hiroto, Sophia

Ayla, Molly, Prisha

Ivan, Felix 

Dawei, Riyan, Kaleb 

Larry, Luke 

Buddy Class Art

In connection to our inquiry, on Friday we had our buddy class come to do a special art project. We collected leaves and made different creatures that we might see in the bush. We love working with our buddy class! 

Week One Highlights

Here are some of the highlights of our first week. Enjoy reading some of our reflections on the beginning of 2018.

We started swimming!

This is my first week in Room 17 for 2018. I am now in Year 3. On my first day I felt excited because I'm here with my friend. Something I enjoyed is buddy class because they are cute. Something I have found difficult is learning people's names because they are new. Something I am looking forward to is swimming because it is very hot! 

By Felix 

Spending some time with our new Buddy Class

This is my first week in Room 17 for 2018. I am now in Year 3. On my first day I felt curious because I wanted to know how Room 17 worked. Something I enjoyed is meeting my transition buddy. Something I have found difficult is keeping up with work because I am a slow snail. Something I am looking forward to is learning with Mrs Trumath because it's fun learning new things.

By Mika 

This is my first week in Room 17 for 2018. I am now in Year 4. On my first day I felt nervous because there were some new people It was also interesting because there were some new wet day monitors and the new principal. I found it difficult to do some much writing. I also found it difficult to do the Powhiri because it was in the Maori language.

By Larry 

This is my first week in Room 17 for 2018. I am now in Year 4. On my first day I felt excited because I love to go back to school. Something I enjoyed is reading and art because I love books and drawing. Something I have found difficult is writing.

By Anica