Chinese tea trays

I liked painting the branches with white paint. Jason
I liked doing the golden flowers on the branches. Yea Jin
I liked the golden flowers on the branches. Laiba

My day

In the weekend I practised my piano and I did Christmas songs. After that I played on my Nintendo and played Super Mario on my Nintendo. It was night time and we had some dinner and we had some rice and meat. I brushed my teeth and we slept all together because I was scared of the earthquake.

The ESOL party

Yesterday in the Village we had an ESOL party. My favourite game was musical chairs and at the ESOL party we had some food. I ate Korean food and had some juice.

The Fox and the Crane

We are learning to retell stories using different sentence beginnings and conjunctions. Today we read the story of The Fox and the Crane. We retold the story with a partner using puppets.

"I enjoyed the puppets because it was fun." Yea Jin
"It was great that we got to have turns doing both parts." Rohaan

"We made the story up." Laiba
"I did some talking with the puppets." Jason

Rona and the Moon

Rona went to get her children some water from the spring. The path was bumpy and the moon was shining in the night. Suddenly the moon hid behind the cloud. Rona fall down becuase the sky was dark. Rona felt grumpy. "You are a silly moon!" said Rona. The moon pulled Rona up in to the sky and now Rona lives in the moon.

Hangi

Last Friday room 13 and room 14 and room 12 had a hangi on the field. A hangi is a maori type of cooking. I ate some potatoes and I ate some pumpkin. The food was hot and tasted good.

Kaikoura

In the holidays my family and my friends went to Kaikoura. We ate marshmallows and caught an orange starfish. The starfish was in a puddle.

Our sandcastles

We made sandcastles in the sandpit and wrote stories about them. Our goal was to use different sentence starters.

I made a sandcastle. There are three sticks on the top. At the bottom are some shells. Jason








My sandcastle has white shells on it. It has some sticks on the top. Yea Jin










My sandcastle has shells on it. It has sticks on the top. Amelie








I put some white shells on my sandcastle. I put some sticks on it. Laiba

Rhyming words

We read a book called 'A dragon in a wagon'. Ae thought of some sentences using rhyming words then illustrated these.


A duck in a truck. Laiba









A fish on a dish. Jason










A frog on a log. Ye Jin

The Wonky Donkey

Today we listened to a song called 'The Wonky Donkey' by Craig Smith. We wrote about the donkey. Our goal was to use the word 'and' in our story to join two ideas. Here are our stories . . .


The donkey likes to drink coffee and he is smelly. He is a naughty donkey. Jason









The donkey has three legs and he is naughty. Amelie











The donkey is smelly and he has one leg. The donkey likes to drink coffee. Yea JIn








The donkey has one eye and he like to listen to music. He likes to drink coffee. Laiba

My car

My car has toys to play with. It has a Christmas tree on it and a mouse.

By Jason

Kiwi's Bar Graph

Last week we made a bar graph to show the number of people in our families. Today we wrote some sentences about the results:

Yea Jin has the most people in her family. Laiba

David, Jason and Mrs Williams have the least people in their family. David

David has less people in his family than Laiba. Jason

Yea Jin has more people in her family than Jason. Yea Jin

Laiba and Raphael have the same number of people in their famiy. Raphael

Kiwi group - learning about action words (verbs)

Raphael - We have been wriggling our noses.
Yea Gin - We have been wriggling our toes and singing.
Laiba - We have been clapping our hands.
Jason - We have been turning around.
David - We have been stamping our feet.

Kiwi group holiday writing

"I played at home with my baby. I am happy." - David
"I am playing Hula Hula with my baby." - Laiba
"I am at Tekapo. I am on the slide. I am happy." - Jason
"I am playing with Jee Sung and baby at home." - Yea Gin
"I went to the shop. I bought a magazine. It was really cool." - Raphael

Yellow Group - Elgrego visit

Today I saw a magic show. I like the turtle. - Andy
On Wednesday, I went to Elgrego. I like the lion. - Jason
Today I saw Elgrego. I liked the grey mouse. - Laiba
I liked the mouse. I liked the lion. - Yea Gin