Today's Master Chefs!

                     

                     

Making pizza

Today the baking group made pizza with Sharn.  They were practising making halves and doubles to reinforce what we are learning in maths.  Yum!

More descriptive writing!

This morning we had another go at writing descriptive sentences following the same formula as the post below.
Firstly, we walked around the edge of the field and in the bushes to see what we could write about. We saw lots of different trees, some cows (jerseys, herefords and freisians) grazing in the paddock beside the field and tunnels going through the bushes.

We think we did pretty well. 

Friendly cows mooing at Pod Two.
Keira

Grey and white jersey eating the grass.
Charlee

Stinky, green trail poking in my feet.
Friendly jersey resting on the grass.
Lucas

Dark, secret tunnel leading to the cows.
Sticky, frosty grass standing on the dirt.
Max

Black, glossy freisian looking at me.
Neave

Giant, friendly cows sniffing at us.
Olivia

Yellow, silky leaves sparkling in the sun.
Jessica

Soft, green kawakawa hiding in the bush.
Imogen

Friendly, baby jersey walking up to me.
Jayden

Wet, dark tunnel standing on the track.
Cooper

Glossy, hairy hereford poking out it's tongue.
Kaea

Descriptive writing

Yesterday we were learning how to write descriptive sentences by following a specific formula.

It went like this:  2 adjectives (describing words), then a noun followed by a verb (action word).  

We were looking at a photo of The Madhatter

What do you think of our first attempts?

Red, matted hair sticking out grabbing the trees.
Islah

Orange, glowing eyes staring at you.
Bridget

Red lips blowing to the trees.
Becky

Orange, fuzzy hair puffing out like spaghetti.
Lucian

Pink, glossy lips reaching for a kiss.
Niamh

Reading

Each day, from Monday to Thursday, we hear every child read in a small reading group.

• First we introduce the book and discuss what the book is about and we find out what their prior knowledge is on the given topic.
• Then we show the children each page of the book and discuss the main ideas, and feed in all the language that is going to be used in the book.  We point out any tricky words in the book that they are going to come across so that they are prepared for them.
• Finally we read through the book together.

Art auction

Mrs Herman has been working with the students on their art auction items.  Some of the children are making cushions and some of them are painting canvases.  The work is looking outstanding so far!  I have been so impressed with their drawing skills and the patience they have to complete their work to a high standard.  They are going to look amazing!

Cross country photos