What am I?

On Thursday, Team 8 had a go at descriptive writing.
We learned that we had to build a picture in our readers mind by using lots of describing words (adjectives.

Hare are some of our "descriptions". Can you guess what we are?

clue: They are 'olden day' things that we saw at the Howick Historical Village.

PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS!

What am I?

I am brown and hairy.

I have 4 legs.

I have a carriage on the back of me.

I am used for taking people places.

What am I?

- By Lachie

What am I?

I am browny.

I am made of metal and wood.

I am a little bit hot.

I feel hard.

I look like a semi circle.

I am used for ironing clothes.

What am I?

- By Ryan

What am I?

I am green.

I have numbers.

I have a string.

I am hard.

I am made from plastic.

I am used for talking to people.

What am I?

- By Maddie

What am I?

I am brown and I am hard.

I am bumpy.

I am used for filling bedding.

I am hairy.

I was used in the olden days.

What am I?

- By Anastasia

What am I?

I am made of metal.

I am very hot.

I am brown.

I am hard.

I am used for ironing clothes.

What am I?

- By Anoji

Here are some pictures of our original pieces. Can you see how we used the success criteria to self assess our writing?

Is Technology Good or Bad?

Today I asked Team 8 to reflect on what they have learned about technology. I asked them if they thought technology was good or bad. Here is a short video I took of some of the children sharing their thoughts...

Please leave us a comment with a question you think could help us to better understand the implications (good and bad) that technology brings to the world? We will answer them with a reply. 

Tom and William Talk About Capacity

We are always trying new things in Team 8. Today our task was to talk about our learning. 

A special thanks to Lachie who was filming for the first time too. I think they all did a pretty stellar job, don't you?

Book Character Day

What a super day it was on Friday when we dressed up as our favourite book character. Mrs Winklebottom (Little Red Riding Hood's grandma) was our teacher for the day.

Here we are all dressed up...

The parade was great fun!

Olivia's Grandma come to read us a story. 

And Mrs Steel (a.k.a The Witch in the Plum Tree) came to read us a Hairy Maclary Story.

Can't wait to see what characters turn up next year!

Our Favourite Stories and Drop everything and Read (D.E.A.R.)

Here are some of Team 8's favourite Stories.  We have really enjoyed listening and sharing our favourite stories this week!  Thank you to all for bringing your books in.

As part of Literacy week we had a Drop Everything and Read time.  A Bing Bong went over the speaker and we had to stop everything and read any book.  Team 8 loved it so much Mrs Grant had to stop us after 15mins to get ready for lunch.

Team 8 has loved Literacy week!!!!!!

Being Authors.

On Tuesday we had heaps of fun using Lynley Dodd's Hairy Maclary as a base to create our own Lynley Dodd stories.

Team 8 made a giant brainstorm to help gather our ideas.

Here we are writing these stories.

Team 8 are busy illustrating and putting these stories and they will be displayed when Mrs Grant finishes being the editor and publisher of our stories.

Being Authors

Today, as part of literacy week, Team 8 pretended they were Lynley Dodd, author of Hairy Maclary. We split into 4 teams and worked collaboratively to make up a BRAND NEW, NEVER BEEN HEARD BEFORE story, about the adventures of Hairy Maclary. 

It was awesome to watch how the teams worked so well together. Each and every person had a say about what they wanted to happen the story.

Word spread very quickly about how awesome we were....so along came.... Hairy Maclary! (Just joking - It was actually the wonderful Mrs Steel!) She was so impressed with our imaginations (not to mention our sounding of tricky words, using full stops and tidy writing) that she gave all of our stories the 'special seal of approval' with her DEPUTY PRINCIPAL sticker. 

Not everyone is lucky enough to get one of those bad boys... but WE did! 

If you're lucky enough to know someone in Team 8, you might get a chance to read the finished story in person, sometime soon. If not, here are pictures of the originals.

Well done Team 8!

The Lions go Contraction Hunting

On Thursday the Lions went on a contraction hunt while they read to the teacher. They found lots! One isn't actually a contraction, but it did have an apostrophe in it!  

Well done guys!

Super Similes

Last week some of Team 8 were learning to describe things using Smilies. - A simile is a figure of speech that compares one thing with another thing of a different kind. 

SOME of us were working with with the teacher, and SOME of us had their listening (eavesdropping) ears switched on, and decided to create smilies all on their own without any of my help!!!

I was super impressed with these writers and I promised them fame right here on the blog. 

Please help them to understand the value of their writing and leave them a comment telling them what a great job they have done.

Sensory Handwriting

Here in Team 8 we don't mind getting our hands dirty! 

Here we are learning how to form our letters correctly in shaving foam. 

Here's a challenge Team 8..... Can you show someone in your family how to form a c, a, d, g or 9? Remember that they all start in the same place and go in the same direction. Don't forget to not take you pencil/pen off the paper until you have finished the whole letter!