We have talking about Pukekos in Room 12. We drew Pukekos for our Calendar Art, we made 3D Pukekos with Mrs M for Art and we coloured in Pukeko pictures to use the Colarmix app on the iPad to get them to turn into 3D creatures.
We wrote some Information Reports about Pukekos as well. Here are a few: Ashley's Information Report: This story is about Pukekos. Pukekos have got a blue body and a black feather. Pukekos also have red legs and a red beak and red eyes. Pukekos go looking for food such as worms and bugs. Pukekos live around swampy areas. Pukekos are a member of the rail family of birds. Pukekos can grow about 51 centimetres long. Pukekos can be about the size of a hen. Pukekos can be aggressive. Pukekos are found all over New Zealand. Although Pukekos don’t have webbed feet they are extremely good swimmers. I think Pukekos are an interesting animal. Julia's Information Report: My information report is about pukeko’s. Pukeko’s have a red beak and have red legs. They live in grass areas and they eat bugs and attack people. They also live in swamps. Their body is blue and black. They have some white in their tail. The rest of their tail is black. I like Pukeko’s because the babies are cute and the saddest part is when they eat baby ducks that I feel sad for them. I really do feel sorry for them. Trinity's Information Report: Pukekos are a bird that can not fly. They are a swamp bird. They also eat the head’s off of little baby ducklings. They have red beaks. And have blue tummy’s and red leg’s and black wing’s. They have red eyes. They eat heads off little ducklings. And they live in the swamp. Sometimes they are could swamp hen’s. I think the pukekos are very cool and they deserve respect.
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Mrs Jones gave us a picture of a tiny dragon and these questions to think about as a writing prompt:
We have been using Picture Prompts to use spark our imaginations, and create stories that go with the pictures that Mrs Jones has given us. Here is a selection based around 4 different picture prompts. The children have done a great job coming up with original ideas to create a text to fit the pictures. I think they are fabulous, but I might be a little bias. CANDY Once upon a time there was a lolly shop. With lollipops and Jaffas and they are all in jars. Everything is colourful. There are jelly beans. I would buy all the lollies. I would be surprised and excited. And it's awesome. I would eat them all when I got home. By Julia THE CANDY SHOP Once upon a time there was a little girl named Lilly and a little boy named Jared . They were best friends. One day they went to Fun Land and went in a shop with lots of toys. They went in a lift. They pressed a button that had an x on it . When they got out of the lift it said candy Land. And the girl was dressed in a pink and white dress with flowers and the boy was dressed in a blue top and black pants. When they got out of the lift the little girl picked up a basket . There were lollies every where . They went to the first lolly shop . All the lollies were for free. The got turns . There were lolly pops, gumballs, pebbles and planes . When they had two baskets full of lollies they decided to go home and meet there another day. On the way home there was a water fall. They went around twice and shook hands and said "goodbye meet here tomorrow". Lilly went back to her cottage and Jared went back his house on the hill, where his mum was getting ready for tea. Lilly was tired and went to bed. They lived both happily ever after. By Ella ME AND MY FRIEND Once upon a time me and my friend were kicking the ball around and it got stuck up in the tree. When they were going to climb the tree to get the ball we spotted a ginger bread house full of lollies. We walked in to the house. Inside the house there was an old lady who was a witch and she said they could have some lollies to eat. When we were eating some of the candy the witch pressed a button and cages come down on us were stuck in the cadge. When we were in the cage we found a way out. We killed the witch and went back home. Mum and dad were angry at us and that's why you never go in to a strange house. Dun dun dun dunn! The end By Tai TEDDY BEAR PICNIC Once 5 bears went on a picnic.These are their names (dad) Brooklin , (Mum) Brooke , (twins) Angel and Star and (baby) Spark. Spark opened up some yummy cookies.Then Angel poured some milo for Brooklin and Star. Angel ate a few crackers and Brooke ate a fresh banana. Then there was a teddy bear party. There were balloons. Spark wanted to go in a balloon so she sneaked into a balloon. Then Spark's friend blew up the balloon. Then the balloon fell into a freezing river. Then a plane crashed in the river. Spark's family had a funeral, they sang the bear anthem. It goes like this,''oh Spark I wish you didn't die. I wish you were alive. You could be here with us but you're not alive, oh Spark, oh Spark.I wish you were alive,din din din din good bbbbbbbbbbbbbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee." Brooke and Brooklin had a wedding. Brooklin said "will you marry me please?" Brooke said"yes". The end. By Ashley THE LOST TEDDY There once was a little girl with a teddy and they sat down at the park on a seat. Then the girl had something to eat and fell asleep and dropped her pink teddy on the seat. Then it got dark and and then it started to rain and the teddy got wet in the pouring rain and the strong wind pushed it off the seat and it got under the seat. The next day the little girl and her mum went back to the park to look for her pink teddy and they looked everywhere but they did not look under the chair because it was wet. The little girl was so sad her mum brought the little a new pink teddy. The girl said but that is not the same one because it was smaller and did not have a bow and it was dark blue so mum wasted $50 dollars on a teddy bear. That night the little girl did not eat because she wanted her teddy. The next they went back to park. This time it was not raining. It was it was a nice sunny day. Then this time they looked under the seat and then they found the teddy but it was wet and it stunk when she cuddled it. Yuck !!! Then they took the teddy home and gave the teddy a wash and the little girl and her mum must of been the most happiest people in the whole entire world.The end By Tamani BEAR ON THE CHAIR One day some children went to the park with with a teddy bear.They sat the teddy on the swing and they pushed the teddy.When they pushed the teddy it fell off the swing and got dirty. So they decided to go back home.When they were in the car they remembered that their bear was still in the car. by Kristie TEDDY BEAR There is a teddy bear lying on a chair and it is lonely. It is sleeping on a chair and the colour was pink. But he was a scared teddy. It has a bow on its neck. I can see money on the ground. I thought it was a 1 dollar coin. There is a chair on the ground and the colours are brown. By Madasyn NAUGHTY KIDS BEING MISCHIEVOUS IN THE MUD
Once upon a time there was a brother and sister called Leo and Katelyn. They were being mischievous in mud. Katelyn was wearing gumboots, a dress and she was jumping. Leo was wearing a shirt, an apron, shorts and gumboots. They were naughty because they were four. They were alone and Leo and Katelyn were far away from home. They were holding hands and jumping and they were both happy. It looked like Leo was jumping in the lake and the lake was muddy. Next Leo backs up, sprints forwards and cannon balls into the muddy lake and Leo gets really muddy. The big splash goes all over Katelyn and they said "that was fun". Then they skipped home. by Mason SPLASHING IN MUD If you splashed in mud what would you do in the mud? Keep splashing or get mud proof toys? Get muddy and slide in the mud! Just do everything you can! Keep splashing!... But wait, you can get really dirty and you can get told off! But if you splash in mud what does it feel like? Slippery? Slimey? Gooey? Do you slide in the mud? Or get wet from the mud? Mud is made from dirt and water, so if you want to make mud... Make mud and jump in! By Summer N KIDS PLAYING IN MUD Once a upon a time there were friend's called Josh and Keira. They were walking down the road. They found a lake full of mud and They jumped into the mud. They did not know how to get out of the lake. Their mum's were calling them back home. They did not know how to get out, so they sat down and started to cry for about a minute. By Jack Look at this fabulous handwriting - Room 12 tries so hard to do their B.E.S.T (better every single time) each day!! This term we have been doing "Daily 5" for our Literacy block of time. The children are particulary enjoying Word Work Bingo, which has various activities that they can do with their weekly spelling words. One activity that they are really enjoying (which we copied from Room 8) is writing our spelling words with the maths equipment. When they have spelt their word then they must take a photo of their work with the iPad as evidence that they have completed the activity. We are experimenting with Google Docs. We used a Google Doc to write a shared story. We used all the computers and iPads in the classroom and sat around the outside walls. When we opened the document Mrs Jones had written the first sentence to get us started. Then group by group we added the next sentence to the story. When it wasn't our turn we watched the words appear, as if an alien had taken over our device, on our screens. Next we want to try some collaborative writing with another class. This is how our story turned out: Here are some photos of us, either writing the next sentence our watching our screens as someone else writes the next sentence. After watching this You Tube clip we wrote the following stories:
There was a little girl who had a coin. She was going to put her money in the wishing well. Then a one-man band came and he got a tin out and he wanted the money. Then there was a second man playing a violin. He got out a joker hat and he wanted the coin. The other man played a trumpet and drum and she walked towards the first man. Then the second man played a whole lot of violins and she walked towards the second man. She couldn’t decide what one-man band she wanted to give her golden coin to. The one-man bands were competing for the golden coin. She had to block her ears and she dropped her golden coin and lost it down the drain. She got angry and she got a violin and she busked and she got a huge bag of a whole lot of golden coins. She got two and teased the one-man bands but before she could play the violin it wasn’t tuned. After she teased the one-man bands she threw two of her golden coins in the wishing well. By Mason Once there was a little girl, she had a couple of dollars. She was going to put it in the wishing well. Something stopped her. There was a man. He was playing lots of instruments. It was fantastic. But then she heard another person playing a violin. It was still great. When they played together it was terrible. She covered her ears but then the shiny gold coin went down the drain. Then she got really sad. One guy stole the violin off the other guy. She got heaps of money. She was holding the money in their faces then she threw it in the well. By Ashley Once upon a time there was a girl. She had a dollar coin. She saw a one-man band playing instruments. The she saw a second man. The one-man band was competing with the second man. Then she went to go to the second man. Then they went closer and closer. They got louder. She blocked her ears then her money went to the sewer. Then she wanted a violin. She played the violin. Then she had 1,000,000 dollars. The musician wanted her money but she tricked them and she chucked it in to the wishing well. By Jack Once upon a time there was a girl with a coin. She went to throw the coin in the wishing well. But then a one-man band came out and then another one-man band came out. She didn’t know who to give it to. The people were competing for the coin. The girl dropped the coin in the drain. The people gave the girl a violin and the violin wasn’t in tune. When the violin was in tune she got 2 coins. Then she threw it in the wishing well. By Tai There once as a one-man band. A little girl who had a gold coin was going to put it in the wishing well. But then she was going to give it to the one-man band. Then there was another one-man band person. The other one-man band was playing better than the other one. Then they played loud as. She dropped her coin down the drain. She got angry. She got a violin. She tuned it. Then she got a big bag of coins. She got two out then she pretended to give them to the men. She threw them at the top of the fountain. By Jared This morning we had 4 wee visitors from the New Entrants class. Their teacher had used the Aging Booth app to take their photos, and they wrote stories about what it would be like to be old. We did the same thing last term - but their stories were so cute! They read them so carefully, and we helped if they got stuck on a word. At the circus there's a ringmaster and the ringmaster tells you who's going to perform. Then some performers come on the ring and then it goes dark. When the light in the big top has been turned off the performers start performing scary things. They do acrobats, tight rope and hoola-hoop with tigers. The animals in the circus are elephants and tigers.
At the circus there are clowns that do tricks. They have shows that have lions in it and elephants and monkeys that do tricks. The bit that they do the show in is called the circus ring. The people who do the tricks are called the acrobats a
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