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Room 25 Revolting Recipes

Submitted by Dawn Pollard on Fri, 25/11/2011 - 2:40pm

Room 25 have been enjoying practising writing instructions by writing Revolting Recipes. If you want to read more come to our room as they are all revolting and they are all displayed on our classroom wall.

Mashed Zombie by Tamsyn

Tip: Don’t wash your hands before this.

Book Character Day

Submitted by Dawn Pollard on Fri, 18/11/2011 - 7:19pm

A couple of photos from our Book Character Day. All the children looked wonderful.

Book Review Winners from Room 21 and Room 25

Submitted by Dawn Pollard on Fri, 28/10/2011 - 12:06pm

In the last week of Term 3 Room 21 and Room 25 decided to enter the Book Council Website Book Review Competition.

Most of the children in both classes entered the competition and our school won the award for the most reviews entered. The prize is a bundle of books for the school library and a free author’s visit to our school in 2012.

Room 25 - Acrostic Poems about the Rugby World Cup

Submitted by Dawn Pollard on Tue, 04/10/2011 - 3:29pm

We have all enjoyed watching the RWC and learning about the tournament and the countries of the teams that have travelled to NZ to take part in it. Last week we wrote Acrostic poems based on some aspect of the RWC. Below is a selection of those. We hope you enjoy reading them.

TEAMS

Room 25 - More Persuasive Writing

Submitted by Dawn Pollard on Fri, 16/09/2011 - 4:10pm

The children in Room 25 have been learning to write persuasive text. They are able to form and state an opinion about a topic, support it with reasons and link their conclusion to their introduction.

I believe that we should be allowed to play on our scooters at play time.

Speech Finals

Submitted by Jenny Bate on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 3:44pm

Speech Finals

It was the final… the final of speeches…

It was the 2^nd of September 2011 and the Senior Syndicate was gathered in the hall, all was quiet, waiting for the finalists to begin their speeches and the excitement to start.

Room 12's persuasive writing.

Submitted by Katherine Barker on Tue, 23/08/2011 - 5:33pm

In Room 12 we are learning how to get others to see things our way through persuasive writing.

We discussed the pros and cons of whether it is a good idea to have hot chocolate in the drinking fountains instead of water. Then we looked at varied ways to start our sentences and how to give lots of reasons to convince our audience. Here are two samples of our work:

Hot chocolate drinking fountains

By Jemma

We should not have hot chocolate in the drinking fountains at school.

A special visitor to Rooms 11, 12 and 25

Submitted by Katherine Barker on Tue, 23/08/2011 - 5:19pm

Rooms 11, 12 and 25 were very lucky to have Mr Iverson visit us in Week 3. He is involved in organising the Rugby World Cup and he told us about the huge amount of detail and planning needed to stage this gigantic event.

We got to see one of the rugby balls that will be used, and we learned how many people will be helping (60,000!)

Room 12's Science Event Display!

Submitted by Katherine Barker on Tue, 23/08/2011 - 5:09pm

The students of Room 12 did a superb job of planning and preparing for the science event. Featured in their display were:

-The results of the silverbeet experiment - 'Zoo Doo' compost was the best at growing tall silverbeet.

-An edible hanging garden.

-An enchanted miniature garden with magical stones and a miniature man fishing in a miniature pond, surrounded by an edible lentil, carrot and beetroot-shoot forest.

Room 25 Term 3 Persuasive Writing

Submitted by Dawn Pollard on Fri, 19/08/2011 - 11:43am

This term the children are learning to write persuasive text. They are learning to form and state their opinion about a topic and then support it with reasons. Later we will be looking at using emotive language in our persuasive texts and making advertisements to encourage people to come to New Zealand. Below are some of our first efforts in persuasive writing. You can see they clearly follow the correct format of an introduction stating a position, reasons to support them, and a conclusion.