Magical Box

I will put in my box

A swangdoodle swinging on a sticky piece of snot,

A glittering eye of a baby dragon,

And a sparkling star from Matariki.

I will put in my box

A boiling iceberg from the North Pole,

A rock from a pinwheel galaxy,

And a yellow meteor pulling Earth in its orbit.

I will put in my box

A gigantic camera pushing to orbit Mars,

A scorpion with a trunk for a tail,

And a black talking fire eating concrete.

My box is created from stone

And ancient bones of the blue whale for the hinges.

If you open the box you will suddenly have wings. 

I shall glide in my box,

And land in green lush grass.

By Zedyn Fellows

My Magic Box

My Magic Box

I will put in my box

Six pink ponies jumping over a rainbow in pink tutus,

A snowman  surfing across an ice-cream mountain with a penguin,

A purple panda jumping into a pot of gold in the green grass.

I will put in my box

A house made from a chocolate fountain that burps out snow,

A male whale spurting out marshmellow plops,

Ane three golden cheetahs poncing acorss the sky in red lipstick and red tutus.

My box is fashioned out of rock dust and ice,

And the corners are made out of dinosaur claws.

The lid has stars on it,

And speckles in the corners.

I am going to fly to Pluto and back.

It will take me one hour.

By Sophia Gooch

My Magic Box

My Magic Box

I will put in my box

Red hot snow settling on silent volcanoes,

Ten cotton candy hats pouncing on an anndoodles,

Big fat fish swimming in the sky.

I will put in my box

Purple skin from an alien from Pluto,

And the crack of lightning on a cold winter’s night,

And wood from the first tree in the universe.

I will put in my box

Coal-black dogs riding Chinese dragons,

Great big water slides built out of snow,

And the first touch of water.

I will put in my box

Big bouncing blueberries sizzling in the summer sun,

Rainbows with the colours all mixed up,

And zigzag planets floating with gravity.

My box is fashioned from

Rocks from Mars,

And gold from the ancient times. 

It is ball-shaped.

I will fly to the end of the Milky Way galaxy and back. 

                                                                                                                   By Rylan Nichol

My Magic Box

MY MAGIC BOX 

I will put in my box

A big fat purple pig with a long swirly tail swimming in chocolate,

A flying red and black dragon with five heads and one eye on each head,

And a fat grandpa floating like jelly to Jupiter.

I will put in my box

A flying rotten banana twisting into the dwarf planet Pluto,

A book with glasses and freckles going round the world a hundred times a minute,

And a pencil writing one hundred thousand words in 10 minutes.

I will put in my box

Scissors chopping everybody’s fingers off,

A shark with six eyes and big fat purple teeth,

And a plane that is as big as Africa.

My box is made of iron dinosaur’s teeth.

On the top of my box is a golden picture of a dragon,

On the left and right hand sides are red buttons,

If you press this button then you go into the magic box,

And I will motorbike in it.

                                                                                           By Archie Goodall

My Magic Box

My Magic Box

I will put in my box

A floating house made out of fire and candy-floss,

A rubbish man sent out to space on Mars,

A flying dragon with five heads on a ginormous beach with shells.

My box is made out of rubber,

My hinges are made out of snow.

The shape of the box is square.

I shall fly up to the sun and bring back a speck on the sun!

  By Jah Skeen

Diagram of an Earthworm

Today we looked at diagrams and what is important.
Success Criteria:
Write a title
Diagram takes up at least half the space
Pencil used for labels and lines
Coloured pencil for the picture
Ruler used to draw lines from the label to the correct part
Words written at the end of the label line
Diagram is neat, clear and easy to read

Tomorrow we will publish some of our drawings,  We also discussed the functions of the main parts of a worm.  We are going to explain the functions of these parts tomorrow, in our own words.

Watch out for our explanations of these body parts.  We will publish some for you to read.

How to Make a Worm Farm Model

We used this model to establish our success criteria for writing instructions on how to make a worm farm.

Check out our writing.  

We have been learning to...

 Paint a picture, with our words

 Show don’t just tell

The waves were throwing themselves all over me like crashing vases.  Ben

Ducks drifting over the waves, little waves rushing out of the motor.  I am smashing into the hard concrete water.  Lucia

Grass swaying, fish jumping, I could tell it was going to be a great day.  Hudson

The icy water is waiting for me to jump into.  I closed my eyes and just jumped in!  My feet were numb and my lips were purple.  I couldn’t believe I was actually in the water. Daisy

I was so sweaty and there was a haze in front me…  Otis

The boat was zooming past the mountains, within a flash the boat was past Ruby Island.  Bonnie

Puffing, I drag my feet the sun beams right down on me.  Sarah

My hands are slipping and sliding over the giant rainbow trout's scales.  The sun is glistening on me, I feel like I am melting in an oven.  Ryan

The boats were zooming past.  The water was smashing into my legs.  Finn

The waterslide sounded like a waterfall.  It was twisty like a snake.  Ethan

I jumped inside the wake.  I motored across the wake.  Rocco

Water showering my knees as water drifted across the surface.  The smell of burnt petrol rises from the engine.  Rylan

The grey rocks glowed like ghosts as they lay on the damp wet ground.  Zoe

My tounge sticks out in a flash!  I start to lick my yummy choc bar. The cold ice cream is starting to melt in my mouth. Mila

The crystal clear lake was in front of eyes.  The sun is burning my arms. Olivia

The huge jaggered mountains were packed with falling snow.  My hands were shaking and my toes were turning blue.  Jaime

Come and in see our writing books in class to read  the whole piece of writing!!

Ancient Egypt

Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphs are Ancient Egyptian writing and  only scribes could write.  It was very hard work. Hieroglphs means holy writing.

Mummies in Ancient Egypt

The people believed that their was an after life  the God was Anuibis. They wrapped  the mummy  in bandages  and in salt for 40 days.  It took 70 days to make a mummy.

The Rosetta stone 

Archaeologists discovered the Rosetta stone. The Rosetta stone was an important discovery. If archaeologists didn't discover the Rosetta stone they wouldn't be able to read the hieroglyphics.  Hieroglyphs hieroglyphics was Egypt writing.  The scribe did the best writing of hieroglyphics and was one of the most important people in ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egypt is a very special culture in the world. They created monuments that we can't even recreate.

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt existed 5000 years before Jesus was born.

Hieroglyphs

Ancient Egyptians used pictures to show different objects. They were called hieroglyphics.  This means holy writing. There is over 700 hieroglyphics symbols.

Rosetta  stone

The Rosetta stone is how they found hieroglyphics. It took 20 years to decode. Egyptologists knew the pictures had meanings. It listed all the good things the pharaoh had done for the priests and people of Egypt.

Mummification

Mummification was and difficult. Ancient Egyptians believed the after-life that’s why they made mummies.

Ancient Egypt is a special culture in the world.

How to Make a Jam Sandwich

What you will need :

. 2 slices of bread

.butter

. plate

. knife

What to do

1. Place two slices of bread onto the plate.

2. Spread butter onto one slice of the bread.

3. Spread some jam on the piece of bread with nothing on it

4. Place the two slices together.

5. Enjoy your sandwich while its fresh

Nadia's Recipe for Pizza

After making the pizza I wrote my recipe.  Here it is

Making A Pizza

What You Need:

Pizza base

Tomato paste

Ham

Pineapple

Spoon

Knife

Cheese

Oven

Baking tray

What To Do:

1.  Pre-heat the oven to 200*c

2.  Spread the tomato paste onto the pizza base with a knife.

3. Place the ham on top of the tomato paste.

4.  Put the pineapple on top of the ham.

5.  Sprinkle the cheese on top of the pizza.

6.  Place the pizza in the oven on a baking tray.

7.  Once cooked enjoy while fresh.

Instructions Success Criteria

Writing Instructions Success Criteria

L2

•     Write a title 
•      List the instructions in order /sequence
•       Number instructions e.g. 1.  2.  3. 
•       List the materials needed  
•       Use an action word / doing word at the start of each instruction 
•       Use pictures to show the steps to make it clearer to the reader (optional)
•      Use topic words 
•      Sample words in the margin
•      Proof read my work and correct 2 words

L3

All of level 2 criteria

Plus…

•       Write 2 sentences after the title to explain more about the task
•       Start with a verb or an adverb (use adverbial phrases e.g. place the pineapple on top of the ham 
•       Conduct words when trying unknown words   
•       Proof- read and edit

Procedural Writing - Writing Recipes

Today we made pizzas so that we had the experience and knowledge needed to write a recipe. We began our planning ready to write our draft recipes tomorrow.   Here are our photos ...

Equipment & Ingredients

Spreading the tomato paste on the base.

That spicy tomato pizza base looks yummy. 

The works - ham, pineapple, cheese and tomato.

Just the cheese to go on this Hawaiian pizza.

Ready for the oven.

Sam and Grayson on dishes duty.

Cooking in the oven at 200 degrees celsius.

Some had salami rather than ham.

Too many tomatoes.  Not many of us liked them.

Cooked and ready to eat!

Yummy!

We ate these for morning tea.  They taste better when you make them yourself!

How Do Bees Make Honey?

How Do Bees Make Honey?

There are 20,000 plus types of bees but only honey bees make honey. Bees work together to make honey.

 A female worker bee sucks nectar with a proboscis then she stores it into her honey stomach. At the hive, hive bees suck up the nectar and slowly split it into two sugars called glucose and fructose.

After they turn it into two sugars they put it into hexagonal cells. Then bees flap their wings to control the temperature of the hive.

The bees put wax over the cells to stop honey dripping out. The beekeeper takes out the cells and cuts off the wax. Then it is put into a machine that spins really fast so that the honey drips out.

All this makes thick yummy honey to put on your toast with no added ingredients. Bees work hard to make honey. 

Our Success Criteria for Our Explanations

How Do Bees Make Honey?

Explanations

Today we had to look at an explanations in groups and show what we know, by identifying the structure of an explanation (What are the parts of an explanation?).  Yesterday we read lots of explanations and looked at some power points so we had an understanding of what we needed to find.  We found out there are 2 types of explanations- How things work? and Why things happen?.  We found a title (question), an introduction (big ideas), paragraphs in sequence with information, cause & effect ( complex sentences), connectives, present tense (now), specific nouns about the subject eg honey-stomach, drone, descriptive verbs eg evaporates, technical words eg enzymes and a conclusion (summarise what the explanation is about).