Cora's Writing

The Hawkes Bay Show

The crowd goes wild at the Hawke’s Bay show! I saw the spooky ghost train. It had vampires and monsters. It was scary. Then I went on the clown circus, it had rolling barrels and there was a big slide at the end. It was awesome.

After that, I went on the merry-go-round. I went on the pony that went up and down. Then I went on the big slides, they were bumpy and I went by myself. It was fantastic. 


Next I had lunch and I had a hot dog, coloured pop corn and candy floss. It was delicious. After that we went to the petting zoo. There was a 5 legged lamb, a calf and goats. 

By Cora
4.11.11

Writing Wall Updated!

Come in and have a look... our writing wall has been updated to display our published Holiday exploits.

We are learning to entertain our audience. We know that we can do this when we do things like using adjectives to describe things and making our beginnings interesting. We are able to use sequencing words like then, next and after that.

We would love you to give us some feedback.

What do you like to write about?

Leaping Leprechauns...

The Rockets are learning a little bit about Ireland this term, and today we have been writing about Lorcan the Leprechaun.

We have been adding adjectives to enrich our writing, and make it entertaining for our audience. Our friends at 2KM and 2KJ have been using them too, and they have some great examples of how adjectives colour our writing. Take a look at this interactive whiteboard presentation All about Adjectives. It's really clever and helpful.

Lorcan the Leprechaun is very rich and fast. He ran to a pot of gold but it wasn't there. He has a very pointy nose and square glasses and green sparkly eyes.

- Sam

Lorcan the Leprechaun is a cheeky little fella. The little man is a master. He moves as fast as a cheetah. He wears green pyjamas. He wears a really big top hat like a giant. He shoots up to people and says "Hey!"

-Rieff

There was once a greedy leprechaun who lived in the (most) richest place in the land. He was real cheeky and his hair was as silver as a 50 cent coin. His clothes were light green. His shoes were light green and dark brown. His arms were hairy, and his hands are greenish, and his nose is long and pointy. His feet are springs. He bounces, jumps and dances all over the place. His top hat is red velvet. His eyes shine like the stars and all the ladies fall when they see him.

-Chardanae


All the Rockets' Leprechaun writing is posted under the 'Our Writing' page. Please have a look! We would love you to comment :)

Silly Sentences

The Rockets have had fun this week with an activity called "Mad Libs." These are super fun. Have a listen to some of our silly sentences!

Rieff's Silly Sentence from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Ella's Silly Sentences from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Cora's Silly Sentence from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Emer's Silly Sentences from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Writing Wall updated!

Come in and have a look... our writing wall has been updated to display our published fairytales. We would love you to give us some feedback.

Giulietta's writing

Wow! Many of us have been creating and imagining at home recently. Giulietta brought this writing in this morning. My apologies for the wobbly scanning - I wasn't taking my time and striving for accuracy! Marvin will be disappointed.

Kiwiana - Who are we as New Zealanders?

The Rockets are currently looking into who we are as New Zealanders, and where we come from. Today, we began to explore our family tree. We started by brainstorming the things we know about our Mums and Dads.

Here is Nataliya's brainstorm:

and Wayne's

Jack wrote a story about Goldilocks

Published Authors

We have been concentrating fastidiously at the computer to publish the stories that we have written. We are so excited about people reading them on the blog!

Our Writing Wall

We are very excited to show you our new writing wall. We have been learning to write about our favourite Fairytale characters. At the moment, our wall displays the writing that we did in character. We were writing in the first person as Goldilocks. Did you know, she made a surprise visit to our classroom last week? Imagine who could turn up next?!