Monday 31 October 2016

A Halloween Story from Room 9

My Haunted House

One Halloween night I was looking at a haunted house. I was dressed as a devil all by myself. I could see the old stone stairs with moss and old vines. When suddenly I heard a little whisper.
It said “Enter the haunted house…HA HA HA HA HA!’’
I crept up stairs. I felt the shivers on my skin. The awful laugh made me scared. I had to face the fear but I was scared so so so scared.
When I knocked on the door at the top of the stairs an old man said, “Please come in.”
I saw creepy dolls and a big clown that had red eyes that followed you around. But then I saw the old man. He had a baseball bat.
“Arghh!”Then I woke up.
“Pheww!’’ It was just a dream but again I saw the old man.
The old man said ‘’Breakfast is served.”
Then I said “What is it?
“YOU!’’
“Arghhh!” I said.
The old man said, “Just kidding. Do you want a cup of tea?’’
I said “Yes please!”
And we both laughed.




By Franshey

Friday 28 October 2016

Engineering Fun

Today in S.T.E.A.M Room 4 were engineers.  We talked about tall towers and how they are designed not to fall over.  We worked in teams to design and build our own tall towers.  When we were working in our teams we were practicing taking turns, sharing and listening. 

Look at all the awesome structures we built using sticks, blocks, little cups and cubes.














Fantail, Fantail


In Room 3 we have been reading the book Fantail, Fantail by Margaret Mahy.  We have really enjoyed reading this book together and learning about different types of punctuation.  We also identified some basic sight words from the book, wrote our own stories and today we made some fantails.  We also learnt that fantail in te reo is piwakawaka.  Come and see our fantails hanging up in Room 3.
















Friday 21 October 2016

Word Learning

In Room 3 we have been learning that words are made up of letters.  We have been learning to read words, make words using magnetic letters and to write words.

Monday 17 October 2016

The letter Dd

Last week we learnt about the letter Dd, the sound it makes, how to write it and what things begin with the letter Dd.

Look at our cool duck puppets.