Arguments?

Room One have discovered that they love sharing their opinions and giving reasons why they think something and that is what argument writing is all about.
We have been exploring some tools to help us organise our thinking so that we can write excellent arguments.

1/ Lines of continuum
At one end you very strongly agree with something and at the other end you totally disagree.

2/Thinkers' Hats - Yellow and Black
When we use the yellow hat we are giving reasons that we see as being positive.
If we use the black hat we are giving negative reasons.
They help us to remember whether we agree or disagree.

Here is our statement can you work out what we thought?

Check back later to find out what our fantastic reasons are.

I wonder who will use their black hat and who will use their yellow hat?

The stinky witch

A stinky witch enters the room, a crocked hat sits upon her head. Her eyes are as bruised as someone who has fallen off a cliff.
A firey broom stick flashes through the air as smoke fills the room. The people scatter like autumn leaves falling from the trees.
I love Halloween!

By Bronlee

The Skeleton

The naked bones rattle while the skeleton dances in the dark.
The skeleton glows in the dark just like a glow stick.
The bones smell like they have been buried under ground for 10,000 years.
What a rattly old skeleton.

By Ben

Procedural Writing - Shoulder Stands

We are learning how to write procedures.
We had to include a list of things we needed, then practise our shoulder stands so we were clear about what we had to write.
Next we wrote our instructions and then tested them to make sure we hadn't missed anything important.
We recorded us performing shoulder stands in pairs according to the instructions we wrote.

You can check out the actual writing on our Room One Writers Blog.

The Gruffalo Show

Woohoo, grimble, grumble – with a slash of wind off sped the big yellow bus to Rotorua on Tuesday 30 August to watch The Gruffalo. The windy roads made me feel dizzy. When Room 1 and Room 3 reached Rotorua, it looked wonderful with all the flowers showing but I’d better tell you a secret, Rotorua stinks a lot!

Finally we got to the show, the mouse was as funny as a clown as he tiptoed behind the gruffalo, poking her tongue out and wiggling her bottom.  The gruffalo roared like a lion and was a bit scary but in the end he was afraid of the clever little mouse.

At the show we had all felt hungry so we leapt back onto the us and zoomed off to the park. We gobbled down some food and played on the playground until it started to drizzle really hard.

Mrs Goodwin drove us safely back to school just in time to eat more food. What a great day, I loved The Gruffalo show!

Combined writing by:

- Conor, Bronlee, Sean, Jacob.

Kung Fu Punctuation

We are learning how to punctuate our writing, we find it a bit hard so we decided to try and find a fun way to help us remember the different marks we need.

Snippets of Our Awesome Writing

W.A.L.T:       Add imagery to my writing.

S.C:              I know I am successful when I include

              - Hook

              - Closure

              - Adjectives

              - Powerful verbs

              - Similes

On the way to school today…

Oh no falling sheep!

On the way to school today I saw fat sheep falling from the sky into a hot pool, sheep fell into it like a bit of rain.

Shaking trees wibble and wobble to the music inside. The trees were shaking like a volcano erupting.

I wonder what I will see tomorrow?

By Sean

15-08-11

W.A.L.T:       Describe a character using imagery in my writing.

S.C:              I know I am successful when I include

              - Hook

              - Closure

              - Adjectives

              - Powerful verbs

              - Similes

My dog Rosie

Wow! Skin shimmies in the sun, a bright puppy called Rosie runs up to me. I feel happy. She stares at a chewy bone I threw for her, when she caught it she sat on my lap. I patted her; her snow is a soft as snow. She is also cute and a bit fluffy. Rosie is a Caviller King Charles Spaniel. The only time she squeals is if she gets a flea and she barks when something is wrong. Brown and white patches on her body sparkle and shimmer when Rosie walks. Her tail wags as fast as a satellite. I love Rosie!

By Bronlee

15-08-11

Check out our "ALLITERATION POEMS"

We have been learning how to recognise and use alliteration - check out our fabulous alliteration animal poems on the Writers Blog.

Check It Out

make sure you take the time to check out our Writers Blog because we have uploaded a number of new pieces of childrens work :-)

Jacob's tooth

At Kapahaka today we had some excitement, so we thought we had better write a letter to the Tooth Fairy. Do you think the Tooth Fairy will like our letter?

Friday 8 April 2011

Dear Tooth Fairy

Today at Kapahaka when we were practising the rakau Jacob banged his top front tooth.

He thought it was just bleeding but his tooth had actually come out.

We looked for the tooth at morning-tea time but it is nowhere to be found.

We are very sorry, please be kind to Jacob.

Love from Room One and Ms Daniels

Kuranui School

Powerful Verbs

We are learning to make our sentences interesting by using powerful verbs (and describing words). We started with sentences that were so boring we snored and had to make them exciting by working in our table groups. Everyone in our group had to help!

Red Table:

She got up.

Chloe G yawned and stretched, slowly climbing out of bed.

Green Table:

I went to the shops.

Serena the puppy zoomed to the ice-cream shop early on Monday morning to buy a 5-scoop chocolate ice-cream.

Yellow Table:

He was late.

Ben S woke up late for Kuranui School on Monday morning the 28th of March because his leg was broken and it was squished.

Blue Table:

They went out.

Ben 10 and Batman sprinted to the doctors in Hamilton because they were sick and they and to say "arhhhhh".