My holidays

In the holidays you could do some writing. You could write a diary about what you are doing. Just like when we are at school we write each day, you can write at home. 

You could practice writing an explanation or a description also. 

Some ideas are;

*Explain how to ride your bike.

*Describe your pet. 

*Write a recount of a fun day out. 

*Describe what it looks like outside your window. 

*Write about a funny thing that has happened.

Bring your writing in to school in term 4 to share with your classmates. We look forward to reading lots of fabulous writing. 

If you have no paper try writing on the back of an old box!

Have fun! 

Holiday Reading Activities

Holiday reading activities

It is important to keep reading in the holidays.

I have put some ideas on the class blog so you can keep reading and have some fun while you are not at school.  I will be checking in on the blog so I can see how you are going. 

What books should you read? Books you have at home, Duffy books - your own and your family's, Library books.  

Challenge 1  My favourite character was.

Challenge 2  The best part in the book was....

Challenge 3  What was the story about? 
                     Start - middle - end

Challenge 4  A different ending for the                                  story could be......  
                    
Challenge 5 Design a new cover for the book.

 Enjoy reading and try to be better than before the holidays.

Speech competition

WELL DONE LIMITETI!

Limiteti won the junior speech competition at school today. She did an amazing speech about the seasons.  
The judges thought she remembered her speech well and spoke clearly.  We are proud of you Limiteti.

Malo e lei Tonga!

Malo e lelei

In term 4, we are going to be learning about the Pacific Islands.  Room 5 will be exploring the islands of Tonga.  The other junior rooms will be learning about different pacific islands.  We will share our learning each week and compare what are the similarities and differences are between the islands of the Pacific.  Food, shelter and clothing will be our main topics.  

To our families, you can help us to learn about this beautiful country. Tell your children about it, write on our blog comments or even come in to talk with us.  If you have special things at home from Tonga that you are willing to share, please send them for news time.  

Stepping out to explore!

It is good to explore our environment and open our eyes to all the amazing diversity and detail in everyday things.  We ventured out to explore the field on a pinecone hunt.  We found all the pinecones that had fallen in the storm had been collected by neighbours to burn in their fires at home. We decided to find as many different flowers as we could on the school field because we thought there were only daisies.  We were wrong... look at what we found!

Wow, what a beautiful display of colour and texture.  We picked the flowers and took them inside to write about. We wrote words to describe what each flower looked like then wrote independently about our discovery.

The world outside our window.

This term we have been learning to use awesome adjectives to make our writing sparkle!  Today we turned all our desks around and looked at the world through the classroom window.  It was great to read stories packed full of adjectives describing what we saw.  

Goodbye beautiful Rita!

Today was Rita's last day at Ruapotaka School. We will miss Rita's happy smile and loving nature, her cheeky sense of humour and  friendship with everyone at our school. Rita has taught us so much about her Samoan culture, like counting to ten, which we will continue to use now she has gone. Tofa soifua,  la manuia Rita goodbye and good luck.