Pirate Story preparation...

Here's a snap from our first of many sessions with Mr. Walker.

Kia ora whānau….

Welocome to term 3!

I really hope that you managed to keep warm and cosy through the holidays. The wonderful thing about term 3 is that while it is still very wintery and cold the days are gradually getting longer and spring is definitely approaching. The heavy rain has again made the field very muddy! 

It's Te Wiki o te Reo Māori - Maori Language Week. The theme for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori is 'Te Kupu o te Wiki', which translates as 'The World of the Week'. Under this theme we'll be doing that in Room 11 for everyday for the rest of the year. The reason for doing this is to help the tamariki build their Māori vocabulary. 

Also, it is with great pleasure I welcome Miss. Naomi Thrift. Miss. Thrift will be with us for five weeks and is a Trainee Teacher from the University of Canterbury. She will be taking full management of the class for the next three weeks. 

I'm looking forward to our Student-Led Conferences next week. If you haven't booked a slot yet, please contact the office. The purpose of these is for the tamariki to share their learning with you, share achievement information and, of course, set goals for the remainder of the year. Here's some questions to think about….

What are your thoughts about your child’s progress?

What areas are you particularly please with?

What areas of concern do you have? (if any!)

What other thingswould you like to discuss?

   

The partnership of students/teachers/parents is something we, as teachers, highly value for supporting learning. 

Week 1 Reading Tip
Create a reading photo wall!
“What better way for a boy to see himself as a reader than to literally see himself reading? Photos are a permanent reminder, and are great for his reading self-esteem. Displaying framed photos of him with books or magazines can make a great impact”.
(Getting Boys to Read – Mike McQueen, p 37)

Week 1 Book Suggestion
Mouse Bird Snake Wolf – David Almond (10+ Age range) (graphic novel) “Long ago, the gods created a wonderful world. It had mountains, seas,
astonishing beasts and people rather like us. Then the gods became lazy. They didn’t finish what they had started. Now they sit and nibble cake and take long naps in the clouds. Harry Sue and Little Ben decide to fill the empty spaces. They make a squeaky mousy thing a feathery flying thing, a slithery scaly thing. But they also dare to create ...the wolf?” 

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Mr. Ish

Writing - Ormie the Pig

I was meaning to post this last term…better late than never!

We had a great writing session on Wednesday (2 July). I played the tamariki a video of Ormie the Pig trying to get a cookie but stopped it just as Ormie was jumping out of the plane.  The tamariki had to then write the ending of the story.  Check out some of our great writing:

Ormie the Pig

By Hannah L

Ormie went to pull the string on the parachute but it dropped like a stiff rock. He went to step forward to see where it went, but he fell.

Ormie fell face first into the ground. He started to cry like he rain on a very rainy day. Like a little kid, he went to be very disappointed. The next day the cookies just dropped to the ground and Ormie started to eat them. All thanks to his little brother, Ormie Junior.

Ormie the Pig

By Olivia A

Ormie jumps out of the big, white green and blue place and pulls out his parachute. He is gliding down until he knocks into a magpie and looses his parachute. He is falling now and is about to fall on the roof of his house, but misses and falls face first onto the concrete! After that, he goes bowling into the house and gets his tricycle and crashes into the fridge. He gets some jumping shoes and jumps high, but can’t reach the cookies so he decides to go into the lounge. Later, his big brother, comes along and puts the cookies onto two  clean white plates and give one to Ormie.

Ormie the Pig

By Yash

Ormie quickly jumped out of the plane, but just missed the cookies. Then, he got a big black rope and swung it at the cookies, but he was the one that flew through the air – not the rope.

Next, he smashed into the cookeis and bit into one. He found out it was a chocolate chip cookie! He ate another and he even ate the jar. Poor Ormie.

Ormie the Pig

By Hannah McNally

Ormie skipped out of the huge white plane and soard through the clear blue sky. He fell through the grey roof, grabbed the cookie jar and flew gently to the ground. He held the cookie jar by the lid and it fell on his foot!

“Ouch!” Ormie yelled.

Now he was too angry at the cookie jar to eat the cookies. Ormie threw the cookies in the bin!

Ormie the Pig

By Anna

Ormie leaps out of the place and flapped his arms wildly, reaches for the parachute. But oh no! Where was his backpack?!?

Ormaie was falling, falling. He crashes through the roof and keeps falling.

Down, down

He crashed through the first and sectod floor and ends up in his basement.

No cookies.

He wants a rest but he is not going to rest until he gets his cookies.

He goes and gets his car and drives it straight into the fridge. The cookies fall down. He grabs a cookie and is just about to eat it when the jar falls down and gets stuck on his head!

Ormie the Pig

By Soverin

Ormie the silly pig jumps of the shiny white plane. Ormie lands on a caveman’s home, then the caveman gets mad and whacks him!

Then Ormie runs home with ice blades on him and falls into a prickle bush.

“The prickls are sore!”, says Ormie.

He decided to get cakes to eat instead

“I don’t actually like cookes”, says Ormie.

Ormie the Pig

By Vann

The stupid pig jumps out of the plane and crash lands into his pool. He goes to a cave to get a big caveman to smash down the big fridge. The jar then smashes.

The cookies were fake!

Then, the plane crashes into the house.

  

Ormie the Pig

By Harry

Ormie jumped out of the plane wanting to get the cookies. He fell right through the roof. Then, Ormie fell through the floor into a dark cave. Then a caveman found him so he banged him on the head!

When Ormie awoke, he ran for the fridge. Then a dragon came and blew flames on Ormie’s belly. Ormie ran to his swimming pool and cooled himself down.

Then Ormie realized that the dragon had eaten the cookies.

Ormie the Pig

By Lucy Cox

Ormie jumped out of the blue plane very carefully. He parachuted onto a pink and blue seagull. Then landed on top of his red brick roof.

He then got the seagull to fly him up to the top of the fridge to get the cookies for him.

Ormie ordered the seagull to come down with the cookies, but just before the seagull came down, Ormie slipped on a stick. He landed on his back.

Just then the seagull dropped the cookies on Ormie’s tummy. The jar started bouncing on Ormie’s tummy.  Ormie reached out and caught the jar and ate the cookies.

Ormie the Pig

By Xavier

Ormie decided to be a sky diver. He jumped out of the big plane, but missed the cookies in the jar. He got suction cup shoes and climbed the fridge but Ormie got stuck on the fridge…

Ormie the Pig

By Michael

When Ormie jumped out of the plane his string got cut and then he tried to have a safe landing. But he didn’t!

Crash! Bang!

He bashed into the fridge. Then he gobbled the cookies and he felt guilty!

Ormie the Pig

By Danial

Ormie jumps out of the aeroplane and forgot to use his parachute and he lands on an eagle.

Ormie got sick, but he face planted on the ground. He got a stick and started climbing up the fridge.

Finally he got the cookies.

Ormie the Pig

By Nehemiah

Ormie tried to get the jar of cookies. He jumped but it didn’t work. He tried using a slingshot, but he was bad at aiming. He tried to push the fridge over, but bad luck, the fridge was too heavy. He tested his new plan. He pulled his parachute, but missed it and face planted. But Ormie got it finally.

He ate the whole jar without opening the lid. Now, what is he to do?

Ormie the Pig

By Hamish

Ormie somehow got in the white and green and blue plane. How that happened, doesn’t matter.

He jumped out, he was going to pull the cord, but he ate the cord because he was so hungry!

Ormie the Pig

By Anna

Ormie leaps out of the plane and flaps his arms wildly, reaches for the parachute. But where was his backpack?

Ormie was falling, falling! He crashes through the rough roof and keeps falling, down, down. He crashes through the 2^nd and 1^st floor and ends up in his basement. No cookies.

He wants a rest but he is not going to rest until he gets his cookies. He goes and gets his car and drives it straight into the fridge. The cookies fall down. He grabs a cookie and is just about to eat it when the jar falls down and gets stuck on his head

Ormie the Pig

By Keziah

Ormie was getting ready to jump out of the white plane. But back at his house the bomb that he used on the see-saw blew up the fridge. Remember what was on the fridge? The cookies!

The explosion sent the cookies up and up. Ormie dived out of the white plane. He saw the cookies and …he caught them. But just as Ormie was just over his house, he dropped the cookies.

Guess where they landed? They landed on the roof of his blue house. Now what?

Ormie the Pig

By Jessie

Ormie the Pig fell out of the big plane. His hat fell off too. So he tried to get it back.

He fell through the roof and landed in the cookie jar. He ate the cookies but was stuck in the jar. Ormie fell off the fridge and the jar cracked open.

Ormie got up and said, “Yum, yum”.

Ormie the Pig

By Tyler

Ormie is a very clumsy pig. So, he jumped out of the plane.

“Ahhhhhhhhh!” screamed Ormie.

Ormie pulled the cord for the parachute. The parachute jumped off and Ormie was falling down. While falling, Ormie saw a seagull. They played checkers. Then Ormie fell through the roof like a ball of thunder. Ormie tried to grab the cookies. But he missed.

This time, he got a race car with 800hp. Ormied tied a rope to the fridge and pulledd. The cookies fell out. Ormie gobbled them up like a cheetah.

Ormie the Pig

By Brooklyn

Ormie the ferocious pig jumps out of the big plane. He pulls his parachute. It falls apart and he ends up in lots of pain. Ormie swings off a tight rope that didn’t work. He shoots himself out of a mighty canon and boy did it hurt!

He finally gets a ladder to get a cookie. He got one and man it was yummy!

Ormie the Pig

By Morgan

Ormied jumped out of the fast white plane and pulled the string to flap the parachute out. But it flew away and Ormie crashed through the ground.

Ormie the Pig

By Olivia F

Ormie drifted out of the huge plane. But he flew into his neighbours house. Guess whose house it was??? Harry Styles from 1D!

Ormie was flung down into the toilet, but suddenly he was a flying angel He flew up and grabbed the chocolate chip cookies. Then a horrid, terrible dragon ate the angel pig…

Ormie the Pig

By Karim

Ormie fell out of the plane. He fell down and down until – BOOM! Ormie crashed right through the roof and in front of the fridge. He gave up his cookie adventure.

Happy School Holidays

We now need to revel in the holiday break and make the most of mid-winter activities to recharge and enjoy things that are special this season. I know many children have plans with KidsFest or are hoping for more snow to enjoy but it is equally good to just have a few sleep-ins, catch up with friends, watch a movie or read some great books.

Wishing you all a fabulous break and we look forward to you all returning next term, enthusiastic about all the opportunities that the third term will offer. 

Mr. Isherwood



                      DON'T FORGET TO GET READING OVER THE HOLIDAYS!

... a book, graphic novel, comic, magazine,

 diary, e-reader, kindle, journal, audio book,

                 newspaper …

READING TIP

Get Dad involved.
“How often a boy sees his dad read, or not read, will have an enormous impact on him. Many dads need reminders to read and discuss books with their sons.”
(Getting Boys to Read – Mike McQueen, p33)

BOOK SUGGESTION

Skulduggery Pleasant - Death Bringer

“Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yes. And dead. The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death
Bringer, and that's a Good Thing. There's just one catch. There's a reason the Necromancers don't need her any more - because they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And that's a very, very Bad Thing…”