Instructional writing: playdough.

Instructional Writing: How to make playdough.

Room 7 Shared Class Book

Introduce the book. Tell about the book, but don’t give away the ending! 
Riley Mitchell is nearly 14 years old. He is a popular guy, funny and confident. The only problem is that he is really, really short. In fact Riley is pygmy-sized. Usually this doesn’t bother him. After all, it didn’t stop him from going out with one of the most popular girls in school and being best friends with Karl and Alex, two sporty types who also happen to make excellent bodyguards. But things seem to be going pear-shaped lately. Kelly isn’t talking to him and he has no idea why. Vince McGerk, the school bully, won’t stop hassling him about his diminutive stature, and now Riley has had enough.


Tell about your favorite part of the book or make a connection. 
This book has many funny things happen. A couple of these are Riley walking into a girls only class and he enters the Mister Puny-verses contest and gets to kiss Mrs New Zealand.


Give a recommendation (e.g., If you like…, you will love this
If you are a young active student who enjoys funny books then this is the story for you.

The survival of the sea turtle - Scott Gass

Sea Turtles: This is what we have based our explanation writing on. Have a look. What do you think?
Check out the kids blogs for their fantastic explanations, coming soon.

Multiplication Grid

Dog safety Y5-8 with Peaches and Mr Beefy the Bulldogs.

Taking advantage of the sunny day with a game of Ki-O-Rahi.

Art and music make a great day

PV MULTIPLICATION

The year 5/6 syndicate have been rewarded today with a tech hour. They have shown kindness to each other and the staff at SPS this week. They can use all the technology resources in the school Chromebooks, Ipads , Romo and Lego programming. Here are some pictures throughout the syndicate.

Maths Problem For You:

Eleven Plus Two

Rearrange the letters in the word equation above to make another word equation with the same value.

Ratu te rua tekau ma toru O Pipiri

LG:To create a school mihi

my mihi

Kia ora koutou katoa

Greetings to all

Ko Jai toku

My name is Jai

Ko paula taku ingoa

Ko toku Paula mama

Ko Mark toku papa

My father is Mark

No whakaahurangi ahau

I am from Stratford

Tekau aku tau

I am 10 years old

Ko matua Geoffrey te kaiako

My teacher is Geoffrey

No te whanau ruma ono ahau

I am from the 5 and 6 team

Ko matua  David te tumuaki o takakura

David is the principal of my school

No reira e te whanau ka nui te mihi

Therefore an extended greetings to our school family

Tena koutou tena koutou tena tatou katoa

Greetings, greetings, greetings to us all  

By Jai Hasyton

Ratu Te tekau ma ono Pipiri

(Tuesday 16 June)

l.G: To prepare a mihi.

SOS: Write in Te Reo

Know where we come from

KO Taranaki te maunga.

Ko Patea te awa.

Ko Crawford te iwi.

Ko Dylan taku ingoa.                       

Tena koutou,tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.

By Dylan Crawford

LG:To be able to persuade others to our point-of-view through writing

SOS:Hook in the audience.

Use persuasive sentence starters and words.

To Mr Dingle

In my opinion reading is making all our lives miserable. Drawing is fun more interesting and way more awesome.  

99% of us love drawing the remaining 1% likes reading. That 1% is you Mr Dingle! We all know that drawing is way better.

I believe we read enough during the day. In the majority of all our subject we read and it's not fun !

Finally, Mr Dingle it would mean the world if you let us draw instead of reading. I know you like drawing. We do to! Why don't you let us draw instead of reading.

by Adelaide Petrie

LG:To be able to persuade others to our point-of-view through writing

SOS:Hook in the audience.

Use persuasive sentence starters and words.

STOP LITTERING!!!

Pak ‘N’ Save in my opinion rubbish is everywhere. It is not just on the ground but it is deep, deep down in the soil.

Did you know that in a year hundreds of people have littered plastic bags everywhere. This clearly shows that we need to step up and stop littering.

I strongly believe that if plastic bags are banned then we wont have animals dying and suffering of rubbish being around their necks and in their bellies.

I believe that we should put a stop to littering. It is really bad for our environment and can kill many wildlife species.We should put a stop to littering right now.

By Brianna Jury.

LG:To be able to persuade others to our point-of-view through writing

SOS:Hook in the audience.

Use persuasive sentence starters and words.

Rules, Rules, Rules?

Rules, rules, rules why do we need them? There is a new rule that clearly states that SPS students need to be home by 7 pm. This makes me mad! We should not have to be home by 7 pm.

I strongly disagree with this rule because if you went to a family party you wouldn't be able to stay because it will go past 7 pm. Whats the point of even going then?

In my opinion, you won't be able to go to your own team practice. Your coach works through the day and finishes at night.There will be no time to do practice before 7 pm and that won't be any fun.

lastly, you wouldn't  be able to go to your dad's rugby.My dad is my role model I shouldn't have to miss out on that. This shouldn't happen to us if I was in charge I wouldn't do this to you.

I hope my advice has persuaded you that we should not be home by 7 pm.

by Masyn Austin