12 May 2019

Adding detail to our writing




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We are continuing to work on adding descriptive detail and interesting words to our writing to create a picture for our readers. 

Here is some of our writing:


The seal is on the ice. The sea looks bumpy like it is going to freeze. The water looks like jelly.


By Zoë


The seal is white like the ice and cute like a puppy. She is waiting for her mother to come. Her eyes are black.


By Rosina


The seal is on the ice and it is looking around for its mum. The mum came back to the baby seal. The mum brought their food.


By Reijeli


The cute baby seal is resting on the snow. The sea looks like jelly and the seal is camouflaging into the snow and it is adorable.


By Safwaan


I am in Antarctica. I see a furry seal. It is on an iceberg. The sea looks solemn. It looks like it is going to freeze.


By Edward


The little seal is fluffy. It is waiting for its mother and father. They are getting some fish for the little seal.


By Max

We are writers

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We are working on making our writing interesting for our readers. Adding descriptive detail and interesting words helps to create a picture in our readers' minds. 

This week we had a close look at this picture and talked about how we could write about it in a way that would be interesting for our readers. We all agreed that it would be very boring if we just said "The bird is flying."

Here is some of our writing:

There is a hawk above the river. The river is flowing over a jungle with steep rushing mountains through the jungle.

By Zoë

The hawk is swooping. There is a river flowing over a jungle with steep hills.

By Cooper

There is a hawk flying in the sky. It is a beautiful hawk in the sky.

By Malia

I can see a hawk up in the sky and the mountains and there are little trees and big trees and big mountains and little mountains.

By Rosina

There is a hawk in the sky. There is a beautiful garden. There is a beautiful swirling river. There are mountains.

By Vai

I can see a hawk and I can see a tree and I can see mountains. The trees are tall and I can see a river.

By Reijeli

The hawk is floating over the mountains and the river is green.

By Olivia

The hawk is flying high and there is a green river.

By Lucian

I can see hawks. The hawks are swooping to find their home where the trees are.

By Aryan

The hawk is swooping. There is a river flowing, rushing through a beautiful jungle.

By Ali

I saw a hawk gliding. The hawk swooped down on me.

By Beau

The water is rushing in the river. I am on the most powerful eagle. It is not for fun. The eagle is a bus for special people. There are rocks and trees.

By Edward

The hawk is swooping over a river and it is also going over a jungle.

By Max

09 May 2019

Autumn leaves

We are really lucky to have many beautiful trees on our school grounds. At the moment some of them have lovely Autumn colours. 

There are also lots of leaves of all different shapes and colours falling onto the ground. These are lots of fun to play with!




We have been investigating why some leaves change colour and fall off the trees. 
Here is some of our writing:

I saw a leaf in the basket. It was yellow.

By TJ

One time I saw a leaf fall off the tree. It was red. I picked it up.

By Ari

The leaf fell down because it got old. That is why it fell down. It looked green and red.

By Hunter

I saw a big leaf in the basket.

By Hassan

At Autumn the leaves fall down from the tree.

By Cooper

I saw a leaf and my sister saw a leaf. Me and my sister played with the leaves.

By Jashneel
The evergreen trees keep their leaves. They stay on the tree. Sometimes the leaves turn colour and fall off the tree.

By Rosina


Why do trees lose their leaves? The leaf comes off because it has a separation layer. Why do leaves go red and yellow? Because the leaf has red and yellow in it and the green goes away.

By Vai

Why do trees lose their leaves? Because they fall down. Do all trees lose their leaves? No, but they get pretty leaf colours.

By Reijeli

Why do trees lose their leaves? Because the trees make a separation layer. All trees don’t lose their leaves because there are two special types. Deciduous and evergreen.

By Safwaan

I learned about leaves. They can be purple and I like the purple leaves because they are so cool.

By Ali
The leaves fall down to the ground because it is almost winter.

By Dezariah

I am talking about deciduous trees and evergreen trees. Deciduous trees lose their leaves.

By Beau

Hi, I am talking about leaves. There are deciduous and evergreen trees. What happens is when the leaves are green they have yellow inside.

By Edward

We have been learning about leaves. The ones that are always green are called evergreen. The other ones are called deciduous.

By Max

The leaves fall off the trees.

By Zach

The leaves have colours and the trees make colours and the wind blows the leaves off the trees.

By Olivia


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