Week 3

Writing our newspapers
We started writing our own newspaper page by writing an advertisement for a holiday destination of our choice. We were focusing on painting a picture in the reader's mind, making it believable, using interesting vocabulary. Some of the destinations included: Africa, Tokyo, Islands, Hawaii, Taupo, Egypt and Rotorua.

Aquagym
We went to swimming lessons at Aquagym every day this week. Each class goes at a different time. We love practicing freestyle and getting more confident in the water. It is very tiring for us all!

Novel
We are reading an awesome novel called 'The Mysterious Benedict Society'. It keeps us hooked in because it's mysterious and it paints really good pictures in our minds. Miss Falkner always stops reading at really interesting bits!

Starting our mixed media art portraits
We are about to start a mixed media portrait of ourselves, based on an A3 photo. We are using crayon, paint, pastel and collage. We will work on these next week.

Dance
Last Friday we started Dance! We had to make frozen pictures with our bodies, like 'tableaus'. We had to put our frozen pictures together and make a new picture.

The best thing about being in Room 27 is...
The teacher! - Robert D
The outstanding classmates. - Owen
Spending time with Miss Falkner and her beautiful face. - Isaac
We get to do lots of writing. -Triny
Learning lots. - Kristal
Easy homework. - Brad
Being buddies for the New Entrants. - Piper
The writing that Miss Falkner gives us is really fun. - Estella
Sumdog! - Ella
Spending time with the awesome kids! - Miss F