WE'VE STARTED SOMETHING HERE!!!

The children have really caught the 'poetry bug' and have taken off with their writing.
It's hard to believe that this all started with a poem from Elizabeth at INKLESS TALES, barely 2 weeks ago!
BRYCE started the ball rolling and this week, ALISTAIR, LAURA, BEN and BILLEE-JANE have joined him in the spotlight.
LOOK OUT FOR THEIR POEMS IN FOLLOWING POSTS.
WHO WILL BE NEXT?

PLANNING FOR OUR PHOTOSTORIES!

Sometimes when you start something new, it can be scary because you don't know what you need, where to be, what to do or how to do it!
But when you know the routines, then it's easy.
So this term, we have been learning how to 'DO' school... to learn the routines so we can be CONFIDENT and CAPABLE LEARNERS.
We have decided to make PHOTOSTORIES to explain our routines.
Before we can make our Photo
Stories, we have to know what we are doing.
WE HAVE TO HAVE A PLAN!
Here's the PROCEDURE we followed.

1. We listed all our routines.
2. We formed groups of 3 and chose a routine. Each group had a 'Team Leader'.



3. We discussed what the routine looked like. We listened to each other and shared ideas. We took turns and used words like: "That's a good idea" and "What do you think?"

4. We drew up a PLAN showing ALL the STEPS in the routine.

Now we know what photos to take for each PHOTOSTORY and what ORDER to put them in.

Mrs M said each group demonstrated GREAT TEAMWORK.
WE WERE ALL LEADERS AND COLLABORATORS!

BRYCE'S '5' POEM

YOU'VE ALL BEEN PATIENT.... THE WAIT IS OVER!
HERE IT IS, THE FIRST PUBLIC VIEWING OF BRYCE'S FIRST EVER POEM!

FIVE FIREMEN IN THE FIRETRUCK

RACING TO THE FIRE

IN FIVE SECONDS FLAT!

PUTTING OUT THE FIRE WITH FIVE FIRE HOSES

YEAH! THE FIRE'S OUT...

BUT THEY DIDN'T WATER THE ROSES!

WORDS FROM THE AUTHOR:

I got the idea to write a poem from Elizabeth at INKLESS TALES and we had been learning about 5 and I like fire engines.

My poem needs a title. Do you have an idea?

LEAVE A COMMENT WITH YOUR SUGGESTION.

OUR AMAZING NEWS!!

Today we have some amazing news to share... we are SOOOO excited we could BURST!

One of our favourite websites to visit is INKLESS TALES and late last week the editor of this website, Elizabeth Bushey, left a comment on OUR blog!
We thought we were very special when we read her lovely comment left on our DO YOU HAVE TO BE A TEACHER TO TEACH? post. Elizabeth agreed with us that anyone can be a teacher and reminded us that WE CAN DO ANYTHING because we CAN.... we just have to TRY.

We felt like V.I.P.'s because someone from the other side of the world had visited our blog. We looked at Elizabeth's website and realised she was a V.I.P. too- a very clever one at that!

Yesterday when we logged onto the blog, there was another comment from Elizabeth, this time on our POST ABOUT 5. When we read this comment, OUR JAWS DROPPED.... NO WORDS CAME OUT!!!

She'd sent us a poem about 5- and 'unpublished' poem. We couldn't believe that Elizabeth had chosen us to be the FIRST to see it.You can read it, too. CLICK HERE to go to our post ABOUT 5, then go down to the comments.

Now we have to come up with some ideas for a TITLE and some ILLUSTRATIONS to go with the poem. We've never worked with an AUTHOR before. We are EXCITED, AMAZED and PROUD!

We feel really blessed to have Elizabeth help us learn. So we wanted to do something special for her (with just a bit of help from Mrs M!)

HERE IT IS...

We have a new friend, Elizabeth

America is where she's at.

That's a long way

but she's a mouseclick away

WOW... imagine that!

She's a writer and illustrator of stories and poems

and great games and songs too.

We love her website Inkless Tales

There's so much to see, learn and do!

Elizabeth paid a visit to our blog

and left a comment you see.

She agreed with us- we ALL can teach

That's right- even you and me!

Now there's a poem about number 5

We were the first to see it.

Thankyou Elizabeth for choosing us-

we really can't believe it!

The poem we love, we think it's great

It really helps you learn

all about 5 and what it looks like

but now it is our turn.

We learnt from you, you showed us how

We are trying something new

You encouraged us to have a go....

So here's our poem, Elizabeth, to you!

THANKYOU!

We know Mrs M has emailed Elizabeth and there are some exciting things we can do together.... we just wish she lived closer!

There's no one else in our school that has had this happen to them.

WE THINK THIS IS THE BEST YEAR YET...AND IT'S ONLY JUST BEGUN!!!

HOPE YOU LIKE OUR POEM, ELIZABETH. :>)

DO YOU HAVE TO BE A TEACHER TO TEACH?

Today EVERYONE wanted to post or comment to our blog. Look how long our 'sign- up' queues were!

We're glad we had Lauren's Mum and Mrs Duffy to help us.

Lauren's Mum helped us with our comments.
She didn't type for us today - we did the typing OURSELVES!
She taught us how to use the SPACEBAR to put in the spaces between the words.

We learnt how to hold down the SHIFT key when we need to type a CAPITAL letter.

Lauren's Mum also showed

us which key we needed to push if we wanted to use a FULLSTOP.

We took a long time to type, but Lauren's Mum was very patient. She was a great TEACHER.

Bryce, Laura, Johanna, Brooke and Ben worked with Mrs Duffy. They posted their stories. They were proud of themselves because THEY had taught Mrs Duffy how to post.
This got us thinking.... Do you have to be a 'TEACHER' to TEACH?
NO!!!!...we are ALL 'TEACHERS'.

WE had a big discussion about what WE could TEACH others.
Naomi and Kimi are EXPERTS at cartwheels. Jacob said he'd like to learn how to do them and he could TEACH someone how to ride a bike.
But what if you wanted to learn how to draw?... or tie your shoelaces?

Who would you go to?
You now have to think 1M....WHAT AM I GOOD AT? WHAT COULD I TEACH OTHERS HOW TO DO?

Post a comment to let us know how YOU can be a TEACHER.

Parents too.... WHAT COULD YOU TEACH US?