Literacy

In Term 4 for writing we are focusing on: Being able to use words used in another time period Taking in information from a story read to us

In Term 4 for reading we are focusing on: The stories "The Gestapo's Most Wanted" and "War Horse" "The Gestapo's Most Wanted "is working on our skills for Comprehension,Vocabulary and finding a way of working out what a word is by reading the sentence before and after the word. The "War Horse"is a fun activity where the Top 6 readers read to a group of 5 or 6 people the story "War Horse".

Here is some of our writing we did in the previous terms!

Person of the future poems.

I am a child I am a thing of my past I am my mum's friendly,loving personality I am my dad's blonde hair I am my Nana's baking skills I am my Grandad's thinking brain

I am all I see My horse trotting around her paddock My cat's friendly purr My dog's outgoing spirit My goat's funny attitude running around our garden

I am all I hear The baaing of my goat and sheep The barking of my dog's The mooing of our 715 cows The neighing of my loving horse And the nagging of my brother

I am all I feel and taste I taste the sweetness of the sweetcorn I feel the emotions inside of me I taste the sweetness of air sinking through my teeth like sinking sand I feel butterflies when I go down the fear fall I taste the nervousness when I speak to an audience

I am all I remember I remember my 6th birthday and going to the zoo. I remember nerves of my first day at Pukekohe Intermediate I remember manners at the table and everywhere else I remember seeing my Nana and Grandad walk through the airport

I am all I have been taught I have been taught how to behave in all enviroments I have been taught my A,B,C's and 1,2,3's I have been taught how to treat others the way i would like to be treated I have been taught how to make everyone else feel confident in what they do I have been taught to trust people that i know, not strangers

I am all I think To be kind and friendly towards others The things that are right and wrong How lucky I am to live in a nice house,with nice friends and family around me To make my mum recover from her sickness

I am all those things I am a tiny seed waiting for the time when one day I will become a colourful flower and grow older everyday

By Lucinda Moore