Descriptive Writing

The bear is waiting for the salmon. The salmon blasts out of the water like a rocket. The salmon is like an arrow.   By Taine (Yr 2)

Three hungry bears are waiting for some fish. The slippery salmon is jumping into the air. The last one survived.    By Niamh (Yr 1)

The grizzly bears are waiting for the salmon at the waterfall. Some make it but some don't. Some dive and some glide. The bears catch some but not all of them.   by Ellie (Yr 1)

The bears were waiting for the fish at the waterfall. They are at the top. The salmon look like a rolling pin getting launched into the sky. Most of the salmon make it but some don't. The ones that make it lay their eggs.   By Eli  (Yr 2)

Below is Coco's draft writing. (Yr 1)

Descriptive Writing

The eagle looks like an aeroplane as he swoops down to the water. His claws open as he catches a salmon. He makes big splashes.  by Megan

The eagle put out its wings getting ready to get his breakfast. The claws opened up and grabbed a fish, and the claws stabbed into the fish. The water splashed up.  By Portia

The eagle glides to the water. The eagle grabs a couple of fish. The water splashes when he gets the fish.  By Liam

The eagle glides through the sky. It grabs a salmon. The water splashes upwards.  By Taine

The eagle swooped down to have something for lunch. The eagle swooped down to the sea. He grabs the fish and the water goes up in the air.  By Emer

The eagle flaps its wings, it glides through the air to the sea. He swoops down to the fish and the water splashes. He grabs the fish and goes back to his nest.  By Eli

The eagle opens his feet and he grabs the fish.   By Jayden

Fireworks Art

Fireworks Writing

Fireworks twinkle in the sky. Fireworks sound like a balloon popping and like a cannon shooting up into the sky.  By Heidi

                        

The fireworks sound like they are crackling in the sky. The fireworks looks like they are falling down from the sky.  By Ellie 
                       

Fireworks are like booming lightbulbs.  Fireworks glitter onto the ground. Fireworks have beautiful colours. Fireworks pop like balloons.   By Cody

                                                           

Fireworks leap into the air and it explodes like big heavy bombs. They are beautiful colours and the sky looks awesome. They shoot like big bombs in the air. They blast in the sky.   By Reuben 

The fireworks beam into the sky they are glittering. They look like sparklers.   By Hailey

Fireworks sound like bombs shooting into the sky in the nighttime. All the people are cheering for the fireworks.   By Portia

Fireworks are raining showers of gold. They sound like drums. Fireworks are colourful.   By Megan

Fireworks look like shower of gold. They look like sparklers. They sound like balloons popping.   By Niamh

Fireworks sound like thunder. Fireworks looks like exploding lightbulbs.   By Taine

Fireworks wiggle into the night and they sparkle in the night sky. They go around in circles. They sound like “Boom!” and they go turning in the night too. “Boom!”     By Dual

Fireworks booming in the air. Fireworks like drums banging. Fireworks like rain showers. Fireworks lighting up the sky.   By Liam

Fireworks sparks in the sky and come down like raining gold. Fireworks like drums going boom. The sky is lighting up.   By Taraleigh

Fireworks rain showers of gold and it looks like the sparks are going to land on you. Also they boom up into the sky.   By Coco

Fireworks go bang when they’re in the sky and it rains a shower of gold. Rainbows everywhere. It looks like the sun is up.  By Zoe

Fireworks is gun powder. Fireworks looks like guns shooting out a bunch of bullets into the air. Some fireworks look like the eclipse. Some look like bonfires. They shoot into the air.   By Eli

The fireworks look like sparkling in the air. They are colourful and they make showers of  gold. They shine in the air.   By Tahlia

Fireworks blast up in the air. They go pop, pop, popping and they are pretty and colourful. They are beautiful.   By Emer

Fireworks are like booms coming out of space.   By Clifford

Halloween Art Work

Trip Back In Time - 1863

This weekend is Clyde School's 150 year Jubilee.  Today the whole school dressed up in clothes that would have been worn in 1863. The senior school had a school day led by Miss Williams, who ran our "olden days" school day last month.  
Our school photos were taken today in our olden day clothes, which was a special way to mark the 150 year jubilee celebrations.
Tomorrow there is a special assembly, starting at 2pm, for everyone who has attended our school. The weekend is going to be full of fun and and a lot of reminiscing for those who have attended Clyde School over the years.

What do you think to Mr White's olden day costume?  We loved his "bat-winged" cape.  Perhaps he could wear it for halloween next week!

Bubble Writing

During writing time we watched a short film by Gabby Zapata, called 'Bubbles'. 
We decided to retell the story in our own words.  We had to think carefully about sequencing the events correctly.  
You might like to watch the video clip before reading our e-book of bubble stories.   

Click on the e-book below to view our stories

1863 School Day

The junior school went back in time yesterday. We travelled back to 1863 and found out what school life was like.  We experienced what it was like to be in classroom in 1863 and had a visiting teacher "Miss Williams" (Rachel Checketts from Central Museum) take our class.  She was very strict.   We made our own butter and make jam sandwiches which we wrapped up in newspaper.  We played old fashioned games like hopscotch, tag, pass the glove and remember the objects.  

More Snow Farm Photos

Thank you so much to Karla Robinson who supplied most of these snow farm photos.  

Guess the animal

On Monday we read 'Rumble in the Jungle'. We decided to describe our favourite jungle animals. Can you guess what animals we have written about?

Taine's Story

Creative Writing -  “The Day I Turned into ..........:

Year 1 and 2 Cross Country Runners

You can view more photos from all of the Cross Country races by clicking HERE. 

Skating Art

Movement and Position

During Maths this week we have been looking at position words. We have been following and giving instructions that use words like up, down, over, under, through, between, beside and many more.  We hid objects around the classroom and tried to give our buddy instructions that helped them to move around the classroom and find the objects.  We learnt that you need to give really clear instructions so that your buddy is able to find the object that you have hidden.
We also had lots of fun on the adventure playground creating obstacle courses for our buddies to try.  We had to listen carefully to all of the instructions and try to remember where to go.

Maori - Introductions

100 Day Celebrations

100 Day Celebrations

On the last day of Term 2 we celebrated 100 days at school.  We had a PJ day and began our celebrations with a shared breakfast of pancakes, fruit, and toast.  We did lots of counting to 100 in 1's 2's and 10's.  

We thought about what we would like to achieve by the time we are 100 years old and wrote down some of our ideas.  We also created ripped paper collages of what we might look like when we are 100 years old. Click on the pictures below to view our artwork and read our 100 ideas.