Polar Bear - Descriptive Writing

The enormous polar bear walks along the ice. The polar bear falls in the freezing water. He struggles to get out. He finally gets out.             By Liam

The wet polar bear slides on the winter ice. Then whoops-a-daisy the polar bear falls into the water and then he tries to survive and he made it out.      By Heidi

The massive, heavy polar bear walks along the ice. It slips along the ice and the polar bears front legs fall into the cold icy water.     by Niamh

The polar bear is on the thin ice and he falls in the cold water because the ice cracks.  He struggles to get out at first but he manages to do it.    By Megan

The heavy polar bear walks across the fragile ice. The bear gets an icy surprise. His front legs fall in, his back legs fall in and his body falls in. He struggles to get out of the freezing, icy water and he gets to land.       By Eli

What we have learnt about bees

On Monday, Claire and Peter Kitto visited the junior school to share a glass bee hive with us. Click on the book to read our observations and things that we learnt.

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 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

Learning to Fly

We have been using pictures from 'Storybird' to inspire our writing.
Here is Tahlia's story about a little girl who learns to fly.

Megan's Draft Writing

A Haunted House

Today we used a photo of an old run-down house as inspiration for writing.  Click on the book below to read some of the stories.

Halloween Writing

After shared writing today we used some of the halloween pictures as inspiration for our own writing.  Niamh, Dual, Taraleigh and Eli's writing has been published in the book below, along with the picture that inspired their writing.

Shared Writing

Today we learnt about the origins of halloween.  Using a website called 'Storybird' we wrote a story together that was inspired by some cool halloween pictures.

How the Kiwi Lost His Wings

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

Jayden's Rainbow Poem

Megan's Spring Writing

Liam's Spring Writing

Spring is awesome.  Bees can surface.  They collect nectar from the flowers.  I can smell fresh grass.  I can can smell blossom on the tree.  Bulbs come to the surface.  Spring is the best.  Baby lambs, birds tweet, spring is wonderful.

School in 1863

In 1863 school was different to today.  We have written about some of the things we learnt on our 'Old School Day'.

In 1863 school was different.  When the bell rang we had to line up and we had to walk around the netball court back to our teacher.
By Heidi
We played hopscotch.  At night the potty was cold.  A potty is the toilet.   By Megan
School in 1863 was different.  They had the cane.  The used it for waking people on the bottom.  The toilet was different.  By Eli
Yesterday we made our classroom like it was 1863.  I wore bare feet.  Miss Williams was really strict because she had a cane. In the 1863 the rode on horse back to school.   By Cody
We played hopscotch and pass the glove.  In 1863 the teacher came to school with a cane.  By Liam
In 1863 school was different because they had a cane.  When the bell rang the boys and girls had to line up to check their nails.
By Emer
In 1863 school was different.  If you called out you would get the cane.  When the bell rang you had to walk around the netball court. By Reuben
The tables were lined up.  We needed to line up in lines.  There was a girls line and a boys line.    By Niamh
In 1863 school was different.  When the kids were naughty they got the cane.  By Hailey
In the 1860's everything was different.  You would get the cane if you were naughty.  By Taine
In 1863 school was awesome.  Miss Williams brought a cane and she was tricking us.   By Jayden

My Marvellous Dad

We listened to a story called My Dad is Brilliant, written by Nick Butterworth.  We decided to write about our own Dads.  We made our Dads their own special Fathers Day book, telling them all the things we love about them.  You can read about our Marvellous Dads by clicking on the book below.

Coco's Writing - 1863 School Day

1863 School Day Writing by Heidi

Megan's Story

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

During writing time we imagined what it might be like to turn into someone or something else.  Next, we created pictures using Kidpix, google images, and our interactive whiteboard to combine the images.  Lastly we wrote stories to accompany our pictures.  We hope you enjoy listening to our stories.