Lovely Literacy

We have been writing our own recounts of The Emperor's New Clothes.

First we started with a group brainstorm and then we did our own flow charts. 

We used pictures and some words to record our ideas.

Over the past 2 days we have been writing our stories.  We used our flow chart to help us and we are trying to remember to use the topic word chart to help us find the extra words we need.

You can ask us about our stories. Ask us to retell you the story or come into the class and look in our writing books.

The Emperor's New Clothes

This week we have read and watched a couple of different versions of the fable "The Emperor's New Clothes".   We have been exploring the characters in the story and what the story could mean.   I wonder what message you think this story is sharing with us???
 

 Here is one of the most popular versions

The Emperor's New Clothes

This week we are exploring the story of The Emperor's New Clothes.  We are looking at this story because we are learning about clothes and fabric.

Today after reading the story we broke up into small groups to write down some of our ideas about how we would describe the Emperor.  We worked so well in our groups and each of us were able to add an idea to our chart.  If you are in our classroom come and have a look at them.

We are learning how to describe characters in a story.  You could ask us about this at home.

Star Wars Hits Silverstream School

Here are a couple of shots from our Star Wars day.
What an amazing effort the children went to in dressing up for the special occasion.  Well done everyone!



 

Surprise for Room 12

Room 12 had an amazing surprise today. Daisy came to school with a large sports bag.  We wondered what on earth could be in her bag!  She kept it a secret till news time and then....... out came.....

                                                                     MOO COW

Daisy had gone to SaveMart over the weekend and found Moo Cow.  She shared with us how she took Moo Cow home and gave it a really good clean and wash.

The Money Man

We had a really fun visit from the ASB Money Man. He talked to use about learning to save our money and think about needs vs wants. He told us the story a little fish.... I wonder who can remember that story? We also talked about the value of money. We put the coins and notes in order.

Class Trip to SaveMart

We had a great time at SaveMart. We found out alot of information about what happens to the clothes that we put in the big blue recycling bins. We were able to track an item of clothing as it travelled from the bin into the storehouse and finally onto the clothing hooks for sale. Ask us about what you can see in the photos.