WALT write describing words

Its mouth has a triangle but it has no line at the bottom. Its whiskers are white and long. It's skin is snowy and has some black on its face. Its ears hear from 9 metres away. My cat has spots on its ears, Its eyes are blue like the sea. When I scare it it scratches me with its sharp claws.

We are learning how to catch and pass small balls.

For PE we have been learning how to catch and pass small balls. 

To pass the ball we need to have our hands up in the shape of a W and push the ball out from our chest. To catch the ball we need to have our hands up ready.

We have been showing our school value of Resilience by not giving up.

I am learning to count backwards to solve subtraction problems.

"I am learning to count down. I am proud of myself for doing all the answers. I find it tricky to guess what number it is, sometimes I don't know the number before."

I am learning to answer questions to show my understanding.

"I am learning about answering question. I am proud of myself for being able to answer all the questions because I can read the book so I know the answers. I find it tricky to read some words because i mix up the words like 'and' and 'the'."

I am learning to use describing words

I see fireworks in celebrations. In birthdays we have cake. At halloween I go trick or treating. At christmas I get presents. On Friday it was the schools birthday. I saw a cake. We had party hats.

"I am really proud of my writing because I tried hard to make it look nice and neat. I used the word cards to help me spell the words correctly. Next time I could try even harder to write them neater."

I am learning about fiction and non-fiction texts

"Reading is fun. I can sound out any hard words."
Dylan

I am learning to use my senses to help me with my writing.

In class we have been using the Quiver App on the ipads. First, we coloured in our animal and then we used the ipads to make it come to life. For writing we used some of our senses to help us write about our animal.

"I liked writing about the pukeko because the pukeko looked cute. I can get better at using finger spaces and sounding out some words."

Dylan