illustrations tell a story

Last Friday Room 2 and some other classes from our school had a visit from illustrators and writers as part of the storyline festival which aims to bring New Zealand children together with their favourite New Zealand authors. One of the authors that came to speak was Melanie Drewery. Melanie grew up in Coramandel and writes and illustrates fantastic New Zealand stories. You may have heard of her Nani Mihi books. Here is a couple of stories we have read in class. See if you can find some of your own to read.

Here are a couple of the stories we wrote about Itiitis gift

Ittiti didn't know how to weave. She didn't know how to play the guitar, so she tried running up a hill but she still couldn't do it. Then she tried climbing but she couldn't do it. She tried singing and that was her gift.

Carlos

Ittiti was looking for her gift. She tried climbing up a tree. She ran up a hill. She tried weaving but she couldn't do it. She listened to he mum playing the guitar. She was going to cry so she went outside. She sang a song. Everyone heard her voice, it was beautiful. They sang with her.

Cassie

Ittiti was looking for her gift. She tried running and weaving. She did the guitar. She tried climbing and carving until she found her gift, it was singing. All her family came and joined in. Ittiti was good at something. She was proud.

Beau

motoura unit

Room 2 had the amazing oppertunity of visiting the motoura unit of our school. The motoura unit is a special place where children with severe learning disabilities from around Whangaparoa can learn in a stimulating environment. Here are some of the stories we wrote about our visit.

When we went to the motoura unit we saw the people and we saw people with wheel chairs. There was a place which was a disco it had these shining lights. They had to say different things like us.
Olivia

Today we went to visit the lovely children in the motoura unit. They were using a smart board to call the roll by bringing the face to the name.
Kaleb

I went to the amazing motoura unit I have ever seen in the whole wide world. There was amazing kids there. Some had wheel chairs. I didn’t mind. There was a disco.
Helena

Today we went to the motoura unit. It had lots of rooms in their. One was a disco room, one was a quite room. Some people were in wheel chairs. They had to stretch their legs because they can’t walk. Some people had to still stay in the wheel chairs but they had this button so they could talk.
Beau

Today we went to the motoura unit. It was cool. It had a disco room and we went to the quite room.
Kees

Today lovely room 2 went to the cool motoura unit. There were people in fantastic wheel chairs. There was a very quite room. Clayden went in a special time out. We went in the feeling room with disco lights. It was fun watching people exercise.
Holly

Today we went to the cool motoura unit. They were dragining their amazing faces to their name on the smart board. We went to see some lights. Some people were in the sheel chairs and the wheel chairs lay down to have some people doing exercises.
Kaitlin

Today we went to the super motoura unit. It was fun. The people at the motoura unit were on fast wheel chairs. There was a computer they had to drag their pictures to their names.
Cassie

Today we went to the amazing motoura unit to see what they do to do the roll. There was a lovely disco room where they have a story. We went to the place with the people in wheel chairs.
Peyton

Clayden is funny because he says stuff that is funny and he does stuff that is funny. Sometimes he puts funny stuff in his mouth.
Brodie

We went to the cool motoura unit. We sung amazing songs with the children. Tyson was embarrissed.
Elijah

This wonky morning at a red school we went to the individual motoura unit to see what they can do and what they find tricky.
Hee- Yoon

We went to the motoura unit and we saw funny children. For the roll they pulled their names to the line. They had a disco room.
Sam

We went to the motoura unit to see the children because they get to drag their name to their face.
Jessica

At school today we went to the motoura unit. At the motoura unit Brodies brother was there and I saw my friends mum. There were these cfool wheel chairs. I wish I was in the motoura unit just like them
Carlos

The amazing Stu Duval

RedBeach school was very lucky to get the talented childrens writer and illustrator Stu Duval to visit the school. Have a look at the photos!

we're all in this together

This video link has the words and music to the song "We're all in this together" that we are singing in the school production. Let's keep listening and learn the words so we sound FANTASTIC!

We are all in this together!

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Like Peas in a Pod

As part of our oracy we went outside and tasted our sugar snap peas that we planted last term. We then came up with describing words. We wrote stories on our experience with a focus on similes.

A yummy sugar snap pea looks like a long jellybean. It feels yummy.
Elijah

The pea looks like a boat. It feels hard. It tasted yummy.
Brodie

A sugar snap pea looks like a walking slug. The sugar snap pea feels like a hard lolly and it tasted like a juicy jellybean.
Hee- Yoon

A sugar snap pea looks like a smile. A sugar snap pea feels like our skin. A sugar snap pea tastes like a sweet pea.
Peyton

A sugar snap pea looks like a little hard feather fluttering down onto our garden. It tasted like a pea. It feels rrreally smooth.
Carlos

Yesterday we went to go to our garden. We tried our sugar snap peas. A sugar snap pea looks like a face. A sugar snap pea feels like a sticky leaf. A sugar snap pea tastes like a slimy snail. I like sugar snap peas. It was fun to taste the. I always wanted to try a sugar snap pea. I am so happy.
Cassie

A sugar snap pea looks like a leaf. It feels like a soft feather and tastes like a lolly pop.
Helena
Yesterday Mrs. Hartley came to our class to learn about sugar snap peas and it looks like a wet juicy watermelon. It feels like a soft lollypop. It tasted like a fresh sweet apple.
Grace

A sugar snap pea looks like a long jellybean. It felt like a smooth cold sugar snap pea.
Kaleb

A sugar snap pea looks like a head band. It feels like a petal. It tasted like an apple.
Holly

The sugar snap pea looks like a banana. It felt hard. It tasted like sugar.
Kees

The yummy sugar snap pea looks like a canoe and it also looks like a watermelon.
Kaitlin

A sugar snap pea looks like a smiley face. A sugar snap pea is deliciously smooth. A sugar snap pea tastes like a yummy watermelon.
Kaitlin

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