Literacy

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 For Reading we have buddied up with the junior room, this has provided us with the   opportunity to practise our oral skills to a buddy and for them to do the same. It is also a great leadership opportunity for the seniors. In week four we also used our buddy as our audience for our writing, they loved the poems and short stories that we wrote for them. To do this we had to think about our audience and what they would find good in a story - some of these things were exciting titles, interesting verbs, detail and description. media type="custom" key="21460486"

In Writing this term we have begun writing for an audience. We made our own success criteria for our holiday recounts by asking our audience what they think makes a good story. Some of these things were exciting titles, interesting verbs, lots of detail and descriptive language and a hook in the first paragraph.

media type="custom" key="21338466" Here are some example of our brilliant end products:

** Roads to nowhere ** It was dark and bone chilling we couldn't find our way back we were lost on this road to nowhere.But I'm getting ahead of myself let me start at the beginning.

It was a cold spring night me and my older cousin were sitting inside watching a horror movie, when we decided to go for a walk to my house. (Luckily her dad was my neighbour)As we were striding step by step my house seemed further and further away and more impossible to reach. I felt a bone shaking chill creep up my spine as the night got more and more freezing.

We had thought about going back but when we spun around we realized we had pasted my driveway and were now in the middle of the street. In the near distance we could see the light from my house, without waiting I had taken off whizzing towards my house and out of the cold. I was almost halfway there when I realised that my cousin was still standing in the cold.I raced back at full speed.

After what felt like hours we had finally gotten back. We study the time to see how long we had been gone, it turns out we had only been gone for literally minutes. We warmed up by the roaring fire as we decided to never got for a walk at ten o'clock at night without a flash light ever again

By Leanthra Moore

Bang! Bang! Die stupid Grunts die! Oi! Don’t shoot at me I’m supposed to shoot at you. This was me most of the holidays. Teaching silly grunts not to come near me On the outskirts of a sandy beach on Halo III. Halo III is an Xbox 360 game for those of you that don’t have a clue about What I’m talking about. Just think, Me with an Xbox controller in my hand killing grunts with multiple different weapons But the main weapon being a magnum (Pistol). Nothing left of the silly grunts. Half way through the quest, Grunts appear out of know where trying to annihilate me. Finally I have completed the quest time for the next quest, quest after quests completed until I have to get off my Xbox. Grunts are dead, My squadrons safe, so for now I shall rest until the grunts want to die again..
 * __Shoot, Shoot, Die.__ **

By Logan

This term for **Reading** we are applying our reading comprehension strategies to non-fiction texts. Our Questioning Skills

Congratulations Amba for winning our Speech Competition and to every one who gave it their best shot. We had some fabulous speeches and some very interesting topics. Awesome work room 2!!

For **Reading** we have been skimming, scanning and summarising the history of Oroua Downs for our Tile projects. media type="custom" key="20479830"

For **writing ** at the moment we are writing persuasive and argumentative texts for or against windmills. Here is some of the research we have been looking at:

How windmills work

Are windmills safe?

Windmills in the ocean

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Te Manaaki Cluster March Survey