When Charlotte brought a ladybug to ESOL last week we talked about it and found out we can’t keep them as pets because they eat aphids and we don’t know where to find them. We read This Little Critter by Greg Banks. We drew pictures of critters and wrote about them.

Our whole school was involved in the EOTC  week (Education Outside of The Classroom). We did many exciting things during the week and some of us didn’t get to come to ESOL because we were too busy. On the Friday everyone went to Masterton. It took nine buses to fit the whole school. It was a great day out. One family missed out on the week because they had to go to their aunt’s funeral in Auckland. Our sympathies to them and their extended family. Here we are reading our stories about the best part of the week for us.

One of the Hokowhitu School parents noticed we didn’t have a Sri Lankan flag for our wall so gave us one as a gift. We were so happy to receive it.

We read “The Best Cake” and “A Birthday Cake for Ben” by Beverley Randell. We talked about cake and looked at pictures of cakes. We drew our favourite types of cake then read out our statements.

We have had a busy start to the year here at school so it has taken a while to get this up. Here are some of our stories from our holiday adventures.

We used the textless book Puppy Trouble by Joy Cowley to write stories over several days.
Then we recorded them. The whole process took a long time. We did some good work.

We made pictures using shapes. We learned the names of shapes and discovered the colour has to go before it when describing.

Here are the holiday stories from the two upper groups.

It’s Chinese Language Week. Here we are sharing some words with you.

Our friends from TKT shared their Chinese language poster with us.

‘Sonic’ has written about sharing Autumn festival with his family. I hope he has nice moon cake, not the one with egg in it.

We watched a GIF of We Bare Bears. Ice Bear accidentally removed some of Grizz’ fur.
Panda and Ice pretended the fur was other things. We did this, too. Here are some of our responses.