We prepared The Three Bears…..sort of by Yvonne Morrison and Donovan Bixley incase of another lockdown. We enjoyed reading that book so decided to create our own story. Ms Finikin told us the story of The Three Pigs and we kept interrupting, just like the kids in the bears book. It was fun, although Ms Finikin had to fall back on ‘It was magic’ when she couldn’t think of a good enough answer.
Origami
The five-year-olds wanted to do origami – or ‘making stuff with paper’. It turns out Ms Finikin isn’t very good at it and, after making hearts, ice creams, and cupcakes, Leo decided to take over the teaching.
A book mark.
Fire trucks.
An envelope.
Two little dicky birds
We read a poem called Two Little Dicky Birds.
We learned it and learned how to perform it with tape on our fingers.
It is tricky.
Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall.
One named Peter,
the other named Paul.
Fly away, Peter.
Fly away, Paul.
Come back, Peter.
Come back, Paul.
Lockdown Part two
Here is some of our work from the second New Zealand wide lockdown.
Here is an object from Ms Finikin’s house. What could it be used for?
Here are Alex’s ideas.
- It could be used for hammering?.
- Honey stuff
- Battering
- Put sausages in the top thing like a: (deli meat)
- Tying toilet paper
One of the groups got an adult to draw a picture for them. They then had to look at the picture, remember it, and draw it.
Here are the pictures from Caidyn’s bubble.
The younger children are learning to write “Look at ……”
By Aria
By Leo
By Lausi’i
The younger children also worked on writing “Here is….”
By Aria
We drew baby bees.
We drew kiwi.
By Tanu
By Sebastian
By Louis
We drew mice.
We drew cats.
By Leo
We drew Hairy Maclary
By Antonella
We drew dinosaurs.
Caidyn shared this one that he did with his Kete.
We read Number One by Joy Cowley. We drew ghosts like Jill McDonald.
We read No, David! We drew pictures of him.
By Antonella
By Nehan
Leo did a picture for our classroom wall based on David at School.
This is what Ms Finikin says to the five-year-olds a lot.
One group did origami butterflies.
Here are Alex’s butterflies.
Here is Alex’s cup.
Alex drew ‘Winnie-the-Poop’
Here is a pirate ship.
Kareem-Lamarr drew his family as superheroes.
Leo wrote about what he likes.
The older ESOL group is working on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.
We looked at how speed can be shown with speed lines.
We attempted our own drawings of speed.
By Tanu
By Emily
Here is Emily’s picture of the highwayman.
Here is Tanu’s picture of Tim, the ostler.
Here is Kian’s picture.
Here is Emily’s picture.
He did not come in the dawning.
By Kian
By Emily
He did not come at noon.
By Kian
By Emily
By Tanu
Copy this shape and complete it. It is not a cat.
By Alex D
We then asked questions where the answer was what we drew.
1/ Who is that yellow Pokémon with the red cheeks? Pikachu
2/ Who is Ash’s Pokémon? Pikachu
3/ Who can do electricity? Pikachu
4/ Who has a cute nose? Pikachu
5/ Who can say ‘Pika pika’? Pikachu
Alex then answered what D could be, if not a capital d.
My 5 things about the D:
- Can be a tunnel / cave if flipped over
- Happy Mouth if flipped
- Half a ladybug
- Cup
- Bag
- Bouncy Castle
- Flipped over Tongue
- Leg
We created teddies and monsters to put in our windows at home.
Here are our stories from our winter holidays. We were in Week 4 of the term when we went in to Lockdown and Week 7 when we came out. This time was not so long as 2020, but we will still be pleased to see our friends kanohi ki te kanohi.
Clothing
We were studying different countries. We looked at where we came from. We drew costumes from our countries and wrote about them.
Flags
The school is learning about the Olympics. Leon wrote about which flags he can make in Mine Craft.
Our stories
Here are a couple of stories from the junior ESOL group.
Alphabets
As a part of our work around our world, we looked at examples of alphabet samplers. We made our own samplers (on paper) of the alphabets from our home languages. We recorded them.
Nepalese
Africaans
Korean
Indonesian
Spanish
Why we came to New Zealand
The school is finding out about our world. One of the things we found out about in ESOL is why our families came to New Zealand.
My dad came to New Zealand in 2003 to study English in Auckland. My mum came to New Zealand in 2006 to visit my Grandpa Carlos in Palmerston North. My mum and dad met in 2007 in Palmerston North.
– Sebastian
My family came to New Zealand because we wanted a better life. In South Africa we couldn’t even walk to school, it is so dangerous. It took us three days and four flights to New Zealand. In New Zealand it’s so safe, it is the best thing that has happened in my life except that all of my friends and family are still in South Africa. My dad came to New Zealand first because he got a job, and one of his friends was there so he stayed at his friend’s house. He got a car from his job for free. When we got to New Zealand we started to cry from the happiness, we hadn’t seen him for a very long time.
– Rénali
My family came to New Zealand because my dad wanted to have a job. Right now he is doing a PHD with dairy stuff. My dad thought it would’ve been better if he was working here instead of Korea. If my dad finishes his PHD my dad is planning to have a job here. We don’t have any plans to go back to Korea but we might go back. I kind of want to go back to Korea because of my family but I don’t want to go to school in Korea because it is too, too hard. I don’t really mind if we go back to Korea because I like New Zealand and Korea.
-Emily
My family came to New Zealand because my mum wanted a good life for me and my sisters and nephew. And my dad was in New Zealand and we wanted to come and see him. We did not see him for a long time. And we came to New Zealand. And it was fun. When I saw my dad for the first time in a long time, I was so excited.
-Milyn
My family came to New Zealand because my mom needs to work for a PHD in Massey University. She was trying to find a country that is nice to learn in and most educated. She asked me if I wanted to choose Australia or New Zealand. I chose Australia, but my mom didn’t get the scholarship. I had to go to New Zealand. That’s why.
-Tanu
My family came to New Zealand because it is a safe place. My dad also wanted to come here because the school is better.I’m also very happy here and my dad is also very happy for me. And I think my family and I are happy.
-Kian
My family came to New Zealand because it is safe. We came from Nepal. I went to Nepal for a month. It was beautiful but New Zealand is safer. I like New Zealand because my friends are here. We have a community here – over a hundred families. Most of my family are in New Zealand. I am happy because I live here in New Zealand.
-Daniel
Lausi’i’s ships
On Wednesday we read a book about pirates. Lausi’i really liked the idea of pirates and their ships. He enjoyed drawing a ship after writing his story. The next day he decided to continue his picture.
