Hope's Māui Post

During literacy this year, some of the students in Room 1's Paua group read the story Maui.   Students were asked to complete a learning task about how an author uses words to paint a picture.  They were then asked to read an article about the Māui dolphins in New Zealand before writing and recording a VLOG post.

Here is Hope's blog post.  Please check out her blog and leave her a comment.

  WALT: Recognise words and phrases that "show" not "tell".
Task description: We read the book Māui and did a task for it, we had to answer questions and see if it is correct. We also did a show don't tell and we had to show what was happening in the picture and create a different picture by showing it in words. We even created our own task to do and it was related to the book Māui.

Leiite: Plot Line

This term, the students in Rm 1 Literacy have been looking at the elements of Plot and familiarising themselves with what a plot line looks like for various types of literacy works.

Here is an example from Leiite's blog.

WALT: Recognise the elements of a plot.

For this week my group and I was working on our Exposition, Rising Actions, Climax, Falling Actions, and Resolution.

Comic Artist Paul Martin Visits PES

Our Team 4 students have been studying Comic Art this term. They have also been looking at the elements used to create a comic/graphic novel in their literacy classes. New Zealand Comic Artist Paul Martin came to spend the day with our students and here is Charles recount of the day.

Has a comic artist been to your school before? On Wednesday the 22nd a special guest came to our school. PAUL MARTIN. We had a art day. He taught me how to sketch and draw better.

As a team He told us that he played for the chiefs. Paul Martin had to come to one of the classrooms the first class he came too is my class room 6. He Told us what should we pick out of background and how to draw anything else. I picked backgrounds. Sabrina gave me are pencil. I went off to a table and drew a background. I drawed space with the planets.  

The teachers had to pick 10 kids in a group to do a session with Paul and I was one of the kids that got chosen. He drawed a kiwi called Kory. Paul made Kory. Some people got his book I wasn't one of them that got a book. The book cost $15. After lunch he had to go. Thank you for coming Paul Martin we all thanked you for helping us and helping me draw better. THANK YOU I hope you come back soon.

WALT: Use capital letters and punctuation correctly.

Kei's Paul Martin Assignment

This term, our team has been looking at Comics and Comic Art.  We are so lucky to have a New Zealand comic artist coming to visit us on Wednesday!  As part of Kei's (click on link to leave her a comment) literacy assignment last week, she read about Paul Martin and created a poster that shows what she learnt about our guest.




This term we are learning about Paul Martin because he is coming to our school. He is coming to look at our blog's to see what we are doing this term and telling how he makes his comic.

WW1 Writing Assignment Projects

Our Literacy Class was given the "Mission" to write and produce a creative presentation with a small group.  We had a lot of fun working on this assignment, and we are very proud of our final products. We look forward to making more creative presentations as the year progresses!

Check out a few of the movies that we created...

World War One from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.