Writing

STUDENT TARGETS I am able to: * record thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly * demonstrate a deliberate choice of language features * use a wide range of sentence beginnings and length * shape ideas for effect * use a wide range of vocabulary. Poetry We have been reading poems and studying poetry as a writing style. We have noticed that poetry has a different structure from prose. We have been experimenting with different structures for our poems.

Freezing, foggy, frosty chilly morning. Spiky grass like porcupine quills and as cold as the Antarctic. Hailing in a thunder storm with lightening. Freezing, shivering can’t see anything. The water in the troughs is frozen I can skate on it. //By Cameron //

Blowing, blizzards, breezing, bleak skys. Howling withering winds, surrounding trees like a army of leaves. Fog and frost round in a circle. No jackets on the trees. Its nippy like a tree has a cold. It feels as frosty like I’m frozen in the teal blue shivering ice. Winter trees calling for help in the bitter cold winter looking for somewhere to go. I look for somewhere blazing, toasty and peppery. //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">By Monique //

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The blistering winter sky blows. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The leaf-less trees sway side to side. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">All the grass has frozen as the winter goes by. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The rain is not very kind. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The wind whispers as it goes through the branches of the leaf-less trees. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The bird bath has gone icy. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">My cat’s hairs have stuck up and got frozen. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">As I touch my cat it feels like a hedgehog covered in swords. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The bleak branch scratches my window as I sleep.

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">By Jasmine //

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 300%;">Descriptive Writing We tried to paint a picture with our words about our favourite place. We wanted to use a wide range of vocabulary and language features. Mount Egmont
 * Snow capped mountain watches over the gentle waves in the sea. Rustling in the night are the skeleton pirates, reflecting off the clear blue sea. ** ** By Patricio **


 * Wearing a white snowy hat of icicles, Mount Egmont stands straight and tall like a proud, honest king. Sculptured skeletons of tangled and dangled wire are trees with stiff hands. **
 * By Michael **

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<span style="color: #00ff0b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 300%;">Narritive Writing <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Cameron's story was written for the Waikato Altrusa Story Writing competition- Level Two

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">If I Could Fly an Airplane <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">If I could fly an airplane, I would be the pilot of the school plane. Every day I would pick all the children from their houses in the school plane and deliver them to the Tauhei School. One of my tasks is to lower a harness and the children would put it on and I would press a button to winch them up into the plane. Flying them back to school makes me feel happy. When I land they will get off, I will say “Goodbye, I’ll see you later”. I will fly and pick the other children up and take them to school. I’ll park the plane in a special shed called a hanger. Then I go to school because I am a pilot and a teacher. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">As well as learning to read and write and do Maths, the children at my school have parachute lessons. At play time I do loop de loops and do lots of tricks to keep the children entertained. When the bell rings I park up my airplane then I go and to start teaching again. When the bell goes, I finish teaching then send the students to lunch so I can have my lunch and have a quick read of my latest planes magazine. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">After school when I drop the children off, they will parachute to their house. After all my students are safely returned to their homes, I will fly back to my home to study about planes because in the holidays I build planes.