MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL IN ROOM 13!

Helen and everybody in Room 13 would like to wish all of our friends and family a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Have a safe and relaxing holiday and we look forward to catching up in 2009.

Ka kite ano.

END OF YEAR CELEBRATION

Kahikatea Syndicate had a Chinese New Year festival for our end of year celebrations. For our Inquiry learning this term we have been looking at different cultural celebrations and how they have changed. We chose to have a Chinese dragon parade and shared traditional food to communicate our learning with family and friends.
We had a fantastic evening with lots of yummy food, a wonderful parade and some VERY loud fireworks.
A big thank you to everyone involved - it was a great celebration!

SHAPE POEMS

Room 13 are studying Poetry this term.

Here are some examples of our Concrete (Shape) Poems using ALLITERATION and SIMILES.

Beautiful butterfly
Flying as fast as a plane in a bright blue sky.
She bobs in the breeze like a beautiful blossom
Then floats onto a flower in my backyard.
By Baimon

Glides in the pale moonlight,
Flies in the air high as the stars.
Glittering wings waving in the cool wind
As beautiful as a rainbow.
Dances in the pale white snow.
By Emily

Penguins are as cold as an icy ice block.
Cool and icy.
Cosy like icy wool.
Comfortable as a cosy chimpanzee.
Cold and soft like my cat.
By Paige

Diving deep into the sea,
Dancing in the darkness.
Flipping like a dolphin and bending like a snake.
Attacking whales one by one.
By Max




You can read more by clicking on the link to Room 13's writing 2008 OR you come into Room 13 and read them here - they look much better when you read them with the artwork!