Te Kohanga 2017

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As the flower gleams and glows, it spreads its nectar across the yellow horizon. It lights up the garden with its green surroundings. The leaves shine and shimmer in the light, as the leave's veins spread like a disease from the sides, top and bottom. With little bulbs that are oval in a blanket of green bloom. They grow hair like thorns. Author: Brooke

I believe we got the best photo ever, the piercing orange, yellow and black, sunny flower.  We could not look away from the beautifully placed flower. The water drips slowly like the rain drooling from the sky. The flower slowly starting to die. I was sad as it got darker and darker until it was as dark as a shadow, red veins fade. As the black inner warps the outside got uglier and uglier and uglier until I did not want to look at it as it started to look like it was sad. We started to head back to the classroom disappointed as I lost all hope for the formerly beautiful flower. We went back to our other learning. The flower was soon forgotten by us.

Old Lady Description Written By Melissa The ladies speckled blue eyes are pleading for help. Long heavy clothes droop down, forcing her to lean to a side. Her face is as shriveled as a dry raisin. Her faded lips look like they have been stuck together with glue. The joy in the children's faces digs hope into her worried eyes. Darkness folds over her as the wind pulls strands of hair out of her scarf. Night, has come and families are making their way into their warm, cozy homes. She folds herself up in her jackets and leans against the building wall. The lady looks away, closes her eyes and goes to sleep.

Spring writing It is spring the flowers are blooming. The sun is shining bright. There are all sorts of different  colors like white, pike, purple, orange and green. The flowers are slowly opening in the sun light morning. The bees are pollinating the soft wave flowers. The dirt is as brown as a tree stump.

The spring flower Flowers blooming into action as if they were racing to get the most sunlight. Buds opening and waiting for the pollination to begin, bzzzzz dozens of bees start pollinating speeding to any flower they could get to. Flow ers that grow on trees have been crowded by bees and now it is time for them to move to the ground and begin more pollination. The bees have now finished and are moving on to new areas and the ground is as bright and colourful as a rainbow and so are the trees this is spring.

Blossoms, green leaves sway in the spring breeze, blue skies like to rise. Delicate white chocolate like petals, dance down to the luscious green grass. Springs freshness spreads through the air. Pollen everywhere. Yellow sprinkles all over the flower. Buds just about to bloom. Flowers as soft as silk. SPRING IS HERE!!!!

Yellow and red and orange All bursts out at me like it is on fire. It  is escaping from under the plants.

Spring is here. Delicate petals gracefully land onto the luscious green grass. A cool Springs breeze spreads through the air. Buds are about to bloom and bumble bees collect pollen. Light blue sky surrounds the blossom trees creating a beautiful scene.

An old lady's life As her old wrinkles, stretch across her face like an elastic band, dead inside. Her pure blue eyes can tell you one million ancient stories of her younger life. Her brown lips sink in like someone falling into a deep navy ocean and never coming back. By Holly

The Brush Bot “Buzz, buzz, vvv!” The robot rumbles as it springs to life. “Hooray!” I say as the bristly brush bot ventures around its most recently found landscape. Nate and I beam with thorough excitement at the bobbly invention like dogs meeting a new friend. The dry stalks of the brush slip along the smooth surface of the table slowly maneuvering along. I am very curious to where the brush bot unknown destination will be… PLONK! It topples over like Jenga “No!” I shout as my veins nearly burst with frustration. And of course after all of this we have to do it again, “AHH!!”. Written by Murdoch

Brush Bot Tuesday 29th of August Today in our class we had to create things called brush bots and they can somehow make masterpieces of art pffff as if. But once we got all our resources and made it, it was making squiggles of blue, yellow, red, and green paint. For the brush bot it's probably having the time of its life slip'n'sliding all over the piece of paper. The end result ehh not as me and kaden thought it would turn out, but at least it was a really fun thing to make . When we tried to pick it up, it's vibration wasn't as effective as it was before, we washed it and destroyed it! By Carter

We are learning how to plan collaboratively and share our thinking with others. After we have completed a 'smack down, brain dump' we will then be able to use our ideas and others to help create a descriptive short story. Group One Group Two Group Three Group Four Group Five

In a workshop today we focused on using rich engaging language to add impact for our reader. Below are the images that we used for impact.