Awesome Adverbs

We are so clever using adverbs.  We understand that they help to describe how something does an action.  We chose our favourite adverb sentence that we had written, illustrated it, and then coloured in the adverbs ourselves.

PE Fun

This term for PE we have been focusing on skills and strategies needed to play Net and Wall Games.

We had to think about finding space and moving into space, hitting or throwing into space, predicting where a ball might go and also work on our aiming and hand-eye and ball coordination!

We learned these skills with and without using rackets.

Imagination Station

Today Team Arawai went to Imagination Station!

Check out our photos from the day below...

The trip was aimed to motivate us to write exciting stories with a character, setting, problem and solution.

We were each given a lego character.  They were the main character in our story.  We had to describe what they looked like.  Then we had to decide what they were feeling and why, where they lived, who was in their family, and what they liked to do.

Next we had to build a setting for our story to take place in.  It could be a dungeon, a castle, in space, a school, the beach, in the forest or anywhere else our imaginations would take us.

With a buddy we shared a problem and a solution that might happen to our character.

Then we worked with a buddy to create a new story together using the characters or settings we had already made.  Some people even shared their finished stories to the group. 
At the end we got half an hour free time in the lego pit to build whatever and with whoever we wanted!

It was so much fun using our imaginations to create stories!

Thanks very much to the parent helpers who came with, and all the others who offered.  Your support is greatly appreciated!