My Bible Reading

00031 from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.

Mystery Creek

There was a jail at mystery creek. In their a door was pad lock bat one of were open  

Springs

Porter Springs Speech from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.

Alison Shanks

Alison Shanks came to our school a few days a go.We 

Matariki

Matariki Report

Porter Matariki from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.

The seven stars.

Once there lived seven men.They were the strongest men in the village.There were seven wicked ladies in a forest close to the village.
One evening, they went for a big walk. They heard someone walking towards them.They got their sticks out, but it was just seven ladies. The seven ladies bent down and swished their hands at the men. The youngest brother turned into a kereru, and it put a net over the ladies. It took the netful of ladies into the sky and there, the ladies  turned  into the Matariki stars.     

The Wood Pigeon

Peter and Hunter liked going to the forest because it took only one minute to walk there from their house. They liked hearing the forest birds singing. 

One evening, in spring, they waned to for a walk. They decided to walk to the forest. They walk higher and higher. They saw high kauri trees. They smelt wild flowers They heard birds singing. After a while they heard wolves chasing after then a hunter cried, “wolf wolf!” They ran as the fast as they could into deep bush where the wolf couldn't find them. They kept on going until they heard their mum and dad calling, Peter!" Hunter!." They ran to their mum and dad. They hugged then they ran home.

A Brilliant Idea

WALT make up a story about a Pet Day problem.

WWBSWW:

• Begin with an orientation to tell the reader who, did what, where and when.

“Pet Day will be on Friday,” Miss Anderson, Tom’s teacher, announced to the class on Monday. “Bring your pet to school and tell us about it, then we will have a pet parade.”

Tom was so excited. He would be able to bring Harry to school to 

show everyone.

• Write the events leading up to the problem.

At the end of the day, he ran all the way home to get his pet ready for Friday.

He loved Harry and had wanted to show his friends for a long time, but his mum and dad had told him that Harry must never leave the house; but, now, his

teacher had given him permission to bring it to school.

Smilingly, he polished Harry’s green silky skin, talking to it with his friendly voice. “You’re allowed to come to school, Harry. You can meet my friends and my friends can meet you.”

As soon as Friday came around, Tom carefully took Harry out of its cage and placed him into his black backpack. He couldn’t wait to get to school, so he ran

all the way.

When the bell rang, he and the rest of the class stepped into the 

classroom.

• Write the problem.

Tom opened his backpack to show his friends what he had brought to school for Pet Day.

“It’s a green, slippery, slimey …...................” he said slowly. “Snake!” he 

shouted.

“Tom Denver, give me that thing right now!” Miss Anderson 

commanded.

Tom opened his hand to pass it over, but, at that moment, naughty Billy Burton lunged to grab it himself. He bumped Tom’s shoulder and Tom hurtled forward, the snake flying out of his hand to the back of the classroom.

“Eeeeeee! Where is it?” squealed Miss Anderson.

Chaos threatened in Room 4.  Children jumped up and ran around, screeching

their lungs out and pushing over chairs and desks, trying to find Tom’s snake.

• Write the events to tell your readers how the problem was solved.

The snake was loose because Billy had been naughty.

Tom was trying to think but the children were loud.

He said, “Shhh!” to everyone. He suddenly saw the snake, but it slithered into a rat hole. He had an idea. He asked the class who had meat in their lunchbox.

Billy had lots in his sandwich.

Tom grabbed it and placed it in a corner so the snake would come out of the hole.

The snake slithered out of the hole to the meat. He took a bite.

Tom crept up to Harry and picked it up.

“Goodness gracious!” roared Miss Anderson. "Put it into your bag right now." 

Well done, Porter. You have made up some great ideas.

From Jamling Tenzing

Jamling Tenzing

May 14 at 1:56pm · Namche Bazar, Nepal

To all the children of St. Paul's primary school, greetings from the Himalayas.

I know you have been following John and our journey to the to roof of the world. I hope you learned something about our mountains and culture.

I invite you all to join me one day to visit our part of the world.

Hi I am Porter. I like photo's and your comments.

Jamling Tenzing Hi Porter, I am glad to know that you like our photos and the comments, thank you for following us.

Mount Everest

Magic

There were two magic shows at our school. I like El Gregoe the most because he made a bird out of 

aPPPP

Pentecost

The church is people who spread the good news. 
Jesus’ disciples locked themselves in a room, so they wouldn’t get arrested like Jesus did. 
After a while, fire was on their heads and wind was swishing by them.They knew that Jesus had given them a present and it was the Holy Spirit and they went out of the room and spread the good news about Jesus.That was the first Pentecost. It was the beginning of the Church.

Mum and I

Mum and I drove  to Raglan. We wanted to go fishing and it was a sunny place. My fishing rod was pretty long. The colour was black and yellow.
My mum threw out the string from my fishing rod then three big sprats! were on the hooks at the same time. I called , "Mum, Mum!" Mum ran and she was proud of me. 
I Love my mum.

The Zoo

I ran to the Sumatran tiger, but I had to wait for my mum. She finally got there. When I got there, the tiger pounced on the glass. The stripy tiger was fascinating. I looked very closely at his feet. There were two dots on his front feet.

Baptism

St Patrick

WALT retell a story.
WWBSWW tell the story in our own words.
Planning
Who St Patrick was and what he liked doing and what he didn't like doing
 - where he was born - what his family was like
He liked walking on the beach. He liked whittling his slingshot.
He hated school.
One day,
- didn't go to school
- went to the beach
- pirates came
- stole him and the other girls and boys
- sold him in Ireland to Milchu
- was a shepherd - looked after sheep and pigs (swine)
- started talked to God - trusted God and was happy
- One night, heard God talking to him - told him to go the a ship
- when he was on board, - big storm - ship grounded in France
- crew starving
- Patrick asked God for help
- God sent him pigs and an apple tree- ate pork dinner and apple sauce

Patcrick was a little rich boy but he had one weakness . It was school .But  one morning he did go to school. He was at the beach  picking up stones for his sling shot.  He saw one then he     and   turned around he saw a pirate ship some! of the  jump out of the bot and grad he

The Most Beautiful Thing in the World

Year of the Monkey

sshin-nyen kwhy-ler

 

Happy Chinese New Year. 

2016 is the Year of the Monkey.

Swimming 2016

It  was a sunny day. We rushed outside to get our lunch  boxes.The teacher said to put our lunch boxes away and get our bags and we ran across the field.We went across the road one at at time then we ran and same stayed behind.We waited for Room 3 to  finish their swim and then I dived in like a penguin. The water was nice and cool. We practised swimming and floating, then we played fetching sticks. It was Room Five's turn so we got out of the pool, dressed and went back to school.