Metaphor Writing with School Kit

As part of our School Kit Writing activities, we learned how to use metaphors in our writing. 
We were inspired by the poem called "The Iain Sharp Poem'.

The Iain Sharp Poem

Iain Sharp is a fat parcel of mixed groceries tied with a clumsy knot.

Iain Sharp is a black kite adrift on changeable winds.

Iain Sharp is a pile of scoria tricking softly to the sea.

Whenever I peep in mirrors Iain Sharp frowns back at me.

It’s terrifying.

Iain Sharp is a runaway tramcar.

Iain Sharp is a chunk of moonrock.

Iain Sharp is nine letters wrenched from the Roman Alphabet.

Our Room 20 Poem

Room 20 is a shiny, red motorbike, as fast as lightning.

Room 20 is a big, strong, old, prickly totara tree.

Stronger than any other tree in the forest.

Room 20 is Seeley’s Gully, a trickling stream with twittering fantails,

flittering around and snatching the insects.

Room 20 is a crunchy ham and cheese special subway sandwich.

Room 20 is a pair of red swimming shorts with yellow lightning bolts.

Hukanui Marae Visit

What an amazing visit we had!

We were welcomed.

We shared stories and songs.

Our wonderful Kapa Haka performed our farewell.

Cicadas

Clickety-Clack Cicada

Clickety-clack cicada

Clinging to the wall,

When the sun is sleeping

You don’t sing at all.

But when the sun is shining

On summer days so long,

Clickety-clack cicada

What a noisy song!

We have so many cicadas singing outside our classroom and in the playground.

We have been collecting the skins that the cicada nymph sheds when it becomes an adult.

Did you know a cicada nymph can live for more than 7 years underground before it climbs up a tree to change into an adult cicada?

We enjoyed sketching cicadas. 

Look on our individual Blogger posts for our sketchings.

Challenge:

Do you know how a cicada makes it's noise?

Clue:

It is not by rubbing his wings.

Swimming Survival

It's our favourite swimming lesson day again!

First we had to put on our lifejackets and learn how to fall safely BACK into the pool.

Falling into the Pool from Ham East on Vimeo.

Next, we made a safe huddle to keep ourselves warm while we wait to be rescued.

Rescuing a Buddy</

Then we learnt how to pull a buddy safely down the length of the pool.

Finally, we finished with a race. 

We got into teams and kicked hard, all the way to the end of the pool!

Rescue Race

Rescue Race from Ham East on Vimeo.