Reading Fluently

In Ruma Iwa the Yellow Group for reading have been working on reading fluently. We had the task of Making a movie about the Tears of the Albatross. This is a story in one of our school journals.

This story has been read by Quinlan, Jacob and Otis.

Fluency!

We have been learning to read fluently. Here are some examples of us reading aloud. We have been trying our best at mastering Expression, Accuracy, Rate, and Smoothness.

New classroom!

On Wednesday the 5th of September we got rid of our old desks, got different desks, got tote trays and completely changed our classroom! We put our old desks by the school pool. Now we have a lot more room in our class. Our new desks don't have any lids. Along the walls we have quiet zones, We use them for quiet work. In the middle of our classroom we have group tables, We use them to have a little chat while we work. We have a huge place to sit. My favourite thing is we can choose where we sit! It is pretty annoying how whenever we finish something we have to go to the other side of the class just to put something away and how whenever we start something new we have to go to the other side of the class just to get what we need for what we have to do but I don't really mind. I think our new class is amazing. By Mitchell and Quinlan

Bio Poems

We have been writing a range of poems this term on Fridays. Check out some of our bio poems below.

who our audience is?

Ruma iwa has been learning about picture books. We are sending them to Zambia. We are trying to finish them before friday the 4th ofJuly, thats only 2 more days! Today we are mostly working on the books. The kids we are sending them to live in an orphanage in Zambia. We think that they will like our picture books!!!!!


By Quinlan

Speech Marks

In Ruma Iwa we've been learning about speech marks. There are about 4 to 5 rules.

The rules are:

1. Always start a new line after someone speaks. 
2. Use speech marks before and after someone speaks.
3. Always use the right punctuation like an exclamation mark, question marks, full stops and comers.
4. When someone speaks start with a capital letter.

By Charlotte

D.O.N.K.E.Y.

Today after Ruma Iwa and Ruma Whitu went to the library, we played a game called D.O.N.K.E.Y. on the field.

We got into groups and made some circles. Then we passed a ball around and if you dropped the ball then you would be a "D". Then once someone in our group dropped the ball enough times they spelled DONKEY. They would be the loser. After we could still play on moving onto Mule and then Horse.

When it finished our group had got to mule. Everyone loved the game and saw some pretty good catches.