Welcome to 2014!

What a great first day of the year! Kauri and Totara are having a few days to get to know each other and learn about how our learning will happen in Akotoa over the next 12 months.

Here are a few snaps from Kauri's first day. It's great to play some name games, do some things in teams and spend some time practising for Athletics!

Instructional Comics.

Today the Year 5s spent a quiet(er) day at school without the Year 6s who were at their New Entrants Days at College. We looked at how we could turn last week's instructional writing into published pieces of writing - just like some examples we found in some School Journals.

This was the criteria we created after looking at the Journal Articles. We had a good chat about what a 'colour palet' is and how authors use them to create a theme and contrast with their photos.

 Then we used Comic Life on the ipad minis to move our text we had created last week on our google docs and copied and pasted the paragraphs into our comics. It was really fast to do that and most of our time was spent working out our layout, getting rid of blank spaces and making sure we had a good balance of images and text. What do you think of our finished product?