GET NZ Writing wings its way to Wellington.

Do you know where Khandallah is in New Zealand? Can you find it on a map?

Here are Maddie and Courtney delivering the Courier bag to the office. It is full of our Sticky Word Poems written on postcards and a huge class poster all about us. This will be picked up by the Courier and sent to Wellington to Khandallah School. We hope they enjoy reading our poetry!

Get New Zealand Writing Continues...contents of the tin revealed!

What is a sticky word??

We worked by ourselves, then in groups and listed adjectives that described the items in the tin. 

   

 

 

 
 

A word source that is a sort of thesaurus is this book:

We are turning common words like happy/ good/ soft into more exciting and interesting words that make us imagine different things. 

Ask your child - what are you learning at school? 

Why are you learning that?

Where are you going to use that?

The purpose of our poetry writing is to write on the back of our postcards and send them to our buddy class in Wellington. They will send us their poems and we are really interested to see what they send us to read.

Get New Zealand Writing! Today a mysterious box arrived in Room 14!! What are the 13 items inside the tiny tin?

A brown box arrived for us! We are taking part in a School Kit programme involving the writing of 96 000 poems this month across New Zealand Primary Schools.

Inside a collection of writing tools and a letter suggesting what we need to do! In the box was a stack of postcards too. Our instructions are to write creative poems to send to a class in Khandallah in Wellington. Then they are going to send us something back! 

Curiouser and curiouser - a large class poster with all sorts of challenges and ideas for writing snippets of information from Sunnyhills School to Khandallah.

And finally a tiny tin with 13 items in it for sparking our creativity. But first Mrs T challenged us to guess what could be inside and tomorrow we will open the tin and see what could be in it! We can't wait!!