Would you help an abandoned puppy?

Luke is a 13 year old, tall boy. He goes to St.Peter's school and he lives in a big white house with his parents. He doesn't have that much friends because he is shy.  

One day a boy called Luke was walking back home. Suddenly he saw a box on the side walk. He looked inside of the box and saw a German shepherd puppy. He picked up the dog and covered his body with his school jacket to keep him warm.

Luke took the dog up and ran quickly back home. Once he got back, Luke fed the puppy with some leftover pork from the night before.

After 3 weeks the puppy had grown and gotten fatter. Luke got tired of calling the dog 'dog' so Luke told him that he is going to name him Blue. The dog looked very happy when Luke named him.

After that, they became very close friends and played together every day. Luke taught Blue lots of tricks and because Blue was a clever dog and he learnt all the tricks.

Learning Intention: We are learning to follow the correct structure of a narrative.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write the title, orientation, problem, conclusion about a boy and a dog.

Rest in peace Muhammad Ali!

Learning intention: We are learning to understand the text that we read.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I answer the comprehension questions about Muhammad Ali correctly using the information from the article.

Come on, let's go on the big pink slide!

On Saturday the 18th of June my family and I went to McDonald's for a feast after our singing at church.

While we were waiting, we played on the park but first we had to take off our shoes. After that my mum called us to go and have something to eat. I had a cheese burger a big mac a large chips and a fizzy drink.

When I was heading towards the playground, my cousin came up to me and asked "Do you want a ice cream" I replied "Yes!" and then "Thank you."
After I went to the playground and played on the big pink slide. It was very cool because it was very dark inside the slide.

Finally my mum called for us to go home because it was far for us to travel back.

The ice-cream that I ate was vanilla flavoured. It was white and it was on a cone. The ice-cream was very delicious and cold and the cone was crunchy and crispy.

The playground was very cool because it had slides/ tunnels and big steps. I went on the big pink slide and it was very dark on the inside. The slide was very big and slippery.

My favourite part was when I on the slide because it was very slippery so we slid down it very fast.

Learning intention: We are learning to follow a structure of a recount .
Success criteria I know I can do this when I write a title, followed by the events and then a conclusion of going to McDonald's on the weekend. 

Do you know how to decompose 349?

Learning intention: We are learning to compose and decompose numbers.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that when we decompose a number, we use our place value to split up the numbers.

Follow these steps if you want to make a paper boat!

Materials:
A4 paper

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and use the correct descriptive language for a procedure.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I fuse appropriate verbs to write the steps for making a paper boat.

Verbs describe our actions!

Learning intention: We are learning to understand descriptive language.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write all the adjectives and verbs from the article 'The story of our house'.

I miss my uncle!

On Sunday the 12th of June, my aunts, uncle and I went to Auckland south corrections facility prison to see my uncle. It was a very long drive because we drove from East Auckland and South Auckland. It took us three hours to get there.

When we got there, I saw two security guards guarding the door and another two security guards standing on the road leading us to the car parking. All the security guards were armed and wearing protection. They told us to stop because they needed to check the inside of the car, because they thought we might have been hiding a weapon. They checked everywhere but they didn't find anything because we had nothing to hide.

Soon we were in the clear. We quickly moved and parked the car. Soon we went inside the building and we waited until four o'clock because that was our meeting time.

Soon after four o'clock, a woman came and announced on the microphone and said, "The four o'clock people, can you please follow this woman to the scanner." So we followed the woman to the scanner and the security guards scanned us and checked to see if we had weapons.

Once the scan had finished, we all walked to another building and sat down at a table. Once we sat down, I saw my uncle walk towards us from another room. I ran to him and hugged him as soon as I saw him.

Then we sat down talked with my uncle. My uncle asked us if we could go to the kids room so that he could have a private conversation with my aunty. When we joined them again, it was time for us to go back so we all gave him a big hug.

I'm really happy that I had the opportunity to visit my uncle because I really miss him. My favourite part of the visit was hugging my uncle.

Learning intention: We are learning to follow the correct structure of a recount. 

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write a title, followed by the events then a conclusion of going to my uncle in prison.

Come on, let's fly our planes!

Materials:

(A4)Paper

Colouring pencils

Steps:

1. Get an A4 piece of paper and fold it horizontally and then open it up and turn it over.

2. Fold two corners horizontally from the same side to the centre one by one to create a big triangle.

3. Then fold the triangle vertically but make sure the triangles are on the top.

4. Fold two corners of the triangle to the tip of the triangle one by one again.

5. Fold the plane horizontally.

6. Then fold the two halves to make the wings. Make sure it is folded horizontally.

7. Open up the wings.

8. Now decorate the plane.

You are done and it is time for your plane to take off.

Learning intention: We are learning to write a procedure.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write the steps for making a paper plane.