Do you like going to the seaside?

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a description.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record five descriptive sentences using appropriate adjectives to describe the seaside using Screencastify.

Have you been in a real haunted house before?

1. The weather above the haunted house is very stormy and cloudy.
2. The haunted house is so dusty that it makes you sick.
3. It is so very spooky that you might have goosebumps.
4. The haunted house feels frightening and shadowy because it feels like someone is inside the house.
5. The haunted house is so creepy that you might want to run outside.

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a description.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record six descriptive sentences with appropriate adjectives that describes a haunted house.

Do you like swimming in the pool?

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a recount.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record a verbal recount about going to the pool using blabberize.

It is very bright on the desert island!

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a description.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use adjectives to describe the desert island.

Children between the ages of 2 to 11 are only getting 57% of sleep every day!

Learning Intention: We are learning to persuade others our point of view.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record three arguments why children under the age of 13 should be getting enough sleep using screencastify.

Do you like reading comic books?

Learning Intention: We are learning to recount about a past event.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use screencastify to record my verbal recount about our Duffy hero assembly.

Do you like going to the swimming pool?

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the language features of a recount.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record a verbal recount about going to the swimming pool on the weekend using a detailed brainstorm on screencastify.

What is your favourite ice cream flavour?

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the language features of a recount.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record my recount about going to my cousin's house using screencastify.  

I really enjoyed playing tag because I wasn't the tagger most of the time!

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the language features of a recount.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record my trip to the Laundromat using screencastify.

Do you think that we should have rubbish bins at our school?

Learning Intention: We are learning to follow the structure of a persuasive text.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record three reasons why we should have rubbish bins at school using screencastify.

Moving to a new house was a lot of work!

On Friday the 21st of July, my family and I moved to our new house in Papatoetoe. We took three cars there, because there were lots of items that we needed to take.

First, we packed a lot of our things into big plastic bags. I helped my mum to pack our items. I packed our clothes, and the clothes that needed to be washed, books, bags, a small shelf and other items.

Then I took the big bags to the cars one at a time. First I took the big bags to a big van, nearly all of our things could fit in there. After that I took some bags to our family car and the rest to our old car.

Soon I finished packing the big bags into our three cars. It was tiring taking the bags because they were really heavy. Soon we travelled to our new house and it only took us 40 minutes to get there. While my mum was driving, we listened to music from our phone. We listened to pop music sang by male and female artists.

Our new house was really big and it was really exciting because it was our first time moving to another house. Before long, we started taking our things into the house.

There were three rooms in the house; a bathroom, a sitting room and a kitchen. There is also a garage.

After putting all our things away we all went to our rooms to get a night's rest, because it has been a busy day.

My favourite part of the day was going in the house because it was really exciting to go to a new house and it was also our first time. I am really looking forward to living in our new house because it is a bigger house and, we can play in the backyard.

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the language features of a recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use past tense to describe our move to our new house.

I really enjoyed watching the characters perform!

On Monday the 24th of July 2017, the whole school and I went to the community hall to watch three people perform a Duffy theatre production. The three actors acted out characters such as Duffy, Global warming girl and Mother earth.

After we went inside and sat down on the floor, we started singing some songs from the movie ‘Moana’. We sang ‘How far I’ll go’ and ‘We know the way’. After that, we sang the duffy song.

Then they performed a drama to teach us about climate change. They were very funny in their performance. The characters spoke to each other about climate change issues  that concerned them.

I really enjoyed watching them because they were really funny in their performance and I really enjoyed singing the songs.

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write a recount about the Duffy theatre that we had at school using the structure: introduction, events, conclusion.