Grandparent Descriptions.....Do you recognize these Grandparents?

Koro is cool. He looks old because he looks different. He looks like a dinosaur one. His eyes look like mine. His hair is short like mine. He has a happy mouth that's because he likes me.

Granddad is tall and happy. He has white hair and has stripes on his shirt and on his pants. Granddad wears glasses when he reads and gives me lots of cuddles.

Granddad has black hair like a sideways 'c' and white legs.  He has a big nose and a big smile because he hasn't seen us for a long time. He likes seeing us because he misses us.

My Nana has  a red jacket.  She likes to wear blue pants with a white stripe.  She has two brown eyes and she has red cheeks.  She is too old because she looks like she is a bit old.  She got lots of wrinkles.

Nana has blond hair with a fringe and black eyes and dark, white skin and I love Nana.  Nana's face has lines when she smiles.  She wears different earrings. She wears giraffe earrings and zebra earrings and she has silver earrings. She wears colourful polka dot clothes.

Nana is white and skinny and has a big, huge smile. It goes up to the top of her hair.

Nana has black hair and a big smile. She has black clothes.  My Mum was born from her.  She  has got some wrinkles because she is a little bit old. She has earrings. They are gold.

Papa has curly hair. He has cool clothes like singing clothes. They are like rock star clothes. His eyes are wide open. He has big smiles. He can't change it.

Nana has a squashed face because she wants it like that. She plays like that.  Nana has short black hair. She has grown bigger for her birthday.

My Nanny smiles a lot. My Nanny has short hair and sounds nice on the phone. I miss my Nanny.

I remember .......Grandparent stories for our Memory Basket

I remember..
.by Nia
I remember when I went to her house and had  a sleepover.   I love her and she loves me because she's funny and kind and I'm her little granddaughter.

by Boyd
I remember Nanny coming to my house. She came from America. I'm feeling happy because I have a happy family.  She loves me and I love her.

by Kyiah
I remember when my Nana took me to a picnic. I feel special when she is here with me and my Mum because she is part of my family and she is the most important part.  I know that I love her in my heart.

by Harmony
I remember Nana went to the park with me.  She lives in a house across the road. She loves me and I love her too because she is so nice to me and so kind.  She hugs me, she takes me to the park and she snuggles me and she so loves me and I love her.

by Alex
I remember going to Granddads house for chocolate.  I love him because he gives me lots of fizzy lollies.  He loves me because I'm kind.

by Trey
I remember my Koro guarding the apples. I love him because he made the apples.  He loves me too because I'm kind.

by Airfaan
I remember talking to Nanny after school.  She lives in Burma. I talk about starting school and playing cool maths games and playing the car game on the  computer.

by Ayres
I remember posting an envelope to Nan. It was a picture of pancakes because she likes pancakes and I like pancakes.

Poetry by Kyiah

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Matariki

Today we celebrated Matariki.  We presented our song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in English/Maori at our school celebration.  Our teacher thought we were great.  We got into the right place quickly and Harmony counted us in and led the singing with the microphone.  Kia Ora Harmony.  We also celebrated by making Matariki posters and weaving a kite based on our Nanny poem.  We are going to use our kete as our Memory basket for our Grandparent memories.

Kiri's Quilt

Today we read a story called 'A Quilt for Kiri' by Don Long and illustrated by Judith Kunzle. We talked with our talking buddies about the story.  We used our thinking tool box.  We used our 'red hat thinking' which helped us talk about  how Kiri was feeling in the story(feelings) and our 'white hat thinking' to talk about the quilt.(information)

We are writing our own stories about our grandparents.  We are writing 'I remember stories..........'.

Grandpa's Slippers

Today we read Grandpa's Slippers by Joy Cowley and illustrated by Wendy Hodder.  We noticed some new vocab in the story like 'nonsense' and 'tatty'.  Moses's favourite part of the story was when Grandpa had to wear his new slippers.  Aimee's favourtite part was when Grandpa's slippers got holes in them.

A Special Visit to Nanny and Koro

Today we read another grandparent story called 'A Special Visit to Koro and Nanny'  by Herehere Titoko and illustrated by Jennifer Cooper.  We did ' think, pair, share' to discuss our ideas.  This helps us with our comprehension of the story.  We learnt a new word; 'kaitiaki' which are the stars. They help keep the little girl safe in the story.

More Poetry by Israel

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Photography for the Digi Awards

We are learning to take photos for the Digi Award competition later this year.  We read a book called 'Winston'. The book was about Winston visiting the beach for the first time. It had real photos of Winston at the beach. We talked about what we liked about the photos.

• We liked the close up photos.
• We liked the photo of Winston's ear sticking up.
• We liked it when there were other things in the photos like Winston's stick or a piece of driftwood.
• We liked  it when Winston was facing different ways. He had his head on the side and there was a  photo from the back when he was looking at the water.
• We liked the sunlight shining into the forest.

Kuia and the Spider by Liani

Vocab List for our Writing from 'Talking to Nanny"

• Skype
• Nanny
• aeroplane
• where?
• Aroha
• 'Listening to Good Reading'
• computer
• bus
• Napier, Christchurch, Auckland,
• taxi

Talking to Nanny

We read a story called 'Talking to Nanny' by Jo Carson-Barr and illustrated by Martin Simpson. It is about Aroha and her Nanny. Her Nanny lives a long way away and Aroha misses her Nanny. Her Mum helps by letting her Skype her Nanny on the computer.  We know how to Skype. We Skype our Principal and the teachers and  the kindy.  

I wonder if we can Skype our grandparents.

Matariki

Whaea Golda read us a story about Matariki by Waitangi  Teepa and illustrated by Thaw Naing.   Matariki is the name of a group of seven stars and it is also the name of the Maori New Year. You can see the stars for most of the year but they disappear from the night sky in late April and appear again in winter in late May or early June. 

We can celebrate Matariki in different ways.

We celebrated Liani's stories about Maori bread/Rawena.  She told us about  how her Mum's friend taught her Mum (Amelia)  to make it.  She talked about having it on the Marae. She also talked about how her Mum made it.  Amelia made some Rawena for Room 3. Liani said a Karakia and served the bread.  Kia Ora Liani.

 

Memories

Yesterday we read a story about Grandma's Memories. We are thinking about some of our own memories.  Here are our ideas that we might write about.

• kindy/kohanga  memories
• baby memories
• different age memories like at 4years instead of 5 years.
• animal stories like pet memories
• visitor memories
• whanau memories
• 'going places' memories
• school memories

How do you get to have Grandparents?

"They grow up."

"You can ask for a grandparent."

"They come from a Dad to a Granddad."

"You find one."

"My Mum is my Nanny's Mum."

"Granddad belongs to Mum's family."

"You find a Nanny with your Mum."

Poetry by Israel

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Poetry by Liani

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Moses poetry reading

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Inquiry Question- What do we call our grandparents?

Inquiry  question 5-6-2013

What do we call our Grandparents?

• Nana (Nos and Moses and Alex)
• Grandmother (Israel)
• Granddad (Lucas  and Boyd)
• Granna (Aimee)
• Grandpa/Koro  (Trey)
• Granny (Liani)
• Kuia (Shikira)
• Nanny (Airfaan and Harmony)

Visitors

Ayres and Nia have been visiting Room 3 today. They are nearly ready to start school. Welcome to Room 3.  Airfaan has started school today. Thank you to all the children in the class for sharing their manaakitanga manners.