The Laugh Of Your Class

The Laugh Of Your Class

Your class laughs like fourteen birds

in a tree.

Your class laughs like ice in a glass

on a tray.

Your class laughs like the stars

in the Milky Way.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hee hee.

Your class laughs like the born

of a bright red car.

Your class laughs like the strings

on a loud guitar.

Your class laughs like the harmony

of a choir.

Ho ho ho ho ho hee hee ha ha.

Your class laughs like the hiss

of skis on snow.

Your class laughs like the screams

at a circus show.

Your class laughs like a trumpet player’s blow.

Hee hee hee hee hee ha ha ho ho.

Teacher

TEACHER

When you teach me,

your hands bless the air

where chalk dust sparkles            

And when you talk,

the six wives of Henry VIII

stand in the room like bridesmaids,

or the Nile drifts past the classroom window,

the pyramids baking like giant cakes

on the playing fields.

You teach with your voice,

so a tiger prowls from a poem

and pads between desks, black and gold

in the shadow and sunlight,

or the golden apples of the sun drop

from a branch in my mind’s eye.

I bow my head again

to this tattered, doodled book and learn what love is.

Literacy

The Dippy Dinner Dippers

kereama and loni adding

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Punctuate the following story correctly.

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WALT use place punctuation correctly in a sentence.

WALT structure dialogue correctly by using speech marks and other punctuation that is appropriate for the purpose of the dialogue.

What’s that gasped “Raj What asked Sara following his pointing finger I can’t see anything Her “eyes were not yet used to the darkness.  That Look There’s something moving by the greenhouse hissed Raj”  Something glided silently past the panes of glass which shone in the moonlight.  Yes! I can see it now whispered Sara.”  Is it fox Raj whispered no I don’t think so It’s too tall it’s more like a small person, “perhaps a child”.  Raj looked towards the greenhouse.  Oh he breathed  There is again  Did you see it Sara?  “Sara could not believe her eyes I saw it and I could see through it she said.”  Raj nodded his head A ghost they bot whispered.’’

Tupou,Sam,Deanda,Kereama,Pate and Crystal

characters:

Tupou and Sam

Deandra and Kereama

Pate and Crystal

Script:

Introduction

Sam: Hi I’m Sam and this is my friend Tupou, today we are going to be talking to you about plastic bags.

Tupou: We are also going to talk about how it is an issue to us and how we can reduce the problem.

Crystal: Well hey my name is Crystal .

Deandra: and my name is Deanda and we are going to explain to you what issue rubbish causes.

Crystal: “But what shocked us was when we found out that our school pays the Auckland Council men $2,327 a year to remove our waste in our school.”

Deandra:  “WOW!! That’s a lot of money that our school is spending to get rid of our waste in this school.”

Deandra: “What could we do to reduce the price?”

Crystal and Deandra: (Thinking).......

Crystall: Hey all we have to do is bring less non recyclable stuff and then hopefully we can reduce the cost.

Deandra: Good Idea Crystal!

Pate: Do we sort out our rubbish effectively ?

Pate: No not really eh Kereama...

Kereama: No not really Pate

Pate: How do you think we could stop rubbish from building up in our school grounds

Kereama: Maybe we all could take turns as classes picking up the rubbish on the ground outside of our school building

Pate: Good Idea Kereama

Tupou: Hey Sam what are some alternative ways to dispose our waste?

Sam: We could reduce the amount of waste by not bringing plastic bags with food wrappers and sort the waste out into the recycling bins and the waste bins

Tupou: Great Idea Sam, but lets go meet the girls

Deandra and Crystal: Hey Guys what are you doing?

Tupou: We came to see how you both were doing

Deandra: Thanks for the concern but we don’t really need it

Sam: No problem then?

Crystal: No problem Sam

Deandra, Sam, Tupou and Crystal: But Remember everyone Stay Clean then you Stay Green!!!

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