Literacy+and+Communication

Click on the links below to share my learning and progress = 2014 = = = = Poetry Recital = =media type="custom" key="26269788"= = 2013 = = Term 3 = I am proud of the way I have been practicing. Now I have got better at saying my speech. My goal is to look up at the audience more and to use some more gestures. media type="file" key="2013 Speech David.flv" width="360" height="270" || media type="file" key="2013 Speech David - assembly.flv" width="360" height="270" 2013 Judge's comments Great eye contact - looked up regularly Followed through with a great conclusion Really interesting content || = Handwriting Reflection = My handwriting is easy to read My goal for handwriting is to get the shape of my letters consistent
 * [[image:writing.jpg width="139" height="144" link="@http://david-apitischool.blogspot.co.nz/"]] || [[image:reading.gif link="@Reading"]] || [[image:spelling.jpg width="147" height="129" align="center" link="@https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qEWwQoSyekiOE_Dy5mODhiIzlLnHFa8Mb2UvZkPW5bU/edit"]] ||
 * My Writer's Journal ||  ||   ||
 * 2013 Speech reflection


 * [[image:SAM_1535.JPG width="400" height="300"]] ||
 * The Viper Beast **


 * His head is like a Spinosaurus **
 * This gives him the ability to also eat fish **
 * Eats five different species of dinosaurs **


 * He jumps on them and goes for the neck **
 * Breaks it **
 * Digs into the carcass for lunch **


 * His legs can jump up to six miles **
 * To jump onto big prey **
 * To reach his home up the cliff **


 * His arms are for grabbing things off the ground **
 * Like little lizards **
 * And deadly snakes **


 * His spine **
 * Attached to his back **
 * Balances him **
 * Helps him move while he swims **


 * His tail changes colour **
 * He attracts a female **
 * To be a father **


 * He lives in the outback of Australia **
 * Where his home is a big hole in a rock **
 * Then he can get a lot of shade **


 * Related to the Carnitore **
 * One of its early ancestors **
 * The Viper Beast **


 * The extinct Viper Beast **

2012  I can predict using text and picture clues. I use this strategy to read for understanding.
 * media type="file" key="David1-predicting text from picture 11.2012.flv" width="360" height="270" || media type="file" key="David2 reading for understanding 11.2012.flv" width="360" height="270" || media type="file" key="David3-checking prediction 11.2012.flv" width="360" height="270" ||

   Term 3
 * This is an example of my handwriting || This is an example of my story writing in Creative Adventures time ||
 * [[image:David Handwriting.jpg width="293" height="323" align="center"]] || [[image:David writing.jpg align="center"]] ||
 * Dear Mrs Hogan,

Thank you for the book called ‘Grandma McGarvey joins the scrum’. Dad has read it to me twice! It is a good book because she is still an old lady but she can do anything! There is one where she rides on a wild pig!

I liked the activity where I drew the mammoth because it was the best. It was great doing an activity from ‘The fisherman and the theefyspray. It has a happy ending.

I really liked the gel pens because they have a sweet smell of fruit.

From David || ||  Here is a sample of my reading aloud. I am reading this book for the first time so you can see the reading strategies I am using. media type="file" key="David reading aloud - orange T3 2012 .flv" width="360" height="270" I am sharing with others and developing my oral language and interaction with others.  media type="custom" key="20616369" align="center" width="120" height="120"
 * media type="file" key="David Oral sharing T3 2012.flv" width="360" height="270" || media type="file" key="Oral sharing feedback T3 2012.flv" width="360" height="270" ||
 * Dad's Sheep Book || My Feedback from my Classmates ||

<span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Term 2 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">My Speech - Learning about Megalodons <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">media type="file" key="David 2012 speech.flv" width="360" height="270" <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I am learning to communicate orally with others. I am learning to share my ideas and experiences. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Listen to my videos to hear about the dragons in the 'How to train your dragon' show I went to in the holidays ... <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Term 1 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I am learning to share my writing with others confidently <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">media type="file" key="David - Literacy.flv" width="360" height="270" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">6 more sleeps until dad comes home and went I to <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 23px;">Travis house in the weeked to the creek and I <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> caught 20 koura. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> 2011 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Term 4 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> I am developing my reading fluency in the CAFE programme by reading with others. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I liked lamb and calf day because I liked leading my lamb called Russell. I got reserve champion. I liked doing my decorated gumboot. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Term 3 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">As part of our procedural writing focus this term. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I am sequencing my written expression and adding lots of interesting details. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">
 * Part 1media type="file" key="2012 T2 David sharing- Part 1.flv" width="360" height="270" || Part 2media type="file" key="2012 T2 David sharing- Part 2.flv" width="360" height="270" || Part 3media type="file" key="2012 T2 David sharing- Part 3.flv" width="360" height="270" ||
 * Part 4 - Questionsmedia type="file" key="2012 T2 David sharing- Part 4 questions.flv" width="360" height="270" || Part 5 - Questionsmedia type="file" key="2012 T2 David sharing- Part 5 questions.flv" width="360" height="270" ||  ||
 * [[image:Fiona_Davide_sled_1_4_web.jpg]] || <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">9.9.2011 Ski story 1 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">I went skiing. It was fun. I went on the sled. When I went down the hill I felt my heart bouncing. It stopped when I was on the flat piece. I learnt that I had to do a pizza to stop . ||
 * [[image:Fiona_David_sled_3_4_web.jpg]] || <span style="color: #2000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Ski story 2

<span style="color: #2000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">We drove to the mountain in the Makoura Explorer. It was a long way. <span style="color: #2000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">Then we stopped at the park for morning tea. <span style="color: #2000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">When we got out of bus we were finally there at the mountain and I felt pleased.

<span style="color: #2000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">I learnt how to go on a sled. Mum and I went on the sled together. Mum pushed off and we zoomed down the hill fast.

<span style="color: #2000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">I showed Sarah how to do a pizza. || <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">9.9.2011 Ski story 1 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I went skiing. It was fun. I went on the sled. When I went down the hill I felt my heart bouncing. It stopped when I was on the flat piece. I learnt that I had to do a pizza to stop. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Term 3 Holiday Story <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I had a snowball fight with my Dad and Sarah. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I built a big snow ball and I threw it.
 * [[image:Fiona_David_sled_4_4_web.jpg]] ||  ||

<span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Term 2 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I am writing about Jack. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Jack is a lazy boy he is thin and skinny. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">He climbs up the beanstalk. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Listen to my speech. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">media type="file" key="Video_00006.flv" width="360" height="270" <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2.5.2011 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">We are going to Nana and Grandads. It was a long way. I said "Mum are we there yet?"She said not quite. I had a sleep. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">We finally got there. I rang the bell. They were excited because they knew I was there. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Term 1 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">

I went to the Mushroom farm. At the Mushroom farm I saw brown and white Mushrooms. They grow in a big room filled with beds. It was cold in the room where they grow.

They showed us how mushrooms grow. I didn’t know that they grew in boxes. I thought they grew on a farm paddock. I like mushrooms. My Mum gets them from the Supermarket. She puts them in chicken soup. It smelt a bit stinky at the mushroom farm. I would like to pick mushrooms everyday. I learnt how to be patient at the Mushroom farm. I also learnt that the rooms had to be cold so the Mushrooms stay alive and so they can grow. I really, really liked the Mushroom farm thought it was a bit stinky.

I am learning to write letters which thank and tell things I have learnt. **Apiti School** **11 Bryce Street** **RD 1** **Feilding** **15.3.2011**

**Dear Maryann**

**Thank you for helping me kayak. Thank you for helping look after me at the honey farm.** **I really enjoyed the mushroom farm. I learnt that mushrooms grow in the dark.** **I learnt how to kayak. You have to paddle. To turn you paddle on one side** **The best part of the trio was the mushroom farm and I liked the apple farm. The chickens were different colours. They were eating the old apples.** **I liked my Mum coming on the trip.**

**From** **David** // This thank you letter thanks Maryann and tells what I learnt on camp. //

Apiti School, 11 Bryce Street. R.D.1 Apiti 16.3.2011

Dear Mushroom farm people,

Thank you for showing us how mushrooms grow. I didn’t know that they grew in boxes. I thought they grew on a farm paddock. I like mushrooms. My Mum gets them from the Supermarket. She puts them in chicken soup. It smelt a bit stinky at your farm. I would like to pick mushrooms everyday. From, David //<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">My letter tells you what I learnt and thanks the people at the Mushroom farm for letting us go there. //

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Here is my olden days letter for the show.

Makoura Post Office 23rd February 1923

Dear John I am a wood cutter. I am cutting the trees to make the farms. I am chopping a tree with an axe and then I will saw it up. I will make a house and fence. I will use some wood to make a fire. I have no matches so I will have to bang two rocks together. My fire will keep me warm.

Come and help me there is a lot of work to do

From Hugh

<span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #2000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.3.2011 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #2000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I saw a big koura. I saw it in the creek. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3.3.2011 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today I pulled my Tooth out at school.It is in a plastic bag now. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7.3.2011 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I saw a song about aeroplanes getting shot down. I saw it on the computer. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">29.2.2011 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">We went fishing for koura. We saw a big black eel. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2010 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Term 4 <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">22.11.2010 Emma is at my house. I got a Pirate Lego ship. Emma is helping me build it. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">21.11.2010 I watched TV I saw people going to the supermarket because they needed food. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">17.11.2010 I led my lamb around the ring. I did spiders on my T-shirt. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">16.11.2010 I have to take photos of my chickens. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">10.11.2010 Dad is making a little door for the chickens house. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">9.11.2010 Yesterday we cut the tree for Mum. <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I like buddy reading <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2.11.2010 We are getting 5 new chickens.
 * [[image:David_Term_4.JPG]] || <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">22.10.2010

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I was leading my lamb around the circle. and it jumped over the fence

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Next I will <span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Term 3 <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">I am playing on the computer
 * <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">find and write some words by myself
 * <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">write on the line
 * <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">write with correct spaces between letters and words.
 * <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">write p j p on the line with their tails under the line.
 * <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">tell you more about my lamb. ||
 * [[image:David_writing_2010.JPG]]I || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">10.8.2010

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">I can
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">write on the line
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">know what I am writing about.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">leave some correct spaces.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Next I will
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">leave correct spaces between letters and words.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">write some more

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">I wonder
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">what do you like doing on the computer ? ||

<span style="color: #2000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">media type="custom" key="6784237" media type="custom" key="6612437" I am learning to write descriptively. We went on a school trip to Rotorua. I liked the haka. It was loud They were on stage, we went on stage.

I liked the luge. I liked going really fast. I crashed. I went down the water slide with Hannah and Logan. I went by myself. It went pssst psst and it buzzed me. It was fun on the trip.

I can use good descriptive words like buzzed , and psst psst

2009 I am learning to write a recount <span style="color: #808000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 224%;">__Lamb and Calf Day__ I am rolling my pottery to make leaf plate and a vase. My vase is blue. It has got 2 eyes and a smiley mouth on it. It has got sharp hair. I rolling a leaf on my plate and cut around it. At lamb and calf day I made a table decoration. It had a candle and flowers. I made a spider with eight legs. I made a farm. I made a hen out of play dough. My lamb is called Ben. My lamb drank milk. I fed my lamb. I led my lamb. I called my lamb. I made Ben look like a pirate. I liked the drinking race. My lamb is a fast drinker. Lamb and calf Day is fun. **By David**

Click here to listen to my speech media type="custom" key="4867323"