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We played with bubbles today.  We are going to write a recount about them.  We are going to use fancy words like transparent, sphere and 'colourful rainbows' to describe what they look like.  We are going to use interesting verbs like drifted, floated and exploded to show how they moved and popped.  We will write about what we saw and heard other children doing and how we felt when we popped bubbles.

The photos were taken by Ochean, Steven and George.

We have been working hard to improve our writing of recounts about the things we have been doing.  We have focused on writing more about our ideas by saying what we saw, heard and felt.  We have also been working on including adjectives and similes and joining our sentences with words like but, so, with and because.

One of our recounts was about the playground at the end of our classroom.  I have selected some of our best sentences from our writing to share.  The 'toilet seats' that the children write about are the yellow rings at the top of the playground!  We hope you like what we have said.

Next I went on the yellow balls.  They're pretty hard to walk over but I can!   by Jaidon

I grabbed onto the blue monkey bar and it swung really fast and I fell.  I looked up at the monkey bars.  They were chained to a metal pole and they were shaped like a triangle.   by Steven

I climbed up onto the toilet seat.  And it was close to me.  And I was so scared.  The toilet seat is like a ring and it's yellow.  I was looking all the way down.  by Marie

It is really hard to miss two bars.  but I still tried again.  I fell again.  I thought I could try another day when I am bigger.  I like the monkey bars because it makes me look like a monkey!  by Katie

The climbing wall has hard tricky rocks.  When you stand on the rocks the whole thing twists on you.  It's really hard when it twists on you and it makes it hard to get to the top.  by Tyrone

First I went on the toilet seats and they are yellow and I almost fell through and I was scared. They have chains around them to hold on to.  by Jack

I played on the monkey bars.  They are blue and when I swung I dropped but I didn't give up.  I did it again.  I swung as high as a frog.  then I made it.  by Taylah

The toilet seats were yellow.  You could sit on them and stand on them.  There are chains all around them.  the toilet seats are up on the roof.  You have to climb up to hop on them.   by Caleb

I went on the monkey bars.  Monkeys don't swing on them though but children do.  I can skip bars on them.  They're blue with grips.  Sometimes I miss the third bar but I try again.  by Carys


Our next recount was about a game called Heads Down, Thumbs Up.  In this game the children sit at their desks with their heads down while four people choose people by 'twigging' (touching) their thumbs.  The twigged people then have to guess who chose them.  If they are right they have a turn at choosing.

Heads down, thumbs up is a good game because you need to sneak up on people.  It's very fun to tip toe.  The taggers need to be quiet because if you give it away then your're out!  by Mahalia

You go and sit at your blue desk and put your head down and your thumbs up.  and it almost looks like you just fell asleep.   by Eden

Miss Efford said "Heads down."  I put my head down excitedly.  I heard some footsteps coming towards my desk.   by Saiyan

After that everybody put their heads down like a turtle.  Next some slithering snakes came around and bit their thumbs down.  Miss Efford said "Twigged people stand up!"  by River

I was listening for people to come to my desk.  I heard people creep up to my desk... Shoot!  George went straight passed.  by Josh

I went to my desk.  I closed my eyes and put my face down.  I hoped a person would pick me.  Then she walked by me.  She didn't pick me.  by George

I heard little sounds.  I wanted to peek.  I really wanted to but I didn't because I didn't want to cheat.  Then someone pushed my thumbs down!   by Ochean

I heard someone creeping towards me.  They carefully twigged my thumbs, then crept back to the front.   by Mere

I put my head down.  Then I waited and waited.  As I waited I got twigged!  I was so happy.  It was Ty and I guessed right!   by Sophie

The choosers twigged people's thumbs.  It was very hard to pick people that weren't peeking.  People were sitting at their desks.  I twigged Marie.   by Jacinta

I was scared that I wouldn't be picked.  then Riana picked me.  Miss Efford said  "Twigged people stand up."  I picked Saiyan but she shook her head.  I was wrong.  It's OK because I already had a turn.   by Tiyanah

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