Written English

Learning Intention: We are learning how to write our stories by ourselves.

Success Criteria: We will know we can do this when we can:-

• write our name correctly
• draw a clear picture for our plan 
• miss lines
• leave finger spaces between words
• copy words off our word cards
• write some words and beginning letter sounds by ourselves
• publish our work carefully and neatly

This Term we have been writing recounts about things that we have been doing at home and at school. We also learnt how to write a retell. As part of our Inquiry about the Treaty of Waitangi we learnt about the Maui stories. Our favourite was Maui and the Sun, so we wrote our retell about that story.

Here are three of our stories.