Term One Week Three

Kia ora. Welcome back to week three.  We have loved having you back at school (Valentines day reference), Hopefully you have got back into the routines and are starting to get to grips with your new timetable. Last week, we started looking at letter writing.  Letters are written for a specific audience and purpose.  We are going to be exploring the structure of letters and beginning to write letters ourselves.

Success Criteria:

• Locate elements of formal and friendly letters (layout, address, salutation. body, closing)
  

*** As Cyclone Gabrielle impacts on Auckland we have moved to on-line learning.  We are fortunate that we were able to use our library time last week, so I would like you to spend some time reading the novels you issued.  We have looked at the structure of a letter - the notes we made on the board (and copied into our books) were added to last weeks course page. This week we were going to start brainstorming, drafting, publishing and sending letters.  The weather has not stopped us doing this, with a few adjustments.  Rather than being assigned a recipient, I would like you to choose a classmate to write to.  Either email them for their address, or use the schools address i.e.:

Activities:

1. Annotate letters (groups)
2. Select a purpose and audience (lucky dip)
3. Draft a letter for this purpose and audience

Further Learning:

Read a book