Friday, September 24, 2021

More Working From Home

 LZ1 have continued their great working from home activities. We ended last week in our school uniform and this week we were aliens...


In between we did lots of work...





Fantastic writing at home using the illustration by April as their prompt.
Illustration by April Young

Cats v Dogs

BOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!! The cat's aircraft dropped a bomb on Doggie Palace. 


It seemed like the world was over.  The dogs were having a hard time against the cats. King Shepherd and Queen Dotty have lost half of their kingdom to the cats. 


The air was smokey like a bonfire, flames in the sky were like fireworks.  It was chaotic everywhere! 


Queen Scratchy is trying so hard to get the Doggie Chest but the dogs keep on putting up new buildings and weapons to protect their kingdom. 


Queen Scratchy sat in her throne, she had caught King Shepherd’s son, Staffy and he would not tell her what room the crystals were hiding in.  It was a kidnapping like no other! She was trying her hardest to get him to tell her but he would not listen to Queen Scratchy.  


Finally the Doggie Palace had got their strength and they started building aircrafts and bombers to go and attack Scratchy’s Palace to stop the war. The first squad went out to attack.  Booom! They dropped a bomb but it just missed the walls of the palace.  King Shepherd was furious. “Come on guys you have to get better at aiming your bombs, I am going to get you some grenades and nukes so it will do more damage,” he said.


Finally the next squad came out with their grenades and nukes and dropped them.  Cat Palace smashed like a rock thrown at glass and Doggie Palace took over the city.  Thankfully, before the explosion came, one of the pilots rescued Staffy, the King’s son, and the Doggies all lived happily after. 


By Jack Killeen

The Queen

There was once a little queen, who was very, very mean. She had diamonds on her crown and lace on her gown. One day while taking a stroll a little boy went and dropped his doll. The queen picked it up and asked “Is this yours?” The boy nodded and she took a closer look and she saw it was her enemy, it was the mighty captain cook.


A little girl came outside with a cart and horse. Her majesty took the boy far to her home; it was  planted straight in the middle of Rome. The queen had a  lovely comfy little throne and jewels that are giant from the unknown.


The queen pulled out a small device. She inserted it into a machine and said “I need a sacrifice.” Slowly the little girl made her way closer to the queen, the monarch placed the girl in the long machine. The poor small girl's name was Jenny.


Now the queen turned on the machine and poor little Jenny was shocked with a bolt of lightning and all went so black so even a cat can’t see in the dark and when the smoke cleared little Jenny was dead lying there flat,


Now it was the boys turn and he sat in the long tube, he waited for the queen the press the button but the she just stood there short and stubby like a fluffy short cushion. She took a deep breath and pushed it quickly, smoke appeared once again and when the smoke cleared the boy was now gone. Everyone stared in shock but the queen did not look. She turned the tv on and thought “Well, that was easy.”

by Sonya Nicholson

Evil Queen

Ahhhhh” yelled the young gentleman as the Evil Queen tied him to the chamber slab. Sitting on her throne in the dungeon she cackled with laughter eagerly waiting to pluck his eyes. As the eye was being plucked from the young man's face the Evil Queen’s nice sister Tina smashed through the door. Aghast, she turned to her sister Queen Sophie and said “Is this what you have been doing for the last two years?” “Yes” the queen responded. Quickly Tina began to unstrap the man from the chamber slab. Tina was looking for somewhere to escape, she found a place and they ran to  safety.

::6 years later::

The evil queen sophie found them and took them both to the dungeon and strapped them both on the chamber slab and she took the man's eyes but kept her sister's because she loved her sister even though she took the man that she needed.

by Taya Ronkowski



Congratulations to these people who have achieved certificates while continuing their learning at home.











Thursday, September 16, 2021

Working From Home Continues

 LZ1 have continued their great working from home escapades. We ended last week in pyjamas...


This week was Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori and we did lots of learning about Te Ao Maori. We participated in the Maori Language Moment on Tuesday by watching and contributing to the video of Pepeha. 
Here is a Taya's pepeha.

The learning and creativity continues.




Congratulations to these people who have achieved certificates while continuing their learning at home.
















Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Maori Language Moment - Pepeha Video

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa

For our moment we have created and shared a video of Six60's song Pepeha

(Tēnā rawa atu koe e Tim)

Click on the link below to watch the video

Pepeha Video

Kia Kaha Whanau






Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Still Working from Home

Still working from home...LZ1 continues to be creative  and hard working. Great effort in these challenging times.




Artwork created during lockdown by Janae and April

By April Young
By Janae Ma




Sam has worked hard on his writing at home. This is one of his creative pieces. Enjoy.

Rendered Image

One day I was walking down in the forest when a strange site caught my eye. As I got closer I realized it  was a small town. I ran over as a cold breeze hit me, I looked around at some very scary people. The houses were alive, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I screamed but was stopped by a hand. I turned around but there was no one there. Then it rained and at the same time all the people suddenly disappeared as fast as a cheetah. The rain was now yelling and screaming at me. Then all of a sudden I awoke in my bed and realised it was a dream.        

By Samuel Francis Stead (Year 5)

Congratulations to these people who have achieved Mathletics and Lexia Core 5 certificates while working at home!







Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Working From Home

LZ1 students and their families are working hard, being creative and doing lots of learning.









Congratulations to these people who have achieved Mathletics and Lexia Core 5 certificates while working at home!