I am learning to use a word card

In Writing we have been learning to use our word card.  It has some words in the colourful boxes and these help us to write our story.  If we need to write a word that isn't on our card we can say the word slowly and write down the sounds we can hear instead.

"I know how to write the date by myself", said Paige.

I am learning to recognise punctuation

In Reading we have been learning the different types of punctuation in our books.  We know that an exclamation mark means use a strong voice, a full stop means the end of a sentence, and a question mark means someone is asking a question.  We played a game on the computer to help us remember the different punctuation marks.  Mrs Tetupu read the sentence to us and then we had to choose the right mark.  Here is a screen shot of the game we played:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/games/penguins_on_ice/big_no_sound/full2.shtml

"This game was easy for me because I could find the right penguin to use."