Go Mackenzie!

A huge congratulations to Mackenzie who came in first on the floor in her gymnastics competition at the weekend. We are all really proud of you. 

Sense's Poetry

Green
Green looks like wet moss, climbing up a mossy wall.
Green smells like freshly cut grass from the lawn.
Green tastes like sour apples as a screw up my face.
Green feels like wet grass, rolling in my hands.
Green sounds like someone crunching into an apple.
George

 

Blue
Blue tastes like bubbling chewing gum, bursting in your mouth.
Blue feels like a cold, freezing person on a boat.
Blue smells like mould cheese.
Blue looks like a flashlight holding up the moon.
Ivan 

Rio Olympics

We are really excited that the Olympics are starting, and we know that our athletes will do their very best, and make us all proud.
We are using the Olympics as a fantastic opportunity for learning.  Some of us are making cheers to support the athletes, and are recording the music to go in the background.  Others are making posters or banners.  Some of us are even choosing to research some of the different countries that are competing.
Fingers crossed our positive thoughts translate into our team doing well!

Haiku

Room 10 is currently writing Haiku.  We love the simplicity of them, and how descriptive they are, in so few words.  Here are some of them:

Perfect lovely trees

Feeling the season of spring

Lovely and gracious

Rachel

Flowers

Waving to me

I pick them in the meadow

Bright and colourful

Zara

Wind

Strong and powerful

Whirling around our world now

Sweeping us all up

Shylah

Room 10 in the Library

We love going to the library on a Friday morning.  We exchange our books, look for new books that Mrs Stagg has put out for us, and get to share the books we love with each other.

Diamante Poems

This term we are learning about poetry.  One of the best parts of this is that we get to write lots of poems!
Diamante poems have a set structure, and this means that they are in the shape of diamond.  Check out some examples.

Whale

Huge, friendly

Spraying, gliding, calling

Strong, slimy...furry, dirty

Scurrying, scratching, chasing

Sly, small

Rat.

Bella H

Dragon

Angry, fiery

Flying, soaring, breathing

Scaly, evil...white, double-headed

Trotting, eating, grazing

Calm, Egyptian

Push-me-pull-you.

Callum 

Maori Language Week

Today we played 'Go Fish', 'Snap' and 'Memory' with fractions in Te reo. Such fun!

Year Six

Year Six had an exciting morning on Thursday. We visited Cobham Intermediate for the morning, as part of our transition morning. We got to have a go at lots of the programmes that Cobham offer, including drama, dance, coding and the sports academy. We got to try one of the technology programmes, and talk with Mr Thelning. What a fantastic morning.

Buddy Reading

One of the things that we love doing during the week is Buddy Reading.  This is when we get to read with some of the children in the Piwakawaka team.  We get to help them to read to us, or we are able to read to them.  It is a great opportunity for us to be able to get to know all the younger students in our school.

Jack and Tom

We have been doing a lot of learning about ANZAC day and why we commemorate it.  Here is a wonderful YouTube clip that we found.  You might need a tissue while you are watching it - it made Miss Rickard cry (a lot!).

Descriptive Writing

At the moment we are looking at using fantastic adjectives in our writing.  One way that we can check that we are using them is to have a real experience around this.  Today we looked at different fruits and wrote down how they taste, feel, what they look like, what we can hear when we tap them, and how they make us feel.  We will publish some of our writing when we have finished it!

Swimming

Today we started our swimming lessons. It was awesome to be in the water and having fun while learning, especially as it was so wet on the way over that it felt like we had already been in the pool!

Well done Piper!

Today Piper brought in a trophy and 3 certificates that she won at athletics last night .  The trophy is for being the top points scorer in her age group over the season.

Congratulations Piper - we are all really proud of you.

Finnely

Do you remember the Journey Journal that Piper and Bella worked on so hard?  Well, we sent it off to Finnely who lives in England.  She is Shylah's cousin and Mr Bateman's grand daughter.  We are so pleased to get a picture so show us that it has arrived safely.  Not only did she get the journal, she also got a special card that Shylah and some of her friends made for her.
We hope that you have fun working on the journal Finnely.

Happy St Patrick's Day

Today is St Patrick's Day - a day which the Irish cherish!  Callum came to school wearing his Ireland top to celebrate his heritage.  Paige and Laura are spending the day going around rest homes and performing for the residents.  What a wonderful cultural day.

If The World Were 100 People | GOOD Data

This brings up some interesting questions.  We are looking forward to discussing the ideas that come out of watching this clip.

Go Max!!

Well done to Max whose team came first in the interclub tennis champs (11 year olds).  We are so proud of you :)

Boom Whackers!!!

Mrs Thomas, our fantastic intern in our class at the moment, has been teaching us some music.  One of the things that she has let us use are the boom whackers.  The book whackers are pipes which create different sounds depending on how you use them.  Today we wrote some music using these.  It was so much fun.  Next time we use them, we will video our wonderful work.

Science in a Van

Today we were lucky enough to have some visitors come to our school.  Allan and Emily are PASSIONATE about science and loved passing on this passion.  They showed us lots of cool experiments, taught us parts of the periodic table, and helped us to understand about solids, liquids and gasses.  They also played some science tricks on Mrs Dark and some student teachers!

Journey Journal

Bella and Piper have done a fantastic job of filling in Savannah's Journal.  They have picked all the important information about our school and city and are now ready to send it on.  We are going to send it to Shylah's cousin, Finn (who just happens to also be Mr Bateman's grand daughter)!  We hope that she loves it as much as we do.
We decided to include a couple of extra's in the package for Finn, including a lovely photo of Shylah, Mylia and Mr Bateman.

Before School

It is great to see the kids coming in and finding awesome activities to do before school. They are all demonstrating our school dispositions of collaboration and creativity.