Sunday, 8 December 2013

Week 8- Eve and George

The year 4 to 6 students were in the talent quest. We had our school trip at Orakei basin and the Lagoon pools. We started making christmas animations. It was the year 4 assembly and Santa was there. We made Maori weather cards for miss h`s board. We had topic sharing on Thursday and on Monday some of the groups are going to perform at Meadowbank Kindy and the retirement village. This afternoon we saw a solar halo in the sky. Follow this link to find out more about it http://earthsky.org/space/what-makes-a-halo-around-the-moon


 

 

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Patterns of the Pasific

Here are the wonderful paintings that Miss Hopkins' art group have made to donate to Cure Kids for Xmas.

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Week 6- Hazel and Jenny

We made diaramas about novels that we have been reading. We had to make 3D characters to go into the scene. We are going to make movies for the end of the year to show all the work we have done. Some racing car drivers  bought their cars and visited our school and some people got posters. Yesterday was mufti day to raise money for the people of the Phillipines. Hazel got the certificate for displaying manners. We went to read with our buddy class today.



Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Buddy Movie by Room 19


Week 5- Whole Class

This week we had performing arts assembly and some of the teachers sang the cups song. Hazel, Lucy and Suzie performed in the ukulele group. Eve, James, Anika, Andy, Lucy and Suzie performed in the Kapahaka group. Congratulations to Alex who recieved the Citizenship Cup for Room 19.

 
 
 

Monday, 11 November 2013

Buddies with all of the Year 3 Team

We have had an awesome time with our buddies and we hope they have a great day on Friday with their big buddies. We can't wait to see some photos!

Buddies at the library





Thursday, 7 November 2013

Welcome to our new buddies!

Introducing Jamie, Charlie and Tammy who will be spending time with our class this week.



Thursday, 31 October 2013

Week 3- Whole Class

This week we had Halloween. Lots of people from our class got dressed up and went trick or treating. We had athletics day at Mt Smart stadium. Some the events were sprints, gumboot throw, 400m race, ball throw, javelin, standing long jump, high jump, long jump and 60m. We watched the relays. We had a meeting for our cultural picnic which is happening in a few weeks time. Most exciting is this weekend we have our school gala! Hopefully we will see you there.




 
 

Thursday, 24 October 2013

Te Ahua o te Rangi- The Weather

Today we learnt how to ask about the weather in Te Reo.
He rangi aha tenei?
What kind of day is this?

He rangi....
It is a .... day

For example:
He rangi kapupua
It is a cloudy day

Here are some other suggestions:


Thursday, 17 October 2013

Term 4 Newsletter


Week 1- Billie and Zoe

We practiced athletics with Mr Ratcliffe and for sport. We did PicCollage which is a free app for the iPad. We used it to make our goal cards. Have a look at the examples below. We have been doing alpha ladders to show our thinking. We used 30 hands another new app to show our maths strategies. This week we have been working on a reading contract with some SOLO activities.



Thursday, 26 September 2013

Week 9-Suzie and Agostina

This week we watched Wreck it Ralph. We made wanted posters for Babette Cole characters. We made paper helicopters. We got to use the iPads to remove all the photos and clear them for the term. In Maths we have been learning to read analouge and digital clocks. It was World Cartoon Day on Wednesday and we made some cartoons on Toondoo. The Kapahaka group went to the retirement village to perform. We had some visitors from China in our school this week. They were looking at our ways of teaching. Mr Ayson went to China last week. It is Gus's last day at school today and we will miss him!

Wednesday, 18 September 2013


Wind Powered Cars

Today we made some wind powered cars. Some of us had to modify our sails in order to catch the wind and push the car forward.