Our Awesome Kapahaka Group

Congratulations to our Kapahaka Group. They had their performance at the Polyfest last night and were absolutely wonderful. Well done to you all.

Opening of Rooms 5 and 6

Today we opened our refurbished classrooms. Matua Whaiteri said some Karakia and we sang some waiata.
We prepared the rooms to be used for a purpose by putting our positive energy into the building. We touched all the walls while we thought positive happy thoughts.
We can't wait to use the new room.

Luna came to visit

Today, James brought his dog Luna to school to share for news. She was very soft and friendly. We loved the way her tail curled!

Bake Sale

Today, our kapahaka group held a bake sale to raise money to help pay for our new kapahaka costumes. They will be performing in the Polyfest later his term. We enjoyed spending our money and buying treats!

The Dowse came to us!

On Friday, Jen from 'The Dowse' came to do a workshop with us.
Rooms 2 and 4 went together.
We started by listening to Jen retell the 'Creation Story' using a felt board. She was a really expressive story teller and everyone was spellbound as they listened.

Next we told our own story about where we live, through art.
Because we live on a hill, we started with a mountain, and added a river. Next we added ourselves and our parents and represented the people with korus.

What amazing results!

Home Learning Book Reading Games

At our recent Parent, Child, Teacher interviews, I said I would share our Reading Games that we play, using the words from our Home Learning Books.
On the right hand sidebar, there is a title 'Pages". Under this is a link to the games.
Check it out

Download them and play the games at home.

Have fun and enjoy.

Pablo Picasso

We are learning about Pablo Picasso and have written some stories about him.

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain and he died in France. He was famous because he did famous paintings.

Kallam

Pablo Picasso lived in Spain but he died. He was a good artist.

Joshua

Pablo Picasso is famous and he is a good artist.

Jordy

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain and then he moved to France. Then he started drawing funny faces. He mixed up a side view and a front view.

Evan

Pablo Picasso was a famous artist. He did very good drawings. Pablo Picasso’s dad gave him his paints and brushes. Pablo Picasso died in France. Pablo Picasso started painting when he was a kid.

Michael

Pablo Picasso is very famous. He is a very good drawer. He is also a very good painter.

Adam

Pablo Picasso was a famous artist and he did lots of paintings. He could paint before he could talk.

Connor

Pablo Picasso was really famous and he did lots of paintings. He could draw before he could talk.

Sophie

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain and he died in France. He was a great artist. When he was 13 he got all of his dad’s paint.

Lauren

Pablo Picasso was a famous artist.

Diana

Pablo Picasso died. It was so sad he couldn’t do painting.

Jonah

Pablo Picasso began to be born in Spain and he moved to France.

Coby

Pablo Picasso painted lots of paintings.

Nathan

Pablo Picasso was an artist. He was famous. He was great at painting. He was the best. I like him.

Katelyn

Pablo Picasso lived in Spain and France. He was an artist.

Keisha-Leigh

Pablo Picasso died. He was a painter.

Hannah

Pablo Picasso is a painter. He lived in France. He was an artist. He was famous.

James

Pablo Picasso was a famous drawer and painter. His dad gave Pablo his paints. His paintings have lots of colours.

Ana

Our cool portraits

Can you guess what we used to make our background?

Rainbow day

Each class at school came dressed in a colour of the rainbow.
Our class came dressed in purple as our colour of the rainbow.

Graphing

Today we made a bar graph with our book bags.
We found out there were more green bags than any other colours.

Blue and yellow were the same as they both had 3.

There were 2 more blue bags than pink ones.

Can you think of other ways to compare these bags? Share them with mum and dad.

School Evacuated

What a deluge of rain today. Due to 'rivers' pouring down our driveway and around our school, Mrs Gordon closed our school and everyone was sent home when their parents arrived to get them. It was a bit of an adventure for us as we had to get carried or splashed across big puddles to get home!
Here are some pictures of our driveway.

Mixing colours

Today we tried an experiment to see what would happen when we mixed yellow and red together.

We made orange when we mixed red and yellow.

Buddy reading

We love it when Room 9 comes in for buddy reading. We get to know new people and they read us great stories. Thank you room 9.

Digital Citizenship at home

This site  has some age appropriate ideas for you to think about and use when your child is using technology.
http://www.vodafone.com/content/parents/get-started.html