Term 2 Week 4

Christian, the street unicycling world champion, taught us how to ride unicycles this week. We showed lots of perseverance and great teamwork.

Jas and Catherine having a go. Ka pai.

Honey - no hands!

Friday was our Health Expo. We split into whanau groups and visited different activities to learn how to stay safe and healthy. Our favourites were bike safety, smoothie making, tasty marmite and lettuce sandwiches and Jump Jam.

Veishali and Charlie-Gurl enjoyed the sandwiches.

Alfonze coloured in his picture
 from the dog safety show.

Term 2 Week 3

We wrote some cinquaine poems this week. They are five lines long. The poems make a diamond pattern - 2 syllables on the first and last line, 4 syllables on the second line, 6 syllables on the third line and 8 syllables on the fourth line. We all tried to use precise adjectives and verbs. Here are some of the poems we wrote:

Uncle                 

Amazing, safe,

Helping, Swimming, Playing,

My Uncle Jais loves the X box.

Uncle.

by Charlie-gurl.

My Nan

Lovely, awesome

Fishing, cooking, helping

Going shopping with my nan: cool.

my nan.

Te kawana

Term 2 Week 2

We wrote some powerful war poems this week. If you are at school check them out - they are in our publishing window. Che wrote his thoughts on a mini whiteboard during free choice:

I hate war. I wish it will go away. Guns sound like "boom, crash". Smoke drifts in the sky.

 The Duffy Theatre came to school on Wednesday and performed "Duffy and the Library Adventure" for us. 

Sienna learns that the library is free to join and full of amazing books.

Last week Jacob's mum asked us who's the tallest person in our class. We stood in a line from tallest to shortest to check and found out the tallest person is Troy.

Troy was the tallest,

The rest of the class!

Term 2 Week 1

We are all excited to be back at school for Term 2. Azalea had her birthday on Tuesday and shared a cake with us.

The cake was delicious.

Happy Birthday Azalea!

For maths this week we have been learning about measurement. 

We had a competition to see whose line was closest to one metre.

How long is one metre?

Fred and RJ 

On Thursday we headed down to Tawaraunui where Tanya Blatt entertained us with some amazing storytelling.

Catch a Story with Tanya Blatt

Monkey (Moko) getting told off by King Abassi
for dropping his banana on elelphant.

On Friday we walked down to the Memorial Hall.

Troy and Moko checking the names.

Harmony and Charlie-Gurl.

When we got back to school we made some delicious Anzac biscuits.

Measuring the flour into the bowl.

Enjoying our freshly baked biscuits in the sunshine.

Week 9

We had a very active day on Monday. First we had Project Energise with Whaea Gina, then we had our last swimming lesson for the term - no more swimming until Term 4. In the afternoon we walked over to Kaikohe Intermediate to watch the rugby game. Kaikohe West won by 3 tries. Do you think our chant "Go West, Go West" helped them? We do!
On Wednesday we went over to Room 15 and made a korowai for Mrs Bingham:

Some of Mrs Bingham's favourite things: smiley faces, Dr Seuss books, stars and love hearts.

On Thursday the Easter Bunny hid some eggs in our classroom. We were really good at finding them, then we estimated how many there were. Charlie-Gurl came up with a good strategy so we made groups of 10 and it was easy to see there were 90 eggs. We divided them into our Easter baskets so it was fair and took them home to share with our whanau.

Term 1 Week 8

We have been thinking about how we learn: who helps us, what do we use and where do we learn? We drew Learning Maps:

Next term we are hoping to make some videos to share our learning goals with you.

Term 1 Week 7

We had 100% attendance on Wednesday so we took a new class photo - our new header photo!
Here is a silly photo we took at the same time:

We also had a Duffy Assembly and Harmony went up on stage to represent our class. We couldn't wait to start reading as soon as we got back to the classroom.

Azalea and Charlie-Gurl

Jacob

Oliver and Zeke

Dziah,Troy and Te Kawana

Sky with her new Clifford book

Quite a few Room 1 students have been attending Drama Club at lunchtimes with Miss Nicola. They learnt how to make a video book using Book Creator on the iPads. Back in class, they made a Mr Men book to show the class. We are hoping they will teach us all how to make our own books. Check out their book here: