ANZAC Day

We have been talking about ANZAC day in class. We learnt that New Zealand and Australia went to war and fought together in Turkey at Gallipoli.  We also learnt that poppies are used to remember those that died in the war. We have made our own poppies in remembrance.

Junior Triathlon

We had lots of fun doing our triathlon last term and hope we get to do another one next year. We used the go-pro's to record what it was like to do the triathlon and Miss Nation made it into a movie. We hope you enjoy it.

Making Jelly

Our letter of the week as been J. We made jelly and then wrote instructions on how to make it. here are some pictures and stories.

Put the packet of jelly in the bowl and put the hot water in the bowl and mix it. Put it in the fridge and wait until it is time to have it.  By Bailey

Put the packet of jelly in the bowl and pour in the cold water and the hot water and stir the jelly in the bowl. Ten put the jelly in the fridge until it wobbles. By Blake

Swimming with Lifejackets

Swimming with Lifejackets on PhotoPeach

Making 5

We have been working hard in maths learning how to make 5.

House Spirit Day

On Friday we had a Spirit Day were we had to come dressed in our house colours. In the afternoon we went into our Houses and did some activities. Each house is coming up with their own flag and song so we can't wait to see what they all are. We also got house points for wearing our house colour - which house to you think won in our class - Totara = green, Puriri = red, Kauri = blue or Kowhai = yellow.

Our Wordles

Miss Nation helped us make wordles on the computer with all the things that we like - colours/animals/food/drink to name a few. We also got to choose the way we wanted the words, the colour and the font. Check them out and let us know what you think.

Our Wordles on PhotoPeach

Bug Wonderings

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Spelling

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Building Tables

We have new building tables at school. We also have new tools to go with. Mr Dobbin came in on Monday and showed us the tools and we got to practice sawing and hammering in nails. We are going to be working in small groups with Mr Dobbin to make our own spinning tops.

Spelling

Lions
Leopards
Lizards

Spelling

Lizards
Leopards
Lions

Hockey

We had a fantastic time at hockey. We learnt lots of new skills like dribbling, passing, stealing the ball of others. We also learnt how to hold the stick correctly and how to be safe with the hockey stick.

Spelling week 4

Lizards
Leopards
Lions

Verbs

We have been learning about verbs. a verb is a doing word. Here is our list of words.

Spelling week 3

Lizards
Leopards
Lions

Spelling Week 1

Lions
Leopards
Lizards

Hockey

We are really enjoying our Hockey sessions - we love them so much we even play it in the rain! Enjoy the slide show of us showing off our skills.

Toy inquiry

As part of our Toy inquiry we have been looking at maori games. We have been learning the rakau and the song that goes with it. Here is the song and hopefully when we get better we will post some pictures or maybe even a movie of us doing it.

Creative Writing

We used these two pictures as inspiration for our writing. Come and read the great stories we wrote.

One day a long time ago my baot got eaten by a shark. I jumped off and I was scared. 

By Baylen

Once upon a time a shark was chasing me when I was on my jet ski. I was chasing him too because we were playing hide and seek because we were friends.

By D-Jay