Working on our football skills

We have been working with Simon on our football skills.  We enjoy learning new skills and then using them in a game.

Our Treasures

Buddy Time With Room 5

On Friday we went to our buddy class and worked with our partners to draw a creative monster. They had been reading and discussing all about monsters.  We enjoy doing activities with our buddy class each week!

Sharing our Family Treasures

As part of our inquiry we have been learning about each other so we can be a successful community. We brought our family treasures to school to show each other and share the stories behind them.  We enjoyed hearing and learning about each one.

Mr Palmer visits

Today Mr Palmer visited us.  He is an arborist.  He talked to us about what at arborist does and all the safety equipment needed to cut down a tree.  He removed a dead tree from near our front playground. We watched him do this and some of us took the branches away so we can use them in our tree huts.

Our Buddy Class

Last week we got together with Room 5 our buddy class.  We met the person who found our hidden rocks.  We learnt their name and some information about what they like.  We look forward to doing lots of fun activities with them through out the year.

Assembly Award Winners

Well done Vetaia and Kevin for receiving a merit certificate. Keep up the good work and enjoy your morning tea with Ms O'Connor.

Well done Mase for receiving a player of the day.

School Leaders

We are so excited to have some school leaders in our class. Congratulations boys. We are so proud of you.

Community Walk

This week we went on a walk around our neighbourhood.  We looked at lots of different communities we have around us.  In writing we have been learning about personification (giving objects a human quality).  So while on our walk we looked for objects we could personify.  Some examples are ... The phone booth standing waiting for a call.  The grass was dancing in the wind with its friends.

Welcome Back

We are all pleased to be back at school and in the Lions Den.  It's been a great few weeks at school.

CO2 Car Race Wordle

In class we made a wordle. The wordle had to be about what feelings we would have if we won the CO2 car race. Here is mine.

Art

The Crazy Science Show

On Wednesday a crazy scientist came to our school to teach us crazy, cool and fun science tricks. He had lots of cool tricks like big bubble blowing, making water disappear, floating balls, mini rockets and indoor fireworks. After all of that his final trick was hypnosis.  What was your favourite science trick?

By Kainoa

Inquiry

Created with Padlet

Pattern art

This week we have been trying to draw patterns for our art. After we drew patterns we drew a house. After that we put the patterns into the house. Here are is an example.  

Puanga Celebration Competition

Competition Time! Create a poster to advertise our Puanga Celebration. 

There are prizes for the winning poster!

New Role Models!

In the Lions Learning Den, we have 3 reasons to look for great role models in our class. The first one you can get by Striving for Accuracy. Which means you’re always trying your best and finding new ways to complete it. The winner for Striving for Accuracy is Jake. Our 2nd one is the King of the Den. Which means you have to get your work done on time and be a great role model. And the winner for King of the Den is Kainoa. Our last one is the Blogging King. This means that you have no mistakes on your blog and not messing around with the colours,fonts and sizes. And the winner for the blogging king is Blake R. Well done to these 3 boys. They have been trying so hard. Keep an eye out for next week’s winners.

Haiku Poems

Today we have been learning how to write Haiku poems. We did one about the thunder because we could hear it outside. For Haiku poems you have to have 5 syllables on the first and last line. You also need to have 7 syllables in the middle. So in total you need 3 lines.

Welcome Back!

Well we have had another busy start to the term. We have continued with our new inquiry, learning all about structures. We have just started creating another piece of building artwork so watch this space for our finished pieces. We have learnt more Te Reo. We had heaps of fun going out and drawing on the concrete. We have also started learning some basketball skills. So lots of fun learning in He Puna Hangahanga!

Congratulations

Congratulations to Hayz And Coby. Hayz is the winner of the perseverance cup, for always trying hard. Coby won a Merit certificate for making a positive change to his behaviour. Well done boys!

Technology Wednesdays

We are really enjoying out technology Wednesdays .... cooking, sewing, renovating and 3d printing. Lots of fun!

Swimming

Today we were really lucky, Cecily from Swimming New Zealand came and worked with our class. We had lots of fun floating sculling and towing each other through the water.

Swimming Sports

Yesterday we had our school swimming sports at WIS. Everyone tried their best and we had an awesome time. We especially loved our free swim at the end.

Waimarie Trip

Below are a few snaps from our Waimarie Riverboat Trip on Friday afternoon. It was great to experience a local attraction and learn about the Whanganui River at the same time.

Team Building

We have continued to practice our team building this week. We were split into teams and had to build the tallest tower. We were only allowed 5 pieces of newspaper and 1 meter of tape. It was hard to make the tower stand up. We had to work together and share our ideas. Keep watch for our next team building challenge.

Human Knot

Today as a team building activity we made human knots. We held hands across the circle, except for the person next to us. We had to use cooperation and make sure we were nice to each other, so that no one got hurt.

Welcome to 2016

Welcome to 2016!
It is going to be an exciting year for the Lion's Den. Most of you will have noticed the arch way between Rooms 1 and 2, and then again into the old hub area. If you haven't seen this yet, come in and check it out! Welcome to all our new parents, families and children. We have a busy term ahead with swimming and lots of house activities (including our annual water fight). Watch this space for other exciting things events coming up this term, as well as what we have been doing and awesome work by the children!

Noun Wordcloud

We worked as a class to make a noun word cloud. We used team work to figure out which words were nouns. 

Term Four Update

We have been really busy in Room 15. Lets see what we have been up to...

Art Expo

Senior Hockey Day

Disco

Badminton Lessons

Athletics

Tough Kids

Camp

Keeping ourselves safe, shows, inquiry, literacy maths and heaps more!