Spelling - Week 5

Whero
Kakariki
Kahurangi
Kowhai

Financial Literacy

Today Ewen from ASB came and talked to us. He told us about how we can earn and save money. We learnt about interest, eftpos and credit.
Here are some things we learnt...

• you can earn money from the bank (interest)
• it's important to save money and treat yourself a little too
• there are many different ways to earn money - chores, jobs, neighbourhood jobs
• its better to use an eftpos rather than credit
• using a credit card means you are borrowing money
• don't spend all of your money

Bob Bickerton

Today Bob Bickerton came to our school. We really enjoyed seeing all of his instruments and how they worked. We discovered Bob's first ever instrument was a guitar and his favourite instruments are the harp and flute. It was a great show.

Spelling - Week 4

Whero
Kakariki
Kahurangi
Kowhai

Weekly Challenge

Well I thought it was time to start up our weekly challenge again. Each week I will place a question online. To tell me your answer place a comment on that post. You need to be very specific with your answers. The more information you supply the higher the chance you have of winning. The first person who gets the answer right (with all the information) wins. Anyone from any class can answer the question. So what are you waiting for?

Here goes...
How old is the oldest athlete at the 2012 Olympics? Who are they? What country are they representing? What sport are the competing in?

Buddy Art

Today we went to Room 12 to help them with their art. We sponged a piece of paper with 2 colours ready for them to print some bugs on top. The seniors boys were a great help.

Finger Painting

Today for art we made some prints, finger print pictures. We looked at some ideas and examples then Mrs Larsen let us go and create our own. It was great fun. Here are a few things people created.

Here are a few things the boys learnt when creating a print with their fingers.
Tarron - I learnt that is was pretty challenging because I had to make it look like an actual circle
Wiremu - I learnt that print making is when you dab your fingers up and down instead of rubbing
VJ - I learnt how to make a person using my fingers and nails.
Isaiah - I learnt how to make little people using just your finger prints
Keylen - I learnt how to make it darker on one side and lighter on the other to make it 3D
Te Paerangi - I learnt to use a little bit of paint because if you use to much it wont look like a finger print it will look like a blob.

Olympic Bus

Today we went for a walk down to Springvale Stadium. We went to have a look at the Olympic Bus! We got to use a lot of fancy gadgets to find out information, some of us left messages for the Olympic Athletes in London, we got to look at the past Olympic torches and equipment used and a few of us got a photo taken holding an Olympic medal.

Olympic Videos

Opening Ceremony Highlights

 Mr Bean at the Opening Ceremony  Official Olympic Song

Torch Relay Video

Duffy Assembly

Last term we had Duffy Assembly. Hamish McDouall came and talked to us about reading books. He showed us some of his favourite books one of his favourite books was the English dictionary. I found out that he loves the culture English.

Our HOM

Today we did some more work on our HOM. We created a wordle showing what Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision means to us.

After that we searched for some information about David Lange and why he is successful, especially at our habit. This is what we found.

This is a video that Isaiah Found of  David Lange at the Oxford Union debate.

Spelling - Week 3

Whero
Kakariki
Kahurangi
Kowhai

King of the Den

Inquiry

Today we started our investigation for our Inquiry. We were trying to answer our first question, What do the Olympic Rings represent. Here is what we found out...

• The Olympic Rings were designed by a man called Baron Pierre De Coubertin in 1912 after he saw a similar artifact in Ancient Greece.
• The five rings represent the five continents: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
• Every country in the world has at least one of the five colours of the rings in their flag.

Tech Expo

On Friday Room 6 and 15 went to the Memorial Hall to the Tech Expo. Firstly we listened to a couple of speakers. They talked about Mathletics and showed us a really cool robot that speaks Japanese. After that we had a look around all the stalls. We loved getting up close with the robots, chatting with the doctor in Christchurch, watching WIS demonstrate their robotics, watching St Georges showing us how they make 3D models form drawings and playing with all the programmes on Awa City Clubhouse computers. We had lots of fun.

Our Habit of Mind

Today we did another activity to help us learn more about the habit we are focusing on, Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision. We worked in pairs. One person had to create a pattern using objects hidden behind a barrier. They then had to give clear instructions to their partner so they could create the same pattern. Then they swapped roles. Everyone had so much fun!

Buddy Art

Today we went to Room 12 to start our buddy art for the term. We helped them create a mirror print using paint. Next time we will help them turn their prints into butterflies.

Spelling - Week One

Whero - List 10
Kakariki - List 10
Kahurangi - List 10
Kowhai - List 10

Term 3

Well we have all had a nice long rest. Hopefully you are ready for lots of learning as we have an action packed term.

Here's what we are up to.

Going to the Warehouse

Last night I went to the Warehouse to buy my uncle a birthday present, Cody and I also bought one pair of shoes. They are my best shoes. I have never had those shoes before. I had even put black laces in them so they look better. My dad helped me put them in, that was before my homework it was about space. I just had to do my tittle page then it was done. Mum said "WOW" I had to add my name in it to. I asked mum if I could put a background but she said no, so I asked mum if I was allowed to put space stickers on... and we did.
By Mitchell

The Observatory

To help celebrate all of our learning we have done for our inquiry this term we went to the observatory. We looked through a power telescope at Saturn and some stars. It was a great night.

Celebrating Puanga

Last week we celebrated Puanga. On Thursday we spent the whole day learning lots of new things. We played Mu Torere a Maori board game, made a kite using flax, learnt how to use Te Rakau, made a poi, played Ki O Rahi and made a Koauau. The next day we had a bonfire and made our wishes for the new year. After that we went back to class and started creating a Pou Pou using black paper and pastel. We had an awesome time.

Wearable Arts

Wow what a week! We have been so busy creating amazing costume that we haven't had time to blog. The boys have been working hard creating stars, planets, robots and aliens. We practiced our cat walking skills and had an amazing show! Here are a few photos. Watch this space for more photos and a video of our performance.

Duffy Book Winners

 Congratulations Tarron and Joshua for earning a Duffy Book.

Inquiry

Merit Certificate

Way to go Keylen! He has had an awesome week. He is a real asset to Room 15.

Duffy Book Winners

Congratulations Joshua and Anaru. Enjoy your new books.

Inquiry Glogs

Over the past couple of weeks the boys have be creating glogs to show what they have learnt so far in our inquiry. Here are some of them.

Keylen's TePaerangi's Isaiah's

Museum Visit

Room 15 & 6 went for a class trip to the Museum to learn about Puanga. First Room 15 went into the Cosmodome and got shown around lots of constellations and got shown how to use the Southern Cross as a compass. Next we went into a room with a data projector and got shown how the Maori celebrate on Maori New Year.

Room 15's Assembly Item - Once Upon a Hundred Years Nap

Last Friday was our assembly item. The boys had one week to learn their lines. They did a great job at acting out each scene and making sure they used expression and spoke so everyone could hear. You should be very proud of yourself boys. It was FANTASTIC!

Spelling Term Two - Week 7

Whero - List 7
Kakariki - List 7
Kahurangi - List 7
Kowhai - List 7

Jake's Lucky Day

Jake also won the Hi 5 prize in assembly this week. Well done! He got some funky gel pens for his prize.

Duffy Book Winners

Congratulations Jake and Kahu!

Striving for Accuracy

This week Striving for Accuracy goes to Jake. He tried so hard to learn his lines for our assembly item. He used great expression and made a beautiful Merrywell Charming!

King of the Den

Postcard Project

Today we posted 22 postcards to lots of classes all around the world. Some went to Australia and some went to USA. We even sent 1 to Thailand, Scotland, Italy, Russia and South Africa. We cant wait to see how long they take to arrive at the other schools. We hope they all write back!

Froggy's Lunchtime

Today Froggy was out and about with Casey. This is what they got up to.