Our Present!

Today Joshua and Kahu waked in with a present from Mr Petersen, a chrysalis. He found it and thought we might like to have it in the class and see what happens. Kahu thinks there is a white butterfly inside, what do you think?

Below is a you Tube clip to show the life cycle from Caterpillar to Butterfly. Very interesting!

Our New HOM

Today we started our new Habit of Mind. This time I didn't tell the boys what it was. Their goal was to try and figure what habit we are focusing on from the activity we did.

Today they all were given part of a picture to colour in. However, they didn't know what the picture was. After they had finished we glued all the pieces together and had a look at what we made. We compared it to the original art work.

Here is what we created.

Here is Van Gogh's version.

So what Habit of Mind do you think we were focusing on?

Welcome Back!

Well this term is going to be another busy one. I hope you are all ready for lots of learning!

Here is a Wordle to show some of the things we are doing this term.

Reading Glogs

In class we have been reading journal stories all about stars and Matariki. The boys have created a blog to show the information they have learnt. Here are some of them.

TePaerangi



Tyson

Shared Reading

What if Mr and Mrs Twit had a child?

Well that's the question the boys were asked after we read all about Mr and Mrs Twit. Here are some of their ideas.

Zhyon

 Charlie

 Ashton

Dance Showcase

A Little Inspiration..??

Dance Showcase Music

We have worked really hard to get ready for our dance showcase. I have added the music below so everyone can have a sneak peak at what we are dancing to. Boys keep dancing over the weekend. Have fun!

Maori Language Week

Assembly Item

Last Friday we performed our assembly item Maui and the Sun. We worked really hard. It turned out great!

Adjective Spiders

Over the past few weeks we have been learning all about adjectives so we decided to make adjective spiders.

Dance Poems

A while a go we wrote some senses poems about dance. We have finally had time to finish presenting them. What do you think?

Wheels in Motion

Letters From Australia

Today we were so excited! Letters from our penpals in Australia arrived in the post. We really enjoyed receiving our first letters and learning all about our penpals. Can you believe it, one of them has a pet snake!
They asked us lots of good questions. They also told us a little about how Kingi is going and drew pictures of him. We are pleased he is with such a nice class.We will be writing back to them next week.

Weaving Stars

Today we were really lucky. Tyson's mum Laura, came in with Aunty Kath to show us how to weave stars. They heard we had been celebrating Puanga so though it would be a fun thing for us to learn. We needed to listen carefully and follow the instructions accurately. We had lots of fun. I think our stars look great!

Dance Poems

For our habit of mind, gathering data through all senses, we have written senses poems about dance. Here are a few of them.

Dance

Dance tastes like popping candy tingling in your mouth.

Dance feels feels like the air swooshing through my hair.

Dance looks like a little butterfly flying through the air.

Dance smells like freshly mowed grass.

Dance sounds like the beat of a drum.

That’s Dance!

By Joshua H

Dance

Dance tastes like sweet green apples.

Dance looks like wavy and flowy movements

Dance smells like lovely roses.

Dance sounds like the beat of music.

Dance feels like romance.

That’s Dance!

By TePaerangi

Watch this space to see how we present our poems!

Derek's Adventures

Last week Derek had an adventure all around the Hawkes Bay. Check out what he got up to.

Spirit Day

Last Friday we all dressed up in spooky costumes for spirit day. It was lots of fun!

Netball Tag

In P.E we have been focusing on chest passing and catching correctly. We went over the important steps we need to remember like; making a w with our fingers, following through with the ball and cushioning the ball when catching it. To practice these skills we played a new game, Netball Tag. We had lots of fun.

Andy Warhol Art

Last week we finished creating our Andy Warhol Artworks. I think they turned out fabulously!

Derek Has Arrived

At the start of this week we were all very excited. Derek the Koala arrived! He is from Australia and will be spending the term with us. While he is coming to school with us, Kingi is going to school in Australia. We hope he is having a good time. We have really enjoyed showing Derek around and can't wait to take him home and give him lots of adventures.

Movies

On Friday the whole senior school went to the movies. We watched a documentary called first position. Below is the trailer for the movie. What did you think of it? Did you learn anything?

Breaking Out Our Moves

Today for our inquiry we had a go at dancing to help us further understand what dance is. Mrs Larsen played different styles of music that Kahu had selected for us. We then danced to them they way we thought we should. Some of us listened really carefully to the music and danced to the beat etc. We all had lots of fun.Mrs Larsen particularly enjoyed watching their ballet moves. So do you think we can make it as dancers?

Habit of Mind

Yesterday we talked some more about the Habit of Mind we have been focusing on. We ran around the school to find the Gathering Data Through All senses poster to find out who was on it. It was Evermore. A lot of us didn't know who Evermore was so we looked them up on You Tube. We discovered they were a band so we watched one of their music videos.

Click here to watch the music video on You Tube

We discussed why they would be good at gathering data through all senses. Joshua H summed it up well, "To be able to write their songs they have to experience things for themselves, see things, feels things, hear things etc. Evermore can use those experiences to write their songs."

After watching the video clip we discussed the five senses and all the things that came to our mind when watching the video. We created a Wordle with all of our words.

A New Student

Hi my name is Anton. I am new to Room 15. I like to go for a bike rides. I like to go to my uncle and my auties house and play with my cousin and my bother. We take turns on my bike and we have races sometimes. We go down and up the street. I came 2 in the race. I like racing because it makes me laugh and I like to race.

Kingi's Holiday - Even More!

More photo's from Kingi. He is one lucky lion!

Procedure

Yesterday we wrote a procedure as a class about how to make a Hacky Sack. Here it is.

How to make a Hacky Sack

What you need:

3 balloons

A handful of rice

Scissors

A bottle (like a drink bottle)

Steps:

1. Gather the things you need.

2. Collect your handful of rice and tip it into your bottle. Note: make sure it’s over something so it doesn’t spill everywhere.

3. Stretch 1 of your balloons over the top of the bottle. Note: Be careful so it doesn’t rip and make sure it is pulled down over the whole top.

4. Tip your bottle upside-down and shake, after three shakes, run your index finger and thumb down the neck of the balloon to push all the rice in to fill the balloon. While you are shaking the bottle make sure that the hand that is holding the bottle is also holding the balloon.

5. Once the balloon has been filled with the rice carefully take the balloon off the bottle, holding the neck so the rice doesn’t spill.

6. Carefully cut the balloon about 2 thirds of the way down the neck so the rice doesn’t spill.

7. Grab the other 2 balloons and cut them at bottom of the neck.

8. Take one of the balloons, stretch it open and carefully put it over the balloon with rice in it.

9. Repeat step 8 with the 3^rd balloon.

You have now made a Hacky Sack. Enjoy!