Music with Hana

The children have been enjoying doing music and movement with Hana. She has been visiting each class in the school on Wednesday afternoons. We have some enthusiastic singers in Room 10. The children are getting very good at keeping a beat.

Super Spellers this week

Well done you super spellers in Room 10. You got all of your spelling correct this week. Keep up the great practising.

Bye Harold

We visited Harold again to day for the last time. He was sneaky when we were taking photos. Can you see him poking his head out of the classroom door? Thanks for visiting us Harold and Jacki. We hope we will see you again next year.

Cross Country Practice

Our school cross country is coming up near the end of the term so we are practising our running when the sun shines. Here are some runners looking full of energy. We are learning to pace ourselves and not sprint off at the beginning of the run otherwise we get puffed really quickly. Watch the school newsletter for cross country dates.

Syun's Flying Fish

Syun read The Flying Fish at school at reading time. He made his own Flying Fish kite with his Dad at home. He tried it out in the playground and it flies really well.

Hi Harold

Harold and Jacki are visiting our school this week in their mobile classroom. We visited them today. We were learning about all of the things our bodies need to stay happy and healthy. Can you tell your families what some of those things are?
We get to visit Harold and Jacki again tomorrow. Yay...

Handwriting Star of the Week

Sara is our super handwriting star this week. She keeps all of her letters on the line and her letters are all the same size. Your work is wonderful Sara.

Super Spellers

These four got all of their spelling correct this week. Well done you clever girls.

Assembly Award

Lucas was the person chosen for the assembly award this week. He has worked really hard on his reading activities this week and hasn't given up. Keep up your hard work Lucas.

Sharing at Assembly

We shared our koru paintings at assembly this afternoon. We read the Maori legend called Tangaroa's Gift. It told us how the paua got it's beautiful shell. Tanagaroa, God of the Sea used the greens from the forest, blues from the ocean, pink from the sunset and purple from the sunrise, to make the beautiful paua shell. We used these colours in out art work. We think our work looks fantastic. What do you think?

Kaci and Silva did a perfect job of speaking at assembly. Lovely clear speaking girls.

More great readers...

Here are Cameron, Crystal, Jazmin and Lucas being great readers and buddies at buddy reading time.

Buddy Reading Time

Here are Silva, Jordan, Connor and Ramanaia at buddy reading time. We buddy read at the beginning of reading time each day for ten minutes. We read our new books for the day to our buddies. Our buddies are really good at helping us use our reading strategies if we get stuck on a word.

Great Perseverance

Well done Lucas. You worked really hard at reading activity time today to finish this big floor puzzle all by yourself. You showed great perseverance. You didn't give up when it got a bit hard. We are proud of you.

What If...?

We have been finding out about the water cycle. We wrote some silly stories about evaporation. Here are some of them...

What if apples evaporated? I think it would be nice because I like apples. The whole sky would turn red and green. We would have to live on apple crumble. Jazmin

What if puppies evaporated? It would rain puppies and anyone could have a puppy. What if colours evaporated? It would rain colours and everyone would have coloured hair. Lucy

What if bees evaporated? Bees might flutter as hard as they can so they flutter down. If it was raining with bees, bees would come out of your taps. Cameron

What if chocolate evaporated? You will get to eat chocolate. You will swim in the chocolate water. Lucas

Jokes

We love sharing jokes in Room 10. Here's a great one from Jazmin this week...

How many teachers does it take to fix the photocopier?

Who cares. As long as it keeps then out of the classroom.

And one from William...
Why did the banana got to hospital?

It wasn't peeling well.

Remember our joke sharing time is Wednesday mornings. Keep a look out for some good jokes. Post them into us with the comment option.

Artists at Work

Today we read the Maori legend called "Tangaroa's Gift." It tells us how paua got his beautiful shell. Here are Jasmine and Kane hard at work painting the violet from the sunrise that was added to paua's shell. Looking good you two.

Hi Risa

Syun's cousin Risa spent a few hours in our classroom this morning. Risa comes from Japan and is visiting Syun's family this week. We don't think she understood much of our english but she did have a wonderful smile. We hope Risa will look at our blog when she gets back to Japan.

Medal Winners.

Connor and Shay both recieved medals for rugby in the weekend. They were the players for the month in their team. Well done you two star rugby players.

Handwriting Star of the Week

Oliver was our handwriting star last week. He has been working hard to keep his letters on the line and keep them all the same size. Fabulous work Oliver. He had a handwriting holiday for a whole week.

Finding Out About Sinking and Floating

Jordan, Sara, Silva, Kane, Jazmin, Syun and Ramanaia are testing objects to find out if they will sink or float.
We predicted that the heavy things will sink and the light things will float.
After testing our prediction we found out that most of the things that floated were plastic, and most of the things that sank were metal.
Jazmin asked an interesting question: "Why do boats float because they are very heavy?" We are going to find out. We will keep you posted.

We are learning to throw and catch a big ball at P.E time. We are actually very good at it. Here are some action shots...

More Enormous Crocodiles

Another sneaky crocodile from room 10...

Another sneaky crocodile from Connor...

The Great Ice Cube Competiton

This term our Inquiry study is all about water. Today we had an ice cube competition. In pairs, we put our ice cubes in a place where we thought they would stay frozen for the longest time. Some of us put them in the cloakroom because we thought it was the coldest place in the school. Some of us put them outside, and some of us put them under furniture and in cupboards. We checked on our ice cubes every hour. Olivia and Syun put theirs outside behind the senior block. Their ice cube was the last one to melt. It didn't melt until after lunch. We think the heaters helped the ice cubes inside to melt more quickly than the ones outside. Behind the senior block was definitely the coldest place at our school today. Well done Olivia and Syun.

Crocodile paintings

Here is Sara's enormous crocodile. Look out for some more to creep onto our blog..