Super Spellers week 10

The great spelling continues. Keep up the practising of your spelling words children.

Assembly Performance # 3

We finished our performance with our rakau. I know the children really enjoyed performing. We hope you have enjoyed watching. Let us know.
Many thanks to Paia (Andre's mum) for giving up her valuable time and expertise to help us.

Assembly Performance # 2

Here we are performing a waiata with poi...

Assembly Performance # 1

We have been practicing singing waiata this term. Here is our welcoming song that we sang at assembly with room 8 and room 11...

Assembly Leaders

Ben and Hamish did a great job of leading assembly on Friday. They used such clear voices and helped each other.

Handwriting Star

Well done Akif. You have been working hard to make sure you write all of your letters properly, especially your a's and d's.

Super Spellers week 9

Keep up the great work fabulous room 10 spellers!

Tangaroa's Gift

We read the Maori legend "Tangaroa's Gift." Paua was sad and lonely. He was slow and ugly. Tangaroa, who is the Maori god of the sea, made Paua a beautiful shell, using blue from the ocean, green from the forest, pink from the sunset and violet from the dawn. He covered the outside of the shell with the colour of rocks so the other sea creatures would leave Paua alone.
We painted the paua shell using dabbing techniques. We finished it off with shiny gold koru shapes. We think they are fabulous!

Super Spellers week 8

The spelling continues to get better and better in room 10. Keep up the fabulous spelling children!

Keeping Safe around Dogs

Ros and Switch came to visit our class last week. Ros is a dog control officer and works for the Dunedin City Council. Switch is her very patient and calm dog. He just wanted to have a sleep in the sunshine!
Ros spoke to the children about how to approach dogs if they want to pat them. She also spoke about how to behave if a dog comes running up to you.

Fabulous Handwriting

We have so many fabulously neat handwriters in room 10. Aryana is our handwriting star this week. Aryana has been working hard to make her letters sit on the line. Keep up the great work Aryana.

Handwriting Star

Amelia has worked really hard to be the handwriting star. She writes really neatly now in all of her books - not just her handwriting book. That' s great perseverance Amelia.

Super Spellers week 7

Well done to the great spellers last week. Keep up the great work.

Cheese and silverbeet muffins

We have a very healthy crop of silverbeet in our garden. We used a bunch of silverbeet last week to make cheese and silverbeet muffins. They were hot and steamy and scrumptious. Amelia wrote, "I bit into the muffin. Steam came bursting out. It was hot and tasty!" They wer perfect with a dollop of melting butter. YUM!!

Icy Poems

Last Tuesday morning we had such a big frost in North East Valley. We went outside to explore the frost. Brr... it was so cold we could see our breath.
The children wrote some fabulous frost poems. Here are some of them...

Frost
Frosty
Frosty like a cloud

Frosty like snow

Frost like fluffy wool
by Shayden

frost
glittery
smoky breath
shiny grass
crunchy grass
icy tables
glittery diamonds
sharp
by Emma

Frost
chilly like snow
cold like the fridge
crunchy under our feet
smoky breath
shiny grass like glitter
frozen like ice blocks
hukapapa
By Amelia

frost like a chilly bin
shiny like snow
glittery like a shiny sun
crunchy like leaves
crackling like leaves
sparkly like the sun
frozen like a statue
makariri cold
hukupapa frost
By Dominic