Teacher Only Days -

There will be no school on Tuesday and Wednesday (5th/6th May) this week as there are two Teacher Only Days. Teachers and BOT will be heading to Auckland to visit different school with our MOA Kluster.

More Poppy Poems

Here are two more Poppy poems from a Reading response activity about Anzac Day. 

Aila                                    Dallas

Poppy Poems

As a part of our Reading programme we have been reading poems about Anzac Day. Levi, Luke and Sienna have used PicCollage to present one of the poems.

Our Treasures (taonga)

 Last week we looked at treasures that families might have from family members relating to Anzac's and WWI. Students thought about what treasures they have and some even brought them in share with the class. Below are some photos of treasures (or taongas) that are important to us.

Certificates for Week 1, Term 2

Congratulations to Joel who received the first Principal's Award for the term. He has persevered with his writing and worked diligently to get a story started, written and published. Keep persevering Joel.

Congratulations to our five PRIDE Certificate recipients for Week 1. They are Tristan, Caitlin, Aila, Dante and Caleb.

Homework for Term One

Congratulations to those students who were able to bring in their homework each week for Term One. For their efforts they each received a certificate and some goodies. 

We made it into the Coastal News

Weet-bix Tryathlon

Well done to four members from our class who participated in the Weet-bix Tryathlon yesterday. 

Luke, Levi, Tyrel and Mazzlin had a great time and received medals for their effort. Mazzlin even won an extra prize of a drink bottle, cap, big ball and mini soft ball.

          

          

Playgound And Classroom Language

Here is the first of the movie trailers about Playground and Classroom Language.

This movie trailer was created by Anika and Dallas.

Week 9 Certificates

Congratulations to Connor who received the Principal's Award for Week 9. He has shown great perseverance and diligence in all school work that is given to him. Keep up the great work Connor.

Congratulations to Alex, Tristan, Tyrone, Aila and Dallas. They receive their certificates for their work last week in Reading. You can see some of the Antonym posters on an earlier post. 

Antonym (Opposite) Posters

We have had a busy exciting week with our Reading and Writing. We have been reading about and discussing the differences between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. This has lead to us writing to different people who live in different countries. We will be posting our emails onto our blog (both our individual and our class blog) when we have finished typing them up.

We have also been discussing antonyms and creating posters demonstrating words opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good).

Here are some of the posters that have been finished:

PRIDE - Swimming Pool Expectations

Over the last few weeks we have been looking at the rules and expectations while at the swimming pool. We have discussed as a class what we should see while at the pool. Members of the class have been putting posters and videos together to show others what we should do and see.

Click on the videos below to see the first of the videos created in Room Totara.

Reece, Alex, Sequoia, Shakshi and Troy

Tyrel and Christian

Levi and Connor BD

Anika and Dallas

Caitlin, Madison, Kade, Mazzlin and Luke

Emails between Friends

We have added a new page to our Class Blog. Please check out our 'Emails between Friends' page. You will find out what we are doing in our Reading/Writing this week and read about similarities and differences between Opunake, NZ and other countries, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.

Certificates for Week 8

Congratulations to Tyrel. He received the Principal's Awards for Week 8. He persevered with his alliteration writing independently while most of the class worked in pairs. Keep sharing your great ideas for your writing Tyrel.

Well done to Luke, Levi, Troy, Alex and Sofia for receiving the PRIDE Certificates for Week 8. The boys worked well with their partners to share their alliteration writing. Sofia received her certificate for her focus during her writing while working with her partner.

15,000 page views and 2,000 visitors.

We have made it to over 15,000 total page views and over 2,000 visitors. Thanks to all of those people who have viewed our Blog and a big THANK YOU to those people who have commented on our posts. 

Please continue to make comments to share your thoughts about what we are doing in our classroom.

Zealous Zoo Writing

This week for writing we looked at a poem by Pie Corbett called Zealous Zoo. Each sentence used alliteration to write about a different animal. After reading Zealous Zoo we created our own sentences. Here is our class examples.

Week 7 Certificates

Congratulations to Anika who received the Principal's Award for Week 7. She has been persevering and working diligently, especially in her reading. 

Congratulations to our PRIDE Certificate recipients for Week 7. They are Shakshi, Dante, Tyrone, Tyrel and Christian.

Sienna-Nicole's Homework Passion Project

Sienna-Nicole brought in her first Homework Passion Projects. She completed an Art activity where she had to draw her own superhero. Here are some photos of her superhero. 

If you would like to see more of our Homework Passion Projects then click on the link below.

Draw Your Own Superhero

Certificates for Week 6

Congratulations to Sienna who received the Principal's Award for Week 6. She has been persevering to improve her writing for others to read.

Well done to our PRIDE Certificate recipients for Week 6. They are Levi, Leroy, Sequoia, Dallas and Mazzlin. They have been demonstrating PRIDE in the classroom.

Junior Swimming Display - change of date

We have now changed the Junior Swimming Display day to Wednesday 11th March (postponement date Friday 13th March).

We will be having a Junior Swimming Display on Wednesday 11th March or Friday 13th March. We invite parents and whanau to come along and share with us. Each class will show some of the skills we have been learning at swimming time and of course fun activities in the pool.

1:30pm - Room 8 - Miss Hale

1:50pm - Room 12 - Mrs Potroz

2:10pm - Room 13 and 16 - Mrs Weir and Mrs Pather

2:30pm - Room 15 - Miss Ogle

We look forward to seeing lots of people come to see how clever we are.