Certificates for Week 9

Congratulations to Ria who was awarded with our last Principal's Award for the year. Ria has shown great perseverance and diligence in all of her school work. 

Congratulations to Zoe, Savannah, Jordan, Isla and Luke who received the last PRIDE certificates. They have been demonstrating PRIDE in their school work throughout the year. Keep showing PRIDE next year.

Certificates for Week 4

Mr LeProu was relieving in Room 15 during Week 4. He awarded Kaydee with the Principal's Award for her great focus on her work and also the support that she gave him.

 Mamaeroa, Milly, Ria, Isla and Savannah received PRIDE Certificates for the great support that they gave Mr LeProu while he was relieving in Room 15.

Certificates - Week 2

Well done Chaytah on being awarded the Principal's Award for Week 2. Chaytah has been working hard to persevere with his Maths. He has also been thinking about where to work to remain focussed to complete his work.

The PRIDE Certificate recipients for Week 2 are Karolin, TeKapua, Ria, Zoe and Cayden. Keep demonstrating PRIDE everyone.

Happy Hippie Day

On Friday we had a 'Happy Hippie Day' that was organised by our PRIDE Team. Our day was filled with dressing up, balloons, apple bobbing (with water balloons), face paining, photo booths, and much more.  

Thank you very much to the PRIDE Team who created an awesome fun filled day - it was indeed a HAPPY HIPPIE DAY.

He __________ tēnei. (This is a __________.)

This term students have been learning the māori names for different classroom objects. They have been matching written words and visual images with their english equivalent. To help learn these different objects students have created posters to put up around the classroom.

Week 6 Certificates

Luke received the Principal's Award for Week 6. He has been persevering with his running throughout the term in preparation for our cross country. He has managed to run 103 laps around our school during our training sessions.

Congratulations to our PRIDE Certificate recipients. Karome, Cayden, Jordan, Ria and Milly students have also been persevering with their running throughout the term.

Filming has begun!!!

For the last four weeks we have been:

- reading twisted fairy tales
- reading plays in School Journals

- writing twisted fairy tales

- writing and drawing storyboards

- writing scripts.

We are now onto the stage of filming our movies. We have three screens (green/white/black) set up around the classroom. We are using a Green Screen App to help set our backgrounds and are setting our actors/actresses to work and perform their different roles.

We can't wait for you see the final product.

Equivalent Fractions

We are continuing to focus on Fractions in our maths. We have been looking at equivalent fractions. Below are some photos of what we discovered while using foam fraction shapes. 

Certificates for Week 3

The recipient of the Principal's Award for Week 3 was Karolin. She has been working diligently during class. She is a very helpful students both before and during class. Keep up the great work Karolin.

The PRIDE Awards recipients were:
Kupa, Isla, Rylan, Ria and Te Kapua

Reading Activity: Creating Homophone Posters

For a reading activity students were to create a poster demonstrating some homophones. Below you will see some of the posters that have been completed so far.

Similes and Metaphors

For our writing we are learning to add language features to our stories. 
We are focussing on similes and metaphors this week.
Here are some examples that students came up with yesterday:

"The star burst through the sky like a rocket." 

Karome and Ethan

"The star was as small as a rock." 

Kupa and Manix

"The stars are as shiny as glitter." 

Ria and Savannah

I wonder what we can come up with today and the rest of the week. Keep watching our blog for more examples of our similes and metaphors.

Certificate winners for Week 3

Rylan was the receiver of our Principal's Award this week for his work with a junior member of the school, as well as helping many others while using Pic Collage.

Below are our PRIDE Certificate winners for Week 3.

Luke, Hayley, Ria, Savannah and Kupa