Tongue Twisters

To help with our movie making what have been doing so fun warm up activities. We have been trying to say some well known tongue twisters.

Here is a video of some students giving some of the tongue twisters a go.

Here are some of the Tongue Twisters that we are persevering with this week. Have a go if you wish. How well will you do?

Term 3

We have started Term Three off with a hiss and a roar. Room Totara has jumped right back into lots of work.

Today we saw the launch of Mana the Lion and all of our PRIDE rewards. Each class received a box of goodies with PRIDE Certificates, Mana Moments, Mana Tick-its, Principals/Deputy Principal's Certificates and our very own Mana.

We have a very large Mana the Lion (80cm tall) which Room 12 were proud to be presented with for the week. They were the best class during Assembly this week. Room 15 hope to receive Mana proudly in the next few weeks by demonstrating PRIDE in Assembly.

These students were just some of the students who received Mana Moments in class today:

Opunake & Coastal News - June 19 2015 Issue

We made it into the Opunake & Coastal News for the second time this year. Thank you to Mrs Stanley who used her donation from Shell Todd Oil Services to buy our school some books. Mazzlin and Shakshi were the two students who thanked the ladies when they were presented to our school.

CSI Open Day! CSI Open Day! CSI Open Day!

For Term 2 we have been persevering to complete Science Investigations for our Open Day. Click on the link to view the schools webpage.

If you would like go straight to our class Science website then click on the link below.

Homework Certificates

Congratulations to those students who brought in their homework each week for Term Two. For their efforts they each received a certificate and a prize. 

Maths: Statistics - Probability

For the last two weeks of the term we have been looking at Statistics - Probability.
Our unit has focussed on:

• using dice to assign roles and discussing the fairness of games.
• playing probability games and identifying all possible outcomes.
• comparing and ordering the likelihood of simple events.

Here are some photos of the students working on some of the probability games.

          

Certificates for Week 9/10

Congratulations to Alex who received the Principal's Award for the last week of Term 2. He has shown great determination in all of his school work. He has also shown that he can be a great leader and supporter of other students in the class.

Congratulations to Connor who received a PRIDE Certificate from Mr McKellar while he was relieving in our class. 

Reading - Endangered List Posters

Today for our Reading Response activity we had to create a poster to support animals that are on the endangered list. Here are some of the posters that were created.

Students have posted their posters onto their own blogs using Easy Blogger. Please go and check out what they have been posting and make some comments.

Certificates for Week 9

Well done to Sienna-Nicole who was awarded the Principals Award this week. She has been persevering in all of her school work, especially her reading. You are showing great diligence Sienna-Nicole.

Congratulations to Sofia, Levi, Tamzyn, Sequoia and Dante for receiving the PRIDE Certificates for Week 9. We have been working on assessment for the end of the term and these students have been showing great progress in their reading. Keep up the great reading. 

Augusta Mountainairs

Last week we were luck to get a lesson from three of the Augusta Mountainairs. Here is a video showing what we got up to.

PRIDE Certificates for Week 8

Congratulations to Troy, Levi, Luke, Alex, Shakshi and Jessica who received the PRIDE Certificates for Week 8. They have been persevering to get all of their work completed and ready for our Open Day which is happening at the end of the term. Keep persevering.

Farewell Tyrel

This week we bid farewell to Tyrel. He is off to a new school. He is not going far and we will definitely be seeing him around. He will still be participating in our MOA Kluster Awards with his new school. Good luck with your new adventure Tyrel.

We have moved back!!! Woohoo!! Boohoo!!

Tyrel: 

I thought it was fun that we got to do extra jobs like the milk.

Sofia:

I liked that we were right by the deck.

Troy:

I was relieved that we didn't have to stay in the room for that long. I liked that we still got to continue to do our writing, reading and maths while we were in the learning centre.

Alex: 

It seemed strange that we have shifted back to our classroom as I was getting used to the learning centre.

Shakshi:

I didn't like that we had to be extra quiet.

Dallas: 

I liked that we got to enjoy the entire learning centre today.

Sienna:

I had fun in the learning centre.

Have you checked out our Individual Blogs lately?

Have you checked out our Individual Blogs lately?

We have been using the iPads to support us with our learning and have been using many great apps to help us. 

We have been posting some of our work onto our blogs to share with everyone. 

Please keep an eye out for the awesome work that each student is completing.

Sequoia, Shakshi, Mazzlin, Sienna-Nicole, Sofia, Tamzyn, Sienna, Jessica, Madison, Caitlin, Dallas,

Dante, Dalia, Aila.

Connor BD, Troy, Tyrel, Kade, Joel, Caleb, Luke, Connor T, Tristan, Reece, Christian, Tyrone, Levi, Alex.

Mazzlin and her Gecko

Today Mazzlin brought in a gecko that her family found. They were able to go on the internet and find out what types of things gecko like to eat and what to do to look after it.

Thanks for bringing it in to show us.

Can you spot the Gecko?

Certificates for Week 7

Congratulations to Jessica who received the Principal's Award for Week 7. She is a new member of Room 15: Totara and has fitted in really well. 

Also well done to Tyrone, Tyrel, Sienna, Mazzlin and Sofia for receiving the PRIDE Certificates for Week 7.

Donated Books

Room 15 and 16 were the lucky classes to receive some books on behalf of the school. Julie Bolton from Shell Todd along with Monique Sinclair and Kathryn Stanley came along to present us with the books. Thank you to these ladies who donated these books to us. 

Football Skills - Session One

Today we got to participate in our first session of Football Skills. Although our football session was short we still got to learn a few skills. 

Below is a video of what we got to do.

Visiting Teachers from Tawhiti School

Well done to Alex and Luke today. They were chosen to share our work with some visiting teachers from Tawhiti School. They were able to share the work they have done on Google Drive and Google Slides. They also got to use Apple TV to show the teachers our Learning Portal and our class Blog.

Thank you Luke and Alex. You have done your class and teacher proud. 

Working in the Learning Centre

Week 7 has seen Room 15 and 16 move into the Learning Centre. We have taken everything we need to keep our class running smoothly. Below you will see photos of what we have been doing. All 'business as usual'. We hope to be back into our class again next week.