The Christmas Story

Mrs Clark came into room 14 this week to help us act out the Christmas story. There are some wonderful actors in room 14. We were learning about the nativity story as well as working on our key competencies. The Oscar nominations are on the way.

Interview with a palaeontologist

We thought about what a palaeontologist does and wrote a script for us to make a mini interview with one of us pretending to be a palaeontologist and the other being an interviewer.

The Job Search

Assembly item: There's One in the Bush by Levity Beet

Term 4 Theme: Survivors

This term we are looking at dinosaurs, especially at how they adapted to their environments. We started off by looking at the features of dinosaurs and then drew our own dinosaurs. Then we got the paints out and started painting them. We had to mix colours too which was exciting (red + white = pink, blue + yellow= green). It was great fun and when they are finished we are going to put them on the wall!

Naomi's advice on how to run

Firstly you look straight ahead. if you don't look ahead you will crash into the people who running beside you.

Secondly you have to bend your arms  if you don't bend your arms you will run slow like a big elephant.you should also bend your arms so you could run really fast when use are having a race.

Thirdly when you run you have to run on light feet and bend your arm at the same time so you could run fast like a cheetah .

Hope that helps.

From Naomi

Job Advertisements

We have been writing job advertisements in room 14 for all sorts of jobs. Here they are:

And here's Elizah's job ad for a cowboy!

Wheels and Crazy Hair Day.

Well done Jasmine (and Mum) for this amazing hairdo that rightly won a prize for craziest hair! It's a work of art!

Room 14's Super Mario animations.

This term we have been working towards making our own animated Super Mario sequence. We looked at a Super Mario game then created our own backgrounds on Hyperstudio. We then drew two Super Mario figures and copied them onto the backgrounds and played the slides through as a movie. Here are our finished movies:

Junior Kapa Haka: Matariki Performance

Ka Pai to all those involved with this wonderful performance, especially those from Room 14! You know who you are.

Harvesting harakeke.

Whaea Saf took us down to the creek where there is some beautiful harakeke growing by the stream. She sang a lovely karakia before telling us which strands of harakeke we could cut: Not the baby in the middle, nor its parents on either side, but the grandparents on the outside. After she'd cut some off, she showed us how to weave a star (which is what we'll be doing next week) and how to make a "clapper" which used to be given to kids to keep them busy while mum weaved. We carefully collected up the flax that had been cut and took it back to class.

Matariki: Weaving fish from card

We started our Matariki topic by reading the story about the 7 Fish of Matariki and then tried to weave our own fish out of cardboard strips as a practice run for weaving them out of harekeke (flax). It was pretty hard as our hands were a bit too small to for the strips - but we persevered and here are some of the results.

Snakes and Ladders

In line with our theme of the term, this week we've been making our own rainy day game: A Snakes and Ladders board. We coloured the board in, wrote the numbers 1-100 and stuck on 8 snakes and 8 ladders. Some of us worked in pairs and some of us worked by ourselves.

Be Smart Where You Park

This awesome video was put together with the help of the school prefects to show how the children can manage themselves and their learning environments. "Be Smart Where You Park".  A child needs to be aware that if they are not working in a good space, then they should move. This will result in better work and more learning :)

Zamera @ Pt England School: collage self portrait

Zamera @ Pt England School: collage self portrait: Today we are doing collage. For our collage we have to draw a picture of our self. When we finish drawing our pictures we get colourful pape...

Qwanelle @ Pt England School: My Silly Clown

Qwanelle @ Pt England School: My Silly Clown

Tuluinga @ Pt England School: Inga making toast

Tuluinga @ Pt England School: Inga making toast: First we washed our hand with the sanitizer because  we will have dirty hands and germs. Next we put the breads in the toaster. After that w...

Room 14 sing E Toru Nga Mea

Room 14 stepped up and brought a Waiata to assembly. With the help of Whaea Sophie, we practised and quickly learnt E Toru Nga Mea which we sang out to the school one hot February morning.

All About Me

Hi, my name's Toby. I am a dad and have three children. I live in Onehunga in a small house with a nice garden. I love watching movies, going for walks and eating homemade pizza. In the holiday I went camping and did some boogie-boarding!

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