Project Island Song

Today we had Whaea Ria, Whaea Debs and Whaea Nicolette visit us at school so we could present our learning to them. It was awesome to see them again and they loved all our creations that we had made about project island song.
This is a little movie one group made to present to them.

Visits From Keyanah!

Today we had Keyanah from Room 17 give us a visit. She loved giving everyone a big hug and looking at what we were doing in Room 1. Keyanah even decided that she wanted to join in on our writing workshop. We hope Keyanah will visit again soon!

Early New Zealand

We are starting to learn about the history of New Zealand and pre European times. We have explored some different information sources and found some interesting facts. Here they are.

Where has ________ gone?

We have been lucky enough to have Whaea Whetu in our classroom to teach us Te Reo Maori. Here is a video of us using one of the sentences/questions & answers she has taught us.

Types of students in Room 1

For our assembly Room 1 students wanted to make an entertaining video to show our audience. This is what they came up with.
- No students were harmed in the making of this video
- ALL students in Room 1 are AMAZING and this was only a joke.

ENJOY!

Metaphors

We have been learning all about language features!
We can’t wait to use all these awesome language features in our writing.
Here are some of our fun metaphors we have created about ourselves.

“Maddie is flower graceful and gorgeous.” - Maddison Turton

“Kerry’s hair is coca cola flowing down her back.” - Kerry Campbell

“Trace is a scientist smart and knowledgeable” - Trace Glover

“Luca is made of metal.” - Luca Pulham

“Vontayveiz is a cheetah fast and speedy.” - Vontayveiz Tautari

“Bailey is a whirling leaf dancing in the wind.” - Bailey-Trent Koperu

“Honour is a tiger winning all his battles.” - Honour Hura

“Kamo is a butterfly flying free.” Kamo Kerehoma-Brown

Friction is a Force

Our Story Tin Poems

Im Blue.....

Our second dance that we performed at assembly today.

I Will Survive Assembly Dance!

We LOVED performing this dance to the school today during our assembly.

The 3 R's

Koru Art

We have been learning our pepeha and doing lots of te reo Maori practice. We created whanau koru art to represent the people in our whanau. Welooked at different koru, how to draw them and their features. We used pastel and dye and had so much fun doing it. We hope you love them as much as we do!!!

Forces in our environment

Today we took our learning outside! We explored, observed and recorded the ‘Forces’ we have around our school.

We loved this activity because we got to experience different forces in our everyday environment.

Some of the forces we observed;
Pushing
Pulling
Kicking a ball
Swinging a swing
Climbing
Dropping
Birds flying
Winding blowing trees
Gravity