Elf Yourself

Elf yourself

Superhero stories

Adventures  of  Super Levi

Super Levi can fly fast and he has laser eyes. He has a red  cape and he has powers and  gloves and red boots and he is helpful. He wears red undies.

One day Super Levi was flying through the sky and he heard screaming so he went down to the building and saved the people from the robbers in the shop. They said thank you Super Levi.
by Levi

Adventures of Super Sarah

Super Sarah was a hero that could save everyone in the town. She has long blonde hair and a pink suit. Super Sarah has purple and pink high heel shoes.

One day Super Sarah saw two giant ants trying to destroy the town. She punched them in the eyeball and they both ran home.

By Sarah

Athletics

Black Friday

Today we all came to school wearing black to show our support for the All Blacks. We made signs and put them on the front fence. We hope the All Blacks win the world cup!

Football Fun

We are having a football session every Wednesday afternoon for the next 5 weeks. We look forward to learning some new skills.

Sock Puppets

We have been practicing reading our poems at a good speed. Here are sock puppets we created using an app on the IPad to hear what we sounded like.

Sock puppets from Trudy Nation on Vimeo.

Our new IPad

We are very lucky to have an ipad in our class to use.  We have written penguin stories then coloured in a special picture and used the quiver app to make 3D penguins. We have also used the sock puppets app to practice reading our poems out loud and at a good speed.

Pirate Fun with Mrs Palmer

While Miss Nation was away on camp with Room 15 we had lots of fun being pirates - check out our pictures!

My penguin story

One day Bob the penguin was  running to the South Pole to see Santa to get his present but   santa wasn't home. 

Bob found the key and unlocked the door and he got his present,  his present was a thousand fish and he took them home to eat. 

By Jaxon

Fun at the gym

Fun at the gym on PhotoPeach

Story of the week

Today I did cross country and I came fifth. I ran like the flash and I was proud for myself and my house was loud and my house is Puriri.
By Tyson

Making vehicles

Learning Investigation: Can you work with a buddy to make these vehicles out of shapes?

Robots

Learning Investigation: can I make a robot using different shapes and describe it to a buddy.

Life Education

We had a lovely time visiting Harold the Giraffe in his truck. We learnt lots about the brain. We learnt that the brain controls everything in the body. It makes our hearts beat and our lungs breathe. We had to put together a puzzle of the brain but it was a bit tricky because we had to to it in mad scientist lighting - (red light). Life Education on PhotoPeach

Story of the week

Learning Investigation: Can I use verbs and adjectives to make my story more interesting

Today room 9 went to see Harold in his classroom. We had to figure out Harold's maths problem and it was 1 + 1 = 2 but he already figured it  out. We used our fingers to make stars appear on the roof. The man was using an ipad to control the screen. We learnt lots about what our body needs - food, oxygen, love, sleep and exercise.
By Te Huatahi

Hockey

We have had a great time at hockey and learnt lots of new skills. Hockey on PhotoPeach

Star inquiry

We made a video about what we have learnt during our star inquiry. We hope you find out something new as well.

Star Maths

For maths we have been doing multiplication. We had to put stars in a google drawing and then figure out how many points on each star. When then recorded our answers using voice thread.

Verb Wordles

We have been learning about making our writing more interesting. We came up with a list of verbs we could use in our writing and then made wordles using our favourite ones.

Inquiry - Stars

Our inquiry for this term is called Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder what you are? Here is a youtube clip we watched to help us learn what a star is.

Computers

We are really excited in Room 9 as we now have one to one computers. We are busy at the moment learning how to take care of them. Yesterday Miss Nation showed us how to go to our google drive and open google docs. We are also creating our own blogs to show our learning. Thanks Mrs Larsen and Ms O'Connor!

Pastel Art

We have been working with pastel for art. We looked at art by Jasper Johns and used one of his ideas to make artwork with our names. We started by folding a piece of white paper to get 16 rectangles. Next we used the letters of our name to fill in each rectangle. After that we used pastels to create big chunky letters. Lastly we dyed each square a different colour. Here are a couple examples of our artwork.

ANZAC Day

We have been talking about ANZAC day in class. We learnt that New Zealand and Australia went to war and fought together in Turkey at Gallipoli.  We also learnt that poppies are used to remember those that died in the war. We have made our own poppies in remembrance.

Junior Triathlon

We had lots of fun doing our triathlon last term and hope we get to do another one next year. We used the go-pro's to record what it was like to do the triathlon and Miss Nation made it into a movie. We hope you enjoy it.

Making Jelly

Our letter of the week as been J. We made jelly and then wrote instructions on how to make it. here are some pictures and stories.

Put the packet of jelly in the bowl and put the hot water in the bowl and mix it. Put it in the fridge and wait until it is time to have it.  By Bailey

Put the packet of jelly in the bowl and pour in the cold water and the hot water and stir the jelly in the bowl. Ten put the jelly in the fridge until it wobbles. By Blake

Swimming with Lifejackets

Swimming with Lifejackets on PhotoPeach

Making 5

We have been working hard in maths learning how to make 5.

House Spirit Day

On Friday we had a Spirit Day were we had to come dressed in our house colours. In the afternoon we went into our Houses and did some activities. Each house is coming up with their own flag and song so we can't wait to see what they all are. We also got house points for wearing our house colour - which house to you think won in our class - Totara = green, Puriri = red, Kauri = blue or Kowhai = yellow.

Our Wordles

Miss Nation helped us make wordles on the computer with all the things that we like - colours/animals/food/drink to name a few. We also got to choose the way we wanted the words, the colour and the font. Check them out and let us know what you think.

Our Wordles on PhotoPeach