Friday afternoon quiet time

Friday afternoon quiet time in Room 9 - a bit of Cosmic Kids yoga for some, and silent reading for others while Mrs Ferguson completes the homework testing.

Habitiats

So, this term Room 12 have been learning about habitats. These are some of the pictures that show our caterpillar and snail poems around our garden habitat picture, and some of our signposts we made to protect our beaches from people leaving rubbish on our beautiful New Zealand beaches. I hope you enjoy reading and looking at our latest inquiry work! :)

 

 

Room 10's Assembly

Room 10's Assembly:

We were very excited last week! We hosted the whole school assembly.

Our theme was raindrops and we made lovely raindrop crowns.

Here is a photo of us after the assembly.

Aaliyah introduced our raindrop item. Well done.

Arushi was nice and clear! She appreciated the audience for watching and listening to our item.

Aiyana spoke clearly and asked Mr Smith to introduce any new students to our school.

Rebecca was brave and asked Mrs Wylie to give out the pupil of the week awards.

 Well done Hendrixx! He received the pupil of the week.

Saphire was a confident speaker. She asked the school councillors to announce the best class award.

Here is room 10 ready to perform their raindrop item!

Habitat songs

Here are a few songs that we have been learning and listening to about Habitats.

Diwali

We celebrated Diwali and some of the children dressed up in their best outfits. They looked amazing! We also drew rangoli patterns. These patterns are to welcome people into our homes/classrooms.

Bats

Room 7 have been reading about Bats and creating own own brainstorms using Explain everything to display our ideas. We learnt a lot about Bats. 

Coat of Arms

For our Term 3 Topic  “Where in the World”, Room 6 children had to design a Coat of Arms that showed their families uniqueness.  The children then had to share to the class what the symbols on their family Coat of Arms represented.

Junior Garden club

The garden club has been up exciting things.

Nga Tae Pukapuka

As part of our Taha Maori learning this term Room 9 have made a book - Nga Tae Pukapuka

Room 11 Book creator

Room 11 have been working hard to make pictures and write a story in book creator. This app is so exciting to use and it lets the children be the story tellers.

Italian dance

Room 7 have learnt an Italian dance as part of our Olympic study on Italy.

Here are some facts that we have learnt:

"Did you know that over 61 Million people live in Italy" by Kadim
"Italians love to eat Pizza and Pasta" by Nathanael
"The capital city of Italy is Rome" by Loch
"Italy is the shape of a boot" by Zion
"The Italian flag is green-white-red" by Xavier

Olympic Parade

St Leonards had an Olympic fun day/parade! We all got to dress up in our country that we picked out of a hat. We had such a fun day.

Where in the world with Room 12

We looked at 'Te Ika a Maui' story to understand the shape of New Zealand/ Aotearoa. We then drew the fish and the waka to represent the North and South Islands. We looked at factual writing about a stingray and waka next to link into our writing focus. Here are some pictures of our work.

Olympic Fun Day - Room 10

Here we are in the hall representing Thailand to our whanau. Go Room 10 and Thailand!!!

Thank you to our lovely teacher Mrs Stuart for helping Room 10 today :) 

Here we are waiting patiently for our turn.

We are finally up and running! Go Thailand!

Here we are up on the stage representing Thailand.

Olympic Fun Day Preparation

Room 10 represented Thailand for our Olympic Fun Day. We learnt how to say 'hello' in Thailand. In Thailand, they have their two hands together and bow. We say Sawadee. We also looked into Thailand's culture. 

Our Big Book "Wishy Washy Mirror" Response

In Room 10, we get to wear our 'acting out' hat and become one of the characters in the story. Last week, we have read our big book "Wishy Washy Mirror" and tried to act out one of the characters in the story. Then we asked questions to the actor.

First we had Mikail acting out as the duck. One of the questions we asked Mikail was by Rebecca: "Why did you see yourself in the mirror?"
Mikail answered: "Because I thought it was a picture of me!"

Then Tejal was acting out as the pig. 
Saphire asked: "Why were you infront of the mirror?" and Tejal said: "I wanted to see the mirror."

Report Writing on Tortoise

Report Writing on Tortoise

Room 10 learnt how to write a report on Tortoise. We watched a documentary about Tortoise. We brainstormed together as a class about facts and information on Tortoise such as what they have and can do. Then we made a report and wrote 2 facts about Tortoise! We stuck eyes and made shells too!!

Room 10's Classroom Flag

Classroom Flag

Room 10 looked into what makes New Zealand special. We found out that silver fern is very special in New Zealand. We decided to make a classroom flag to represent our uniqueness in Room 10. Hope you like our classroom flag!!

Report Writing

Room 7 has already been working hard this term. We have been learning how to write a report. We all choose an animal we wanted to find out more about. We collected our own research/information and wrote our report. Enjoy!!!

R14's Assembly

Room 14 were working really hard to practice our two items for Week 9's assembly.

We learned a Samoan Song, Le Aute.

We also worked hard on our production song Drip Drop.

Here are some pictures of us working hard to learn the songs.

Thanks, from Room 14

Pyjama Day in Room 9 - The Marshmallow Challenge

Take 20 sticks of dry spaghetti, a metre of masking tape, a metre of string and one marshmallow.  The Challenge:  teams (of 4 or 5) have 18 minutes to use the material provided to construct a self supporting tower with the marshmallow on top.  

We had some great teamwork displayed and one team successful in constructing a structure that would support the marshmallow.  A great start to a fun day!  The team showing the best team work and the team with the standing structure each got a couple of (untouched!) marshmallows to eat & a round of applause.

Book Creator

The Peppa Pig Reading Group in Room 8, have been learning to use 'Book Creator' to record their reading to help with their fluency. They have been learning to group letter-sounds to work out words they don't know as good readers.

Room 8 Pepeha's

Room 8 students have been learning to write and say their Pepeha's to present to our class and our school whanau for Assembly. They have learn't about how to say who their whanau are and their closest maunga (mountain) and awa (river). Ka pai Room 8!

Autumn

R6 have been learning about Autumn and the changes that occur in this season. We published our stories on an Autumn leaf shape. See if you can see your child amongst all the Autumn leaves.

Before

Ruma tekau ma rima have been learning to count backwards from 10 to 0.  We have been studying what ‘before’ numbers are from 10 to 0 and what the word ‘before’ means.

Garden Club

The Garden keeps on growing. June brings lemons, cabbages, beetroot and broccoli.

Daffodils have been planted and are waiting for the spring.

Pea and poppy seedlings, are growing in the glasshouse.

We are having a go at indoor tomatoes.

Passionfruit are starting to fruit.

The strawberries are sleeping until the summer.

Matariki

Tena Koutou

We used crayon and dye to create our 7 stars for Matariki,  the Maori New Year.

Arohanui ruma tekau ma rima

Samoan Language week

Talofa Room 15 have been celebrating Samoan Language week. We have learnt how to say hello, good bye and how we are feeling. We have also enjoyed learning a new Samoan song 'Le Aute'. 
Manuia le vaiaso.

Reading

In room 7 we have been doing some great reading activities. The children had to write what happened in the beginning, middle and end.

By Paige 

                                                                                                                             By Loch

 By Peter

Dress Rehearsal and Show day

Here are some photos from our practice and also getting ready for our production last night. We were so excited.      

Aunty Penguin (Paige) is excited to get on stage

Eddie Penguin (Peter)

Room 14 & 15 ( Drip Drop song)

Room 7 actors - Penguins, Narrator, DJ Donny

Room 7 getting ready