Handwriting Hero and Priniting Princess

Well done to our newset Handwriting Hero and Printing Princess Tawhiao and Saphyre! They worked really hard today to form their letters correctly and neatly.

They were both so focused at handwriting time. Keep up the hard work Tawhiao and Saphyre!

Kittens

Trinity brought in some of her kittens today. Trinity made a pic collage about her kittens.

Favourite songs at the moment

Here are some of the songs we enjoy singing at the moment. Remembering never to give up and to listen to instructions. As well as our topic of interdependence and the role we play in looking after our environment.

Marmite poetry

After tasting Marmite again. Some of us for the first time and some of us it was like the flavour never left it tasted exactly the same.
We tried out the whiteboard feature on our new i-pad.

And we wrote poems about Marmite.
Here's what we came up with.

It's black
It's yum
It's stinky
It's slimy
It's cold on my tounge
It's Marmite
By Storm

Marmite, Marmite
I love Marmite
I love you in the morning
I love you late at night
I love Marmite
By Summah

Marmite, Vegemite
Everyone wants a bite
Yum, yum
In my tum
I like Marmite
Everyone likes Marmite
By Jacob

Marmite is here
People rushing into supermarkets
We found Marmite
I want a whole box
Everybody's happy
Forgot what it tasted like
We want Marmite
Yay it's back
Yum, yum
By Rico

Marmite, Marmite
Yum, yum, yum
All around the shelves delicious
Marmite spreads the taste is yum
When it gets on your tounge
It get's very salty when you take a bite
Yum, yum, yum
By Alex

Black Gold Rush
The buildings have fallen to the ground
and people shouted
Oh no!
Marmite is gone
now that it is back
it's turned into a black gold rush
people are filling buckets of it
so when it goes again they don't lose it
taking so much it has almost disappeared from the shops again
By Gina

Marmite, Marmite
You are back
I missed you day and night
but now your back
yum yum
you taste like a lolly
Supermarkets are filled with people
but I got you!
By Ella

It's black
it's yuck
it looks like poo
it's slimey
it's back
don't give it to me
By Tawhiao

Yummy mucky
it is so delcious
I can't stop eating it
to be away from Marmite
makes me want to cry
cause of the earthquake striking
By Amelia

Marmite, Marmite
I love Marmite
give me a whole box of Marmite
yum,yum
in my tum
I love Marmite
yum, yum
I love it!
By Eva

Marmite, Marmite
I hate Marmite
I want buttery gold
It is black it is poo
No more Marmite for me and you
By Alex S

Marmite, Marmite
yum, yum, yum
in my tum
we found our black gold
our super hero of all breakfasts
By Saphyre

Everyone wants Marmite
Marmite is every where
Even in my class
By Kaylee

Smooth and black
tasting yum
it tastes very delicious
delicious on toast
By Christopher

Marmite for our breakfast
yum, yum
it tastes good to me
because it is made in Christchurch
By Filipe

The black Marmite is back
Marmite, Marmite
in my tum
it's back in New Zealand
and it is so yum
Mum, Mum
please can you go
to the shops
to buy some Marmite
By Gemma

Marmite, Marmite
Marmites back yippy
it's back on the shelves
in the supermarkes
I love Marmite!
Give me a box of it
yummy, yummy
in my tummy
Marmite the king of all spreads
It's the best!
Ps: I hope you like it
By Trinity

Tennis lessons

Yesterday Room 9 had tennis practice. Mrs Head took photos of us learning our new skill and Amelia has put it together using pic collage.

Marmite is Back!

Marmite is back on the shelves. So today we got a piece of toast smoothered in Marmite. We made notes in our notetaking books about what it looked like, smelt like, tasted like and felt like on our tounge. We used this to help write poems about Marmite.

Pohutukawa

Dr Seuss reading group have read a story called Pohutukawa. We were learning to summarise and we found some that the Pohutukawa tree has some interesting ways to keep itself alive. Check out the Pohutukawa tree we made.

Meet the Kakapo

The Witi Ihimaera reading group have read half of a journal story so far about Kakapo birds.
We are learning to ask and answer questions.
Here are a few of our questions so far...

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Fractions with our class

This morning we started of our maths finding fractions using the people in our class.  We were luck that we only had 20 people at maths time so it was a nice easy number to work with. We started off as a whole, then we split in half, then into quarters and then into one tenth.
Using our photos which show what one tenth of 20 is, I wonder if you can leave a comment to work out what one fifth of 20 is....

No Wrap Wednesday

We had 44% of our class wrap free today with eight wrap free lunchboxes.
Well done to those who are thinking of ways to keep our environment nice and clean and free from lots of plastic.
I wonder how the rest of us could make wrap free choices on Wednesday mornings?

Survivor Challenge-Week 7

This week each team were given a roll of toliet paper (straight from the packet), one felt, two pairs of scissors and some sellotape. With this the superhero costumes were designed and at the end of the afternoon catwalked in our classroom. Well done teams you are all starting to work better as a team.



Here's a video of the whole fashion parade.

What did you like about camp?

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Handwriting Hero and Printing Princess

Today we found a handwriting hero and printing princess in Room 9.
To be a handwriting hero or printing princess we had to be super focused at handwriting time and produce our tidiest handwriting.
Congratulations to Filipe who was our handwriting hero and Gina who was our printing princesses.

Maori Phrase of the Week-Week 7

This weeks Maori Phrase is
Kei Whea to Potae
This means where is your hat
Anei
This means here.

Kiwi Grub for Mohua-Summarising

The Roald Dahl reading group have been learning to summarise the key points they discovered in the story we read about Spotted Kiwi's.
Listen to what they learnt from the story as well as two facts they went on to research about Spotted Kiwis.

Fractions-What is a quarter of 16?

The Hexagons have been learning to find a fraction of a set. See how they work this problem out.

Survivor Challenge-Week 6

This weeks challenge was a logical mathematical challenge. We had four brain bending questions and we all had to work together as a team to think outside the box to solve the riddles and problems. Well done to The Golden Tui's group who not only completed the challenge the fastest and with all the questions answered correctly they also worked as one of the best teams making sure everyone was involved.