Gymsport Dance Groups

Yesterday four teams from the Middle team and three Senior teams headed down to Hamilton Gymnastics Clubs. The middle cheerleaders came second, senior cheerleaders came third. The Flash Mob hip hoppers came first, Inspiring hip hoppers second and Funky hip hoppers third. The senior aerobics team came first and middle team came second. Well done to everyone who practiced hard and smiled their way through their performances.

Paarth's Special Day

Today Paarth came to school wearing a really special bracelet and had a red dot with rice on his forehead. We learnt this gives good luck and keeps him safe.

We are cashletes!

Today we had a financial personal trainer (PT) visit Room 9 to teach us about money, how to keep it safe and what we should do with it. We even found out that we can own an eftpos card when we turn eight if our parents sign for us to have one. We also learnt the difference between a credit card and an eftpos card. An eftpos card is our money but a credit card is the banks money and we have to pay it back. Just like if we borrow a pencil we have to give it back. Alex asked a great question so do we just pay that amount back? We learnt that you have a time that it must be paid back to the bank otherwise you pay interest on it. So like the pencil if you don't give that back in time you might have to give the pencil back plus a rubber or three pencils.We did some chores to earn some money and then talked about what to do with it and we decided it was best to spend some on me and save some too!

Saying our chant spend some on me and save some too!

Doing our chores to earn money.

Witi Ihimaera-imovie

Witi Ihimaera read a story called Sam Gyup Sal. They were asked to choose an app to show what they had learnt from reading the story. They choose to have another go at using imovie.

Witi Ihimeara and The Lemonade War

The Witi Ihimaera reading group finished reading their novel The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies. They used the imovie app on the ipad to collaboratively make a short film as an introduction blurb to encourage others to read it.
Take a look and leave a comment. Do you think you would read The Lemonade War after seeing the video?

Beatrix Potter read White Sunday

Beatrix Potter read a book called White Sunday. They were given a choice, to show how they wanted using what ever app they selected, to tell others what they have learnt and now know about White Sunday.
They choose to use Sock Puppets to show what they know. Check these out below.

Culture Roleplays

In Room 9 we are learning about culture. We have had fun pretending we are part of a different culture and the way that they greet people and what they talk about.
We had a group from Japan, Spain, Argentina and France.
Can you guess what group is from where?

After sharing our roleplays Mrs Head mixed the groups up and we were so confused some of us bowed some of us shook hands or hugged. Even a simple thing like saying hello was hard to do and we found that we offended some of our classmates without meaning to by sitting down before our hosts or talking about things they didn't like to talk about.

Dr Seuss-WALT: Ask and answer questions

Dr Seuss read A Gift for Aunty Nga. It was based on a family where some of them live in NZ and some in Rarotonga. We came up with some questions of our own.

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Handwriting Hero and Printing Princess

Congratulations to our latest Handwriting Hero Oliver and Printing Princess Kayley who worked really hard to produce their best work. Trying to keep their letters the correct size and shape.

Circuits.

Room 9 are getting fit for cross country. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and most Friday mornings we head out, the whole middle team, to the netball courts to complete our circuits. We have music to get us excited about moving and we move around at the whistle to the next card. Each card has a different activitiy. There is usual one to get our heart pumping and then one to stretch out our muscles.
Mrs Orton took photos of us today and then Alex and Gemma helped her to make a pic collage of our circuits.

Pentagons are learning their four times tables.

Today the pentagons maths group were using materials to help use their two times tables to work out their four times. Check out how we made four groups of 6 and four groups of 8 to show 4x6 and 4x8 using a variety of materials.

Calling the roll in Te Reo Maaori

We have learnt to call the roll in Africians. Now we have had a go at it in Te Reo Maaori.

listen to ‘Left to my own devicesboo’ on Audioboo

Learning to write in Cambodian

Amelia went home and asked her Grandad to teach her how to write the alphabet in Cambodian. She came to school with it all written out and then taught the class how to write our own names in Cambodian. Each letter is like a detailed picture. I don't think I could write as quickly in Cambodian as I could in English.
Check out how everyones names turned out.
Can you have a go at writing your own name using the last picture?

Learning to write in Cambodian on PhotoPeach

Learning Africians

On Wednesday Faye taught Room 9 how to say 'Good Morning' and 'Good Day' in Africians.
We learn't how to say it and then called the roll using our new Africians knowledge.
Listen to us calling the morning and afternoon roll.

listen to ‘Good morning ’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Good day’ on Audioboo

Roald Dahl-Gumboot questions

Today we read a story about Gumboots. WALT: Ask and answer questions during reading.
We have created a wallwisher of our questions that we still have about gumboots.

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Maori Language Week

I am super proud of Amelia and Gina who have learnt to use Puppet Pals, on their own, to create this cute video, sharing some of their Te Reo knowledge.
Watch how they use Te Reo in everyday situations.

 

We watched an example of this and got the idea from Room 5 of Russell Street School in Palmerston North's blog. There blog is below.

http://theinsandouts.co.nz/?cat=1

Fonterra Milk in Schools

Today we got our first delivery of our tasty milk. Rico, Alex and Trinity our milk monitors went and collected our box of milk after morning tea.

Our milk monitors taught us how to fold our milk cartons so that we can recycle the boxes to make other things and to stop the milk from smelling out our school.

We discovered that on the back on the milk cartons there are different facts.
Today's facts are;
-Did you know that 40% of your body is muscle? Milk has protein to help build your muscles.
-You have about 100,000 hairs growing on your head! Milk contains protein to help hair grow and grow!
-The best dairy cows make up to 50 litres of milk a day - that's 200 glasses of milk!
-Milk's got calcium to help build strong bones - even your funnybone! It's real name is the 'humerus' ha ha!

The things we enjoyed about tasting our milk today were;
-There were different facts to read. (Gina)
-It was delicious. (Gemma)
-It was yum and I found that milk can help you grow big and strong muscles. (Tawhiao)
-That milk makes your hair grow and makes you strong. (Sarah)
-We got to find out different facts. (Amelia)
-How we folded up our cartons. (Paarth)
-I learnt that a cow can make 200 glasses of milk and it makes our bones strong and healthy. (Filipe)
-I enjoyed the freshness of the milk. (Jacob)
-They had facts about milk on the back. (Faye)
-I liked folding the cartons. (Eva)
-I enjoyed collecting the milk for the class. (Rico)
-It was yummy and salty. (Alex)
-I liked drinking it. (Ella)
-I enjoyed drinking it because it was yummy and refreshing. (Kayley)
-Folding the carton. (Paige)
-I liked drinking it. (Josh)
-I enjoyed drinking it because it was fresh. (Saphyre)
-It tasted yum. (Kaylee)
-I enjoyed collecting the milk. (Trinity)
-I liked collecting the milk as well. (Alex)
-I enjoyed how they all had different facts on the backs of them. (Oliver)

Once we had finished our delicious milk we showed off our big strong muscles.

Maori Language Week

This week is Maori Language Week.
Today we called the roll with one of our previous Maori Phrase's of the Week.
We all answered "kei konei au" which means I am here.

How have you started this week off celebrating Maori Language Week?

Trashion Show

It was our own World of Wearable Art and it was pretty WOW!
After a term spent creating designs then making prototypes to finally making our finished products some of our garments had some major reconstructing and designing throughout the process. But one thing is for sure they all turned out looking great!
Check out the video's of our Kiwiana costumes.


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Can you guess what the inspiration behind each costume was?

Should McDonald's be allowed to touch up their burgers?

Watching this video shows how McDonald's make their burgers look so tasty.



1. Do you think it is right that McDonald's 'touch up' their burgers to make them look better? Why/why not?
2. Why do you think McDonald's have made this video?
3. Has it made you think any differently about McDonald's? If so how?