Fire Story Publishing

This week we have been writing stories to help us think about fire and fire safety. One of our writing tasks this week meant that we would revisit OREO writing, with this weeks focus being that fire alarms are important.  We hope that this will help our blog readers to comment on week 9's writing challenge.

Enjoy.

Harvey

Nakita

Ross

Waiahi

Calla

Aiden

Sienna M

Nicole

Heidi

Lucus

Tahlia

Fourth Installment of Stop Motion Movies

Yes!  Here we are again.  The children in our team had great fun making these and are so eager to share.  We hope you enjoy.  Please keep commenting and adding your ideas and thoughts.  See if you can work out what these stop motions are about.

Grace, Waiahi, Ollie

Kaye-lani, Ivy, Ross

Heidi, Felicity, Calla

Riah, Levi

Stella, Nakita, Sienna G

Maths workshops

Heidi has the iMovie bug!!!

Today we had our maths workshops.  We decided to take some short snippets of things we were doing.  Heidi saw the opportunity to step up again... Not only has she volunteered to run one of our workshops next week but she also wanted to create an iMovie to show others what we do.

She worked with Legacy and Stella to get this movie published in time to share at our assembly in the afternoon.  

Pretty impressive.

Stop Motion Movie Making Instructions

This week during writing time children working with Mrs C Monday and Wednesday were asked to make a  movie explaining the steps of stop motion.  

Their first task was to discuss the steps that needed to make a movie.

Write these down clearly for others to read and listen to.

Record the scenes that supported each of the steps.

Piece it all together using iMovie - including adding the written steps.

What a great result they have come up with.  Ruby, Nicole and Heidi did a great job of piecing it together and they did a great job of sharing it at assembly.  Well done.

Heidi I am so proud of you for stepping up and volunteering.  This was not your writing group but when you saw and opportunity to get yourself involved you grabbed it (and nailed it).  To be honest, once you saw the opportunity to get involved.  MAGIC!!!

Get NZ Writing Package

In Team Maunga we have been learning lots about writing letters and postcards this term.  This was leading us up to sending a package to a school in Stratford.  Here are some images of us getting our package ready to send.  Remember to ask us about what we should include in a Letter or Postcard (or ask us about how we use WETA for letter writing / Postcards.  For more information on this please look up other posts on this topic.

Preparing the postcards and messages.

Taking photos to explain the rock we included in our parcel

  Revisiting statistics work from the beginning of the year to work out how many siblings we have altogether.  We loved using Tally marks to help work this out.

 Researching who could lick their elbow (not all children have photos here so ask your child if this was them).

Working out who our tongue rollers were (again there were more children than we have images of here so ask your child about this).

 

 Sealing the package and Posting it at our Local NZ Post shop.

THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR THIS AMAZING EXPERIENCE WAREHOUSE STATIONARY!

September Reading Certificates

Wow lots of Reading Certificates for the month of September.  The first 3 certificates (in green) are 120 nights reading.  This is outstanding.  Well done everyone!  Keep up the fantastic reading.  

Welcome to Team Maunga!

On Monday the newbies moved into Room 5 and 6 to learn. They are Saxdyn, Frank, Riah, and Heidi. It is so much fun because we can help them. When we play with them they are kind to us.
We love having them in our team!
By Sienna M and Stella

I like Team Maunga because we do different learning. 

By Heidi

Team Maunga is good because we do spelling.

By Frank

I feel happy in Team Maunga because I like to work. My friends are here.

By Riah

I like doing work in Team Maunga. I like drawing pictures about the book.

By Saxdyn

Reading for Report Writing

This week we have been learning how to write reports.  Mrs Gardiner was back in class today so the Centipede and Snails reading groups were introduced to their independent reading projects for this week and next.

Here are a few examples of their work.  Well done!

Lets wear PINK to spread the message that BULLYING IS NOT COOL!

This Friday our school wore pink to promote the message that Bullying is not cool, and that we all stand against this kind of behavior.  We were all so impressed with how much pink was worn throughout the school.  

Well done Heidi for being chosen as the 'Pink Monster' from Room 5 & 6.  

Bike riding Tuesday

Today we went back out for our weekly bike riding sessions.  We are getting really good at riding and some of us got to ride all the way around the track today.  

We also had a few more people learn to ride for the first time with no trainer wheels.  They were Veon, and Heidi.  Here are a few pics they wanted to share of their learning.

Well done Heidi.  You have been working hard towards achieving this for a long time!  What a fantastic accomplishment!

  

Veon in just a few short week since starting in our class you have become successful in riding a bike on your own.  Well Done.