School Disco

Colourful costumes shimmering in the spotted light,

Sparkly globe turning slowly,

Circles of white light floating across the walls,

Excited children shrieking,

Little movie characters shouting, jumping, twirling, running, sliding, 

Busy people behind the counter, distributing treats,

Loud music playing,

Mums and Dads chatting,

Another school disco. 

Poetic Writing About a Familiar Place

We are learning to... 

• Identify nouns, verbs and adjectives  in text.  
• Use adjectives and activated nouns to create poetic writing about a familiar place. 

Here are some of our poems:

Big cousins playing in the front yard

Black cats creeping up on birds

Cuddly Nan knitting clothes for my (toy) animals

Funny friends joking

Bright sun shining on me

Native birds flying softly in the air

Red butterflies twitching their wings

Purple presents waiting to be opened

I had fun at my birthday.

By Rocky

I saw an old house

Flowers growing in the garden

Fluffy cats on the roof

Bees on flowers making honey in their home

Beautiful butterflies flying in the sky

Birds singing in the tree

Ballerinas with flowers and white dresses

Spinning around a pool filled with fresh flowers.

By Raukura

Tracks long and dusty

Tree-house torn and smelly

Lake wavy and full of junk

Ducks loud and fast

Boats fast doing jumps

House big, smoking away

At tree-house bay.

By Finlay

Angry dogs barking

Sounds of my cat scratching

Baby brother crying

The wind dancing above in the sky

My cat moaning for food

Birds singing to the trees

I love my house and my back yard.

By Tristan

Painting A Water Scene

We are learning to paint a water scene.

Success Criteria: 
We will know we can do this when we look at our painting we will see:
• a horizon line
• the sky will touch the horizon or the land or the sea.
• there will be water in our painting. 
• We think about the way we use colours and line. We use different shades and colours. The lines will be long and wavey or short and straight. We will layer the colours. 

Antoinette

Finlay

Mackenzie

Max

Raukura

Rivah-Jayne

Rocky

Sam

Tai

Tristan

Flower Arranging on Calf and Lamb Day

One of the activities we enjoy on Lamb and Calf day is arranging flowers. Children also made bird feeders and wove flowers from flax leaves. 

Hit It! Tennis Coaching

We've been having lots of fun learning some skills for playing tennis. Thanks to Henry, our coach, we have learned the names of the different parts of a tennis racquet and how to hold it properly. 

We have fun learning through playing games like; bumper cars, scoop the ball, and flip-flop. Next week we will try our hand at Badminton. 

Life Education

When the Life Education Classroom came to our school we learned about the circulatory system. 

Harold the Giraffe took us on a journey through the body on the "Heart Central" train. We shrank to the size of a piece of fluff and travelled through the arteries and veins. We visited the heart, the lungs, the brain and the muscles. It was very exciting. And of course we all got to give Harold a special hug!

Who's the Best?

A short film by Liam, Scott and Jacob based on the play 
"Who's the Best?" by Trish Puharich in School Journal Level 3  February 2012. 

The planets gather together to decide which one of them is the best.