Autumn poems by Joanna, Vianni and Summer

We went on an autumn walk and had a lot of fun throwing leaves in the air. Listen to Joanna, Vianni and Summer read their poems about autumn.

Autumn poems by Celine and Christiane

Listen to the poems written by Celine and Christiane after going on an autumn walk.

Autumn poems by Zoe and Zachariah

We went on an autumn walk and took some photos. Listen to Zoe and Zachariah as they read their poems.

Autumn poems by Sarah and Stephanie

We went on an autumn walk and took some photos. Then we wrote some autumn poems. Listen to Sarah and Stephanie reading their poems.

Autumn poems by Grace and Ora

We went on an autumn walk. Then we wrote autumn poems. Listen to these poems written by Grace and Ora

Autumn Poems by Ashane and Liam

We went on an autumn walk. Then we wrote autumn poems. Listen to these poems written by Ashane and Liam

Autumn poems by Brodie and Mark

We went on an autumn walk. Then we wrote autumn poems. Listen to these poems written by Brodie and Mark

Autumn poems by Julius and Ben

We went on an autumn walk. Then we wrote autumn poems. Listen to these poems written by Julius and Ben

Autumn poems by Dong Hae and Hanbin

We went on an autumn walk. Then we wrote autumn poems. Listen to these poems written by Dong Hae and Hanbin

Week 2 Term 2 2009

This week we have had the pleasure of having Mr Harwood in our classroom. He is training to be an Education Officer for the police. He helped out in our class for 4 days and took a lesson on keeping ourselves save in the bush.

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We have been investigating how water turns into ice this week. We did an experiment, made some predictions and noted our findings. We found out that
- water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius
- ice is lighter than water
- water expands when it freezes
- ice will freeze into the shape it is in

We loved passing our ice around the circle and talking about how cold it was. Then we took photos of the ice.

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We enjoyed turning water into ice and back to a liquid using this website.





We have begun to record our knowledge of ice using KidPix - look out for these in the coming week.

Autumn poems by Aart and Ryan

Listen to Aart and Ryan read their poems.

Autumn Poems by Katharine and Neve

Listen to Katharine and Neve read the poems they wrote.

Week 1 Term 2 2009

It's great to see everyone back at school for a busy and full filled term.

We have started our inquiry based on Water, water everywhere by writing a definition for water that we might find in a picture dictionary. With our definitions written we drew a picture on KidPix to go with it. These can be seen below. We will write definitions again at the end of the inquiry and see how much our thinking has changed.

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We also used the class camera this week to drop a droplet of water on an Autumn leaf and take a photo of it. Great fun was had by all with some very impressive photos being taken.


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On Wednesday with it being a beautiful clear , crisp morning we headed out on an Autumn walk. With our literacy buddy we took photos of what we saw.

Autumn leaves

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At the end of the walk Mrs Rennie-Younger took a photo of us throwing some leaves up in the air. I think you will agree that the expressions on the faces tell you how much fun we had.



During the week Mr Gordon came and collected groups of us to complete a writing survey on line - This was very exciting - with everyone keen to go with Mr Gordon to complete the task.




By the end of the week we had begun to use the schools brand new flip video to record each other reading our Autumn poems. Look out for these recordings as they will feature on our blog shortly.



Friday our buddy class came to visit and we looked at our blog and asked Room 10 to help write a comment on it. We hope that next week students in Room 10 will look at our blog during reading time and leave us a comment or two.

Week 10 Term 1 2009

We have continued to present our KidPix work as a poster (click on each image to enlarge it)















We drew pictures on KidPix related to occupations.See below

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We then recorded ourselves in garage band to make this little movie.




Rebekah’s dad is an anaesthetist and he came in to talk to us about his job and how he helps people. He also talked to us about sailing, as Rebekah and her family are sailing off to Tonga on the 1st of May. He talked to us about reading maps and what life will be like on the yacht

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Term 1 has raced by and we look forward to a fun filled and busy term next term.

Week 9 Term 1 2009

Once a year each class presents the school assembly for the wider community and this week it was our turn to present it with our buddy class room 10.

We started the week making pukeko masks together as Max the travel wise Pukeko was presenting a prize to one of the students who returned their travel wise questionnaire at assembly. We had a lot of fun working together with our buddy as the photos below show.

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Some of us even showed some of the room 10 students how to make a poster using the mimio board and comic life. They were quick to learn what to do – Mrs Rennie-Younger said it was because Room 15 student were very good teachers.








On Tuesday we had a visit from the Police education officer and she told us about her job and the equipment she carrys on her. She even took us out to her car and put the siren on.

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Friday finally arrived and we enjoyed presenting our assembly. A lot of parents came and at the very end we got to have a very special photo with Max the Pukeko.


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