Ocean's Blog Post about the Manaiakalani Survey

The Manaiakalani survey was good because they tell other people if you are learning and creating or not and whether your family are commenting on your sharing. The survey is good to go on to see if you like to learn on a chromebook.  Mrs Collins helped us complete the survey with Room 7.

My Manaiakalani survey - Renei

I really really liked the  Manaiakalani questionnaire because I like the nice question.  Some of the question where tricky. My favourite question was about our opinion.

Welcome to Term 2! Week 1

Welcome Everyone to 

Term 2!

We hope everyone had a good break and got to enjoy the lovely weather in the holidays.

Back to our learning, yay!

This week Room 9 have started the fabulous KiwiCan programme!

We had a fabulous first session with Miss Tuia on Tuesday.

We learned about the values and goals of KiwiCan.

We also learned the rules for taking part.

We played a game called GKQ. 

Can you guess what that stands for?

Yes - General Knowledge Questions.

We went in fours and you had to touch the floor,

touch your forehead and say your name for your buzzer.

It was lots of fun!

Comments: "It was epic playing GKQ because we had to answer the questions." Aleki

"KiwiCan was very fun and amazing! I liked Bang and Changing Places!" Krista

"We thanked Miss Tuia for the fun games and we thanked KiwiCan for making the programme." Kaulave

"It was fun how Miss Tuia taught us new things that we didn't know." Kyronae

Term 1 Week 10 Ahoy There Whanau and Friendly Viewers!

Ahoy There Whanau and Friendly Viewers!

Have you ever seen a pirate up close, been part of the ocean, worn a pirate hat?

This week we were very lucky

to go to the Pumphouse Theatre in 

Takapuna

and watch a very entertaining

show called:

'The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate'

based on the book by Margaret Mahy.

First we had to go on the bus.

So many seats!

We saw lots of sites on the way.

Mt Wellington - so green!

We went on the motorway.

So many cars, trucks and buses.

We saw the Sky Tower.

So high.

We saw the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

So wide.

We went over the bridge and arrived at the Pumphouse Theatre.

We got out of the bus and walked down the path to the Theatre.

It is beside Lake Pupuke, we saw swans on the lake.

Then a Pirate lady ushered us into our seats in the Theatre.

We had to wear Pirate hats.

"Aagh, me hearties!'

"Aye, Aye, Captain!"

It was a great show and then we had a photo

with the cast.

We want to say thank you to the Tim Bray Theatre Company at the Pumphouse and to Maungakiekie Tamaki Local Board for

making this happen. Thank You!

Have a good break over the holidays everyone, see you next term.

Term 2 starts on Monday 29 April 2019.

Term 1 Week 8 Marvellous Measuring!

Kia Ora Whanau and Friendly Blog Watchers!

This week the magnificent Ruapotaka Warriors Group

 of Room 9 have been learning about how to

measure with cms and mms.

We had to find out the length of our hop, stretch and jump to see who has the longest, shortest and the same size.

We worked with our group and took turns. We had to get a metre ruler and two 40cm rulers. We used a string too. We had to hold it on the start line and then took it up to where the ruler showed how far the person had gone.

Christina did 165cms for the hop.

Aleki was the longest for the hop at 200cms.

Willie was the shortest for the hop at 87cms.

Kyronae did 105cms for the hop.

That was a really long hop Aleki!

Super stretch Kyronae and Christina!

Good jump Willie!

Good balancing for that hop Christina!

Term 1 Week 7 Fantastic Fantasy Bird Creations!

Kia Ora Whanau and Friendly Viewers!

We wanted to share our artistic creations.

Have you ever really studied how the feathers look on a bird's wings? Well we have!

We have looked at lots of New Zealand birds as part of learning about what makes Aotearoa a special place.

After that, we had a chance to design our own birds! This could be anything we chose! Our imaginations went wild!

Here are the results.

Silver Ferns Group are using the cover sheet to make sure
that they don't smudge the chalk pastels as they create
their fantasy birds.

Group Ruapotaka Warriors are using the chalk pastels to
make a bright and colourful outline of their birds.

Group Aotearoa are concentrating on applying detail to the wings of their birds.

Group Tangaroa are choosing their colours to make their
fantasy birds be eye-catching!

We hope you enjoyed viewing 

them as much as we enjoyed

making them!

Term 1 Week 6 Terrific Time with Toitoi!

Kia Ora Whanau and Friendly Viewers!

Have you ever heard of Toitoi?

It is a terrific publication of stories and illustrations by New Zealand school students!

This photo shows the front cover of the latest publication.

On Friday this week we had some enthusiastic visitors from 

Price Waterhouse Coopers, (a local Auckland company),

who came to share this book and its stories and pictures with us.

They also delivered to us a box full of these very 

interesting and entertaining books. THANK YOU PWC!

We loved reading them with you and to you!

We liked having discussions about the stories.

We all got a chance to choose which story we would like to read. Nice leprechaun Mrs H!

Great shady spot for your reading Group 5!

Great reading Aleki! Nice cape Ms Riley!

That must be a really cool story!

We liked the poem and the amazing illustrations for this one!

This group had a lot to say about this story!

Awesome expression with your reading Solomon! You made the story sound even more interesting!

Charlotte and her team thanked us for having them and we thanked them
and sang one of our school songs for them.

It was cool sharing our reading skills and having discussions about the stories in the latest Toitoi!
Some of us are hoping to get our stories and illustrations published in the next issue!