Brain Time!

Last week we made a lot of Pic Collages showing what we did during Brain Time. Here are a few of the ones we made:

Listening

This week we had a challenge from Barry the Brainy Bee (http://barrybrainybee.blogspot.co.nz/). He asked us to make a blog post showing our learning with he Habit of Mind Listening.  This is what we made:

Pasifika

This week in Pasifika, Mr Siilata and the older children taught us some new dances. The boys learned a  Samoan Faitaupati (a slap dance) and the girls learned a Samoan Siva (please, if this is wrong, correct me). Have a look at the older children teaching the younger children. Remember this is their first try at doing this.

Shapes!

Mr Davidson told us to make pictures with shapes. We could use triangles, rectangles, circles, hexagons, ovals and squares. Have a look at the videos we took talking about our pictures:

Enviro Day Pledge

Today is Environment Day. We watched a video about rubbish and how it is can kill the fish and other sea creatures. Here is a pledge we made:

FMS Sport

We had some coaches come in to do sports with us yesterday. Here is a Pic Collage Mr Davidson made and a video of us having fun. We were hopping on one leg and singing the abc song on the abc line (Robbie). We were playing fruit salad and when the coach said the fruit we had to go find a fruit to stand on (Essence). We ran to the tree and we ran back to the coaches (Valerie).

Samoan Language Week Challenge #4

This last challenge had us using all the words we learned this week in one conversation. Have a listen to what two of our boys said:

Flower Power (Friday)

After weeks of forgetting, Mr Davidson finally got us to pick a person for the flower. This week it goes to Robbie. When Nari got hurt, he comforted her until she was better.  Great work Robbie. You are a very kind friend!

Bridges of Sand

Next time we're going to do it better by making the hills the same size (Jenysis). That is making it right. We will try this next week.

Happy Day

Today was Happy Day. We went to our morning tea shed and drew some happy day pictures of us. Have a look at what we did and watch the video!

Puppet Discovery

Today we made puppets in Discovery Time. The puppets were funny so we were using our Habit of Mind, That's Funny! We also used Stop and Think because stopped and thought about what we wanted to make before we started. Have a look and read about what some of us did during Discovery below:

Quality Work

By Robbie

Patterns!

Today, Mr Davidson asked us to make a pattern using anything we could find in the classroom.  We used Lego, puzzles, lids, rocks and shells, numicon shapes and Bee Bots. Can you make a pattern yourself?

Have a look at the patterns we made. Can you figure out what the pattern is?

Walter                                                 

Pasifika

Last Friday we went to our cultural groups again. Mr Davidson is in the Pasifika group and he took some videos of the song and the sasa we're learning. Have a look at how good we've become. We have a guitar and a drum playing with us!

Quality Writing

By Nari

By Robbie

The Magnificent Monkeys' Assembly

We haven't been updating our blog as much as we usually do this week. That's because this week was our week to put on assembly (and we had a trip!). Mr Davidson promises to update the blog this weekend with some things we did this week, but until then, here is a video of our assembly. We hope you enjoy it:

Lucas also won the attendance draw, so he gets to have cupcakes and milkshakes on Monday at morning tea! Congratulations Lucas for coming to school every day this week!

And here is our certificate for the week. Well done Robbie!

Pasifika Cultural Group

Today the Busy Bees and The Fledglings started cultural groups. Some of us, including Mr Davidson, went to the Pasifika group, run by Mr Siilata. Have a look at what we did:

Here are some videos of the Sasa that the older children were teaching us:

Quality Writing

By Robbie

Quality Writing

By Detroit

Counting By Twos

Today the Flamingos were learning how to count by twos to twenty. Have a look at us practicing: