Term 3 Weeks 5 & 6 Certificates

We missed last week's assembly so we got two certificates today:

Brain Time (And Thing Link!)

Today Mr Davidson helped Sini make a ThingLink. See how he added videos to his pictures:
 

(Hint: Click on the red triangles to play the videos)

Quality Work

By Kalolo

By Sini

Cook Islands Language Week Challenge 2

300!

Last year when we were The Learning Lions, we started counting by one every day. When we got ten sticks we made a bundle of 10. When we got ten bundles of 10 we made a bundle of 100. Today we got to 300! That's a lot of days at school. Sini has only missed two of those days and that's because he was really, really sick. Do you think we will get to 400?

Interschool Rugby

All of the houses were playing touch rugby on the field. If you are touched, you have to pass the ball and roll it under you to the next person. There are six people in a team. You have to to try to get the ball over the try line to score a try. Have a look at some of the Monkeys playing in the Kakapo vs Kotare game: 

Retelling and More Retelling

This week we have been practicing retelling our reading stories. We took some videos of the them. Have a look at what some of us have been doing:

Term 2 Week 6 Certificate

This week was also the Kapa Haka assembly. Some of our students were performing. Can you find them in the video?

Quality Writing

By Sini

Term 2 Week 5 Certificate

Planting a Tree

In assembly this morning we got a plant because we posted our pledge on our blog yesterday. This afternoon we went to the back of the school to plant it. First we dug a hole with the spades. Then we put the plant in the hole. Next we filled in the hole with the dirt. Finally we watered the plant. Have a look at the pictures we took.

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:

Brain Time!

Here are some Pic Collages from Brain Time that we finished today. Have a look at all the Creating and Innovating we've done with the Lego!

Quality Writing

By Sini

Brain Time!

Here are two Pic Collages of what we did today in Brain Time.

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!

Strike Percussion

On Friday last week, we went to the hall to watch a drum band called Strike Percussion. Their names were: Biscuits, Mufasa and Tim the Tool Man Taylor. They played the drums.

Then they tried to make it rain.  They played a song using the marimba.

Next Mrs Tollestrup and Miss Taylor went up on the stage and did some mean songs. It was amazing.

After that, Sini went up on the stage and played a song on the Cook Island drums. Can you see him?

They got tired and they were thirsty so they made music with the drink cans.

Finally they made music with fire.

My favourite part was the fire (Nari). My favourite part was Biscuits playing the marimba (Essence). My favourite part was when they were playing with the drinks (Vaueli).

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:

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                                                 

Discovery

Today the Magnificent Monkeys and the Brave Bears did Discovery on the Teddy Bear's Picnic. We had a picnic outside, made some bear masks, built a bear house and dance to The Teddy Bear's Picnic. Here is a Comic Life of what we did: