Singing Assembly Certificates

Congratulations to Leanna, Solomon and TJ for getting certificates this week. Leanna for always helping out when needed, Solomon for moving up 3 reading levels so far this term (that's 9 months of progress!) and TJ for setting a good example while Mr Davidson was out of the room. Well done!

Te Kupo o te Wiki (Term 3 Week 3)

Mr Davidson has been slow, so this is last week's word of the week.

Do you know what poitarawhiti means? If you do and you are the first person to comment (from the Monkeys) you will get 5 house points. Everyone else who comments will get 2!

Cook Island Cultural Performance

At the end of Cook Islands Language Week, all the classes that completed the four video challenges were invited to come to a performance. Four of our students were part of the performance: Essence, Izaya, Preses and Solomon. Can you see them in the videos below?

Discovery Time!

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:

Flower Power Wednesday

This week the Flower goes to Solomon. He invited Nari to play tiggy with him and his friends during play time. Great work Solomon!

Quality Writing

By Solomon

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.

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 we made in Brain Time today:

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Brain Time

Here are some more Pic Collages we made today in Brain Time. Can you see an improvement?

Term 2 Weeks 1 and 2 Certificates

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:

Koru Patterns

Today we made Koru patterns. They look like waves or plants. Some are skinny and some are thin. First we used a pen to draw the pattern. We looked at the paper so we could see what to do. There was already three different Koru patterns on the page. Then we coloured it in neatly, with no white spots and we made sure it was dark. Have a look at some of the patterns we did:

Walter

Corrina

Solomon

Preses

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                                                 

Quality Work

By Solomon

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!

Phonics: Silly Sentences

On Friday, Mr Davidson gave us a silly sentence to write. Lots of us almost got it and four of us didn't make any mistakes: