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Last one for the year munchkins.  What do you think this is?

Christmas Holidays

What are you doing this holidays?

I wish I had duck feet

Today we retold I wish I had duck feet by Dr Seuss.  We looked at the structure of the story and how we could get one idea to flow in to the next.  We looked closely at the language features that he uses such as listing sentences, rhyming words and paragraphing.  We tried out very best to follow this structure.  Below are some of our versions.  We hope you like them!

The Senior Disco

On the 6th of December it was our School Disco. people had Santa costumes
and elf costumes on. There was the limbo and we were doing dance competitions
 Boys vs Girls! There was also food like fizzy, lollies and chps it was really fun!!!

Student Led Conferences

Last night the students of Room 9 talked to their parents about their learning this year.  They told them all about where they were at the start of the year and where they are now.  They told them what goals they are working on to get to the next level in reading, writing and maths.  There were heaps of very in depth conversations and lots of very proud mums and dads!

A huge congratulations guys and girls.  You definitely did your teacher and most of all yourselves proud!

What is it?

You know how this works now, what do you think it is?

Remember to put your name at the end of your guess.

Spring Festival

WOW!  What a wicked night everyone!  There were heaps of community support for our Gala after school yesterday.  We are hoping we have raised enough money to pay off the rest of the Senior Playground and more!

For our class stall Miss Hammond organised for a TQ racing car, owned by Daryl Webster, to come down from Auckland but unfortunately it was too damaged at the weekend to even make it onto the trailer.  So plan B was put into action. Very kindly her brother lent us his Production Saloon instead!  We filled it up with Balloons and people had to guess how many we had crammed into it.  The person with the closest guess has won a family pass to Huntly Speedway on a weekend of their choice over the summer.  Miss Hammond is even going to personally meet them at the gate to let them in.  Her dad is the referee at the track so maybe they will get to meet him and some of the drivers too.

Our stall raised about 40 after costs.  So all up a pretty wicked effort.

The winner will be announced in the Newsletter next week.

A huge thank you to everyone who had a guess at our stall but also everyone who showed up.  We appreciate your amazing support of our school.

Spring festival

SPRING FESTIVAL

TOday is the Spring Festival!  That means that this morning we have flower show and this afternoon we have a whole school Gala.  We are busy getting ready for both.  Check out what we have been doing this morning.

 

Piper says- Today is our spring festival.In the morning we made button holes and sand saucers.It was really fun.There was so many flowers and a big mess to clean up.

Carrie says-It is going to be a good day today we blew up the the balloons.

Autumn says-I  brought some muffins for the school.

Yasmin says-Today was a fun day and we  sand saucers and buttonholes.Then we blew up balloons for the school.

What is it?

We know how this works now.  What do you think this is?

What's This?

Take a guess, what do you think it is?

Spring Festival Posters

Today we completed some of our poster for Spring Festival.  We hope you like them.

Athletics Day

ATHLETICS DAY!

Well done to all participants.  We had a wicked day in the sun doing High jump, Long jump, Sprints, Vortex Throw, Cricket Ball Throw, Hurdles and much more.  A big thank you to Miss Temm and Miss Palaone for helping us get into our house colours and running the High jump.  GO PUKEKO!

Solar Eclipse

Today was a Solar Eclipse.  Our teacher took these photos so we can write about it tomorrow!

Happenings today

Today Miss Temm and Miss Palaone were on full control of the classroom.  They planned and taught their own music, visual art and maths lessons.  Check out these photos to see how much we loved every minute!

SPRINTS

Today was the sprint finals of athletics.  Check out how wicked we are at running!

Welcome back Miss Temm

We welcome Miss Temm back to Room 9.  She did her first practicum with us at the start of the year and has returned to complete it.  We loved her being with us then and can't wait to see what she does with us this term.  

What's this?

What do you think this is?

What is this?

What do you think this is?

Magic Milk

We have been doing an experiment called Magic Milk.  We started with plates, then we filled the bottom of the plate with milk.  Then we put some food colouring in and then we got dish washing liquid and got cotton buds and dipped them in the liquid and put that in.  The colours expand and you mix it and they're all sorts of colours and all sorts of patterns appear and you keep doing it until it green.

Miss Palaone got us to write instructions about what we did.  Then we shared back to the whole class how it went.  Check out the video below to see us sharing back.

Te Reo Kori

This afternoon we have been learning to do some string games for Te Reo Kori.

Autumn Says - We were trying to practise how to do stuff with strings.  We did cup and saucer and Diamonds. and Easy A.  I really liked it because you get to make stuff and do tricks.

Jake Says - The 2 diamonds is really hard because its just confusing.

Usharn Says - I liked when we had to do the cup and saucer because it was easier than the diamond one.

Carrie Says - I liked the cup and saucer one because it was easier to do.

Matai Says  - The Eiffel Tower was a little bit hard because I was trying to make it into a triangle but then I tried to do it again but it wouldn't let me.