"A Gruffalo? What's a gruffalo?"

We read the Gruffalo story this morning as our writing motivation.  The children thought that the mouse was very clever when he managed to trick all the animals and not become their dinner.  Here are some of our stories.

"The mouse saw the Gruffalo.  He scared Fox, Owl and Snake.  Gruffalo is brown with orange eyes, purple spikes sharp teeth."  By Bentley

"Today we saw a book about the mouse and Gruffalo.  I liked the snake.  She is great and she is nice."  By Heilala

"I like the fox.  He saw the mouse.  He ran away from the mouse.  The mouse saw Gruffalo.  He has orange eyes and he scared the animals."  By Alarmanda

While reading 'The Gruffalo" story to Room 16 the children had fun repeating the phrase and putting their own expression into it.  They also enjoyed colouring and creating their own Gruffalo.

Abbey with her colourful Gruffalo

Seini, Jaycob and Heilala's scary Gruffalos

Making Harmonicas

After making a harmonica using popsicle sticks and rubber bands at Makerspace, Abbey wrote her story about it and drew a picture of some musical notes.  Bentley also wrote about making a harmonica and he was fascinated by the noise it made.

"Yesterday I made a harmonica at Makerspace with Mr Vogt.  When I blow on it it makes a buzz sound."  By Bentley

"Yesterday I went to Makerspace.  I made a popsicle harmonica."  By Abbey

Alarmanda is showing us her popsical harmonica.

Designing Digital Decorations

The children used some of their digital skills of duplicating and copying and pasting to create some lovely christmas decorations on their iPads as we head towards Christmas.

Everyone is busy at work designing a decoration

Flynn decorated some presents.Fl

Abbey's beautiful star

Alarmanda's stockings

Earning Golden Time

When Room 16 earn 10 golden points they are allowed 10 minutes doing some of the activities they like.  This week it was 10 minutes catching up on what was new on our blog.  They were excited to catch up on some of blogs about themselves.

Ahasi, Abbey, Jerome and Heilala catching up on blogs.

A Different Place to Write

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Abbey enjoyed writing her name and drawing out on the concrete at the end of the term

Duffy Books for the Holidays

Pt England School was very lucky to be given Duffy books just in time to enjoy over the holidays.   The children were very excited to receive two new books each.

Odyn engrossed in his books.

Abbey and Heilala enjoying their books.

Alfonzo is very pleased with his new books.

What Makes Plants Grow?

"Room 16 planted some seeds.  The seeds have grown into plants because we watered them and put them in the sun."  By Flynn

"We put the plants in the sun because they need the sun to make them grow."  By Abbey

"We are going to make our plants grow.  We need some sun, water, air and soil."  By Odyn

Marzuli knows that plants need the sun to grow.

Sun Stories

"I like the sun.  The sun makes me warm and the sun makes me feel happy.  The sun comes to earth to warm up our planet."  By Bentley

"I like the sunshine.  You can play outside with your friends and have a happy day."  By Jeremiah

"The sun is very important to us.  It gives us warmth and light.  It goes down at night and it is a massive circle."  By Abbey

Guardians Of The Galaxy

Our Inquiry topic has inspired the children to think about space travel and what rockets that travel between planets might look like.  Abbey, Talanoa and Jaycob have used Hyper Studio to draw their ideas.

Abbey's space ship

Jaycob's rocket

Talanoa's powerful rocket zipping past the stars.

"New Books For Us!"

The children each received a Duffy Book to take home last week.  They were able to choose their own book then they shared the books with each other.  They were very excited to be able to take their book home to share with their families.

Room 16 waiting to receive their new Duffy book.

Jeremiah busy reading with Marzuli.

Evander, Alfonzo, Heilala and Abbey sharing a story.