Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers

As Christmas is nearly here we have been reading Christmas stories.  The children enjoyed listening to Slinky Malinki's way of redecorating the tree with himself as a fairy on the top of the tree.  Here are two of their stories.

"Slinky Malinki is a sneaky black cat.  He destroyed the Christmas tree and mischievously hid the fairy under the rug." By Witari

"Slinky Malinki saw the Christmas tree and ruined all of the decorations.  He cheekily hid the fairy under the rug."  By Teejay

Phoenyx drew a picture of Slinky Malinki and the Christmas tree.

The Manaiakalani Film Festival Tomorrow!

Tomorrow we are all going to the Manaiakalani Film Festival.  We are all very excited about the big day as we will be film stars on the big screen.  We needed to think about being good Pt Englanders so we wrote and drew about it this morning.  Here are some of our stories and a picture of us going in the bus.

"Tomorrow we are going on the bus to the Manaiakalani Film Festival.  We have to stay with our buddy and listen to them. "  By Anihana

"We are going to Manaiakalani Film Festival tomorrow.  We have to be sensible to each other and watch the movie quietly."  By Najari

We are going to the Manaiakalani Film Festival at Sylvia Park.  When we get there we have to get off with our buddy.  When our buddy walks, we walk out of the bus.  When we sit down with our buddy, we have to be nice and sensible so Madison and Kamryn can do their story.  When they are finished we can clap."  By Phoenyx

Ashley drew us getting on the bus.

Para kore (Zero Waste)

As part of our Te Reo lesson this week we learnt that we have to take care of Papatuanuku and our kura so we went out into the playground and collected up rubbish.  We made sure our playground was free from litter.

Jade E, Phoenyx and Ryder on litter collection

Look at all the rubbish we collected!

Two New Duffy Books Each!

The children were very excited to be able to choose two new Duffy books to take home.  They sat and read their new books sharing them with their friends.  Thanks to The Duffy Books in Homes for such a wonderful gift.  The children certainly treasure their books.

Kamryn enjoying her books.

 

Madison, Ryder and Phoenyx showing off their new books.

Interesting Patterns

We were learning about patterns in maths. We learnt that you can make lots of different kinds of patterns using all sorts of equipment. We tried to think of different sorts of patterns using different shapes, colours and the number of things in the repeat.  Here are some of the interesting patterns we made.  By Ryder, Phoenyx, Daz and Najari

Phoenyx's pattern on a board

Najari made a pattern with the counters

Daz made a very interesting repeat pattern.

Ryder used some of the sorting things to make a pattern.

Jumping at Jump Jam

I love Jump Jam on Fridays because it is exercise for my body and my brain.  My brain gets exercise when I use it to make my body do the right moves. By Phoenyx

Mufti Day Karaoke

On Mufti Day, Phoenyx and I went up on the stage and sang "Eye of the Tiger".  Everyone joined in singing "Roar!" By Sophie

Duffy Books to take Home!

We were very excited to be given two Duffy Books to take home and treasure.  Kohatu, Tevita, Teejay, Najari, Madison and Phoenyx are showing their favourite books.  Thank you Duffy Foundation for giving us such wonderful books.  Room 16

Working hard earns a Duffy Certificate

Phoenyx has been work hard in class and earned herself a Duffy certificate and a book.  Phoenyx finds it is fun to use the iPad and stylus for her reading activities. Class 16

Writing with a Stylus

This week in our iPad lesson with Mrs George we learnt how to use our stylus with our iPads.  We learnt how to care for our stylus then we had fun writing a sentence with our strange new "pencils".  Didn't Phoenyx, Jade and Teejay do a good job of writing!  Class 16