Friday, December 23, 2011

Gingerbread Man

During our last week at school we listened to the gingerbread man story. 

We also got to make gingerbread men biscuits. They were delicious. 

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Swimming

Today the junior school went for a trip to the splash center. Some of us went on the hydro slide which was a lot of fun. We had a great time at the splash center.

Wellington Zoo

Last Friday we went  for a trip to the Wellington Zoo. when we got to the zoo we learnt about the difference between a mammal and a reptile. We go to touch a rat and a lizard. We saw bear, tigers, monkeys, giraffes, kangaroos, baboons, mere cat and a lot of other animals. We had a great day at the zoo.




Thursday, December 8, 2011

Athletics

Today we had our Junior athletics. We had 5 different activities to do. We started with the vortex throw, then we did long jump and mini hurdles. We then went to the sack race and then off to the sprints. Unfortunately it started to rain so we didn't get to do the egg and spoon race. We had a lot of fun doing each of the activities.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Week 7 Certificates

This week 4 people received certificates in junior assembly. Congratulations.






Thursday, November 24, 2011

Hickory Dickory Dock

After viewing the claymations from our quad blogging buddies  from Mission Heights Primary School in Auckland  we decided that we would like to try our own. He is Jevyn's and Zaydin's.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Zaydin's Fantastic Writing

Today Zaydin worked really hard with his writing. He used words that he knew and sounded out unknown words. Well done Zaydin.

Week 5 big question

Monday, November 14, 2011

Quad Blogging

Last week we started our quad blogging. We began by looking at class blog Longshaw Infant School (UK).

This week our focus blog is Mission Height Primary School from New Zealand.

Take a look at their blogs and also post a comment. (Links are to the side)

Assembly Item

Yesterday we had our assembly. We sang 2 songs and did  'Hey Baby' a jump jam song.





















Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Week 3 Big Question

Week 2 Big Question

The answer to last weeks big question is the  Mosquito. The mosquito carry and transfer malaria which result in the death of more than 2 million people a year.

Counting to 20

Keira and Zaydin have been working on recognizing numbers to 20 and counting a set of objects to 20. They are both stars at this now. 


Buddy Reading

Today the monkeys had to read to a buddy as part of our daily five rotations. Cody and Blake showed how fantastic they are at buddy reading. Take a look at how they are sitting closely together and the book is between them. Well done boys.

Nouns

We have been learning what a noun is. We know a noun is a place, person or thing. We know that we need to have a noun when we are writing a sentence. Look at the nouns we could name.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Have you seen the add on the ANZ website?
It looks really good.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Star of the Week

The star of the week goes...

Myspace Generators & Toys

week 2 Big Question

Answer to big question

Well done Tayla, Cody and Zara for answering last weeks big Question. The answer to last weeks big question is the Sloth. Ever heard someone called a “sloth” or “slow as a sloth” because they move really slowly? That’s because the sloth — especially the three-toed sloth — is the slowest animal around. Their legs and feet are shaped to hang from trees, so it’s actually hard for sloths to walk on the ground. They can’t run or stand upright on their feet. It would take a sloth nearly a month to walk one mile! Sloths don’t do much walking on the ground, though — they spend their lives hanging upside down in trees. They eat, sleep, and even have babies upside down!
Watch these videos to find out about the Sloth.


Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Identifying numbers to 10

Today the circles maths group was working on identifying numbers to 10.

Ordering Numbers to 20

Today the squares maths group was learning to order numbers to 20. 

Week 1 Big Question

Fantastic Writing

Today we wrote about something that we did in the school holidays. What fantastic writing we all did. Some of us are trying really hard to write the first sounds of words we don't know while others are trying to write all of the sounds we can hear. Take a look at our fantastic writing.







Thursday, October 20, 2011

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Photo Shoot

Even though it was the school holidays , on Friday we  had a photo shoot  down at the house that has all of the flags of the countries that are competing in the world cup rugby. This is for an add campaign  for the ANZ bank and the world cup rugby. We think this is pretty exciting. The photos are going to be used for posters which are going in the ANZ bank and they took pictures for bill boards which are going to be used at the airports. 



Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Vote for you favorite Author

Which authors books would you like us to read this term?

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Rippa Rugby Game

On Friday Room 2 from Churton School came and had a game of Rippar rugby with us. What a fantastic game we had. The game 9 all. Blake got player of the day for our team.



Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Practicing Rugby

As part of our inquiry we are learning to play ripper rugby in preparation for our game against Room 2 from Churton School. 


Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Fantastic Maths

Today in assembly Ryder and Maddy both received certificates for great effort in learning their basic facts. Ryder has been our basic facts champ for 5 days in a row. Well done.

Week 9 Big Question

Friday, September 23, 2011

Hop On Pop

This week we are reading Hop on Pop for shared reading. Have a listen to it.

Can you list all of the rhyming words?

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Answer to Week 7 big question

Well done Tayla the answer to week 7 big question is the Web Eliis cup.






Did You know?

Who was William Webb Ellis ?


William was a pupil at Rugby School in Warwickshire during the early 19th century. He has become known as the boy who created Rugby Union.The legend has it that during a football (soccer) training session in 1823, the 16-year-old schoolboy caught the round ball and ran with it.




The Webb Ellis Cup is made of gilt silver with a glimmering gold exterior.


The cup was created by Garrard’s Crown Jewellers of London, which also created the America’s Cup.


It measures 38 centimetres high.


Australia was the first country to win the William Webb Ellis Cup twice (1991 and 1999), followed by South Africa (1995 and 2007).


New Zealand (1987) and England (2003) have both won it once.

Week 8 Big Question

Friday, September 16, 2011

Assembly Item

Today we had our assembly item. We did 'Elmer' and also said the rhyme 'The Elephant'.We had fun doing our assembly Item.

Our Grabbabeast

Jevyn's Beast
benchie

Thursday, September 15, 2011

today is

Today Ryder did our calendar using ICT games calendar.




Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Certificates

Today in Junior Assembly the Giraffes reading  group received certificates as they are  remembering to use their reading strategies when they come to words they don't know and then they re-read. WOW what great readers you are becoming.

Ordering Numbers to 20

In Maths the squares maths group is learning to order numbers to 20.



Buddy Art

Today was buddy art day. Last week when we went to the art gallery we started to make movable rugby players. Today our buddies helped us to finish them off. 

Week 7 Big Question

Sunday, September 11, 2011

AudioBoo

Have a listen.
Audio Boo (mp3)

How do you think we could use it? Post a comment with your ideas.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

My Beast

Look at my beast I created.
Professor Herbert Zesty

How do you think we could use this?