Our thoughts......

Hi all
Publish your writing here and tell us what you think about them.  What patterns can you see and what are they trying to say?

IC

Climbing trees

by             Emalaina and Ebony

Your legs move for your body

The bumps on the tree are lumpy

Your heart beats like thunder

Then your hands get red and uglier.

Your mouth opens to breath.

When you get to the top you’re wanting to leave.

Your legs get tired

While your face gets burned fired.

But when you get down

You fall like you’ve earned a crown.

When you’re climbing down and you go one by one

Then you know you are a champion.

MERC (Marine Education Recreation Centre) Monday 3 Nov 2014

Hi Everyone
I think everyone would agree, what a wonderful day we've had at MERC. Although, it started with raining cats and dogs, the rain soon settled down and a bit of sunshine crept through in the afternoon.
 So proud of you all having a go, facing your challenge.....doing something new at abseiling, kayaking and raft building. Thank you all for showing respect to Tangaroa (the Protector of the Sea). IC

Abseiling: keep your feet straight on the wall, lean back and go down.

Go Girl Power!

Safety first: put on the websuit, then life-jacket.

paddling warm up....left down up and right down up...

                                                               Hopped on the kayak and off we go!

                                                                   Hurray!I'm the first to paddle to shore!

These knots will come in useful for building a raft.

Now, what kind of knots will be good to tie these barrels?

Now, makes sure the plank is secured to the barrels.

Lets go for a test drive! Will it fit all of us....

Fun Day and Skipping Day

Hi everyone
Did you enjoy the Fun day in week 2 and Skipping Day in Week 3? Take a look of some of these photos and tell us your views.

Did we get a try or not?

What a team!

Girls' Skipping power!

Awesome skipping.

Diwali

Hi everyone
Look at these lovely images from the class on celebrating Diwali - the Festival of Lights or  Indian New Year. Please make a comment.

Diwali patterns by Marick

Aisea's Rangoli pattern

Rangoli pattern by Vini

Feven's Rangoli pattern

Daniel's Rangoli pattern

Diwali poster by Nathaniel

Diwali poster by Rachel

Diwali poster by Annie

Celebrating Diwali by Sefita

Celebrating diwali's lights by Donny

Diwali poster by Sione

by Desmond

Double bubble map by Sefita

Double Bubble Map by Rachel

By Sela

Franzene

Term 4 Homework

Room 4  Homework      Term 4  of 2014 Our topics this term is on Celebrations. Our homework routine consists of: Reading to an adult every day. Learning spelling words. Learning any times tables and basic facts for that week. As well as that, choose from the following independent learning projects and do one every week:
Activity	Completed (tick)	Adult sign
Write a “Who am I” clues about one example of celebration.
Make up a board game on multiplication and division facts.
Write an acrostic poem on celebrations.
Write a recount of a special celebration you had.
Design a sign or symbol for a celebration.
Compare and contrast two different celebrations.
Be a data detective, find out something from your family and friends (e.g. The Favourite celebration) and present the results in a graph. Remember to write a conclusion.
Draw a Y chart on “Celebrations” – what can you see, feel, or hear?
Interview someone in your family about their favourite celebration. Present the questions and answers to class.
Make a homonym and antonym chart for any word such as ‘get’, ‘good’, ‘go’’, ‘ nice’, ‘happy’, bad, beautiful, sad.
Create a word search on celebrations for your friend to solve.
Retell a story you’ve read and write about the author’s views.
Design a Christmas stamp or card for a friend.
Draw all the different celebrations that you know. For example, Matariki, Diwali, Polyfest, Christmas, New Year…
Compare and Contrast various 3 Dimensional (3D) shapes. For example, how many sides, faces and edges for each shape.
Find a book or website about a celebration and write a list of interesting facts.
Write an instruction to show how to do or make something.
Draw a shape that can make a tessellation  ( repeated shapes that have no gaps)

Term 4 Programme

Dear Parents and Caregivers,                                  

        Welcome back to term four and it is great to see the children are refreshed and ready to start a new term.  Our topic will be on Celebrations. It would be appreciated if you could continue using your home language to share your knowledge about the celebrations that are important to your family to engage in your child’s learning.

Outdoor Education

        Week 4 – Monday

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Programme for  Term 4

• Mathematics
  focus will be on addition, subtraction, fractions and geometry (transformation).

• English will focus on instructions and recount writing.

•  Reading will be on gaining meaning from texts by making inferences and evaluation.

• Topic – will inquire into the importance of celebrations to various groups.

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• Our P.E. and Health programme will be on athletics and skipping robes.

• Maori focus will be on requesting for food.

•Visual Art- is on making and printing stencils. Students will practise singing in parts and unison for the assembly item.

Oral Language-

will be on social interactions especially for expressing opinions, agreement and disagreement.

Celebrating Tongan Language Week

Hi
Just looking back the Tongan Language  Week in week 7, we were so lucky to have a chance to taste real Tongan food and an"otai" (a tropical fruit drink). Take a look of the fabulous costume (tupenu,
 ta 'ovala and kiekie) of the children.
IC

Terrific ta'ovala and kiekie

Taro, kumara, yam and curry.

chop suey and otai

Senior Girls Group

Tongan Day

                                                                          by Nathaniel

Tonga is a kingdom and an archipelago of 176 islands in the Pacific Ocean but only 52 islands are inhabited. The population is around 106,000 people. The weather is tropical.  Tonga is the only monarchy that remains in South Pacific Ocean.

Tongan people represent their culture in many ways such as in dancing, feast and their languages. Firstly they have their language. They say, “Malo ”that is the Tongan way to say “thank you”.

On our Tongan Day we had a special lunch too. I had the $5 food, it was alright but I didn’t like it that much.  It had “lo” (taro), “ufi” ( yam), curry moa (chicken) and “otai” a fruit drink. It was quite sweet.

At the end of the day I felt great and happy and that was the best Tongan Day ever.

      Tongan Day

                                          by Daniel

Last Friday we had a special Tongan Day at school. After our morning tea break, we marched to the hall to start our first activity.

Room 3 walked up to the front to introduce themselves first. After that it was our turn.

“Malo e lei lei…. Malo ‘aupito,” said Marick. This means “Good day and thank you.”  They were so brave to talk in front of the whole school and their parents. Clap, Clap, Clap! People were clapping loudly like the hail stones falling onto the car bonnet.

At lunch time we had “lusipi” (food wrapped in taro leaves), chop suey and “otai” (a fruit drink). It had pineapple and coconut in it. It was sweet and nice but it was too sweet for some people.

It was a fantastic day and I enjoyed it. So I wish there was a Samoan Language week this week so I could wear the lavalava (the wrap around cloth).

Term 3 Our Treasures Taonga

Hi everyone
Take a look of the wonderful treasures of our class that  show our belonging to a culture or group.
We were learning to create a piece artwork which use a range of mixed materials.
Ms Cheung

Rachel

Desmond

Vini

Hame

Nathaniel

Marick

Ebony

Tugi

Jaylene

John

Ronnie

Sebastian

Emalaina

Annie

Feven

Donny

Jon

Aisea

Sione

Kiveni

Sefita

Franzene

Sela