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Here are some photos some of the children have taken.  They have been busy looking at things that interest them.  These photos will be brilliant to use as writing prompts for our writing.   Some of these photos will be judged and hopefully part of the selected photo's to go through to be judged as finalists for the ICT2LRN Media Awards.  As part of this project, the children will take what they have learned about photography and take photos of things that interest them.  The children who have taken these photos are able to talk about how they took their photo and what type of shots they were.  i.e. long shot, close up, zoom in, zoom out, the position of the sun or time of day, angle shots - did they take their photo from up high or down low.  Well done tamariki ma! 

            

 

 

 

THE STORMY NIGHT

Written and performed by Adelle.

MY CAT MOLLY

Written and illustrated by Jack C.

SLINKY SKINK

By Kaden

MAKAREWA KAPA HAKA GROUP

MAKAREWA KAPA HAKA ROOPU - CLICK HERE TO GO TO KAPA HAKA BLOG

Kia ora koutou
The link to the Makarewa Kapa Haka blog has disappeared so in the meantime the link is now here on the home page blog.  Use this to direct you to the blog and I'll try and set up a link on the right side of the blog soon.  Hope this helps.
The Polyfest 2012 photos will be loaded on in the next two weeks along with small video snippits of the tamariki performing.

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CHOCOLATE CAKE ACROSTIC POEM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETHAN

Ethan had his birthday called out on the radio and guess what  He won!  Gretchen and Andy arrived with a chocolaty, creamy sponge cake.  Mmmmm, it was delicious. Ethan shared his yummy cake with Room 3 and Room 4 so we were very lucky.  Thanks for the sweet treat Ethan.
We used this shared experience to write an Acrostic poem about Chocolaty cake.  So keep looking for our collection of poems that will be published soon.

 
 

OUR RUGBY STARS

We had a great time listening to three of the Stags rugby players.  They came to visit us and we had the opportunity to meet Steve-o the Stag.  He's a cool dancer, he showed us some of his dance moves and we thought that he was very good at dancing. The Stags players made an awesome comment about how we were very good listeners and that the questions we asked had to "make them think".  We had some very good questions and they gave us very good answers.  Now we know a little more about these players.
THANKS FOR VISITING US!

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OUR NEW IPADS

We use the IPads to help us with our learning.  The maths activities are great because they are relevant to what we are learning.  We are also using them to work on retelling stories, publishing our stories and telling stories.  There are so many things that we can do with them, there just isn't enough time in a day.  We are extremely lucky to have been given these and look forward to learning about heaps of other apps that help us with our learning.

Basic facts to 10 with Maia and Jadine

 

MOVE IMPROVE

Move Improve with Nacho
Nacho and Paul from Sport Southland came out to work with us every Tuesday.  They showed us how to move about safely and confidently.  We enjoyed learning how to walk up walls, balance and walk through hoops on beams, swing and kick using our timing and many more.  Check out our photos of what we learned during their time with us.

 

DISCO, DISCO, DISCO

We had a great time dancing the night away as Super Heroes do on their night off.  The sounds were provided by some cool DJ's and this was the night to hang out with our friends and groove on down.

                                                                                           

A VISIT FROM OUR OWN OLYMPIANS

Eddie and Matt came to visit Room 3.  They arrived early and caught us all off guard.  We were very excited to see them and share our classroom.  Eddie even had a go on our interactive whiteboard and showed us some drawing skills.  Thanks Eddie and Matt for coming in to visit us.  We look forward to seeing the Gold medal when you come back.

CROSS COUNTRY

We had a fantastic day for our Cross Country at Waianiwa School.  The course was long, grassy, bumpy and a little bit mucky.  Many of our tamariki from our kura did well and got placings with our own Tequin coming second in his age group.  Tino pai rawe!!

Adelle coming on down to the finish line. Tequin's mum did a great job at being the guide and support runner.  Thank you Kim.

Great running Angus.

Jadine ran to the finish line with her dad. Go Jadine! Go Dad!

Kaycee, Anna, Jenna ran hard to the end.  Great running!

OUR SOUTHLAND CYCLING HEROES

Eddie Dawkins has made it to the Olympics.  We have very excited about having a Southlander make it through to the Olympics.  Go Eddie.  We also have been watching Matt Archibald working the tracks.  We hear he is coming in a close second behind Eddie.  Look out Eddie!!
We have been watching some of the races that Eddie and Matt have been in.  This one was in Beijeng in January this year.

PUPPY VISIT

We had some very cute and cuddly puppies visit our classroom yesterday.  Adelles mum, Renei brought them in to show and we were very lucky to get a cuddle and a pat from the wee pups.We now have another topic to write about in our Report writing.  Thanks to Renei and Adelle for bringing the pups in to show us.

HAERE MAI, NAU MAI, HAERE MAI

Tena koutou katoa

Haere mai, nau mai, haere mai.
Welcome back to term 2 2012.  I have been counting down the days to get back to school and now it's finally here.  With much excitement, I am pleased to be back and look forward to learning and working with my class of tamariki.

While I have been away, I've had time to learn more waiata on my ukelele, so look out we will be singing lots of cool waiata.  I have also created some cool interactive whiteboard activities for you to use in your learning so you will be given many opportunities to become ICT experts.

I look forward to preparing our waiata for Putangitangi competitions and Polyfest and I am pleased to say that the Kapa Haka roopu/group is on it's way sounding wonderful with a couple of new waiata on our list already.

Oliver is looking forward to spending some quality time with his aunty and grandma while I'm back at school teaching - so look out Mary and Jack, you better put your toys away up high as Oliver is nearly walking.

Keep checking into our blog as I aim to update this on a weekly basis and I may add some homework activities for you to carry out in addition to making comments.  Use our blog to access maths and literacy activities and games, most of these will be linked to your current learning intentions.

Happy blogging

Na

Miss McGinnis

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