Fireworks!

Check out our acrostic poems about fireworks...

Fireworks - By Holly

Fireworks are colourful.
I would never want to leave, for I love fireworks, they're they best.
Rainbow colours cross the sky like angels in the night.
Everyone waits for the explosion.
Wait, wait you have to be patient.
Over the sky they twinkle and sparkle.
Red fireworks, white fireworks, every kind of fireworks.
Kids are having fun running around, 'round, 'round, kids are having fun running around.



Fireworks - By Louie

Flying up into the air then popping.
In the air I hear fireworks exploding.
Racing your friends up and down the hill.
Eating candyfloss and sharing with your dad.
Winning all your races with your friend.
Over the hill you see the fireworks popping.
Remembering the time you had at the fireworks.
Kids sharing their toys with other people.
Silently waiting for the fireworks to explode.

Term Three

This term we continue learning about our place and our environment with a focus on sustainability. We will be learning about how we care for our environment here at school, at home and in the wider community. As a part of this learning we will be creating some cool art work to display in an Art Expo later in the term. We will also be learning some cool Maori Myths and legends that teach us about the environment and why it is so important to the people of Aotearoa.

We recieved an email about our film today...

Ka pai tamariki ma!!!   I was so impressed by your film festival last week.  I thought that your film was just wonderful and I really loved the mad scientists, the cool songs and dancing and how you acknowledged everyone who helped you on your learning journey....and how exciting to be on the big screen!!  You are great kaitiaki of your local environment and are doing a fantastic job of putting your knowledge into action and also sharing your knowledge within your community.  I would love to have a copy of the film to put up on our website to show other Drains to Harbour kids if that is OK with you all.  Keep being cool and I'll see you round.
Haere ra,
Kim Jones - DTH coordinator

The Magic 'e'

We have been learning about the magic 'e'. We discovered that the magic 'e' makes us say the name of the vowel in a word.

                  hat has a short 'a' sound, but if we add an 'e' to the end the 'a' becomes a long 'a' sound (it says it's name) so the new word is hate.

Listen to this song for other examples and see if you can sing along.

More basic facts

Check out this song about your ten time tables and get learning them, quick!

Film Festival

Our film festival is nearing! Tickets are on sale now, get them before school (8.30 - 9.00am) from the school library. Tickets are $3.00 each - get in quick, they are selling out fast!

 

Basic Facts...

We are learning our 2, 5 and 10 time tables.

Check out this time tables rap to help you learn your two time tables...

Here is the song that Room 15 are going to sing in the film festival... We have made up actions to go along with it. We can't wait to film! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw275056JtA

Fractions

Last term we began learning about fractions. We loved learning about them SO much that we have decided to begin our term with more work around fractions. We have had lots of great discussions about half and one quarter. We have been finding fractions of shapes and numbers. Room 15 are becoming particularly clever at finding half of a number to 20, which is wonderful basic facts knowledge.

Term Three!!!

This term is a short one (only 9 weeks!) but it promises to be a busy and exciting one too as we prepare for Onerahi Primary School's first ever 'Festival of Film'. The theme for our film is 'Our Place' and Ngutu Awa will be producing a film based on our learning from last term. We will be WOWing audiences with stunning acting, songs and dances all about the wetlands.

Making movies

Today Mrs Coutts came in to our class to work with a team of children. She taught them how to use iMovie on the ipads. Holly, Zac, Jared and Louie made this film. Check it out...

Part 1...

 

Part 2...

 

 

 

Exploring the Waimahanga Stream

Last Thursday Room 15 walked from school to the Waimahanga Stream. When we arrived we had to cross the stream carefully. We then took the temperature of the water and compared this to the temperature at Dragon Fly springs. We learnt that the temperature of a stream can change a lot within a short space of time. We then used the nets to try and catch fish from the stream so we could identify what species of fish live there. We also climbed down in to the stream to look under rocks, searching for things living under them. It was a great adventure! Now we will be able to compare the wetlands to the stream.

Dragonfly Springs.

Dragonfly Springs.

We went to Dragonfly Springs. We looked around first then we caught some fish with the net. After we looked around we saw a big rat dead in the trap. They catch the rats so they don’t get the eggs from the birds.

By Wairere.

Waimahanga Stream Visit.

Waimahanga Stream Visit.

Yesterday we looked for fish. Walking there was long. At the stream we went looking for bugs and insects. I saw bugs.

By Moana.

Waimahanga Stream Visit.

Waimahanga Stream Visit.

Yesterday we went to the Waimahanga stream. We saw the stream. It was so muddy. Walking there was so good. At the stream I went looking for bugs and insects. I saw buggy. I like buggy.

By Jackson.

The Waimahanga Stream.

The Waimahanga Stream.

Yesterday we went for a long walk. The rocks were slippery. Kim helped us to walk across the rocks because they were slippery.

By Aaliyah.

The Waimahanga Stream

The Waimahanga Stream Visit.

Yesterday we went to the Waimahanga stream. We had to walk far but it was fun! I saw little fish.

By Skyla

The Wetlands

The Wetlands

We went to the wetlands and I saw a water boatman and it had heaps of legs and it’s back looked like a lady bugs back. I saw tadpoles and tadpoles turn in to frogs.

By Lorelei

The Waimahanga Stream Visit.

The Waimahanga Stream Visit.

Yesterday we went to the Waimahanaga stream. It was hard walking along. We finally got there and we got to catch some fish. I got to see how cold the stream was using a thermometer. It was 17 degrees.

By Zachary

Waimahanga Stream Trip.

Waimahanga Stream Trip.

Yesterday we went on an exciting trip to the Waimahanga stream. We went passed the shops and past houses. It was slippery and muddy. We tried not to slip. When we got there I got into the stream with my gumboots on.

By Melinda.

Waimahanga Stream Trip.

Waimahanga Stream Trip.

Yesterday I went to the Waimahanga stream. I caught a sea worm.

By Quinn.  

Waimahanga Stream Trip.

Waimahanga Stream Trip.

Yesterday we all went to the Waimahanga Stream. Some people were tired. It was a long long way! And Jackson found a bug and I found a sea snake. All the other children found water boatman. If you hear one whistle you have to stop, look and listen. If you hear three whistles that means you have to come back to the meeting point.

By James.

The Wetlands

The Wetlands

On the first trip we went on this excellent adventure and it was cool when we went fishing. We used a net and we got some mosquito fish. We also got this little red fish and it was fast and it looked like a spider. We caught lots of mosquito fish. I got four. We had to walk all the way up and it took a long time and when we walked down we walked fast and some people fell over!

By Serenade

Waimahanga Stream Visit

Waimahanga Stream Trip.

Yesterday Room fifteen went to the Waimahanga stream! It was a long walk. I was excited! It was a beautiful day for a walk. I love having a walk every day. We had a discovery of fish and insects. My favourite was the red finned bully fish. There were mosquito fish too, they kill mosquitos.

By Holly.

Waimahanga Stream Visit

Waimahanga Stream Trip.

Yesterday we went to the Waimahanga track. I was so excited that I started jumping. We had a snack. It was a long way, we had to do down a big step hill. We even went passed the shops! At the bottom of the hill there was a mud patch, it was stinky. Then we were there. We had to go across the troll’s wobbly bridge. Then we had a little talk about the rules. I got to do all of the jobs except for one job.

By Louie.

Dragon Fly Springs

As you know, we are currently learning about estuaries. Check out some of our photos from our visit to Dragon Fly Springs today. This week we will use our experience as motivation for our writing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our shared writing about the drains to harbour programme.

We went to the music room to learn about drains to harbours. We learnt about lots of interesting things including water, rubbish, pollution and animals. We played an interesting game called Who Dirtied the Harbour. There was lots of dirty rubbish and pollution in the game. We learnt that we are all responsible for keeping the water clean so our fish don't die and we can still enjoy the water.

On Tueday KiwiKick came to Onerahi Primary School. We got to go out and play some games with the instuctors. They taught us how to kick a rugby league ball and they taught us some fun new games. This is our writing about what we did...

I like to kick the ball. I got someone with the ball and I loved it.

By Leo.
 

Yesterday we all played Kiwi Kick. My favourite was scarecrow.

By Lily
 

Yesterday we played scarecrow tiggy.

By Moana.

 

Yesterday we played Kiwi Kick. It was fun. My favourite was the scarecrow game.

By Skyla.

 

 

Yesterday we played rugby. My favourite game is the scarecrow game.
By Aaliyah.

 

Yesterday we played scarecrow and I learnt how to drop kick. And then we played bomb the teacher!

By Lorelei.

 

On Tuesday we played rugby and it was fun and we played bomb the teacher. In scarecrow if people tag you, you have to stand like a scarecrow and if people come around you, you are safe.

By James.

 

Yesterday room 15 went to the Kiwi Kick. Scarecrow was the best. It was awesome.
By Zac

 

Yesterday room fifteen and sixteen went out to play some Kiwi Kicks. First we played scarecrow. I did not get to be the tagger. And then we played bomb the teacher. My group were the Tigers, our team won. And then we went inside.

By Louie

Black and white faces

We have Science focus for our inquiry this term. We will be learning about estuaries and taking part in the 'Drains to Harbour' programme. As a part of this we will visit the estuary and do some scientific testing. We can't wait to be scientists!

Today Room 15 went exploring. We went for a walk on the school field to see what we could notice. We saw that the trees had started to loose their leaves. Some trees had almost no leaves at all. Other trees were still green and lots of leaves. We picked up some of the leaves as we walked and bought them back to our class to investigate. There were lots of beautiful colours and shapes. We used these leaves to help us with our writing today. These are our stories.

Autumn

 

By Holly

It is Autumn.

It is the time of the year when we are cold.

The colours of the leaves are: red, orange, yellow, golden and brown.

We have hot chocolate and soup in autumn.

 

My Autumn Leaves

By Louie

These are my leaves.

They are very bright green. On the ends of one of my leaves it’s turning brown.

I am going to keep my special leaves. I am going to put them in my stash.

 

My leaves are autumn leaves.

One of my leaves are dotty.

 

My leaf

 

By James

My leaf is brown and it has stripes.

Some leaves are red and golden.

So many shiny leaves are beautiful. I like picking leaves.

I was picking them off the ground.

It was exciting.

 

My leaf

By Madison

My leaf is silver and brown and soft and shiny.

All the other leaves are fabulous.

 Holly’s are very cool.

I love them so much.

 

Autumn Leaves

By Awhina

I went outside to play again. It was fun.

Then we went to find some leaves.

I got a red leaf and I got a shiny one.

My favourite one was the brown and red one.

I got a purple leaf.

I also got a bendy one.

I got them off the ground.

Autumn

 

By Nico

Autumn is the time of year when the leaves fall off the trees.

I love autumn because I get to jump in the leaves.

 I wish autumn never left.

 

Leaves

 

By Nico

Today I found two green leaves. They tell me which way the wind is going and they are big. I found them on the ground. Some of my friends think I picked them off the tree, but I didn’t. In Autumn the leaves fall off the trees. I love autumn because the leaves fall off the trees.

 

Autumn

By Melinda

Autumn is coming and the leaves fall off the trees.

The leaves make a carpet on the ground.

It is fun to play in the leaves.

 

Leaves

 

By Jared

Today is Thursday.

We got some leaves off the ground.

The leaves are brown and some leaves are green.

 

Crunchy Leaves

 

By Aaliyah

The leaves on the ground were crunchy and some were smooth.

Some were green and some were smooth.

Some were golden.

Some were big and some were small.

 

Autumn

By Zachary

Autumn is the time of year when leaves fall off the trees.

It will be cold in the mornings and it will be wet outside.

The leaves will spin around like tornados in the sky.

I like watching the leaves twirling in the wind.

I normally explore different shapes. It’s awesome.

 

Autumn

 

By Anahera

In autumn the leaves fall off the trees and they start to go brown.

 The big one probably is two metres I think.

The medium one is probably one metre.

I like them.

 

The leaves

By Jackson

The leaves are good.

I like the leaves.

They are good leaves.

The leaves are green, brown and golden.

 

Autumn

By Lily

In autumn the leaves fall off the trees.

 

 Leaves

 

By Leohan

The tree is green and it is golden.

 

My Leaf

 

By Irena

My autumn leaf is green and golden.

My Leaf

By Lorelei

It looks like a bright yellow leaf or a bright ginger dog.

James' Monster

 

James’s monster story

My monsters name is Fred and he has sharp teeth and he has fangs and he scares children. He has eyes and he has some blue hair.

 

 

Nico's Monster

 

My Monster Story.

My monster is terrified of smoked eels. He is very grizzly. He has razor sharp teeth. He lives in the forest.

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Quinn's Monster Story

Quinn’s Monster Story.

My monster has funky hair and it has sharp teeth! And googly eyes they’re different, ones blue and ones red. My monsters name is Scary Monst. He likes computers and doesn’t like going to school. He lives with me.

Serenade's Monster

Serenade’s Monster Story.

My monsters name is Sparkles and she has sharp teeth. She has a wig, a big eye and a big nose. My monster is cool. She has a funny nose. When she eats she eats garbage and she scares the children because she is scary and she’s funny because her face looks like she’s sad. My monster lives in a lake and she made a big house and it was made out of wood.

Jared's Monster

Louie's Monster

Louie’s Monster Story.

My monster is a blue furry fuzz ball. My monster is a smart monster. My monsters name is Jack. My monster is fierce. My monster looks like a bull. My monster is rich. He works at a bull station. My monster drives a bull truck. Jack and his mates all work at the lorry. They make little houses. He plays all kinds of sport.

Holly's Monster

Holly’s Monster Story

My monster is Lilly. She has pink skin and has bulging lips. She has one huge eye and a squiggly nose, she also has a long neck. She has long black hair. Lilly hates garbage but loves vegetables. She is a friendly monster. Lily helps you if you are hurt. She has no ears but is really good looking. Her birthday is on December 29^th. I love my monster and she is the best.

Stories about the Bee Man's visit to school.

The Bee Man Visit.

I walked to the costumes. I loved the honey so much, it was amazing. The costumes were funny. I couldn’t stop laughing.

By Madison.

 

The Bee Man Visit.

Today at school I went in a suit. We went close to the beehive. A bee went on me. I was still and the bee came off. We got to taste the honey. It was yummy.

By Zac.


The Bee Man Visit.

Today the bee man told us that boy bees do not sting. Because they don’t sting, I got to hold one.

By Nico.

 

The Bee Man Visit.

Today the bee man came and we got to taste the honey. There was a bee on my leg.

By Serenade.

Waiting to see the bees

This term we are learning about communities. We have been finding out about bee communities as we have a bee hive at our school. This week the Bee Man came to our school. He answered our questions about bees and he took us to the bee hive so we could see what happens inside the hive. It was very exciting! We learnt a lot about bees.

Check back next week to read our stories about the bee man visit.

 

 

Look at all the worker bees!

 

The bees are busy working in the hive.

Tasting the honey

 

We got to taste the honey. It was hard to eat with netting over our faces!

Holding a male bee!

 

We learnt that boy bees (the drones) don't sting! So we got to hold one.

Wearing our bee suits

 

This is Madison, Serenade and Aaliyah wearing their special bee suits.

Lighting the smoker

 

The 'Bee Man' used a smoker to calm the bees.

A Monster made by Madison

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