Exploring shape

To assist with our knowledge of shapes, we've been using shapes in our inquiry to draw some animals.  On Friday we were drawing giraffes using Explain Everything and the shape tool.  Check out some of our giraffes:

Aniqua

Anthony

Aye Myat

Jordan

Cross Country 2015

Yesterday we had the Pt England School Cross Country for 2015.  After weeks of practice it was great to have the event.  Learners wore house colours for the race and the weather gods shined on us after a fairly wet morning.  This made the course pretty muddy, which just added to the fun.

Lining up for the start of the boys race

Lining up for the start of the girls race

The final sprint to the finish line

The girls as they head to the finish line

Nearly finished!

 Thanks to Miss Tumahai for these great photos.  We were all very tired after our race but did an amazing job!  We wrote about the race when we got back to class.

Yummy Cakes!

Last Thursday we all enjoyed the cake stall fundraiser that the netball girls organised.  There was a huge selection to choose from and some of us had real trouble deciding!  Here are some of Room 19 enjoying the cakes they selected.

Celebrating Classroom success

Congratulations to Anthony and Gabriel who received certificates at Friday's Team 1 assembly for some great work in the classroom this week!

Team 1 is focusing on the following things this week:

Champions never give up. 

Be kind to our friends 

Look after school property

Wait patiently

Who will earn the certificates in Room 19 next week?

Highlights of our Term

Mrs Belt has been very busy updating our individual blogs with some examples of the things we've been doing this term!  Here are a few of the stunning images we've created using Kid Pix on the computers.  Check out what else we've been doing on our individual blogs - the links are on the right of our class blog!

Jordan

Hannah

Donya

Siosiua

Anthony

Our friends

In Room 19 we have been working on our oral language and getting used to being filmed ready for the Manaiakalani Film Festival.

We are learning to:

• use a loud and clear voice 
• share our ideas with others in an interesting way
• be a good audience while we are waiting for our turn
• smile for the camera

Today we were talking about our friends.  The learners in Room 19 wanted to share this with our family and whanau.

Celebrating success & effort

At Friday's school and team assembly's, three learners from Room 19 received certificates celebrating their great efforts this week.  Congratulations to:

Anthony - great effort with maths this week!

Brittany - trying really hard with reading and writing

Mariko - being a great friend by using kind words and including everyone

Jumping around at Team Assembly

Today was our first Team Assembly with Rooms 16, 17 and 18.  Some of our wonderful learners received special team certificates for all their hard work.

Ms George had organised some Jump Jam for us to participate in.  We all had a great time following the moves and moving to the music.  We are looking forward to our Team Assembly next week now.

Amazing fun at MakerSpace

Room 19 had our Maker Space session with Mr Barks on Wednesday this week.  They had a really enjoyable session and were keen to talk about it when we got back to class.  Check out some of these photos of what they were doing.

Our Rocket gets bigger ... welcome Anthony!

Today we welcomed Anthony to Room 19, so we now have 6 lovely learners in our room.  Monday is Mrs Belt's release day so Ms George had a great day in the classroom.

We also had our very first MakerSpace session with Mr Barks today!  Room 19 had fun exploring squares - check out what they did.