Prizegiving

Room 19 did an amazing job with our item at Prizegiving last week!  Mrs Belt was proud of everyone and how much effort they put into practicing the singing and dancing over the weeks leading up to the performance.

Congratulations to Eva, Aye Myat and Jordan who received prizes in Room 19.

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

Blogging our Stories

In Room 19 we have started publishing to our blogs!  Mrs Belt selects a few great stories each day and we are learning to take a photo of our drawing and then publish our story to our own blogs!

You can check out our work on our own blogs by clicking on the links on the right hand side of our class blog.  Keep checking, because different learners post each day!

Welcome Aurora

Room 19 welcomed Aurora into our class at the end of last week.  She started her school journey well by receiving a certificate at team assembly on Friday.

Aye Myat also received a certificate from Room 19 for listening and following instructions quickly.  Here are Aye Myat and Aurora after receiving their certificates from Miss George.  Well done girls.

Team Assembly Week 5

Its hard to believe we are already half way through the term!  Last week our Team Assembly and Jump Jam session was in The Street (the Year 7-8 learning space).  Our class really enjoyed going inside this space.  Congratulations to Aye Myat and Vienna who received the certificates for Room 19 last week!

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.

Wheeling Around

On Friday it was Wheels Day at Pt England School.  Some of the learners in Room 19 bought bikes and scooters to school.  It was great to see everyone having fun at lunchtime on the wheels course.

Room 19 ... we've got talent!

On Friday Room 19 and 20 had a special treat - after lunch they were invited to take part in a special Karaoke session, run by the prefects.  Ms Tumahai was teaching in Room 19 on Friday as Mrs Belt was away, and she captured some great video footage of our superstars!

A huge thanks to the Pt England School prefects for organising this special treat for our learners - we had a great time!

Karoke 3 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Karaoke 1 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Karoke 2 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Sharing our Writing Success

As learners in Room 19 start to learn to write independently, we often use our iPads to document our learning and share it with the world - a fantastic example of "Learn, Create, Share".

Last week, Aye Myat and Hendrix used the white boards to create their own sentence and then Explain Everything to take a photo and share their writing.

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.

Revisiting the Mālama Honua wakas

Room 19 has been talking about the special day last week when we went to Pt England beach to see the Mālama Honua wakas.  Some of our learners used Kid Pix to create a drawing of the waka in the estuary.

Aye Myat

Mariko

Phoenix

Whare

Exploring Patterns at Makerspace

Room 19 had a great session today with Mr Barks at MakerSpace.  As we continue to work on our houses, today the focus was on the roof.  We learnt about making patterns and what makes a pattern and we practiced with sticks making a pattern.  It was great to see our learners working together to make these patterns.

Once we'd created our patterns, it was time to construct our roof.  Some of us found this quite sticky as we used glue to stick it to our house.

We all really enjoyed today's session and our houses are looking great.  Mr Barks decided that Aye Myat and Hannah were his star builders today.  This is their finished roof.

Room 19 welcomes more learners

Today was an exciting day in Room 19 as we welcomed Aye Myat, Donya and Hannah to Room 19.  We started the day by having a look around our school, including a visit to the Year 5/6 Camp on our fields.   They were lucky enough to join us at our last swimming session and all really enjoyed their first day at Pt England School.  They are looking forward to getting their own book bags at assembly tomorrow morning.