Gientst by Hudson

This is Gientst the most popular ghost in town most popular for his secret magic carpet which can turn into everything and his potions. That’s what gave him his afro. That is really iconic. He is crazy alright well hopefully he survives. This is the story of Gientst.

Spike Hair by John Paul

My creature is called Spike Hair. He likes to eat animals bigger than him and has wings to find food.when he is hungry. Spike Hair lives in caves and Spike Hair can turn camouflage when he is sleeping so he doesn't get eaten while he is sleeping. Spike Hair has two heads,a goldish tongue,yellow stripes and red eyes. I think he is cool because he can fly.

White Tiger by Hayley

White Tiger loves to eat other animals and birds. White Tiger lives in Snow World. White Tiger smells like strawberries. She takes a bath everyday. White Tiger has naps in the afternoon because she is tired from walking. White Tiger eats in the morning. White Tiger goes for a run in the middle of the day

Disco Face by Lachlan

Disco Face has a sparkly face and horns. He has pretzels as eyes. Disco Face is scared of the dark because he is always in the light. Disco Face is really funny as he has pretzel eyes. Disco Face lives in England and he eats pretzels because he is used to eating pretzels. He also lives in England because people love dancing.

Stripey Sea Snake by Milan

This poisonous snake is very poisonous because he has lots of stripes. He has red eyes because he is poisonous. My snake bites people who ignore him and he can jump on them. He likes to eat bugs and animals. He can slither around very fast.

Fairy Kitten by Bella

This is Fairy Kitten.  She has yellow small eyes.  She has a long tail.  She has fairy wings and she can fly very high.  She has yellow fluffy fur.  She wears a grey top hat.  She has a magic wand.  She can do magic with ice.  She can also do rainbow magic.  Fairy Kitten has a little white sister.

Stripe the Gremlin by Fergus

Stripe has big ultimate ears that can hear 50100 m away. Stripe's eyes are awesome they can see twice the times as his ears can hear. His cool body is so so so so cool because it is bulletproof. The scary nails on stripe is scary for some people because there is blood on the nails!

Stripe has a white mohawk because he is the leader.

Persuasive Writing - Letters to Mr Bradbeer

We have been learning about persuasive writing.  We used the prompt of the new hub to share our ideas with Mr Bradbeer about what we thought would be good things to include in the plans.  Please read our letters to see how we are giving reasons for our ideas.

Hub Whenua's Manaiakalani Film Festival Entry

This year we explored our passion for handball as more learners explore how to play the game during break times.

Our movie is about two boys who want to play handball and two girls who wanted to join in. But the four of them didn’t know how to play so they collaborate to research and practice.

We chose the song ‘Thunder’ by Imagine Dragons as we felt the lyrics helped explain our journey.  See if you can make a connection!

Stand Up by Jasmine

This is a poem that Jasmine wrote after seeing a performance:

STAND UP

Be firm like a brick.

Don't be like dust.

Be courageous.

Stand up!

You are born to fight.

You are not worthless.

Don't let others put you down.

Their words might seem like a stab in the heart.

Stand up!

Don't let the meanies get to you!

It's ok to ask for help!

Remember you are not alone!

We join hands and we'll hold on tight!

Be strong!

Have your friends as a troop to help you!

Have faith and trust again!

When Nobody Is Watching

Congratulations to both casts for performing in this year's production - we are so proud of each of you for taking a risk and performing in front of an audience.

Please find photos from this week in this file.

CAST A:

CAST B:

KAPA HAKA:

Information Reports - New Zealand Animals, Birds and Insects

This term we have been investigating how to create information reports.  We have been able to make connections between our reading strategies where we are locating information and then paraphrasing so we can write about these animals.  We have been experimenting with our punctuation (check out how we are using commas!) and using a combination of both simple and compound sentences.

Mr Lewzey helped us create these reports using Thinglink - we were able to make connections with our Cybersmart learning where we found images that we are able to use for our learning.

Hannah:

Tyler:

Tobias:

Roy:

Riley:

Hayley:

Maxim:

Hudson:

John Paul:

Gabby:

Book Reviews - Clever Crazy Club and Party Pack Reading Groups

The last week we have been practicing our summarising and retelling skills with creating a book review for other learners to learn about the series that we are currently reading.

Take a look at our reviews and see what book you might like to pick up!  If you have any feedback for us, please leave us a comment!

Cross Country

What a fun day we all had at cross country.  Look at us all excited to get it underway!

The teachers tried to take photos of everyone participating so please look in this file to see if you can find yourself!

Congratulations everyone, you did so well!!

Our School Environment - Learning to Use Paragraphs

We have been learning about using paragraphs so we can write some information reports.  The important parts of a paragraph are the following:

1. Main Idea or Topic - this helps our reader understand what our paragraph is about.

2. Detail - these sentences help build on our main idea.

3. Example or Evidence - this information helps our reader make connections with the information in our paragraphs.

We decided that we wanted to try writing paragraphs to help introduce the environment of our school to a visitor.  Mr Lewzey showed us how we could publish these in a special app called ThingLink so we have been able to take photos and add our paragraphs to these.  We hope you enjoy reading them.

Ko:

Lachlan:



Hannah:



Hayley:



Tobias:



Josh:



Tyler:



John Paul:



Hudson:



Fergus:



Gabriel:



David:



Ella:



Roy:



Marawan:



Maxim:

Whole School Song for Production

This is the song the whole school will be singing together. Remember you do not need to learn the rap section of the song, just the two chorus parts (English and Maori). If they can click along to the beat for the rap that would be great.

School Production Show

Here is one of the songs that we are using for our part of the school production:

In the forest, the mighty forest

The tui sings today

In the forest, the quiet forest

The tui sings today

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

In the forest the mighty forest

The fantail flies today

In the forest the quiet forest

The fantail flies today

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

Near the awa the flowing awa

The kiwi hunts tonight

Near the awa the flowing awa

The kiwi hunts tonight

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

Hush my friends don't rush my friends

The weta creeps tonight

Hush my friends don't rush my friends

The weta creeps tonight 

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

Here is a video of the original song to help you remember the tune:

More Leaves on our Vocabulary Tree

Great to see more people being determined and building their knowledge about the forest.

John Paul - fauna

Jack M - flora

Molly - pohutukawa

Ciara - understory

Ashaani - oak tree

Lucy - pollination

Benjamin - canopy

Finn - dark and birch tree

Yunni - floor

Building Forests with Multiplication Arrays

We have been learning a new strategy in our numeracy learning where we can draw or group an array to show a multiplication fact (4 x 3) and show how it is different to another one (3 x 4) but is the same value.

Here is a video to help explain what an array is:

We chose to make a connection with our learning about the forest and use the duplication function in Explain Everything to make some forests showing our knowledge of arrays.  Here are some examples of our learning:

First Leaves on our Vocabulary Tree

Some leaves have started to grow on our vocabulary tree.  Well done to Jorja for adding the word 'evergreen' and Ella S for adding the word 'deciduous'.