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'.

Term Three Is Here!

We have started our concept learning this week and noticed something taking root in Home Base!  I wonder what this could mean for our learning this term!  Stay tuned for more updates!

Haiku Poems with our Alliteration Identities

Last week we have been learning about haiku poems.

Traditional haiku are always the same, including the following features:

1. There are only three lines, totalling 17 syllables.
2. The first line is 5 syllabels.
3. The second line is 7 syllables.
4. The third line is 5 syllables like the first.
5. A haiku does not have to rhyme, in fact usually it does not rhyme at all.

Some haiku can include the repetition of words or sounds.  We made the connection that this is similar to our alliteration learning earlier in the term.

We also made the connection that learning about syllables is similar to the learning we have doing around building our knowledge about word attack.  We also wanted to write about our super hero or villains again.

Haiku Poems with our Alliteration Identities

Last week we have been learning about haiku poems.

Traditional haiku are always the same, including the following features:

1. There are only three lines, totalling 17 syllables.
2. The first line is 5 syllabels.
3. The second line is 7 syllables.
4. The third line is 5 syllables like the first.
5. A haiku does not have to rhyme, in fact usually it does not rhyme at all.

Some haiku can include the repetition of words or sounds.  We made the connection that this is similar to our alliteration learning earlier in the term.

We also made the connection that learning about syllables is similar to the learning we have doing around building our knowledge about word attack.  We also wanted to write about our super hero or villains again.

Numeracy Art - Combining Measurement, Geometry and Area

We are creating some art that Mr Lewzey showed us today - we are looking at using our knowledge of geometry (squares), measurement (using centimeters) and area (working out which of our squares are bigger or smaller).

Here are the instructions that we used to create our art pieces:

Here are some photos of our learning.

Narrative Introductions - Ruckus

We have been creating some introductions for Ruckus, an animation that we have been watching:

We learned that it is important to do the following in our introductions:

• Describe the setting - where does our narrative take place?
• Describe the characters - who is in our narrative?
• What is the problem - what is happening in our narrative?

Here are our introductions for Ruckus, please leave us a comment!

Our Assembly Item - Learner Qualities in Te Reo

Well done to all the Hub Whenua learners who hosted our Junior Assembly today!  Here is a video of our item that we performed:

Assembly Item - Learning Our Learner Qualities in Te Reo

For our assembly item in Week 9, we will be teaching the junior school how to say some of our learner qualities in Te Reo.

Here is the song that will help us remember these, please ask us to show you the actions to go along with the song!

Pokemon and Place Values - Multiplication Mob and Division Defenders

We thought Mr Lewzey was a bit crazy when he said that we were going to use Pokemon to help us with our place value strategies.

We were able to create our own Pokemon and then use these numbers to practice both our place value addition and subtraction skills.

Here are our creatures:

Pokemon and Place Value - Addition Agents and Subtraction Squad

We thought Mr Lewzey was a bit crazy when he said that we were going to use Pokemon to help us with our place value strategies.

We were able to create our own Pokemon and then use these numbers to practice both our place value addition and subtraction skills.

Here are our creatures:

The Way Back Home

WALHT write imaginative solutions for problems in a story.

We watched an animated video that was inspired by Oliver Jeffer's picture book called The Way Back Home. The video was paused after we were introduced to the problem of the story - the boy and the alien were both stuck on the moon because both the rocket and the spaceship were broken, oh no! Please read of our creative solutions to solve the very troubling problem. Enjoy!

Alliteration Superheroes - Part Two!

We decided to explore alliteration in reading this week when Mr Lewzey shared with us this book:

We decided that we wanted to become either super heroes or villains and use some alliteration to help describe our abilities and other information that we wanted to share with you.

Please leave us a comment and tell us what you think about our new identities!

Alliteration Superheros - Part One!

We decided to explore alliteration in reading this week when Mr Lewzey shared with us this book:

We decided that we wanted to become either super heroes or villains and use some alliteration to help describe our abilities and other information that we wanted to share with you.

Please leave us a comment and tell us what you think about our new identities!

Dualthlon

What a great day we all had at Dualthlon!  Congratulations to our winners, but what an amazing support we had from everyone in the hub.

The teachers tried to take lots of photos so please take a look in the folder here if you can see any learners in particular!

Assembly Item - Tēnā Koe

We are practising this song for our item assembly next week.  We thought this would be a great opportunity to share our Te Reo knowledge with the rest of the Junior School!

Description Writing - Our Creature Zoo

Mr Lewzey read us the Gruffalo where we learned that the mouse was giving the other animals in the story a description of the Gruffalo.  Here is a video of the story if you have not heard it before:

We decided that we were going to create our own creature zoo where we were able to write some descriptions of creatures that we made up.  We now know that we need the following parts of a description:

• An introduction to introduce our creature.
• Characteristics to help describe our creature.
• Some information that helps us show our thoughts or feelings about our creature.

Here are our descriptions - we were able to refine these by reading them to others and checking to see if it made sense to our buddies.

We then got to create an picture of our creature to help show our readers what our descriptions could look like if they were to meet them.  Please come into the hub and see our creature zoo if you get a chance!

Bees by Callum and Finn

We read an article called 'Dancing Bees'.  To apply our understanding, we had to read some other texts to understand why bees may dance or move to communicate.  We chose to create a video to show you our learning.

We hope you enjoy it!

Our Gifted Garden - Lucy and Molly

We read an article called 'Our Gifted Garden'.  To apply our understanding, we had to compare our school with another school - Raumati South School which we found out was an Environschool.  We chose to create a video to show some of the comparisons.

We hope you enjoy it!

Pink Shirt Day in Hub Whenua

What a great turn out for Pink Shirt Day in Hub Whenua!  Here is some more information about Pink Shirt Day.

Koalas by Ella and Lucy

We read a story called 'Bushfires in the Koala Reserve'.  To apply our understanding, we created a video where we hoped to build others knowledge about koalas as we felt that some of the characters in the text did not have a good understanding of koalas.  We used both our knowledge and some other texts on Get Epic to share some information about koalas.

We hope you enjoy it!

Learner Led Conferences

Here is the information that we will be using to help us to understand how to discuss our learning at Learner Led Conferences this week.