Sun facts

As part of our inquiry unit, Room 1 has been researching facts about our sun. We have shared our knowledge by created a Google Slideshow. Some people learned how to add transitions and animate their text and images. Enjoy learning about the sun. Please leave a comment!

How to use Google Slides

A good how to clip!

Storybird Books

Here are some more of our books. Enjoy!

Storybird Books

This week we have been using a website called storybird.com where we can write our own books.  We can choose the art that we want to base our writing on, then we can write our own stories.

Here is Naiya's book.  Enjoy!

Athletics: High Jump

It's Athletics time again!  We are practising long jump, high jump, shot put, discus and sprints.

Here is a clip with some tips for high jump.

Guy Fawkes

On Wednesday it is Guy Fawkes Day. Why do we have fireworks on Guy Fawkes Day? Why do we celebrate it at all?

 Watch the clip to learn about Guy Fawkes and why we celebrate him on the 5th of November.

Problem Solving - week 3

Follow the link to a Slideshow of our solutions.  Make a comment saying if you agree or disagree with the solution.  Make sure you explain why you agree or disagree.

Link to problem solving

Why do we need to be sun safe?

Our new inquiry topic is about why we need to be sun safe. A lot of us knew what to do in order to be sun safe, but not many people knew WHY! Check out the Inquiry topic tab at the top of the page for more information, websites and videos about being sun safe. Here is a short song about being sun safe. Comment about what you have learned from the video.

Salvador Dali

Safe2School Day slideshow

We have started using Google Slideshow in our class.  We are learning how to collaborate on the same slideshow.

Miss Bolton asked us to write two sentences about the Safe2School Day we had at Paerata.  We had to write an introductory sentence and a sentence saying what our favourite part of the day was and why.

How do you think we did?

Safe2School Day

Today we had lots of visitors in our school.  We were learning about how to travel to school safely. Here is a slide show of some of the photos taken during the day.

Look out for some work from our class about the day - coming soon!

Time

Miss Bolton read the legend "How Maui slowed the sun".  We had to try and guess what our new topic was - some people got very close!  Here are some photos of our ideas.

Our new inquiry topic is Time.  We will be learning about the different ways we measure time and we will be doing experiments comparing different measuring units.
Here is a clip of the legend.

Aotearoa

This morning one of Miss Bolton's cousins sent her a link to a song that she thought was awesome.  Once Miss Bolton saw it, she knew she had to share it!

We are very lucky to live in a country that is not at war and we have beautiful landscapes to visit.

The song is called Aotearoa, sung by Stan Walker, Ria Hall, Maisy Rika, Troy Kingi.

Our new art inspiration: Salvador Dali

Have you learned something about Salvador Dali and surrealism?  Make a comment saying what you know now!

Our new room!

Walking through the building

Yesterday our new learning space was opened.  We have been patiently waiting for the builders to finish.  Everyone was very impressed.

Kaumatua came to bless the new space and parents and whanau came to see too.

Following the Kaumatua

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Our new maths area

Reading together

Finding new places to read.

Lots of people worked very hard during the holidays to get the rooms ready for the opening.  Mrs Tate, Mrs Rushton, Miss Bolton, Whaea Delaine and Graeme spent A LOT of time at school making sure the room was ready.

Aren't we lucky!

What is your favourite part of our new space?  Write a comment to tell us.

Inappropriate blog comments

Miss Bolton says:

Over the past week there have been some comments left on our blog that are not appropriate.  Luckily I have to check the comments before they are published on the blog.

I am very disappointed by these comments.

In Room 8 we have learned about digital citizenship and how to act online.  We have cards to help us write awesome comments.

What do you think the consequences for leaving an inappropriate comment should be?
Leave a comment with your ideas.

Worm Farms

Today our school worm farms got up and running!  4000 worms are now living in our worm farms.  If we feed them properly and look after them, they will make us some worm tea - which is fantastic fertiliser for our gardens.

Here are some photos of Whaea Lois blessing the worm farms.

Our two worm farms.

Whaea Lois is blessing the worm farms.

Cody and Malik are getting reading to add the worms to the worm farm.

Malik is adding food scraps for the worms to eat.

Worm Farms from mbolton on Vimeo.

Commenting on blogs

Miss Bolton would like to send out a reminder about blog comments.

It is very important that your comment is about the post you have read/watched.  If the post is a photo of the playground, you should not leave a comment about work we did in class!

If your comment is not about the post, Miss Bolton will not publish it.

REMEMBER TO USE THE BLOG COMMENT CARDS!  If you follow the cards you will write an awesome comment (they are on the orange table).

**Also, please use punctuation - I know that you can use full-stops and capital letters!! :)

Transport video

Miss Bolton found this clip on Youtube.  It is an old clip from 1946, and it is about how transport has changed.

Watch the clip.  Has transport changed since the end of this clip?  How long does it take to go around the work in an aeroplane today?

Year 3 and 4 Soccer Tournament

Last Thursday 14 students from our class took part in the Franklin Year 3 and 4 soccer tournament at the Pukekohe A&P Showgrounds.  We entered a boys team and a mixed team.

All the students who went to soccer showed great sportsmanship.  Everyone was very impressed!

The boys came second in their Grade (Boys B grade - section 2).  

The 100th post!

This is the 100th post on our blog!  What a milestone :)

This week Miss Bolton was away at her second MST training course.  Mrs Tate has been in Room 8.

Leave a comment about something you have done with Mrs Tate this week!

Road Safety Week

This week is Road Safety week.  Today Room 8 brainstormed all the different ways that we knew to stay safe when we were passengers in cars.  We used an online mind-map programme to list our ideas.

If we have missed any ideas, comment and let us know!

(Hint: if you click on the little blue monster on the right-hand side, you can see the mind map in full screen.)
Road Safety Week: How can we be safe in the car? on MindMup

Reading tips and tricks

The Fraggle Rock reading group came across some tricky words in their book last week.  Miss Bolton was teaching them a rule, where if two vowels are next to each other the first vowel says its name and the second vowel is silent.

We looked at some different examples, like pain, meat, and each.  Then we watched a clip from Youtube called "Two vowels go walking".

Can you think of any other words that fit this rule?  Comment if you can!

Building update - 14 May

The builder's have been busy this week. They have started working on the teacher's resource room and staffroom. Here are some photos of what is happening.

A door has been added to the corridor. The empty doorway you can see is the photocopy room.

This is now the long teacher's corridor!

This is where Mrs Stacey used to take the lunch orders.  

Here is the staffroom!  No wonder the teachers are now using the library as their staffroom now.

MST group

We have been busy learning in our MST group.  At the moment we are learning about multiplication.  Here is a photo and a fotobabble to show you what we've been doing.

Building update - 14 April

Here's the next update of the renovations.

This is going to be one of the work rooms/spaces in the learning space that groups will be able to use.

The old room 1.

The old room 2, looking towards the staffroom/toilets.

The new deck off the new class.

Introducing the Travel Wise Guys

The Travel Wise Guys are a group of students who are leading our school travel wise programme.  Last week they went to a training and problem solving day at the Pukekohe Town Hall.  The Travel Wise Guys are working with Mrs Tate to make travelling to and from school safer.

Next term they have got some fun and interesting activities planned!

The Travel Wise Guys are Waimaria, Monomono-Ava, Harmony, Keana, Kevin and Aloysius.

Comment if you know the message hidden in the song!

Booster Seat Song - The Travel Wise Guys from mbolton on Vimeo.

The tabloid sports

By Ofa

Last week,on Friday,we had the tabloid sports.Some parents were there and it was at Paerataschool. We did it to earn more house

water games

Four weeks ago we had swimming sports and I got wet and it was fun and
i had a free time from whaea lois because i was being good.

Zyprus
 

The Water Tabloids

By  Naiya

Last  Friday  it  was  water  tabloid  sports.We  did  this  because  it  was  water  week  and  to  earn  more house  points.The  teachers  led  the  activities. 

Swiminig sports

by catherine

on   the  7 of  ma                                                                    

the swimming sports

Ofa and Olivia and Takaua went to swimming sports.  I like to swim too.

By Lihai

 

Building our new classrooms!

At last the builders have started renovating Room 1 and Room 2, the teacher's toilets and the old sick bay..  They have spent the last couple of weeks demolishing the old room.  Here are some photos of what the rooms look like now!

We will do an update every week.