Xtramath

We have started using the site xtramath.org to practice our basic facts. On this site you must answer basic facts questions quickly and correctly. It is quite hard to do!

Congratulations to Kaleb and Robin for completing the addition facts section.  They have
answered all of the addition facts questions in under 3 seconds.  Wow, what a great effort!

Why do we celebrate Waitangi Day?

Room 8 has researched information about the Treaty of Waitangi.  It is an important document in our country's history, but what do we know about it?

The students in Room 8 were asked to research about the Treaty and present this information using Google Slideshow.

For some students this was the first time they had used Google Slideshow.  I think everyone did an amazing job, especially since they only had just over an hour to research and present their work!

Miss Bolton


Antonio, Phoenix and Fonua: Brier and Ana: Kaleb and Robin: Karll and Tyron: Layton and Tui: Ofa and Luana-Nan: Susana and Destiny: Tara and Miracle:

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!

Storybird Books

Here are some more of our books. Enjoy!

Feta Cheese

On Friday 15 November Miss Bolton brought some feta cheese to school.

The Fraggle Rock reading group had read a story about a boy who had feta cheese in his sandwiches.  No one in the group could remember trying feta cheese, so Miss Bolton said she would bring some for everyone to try.

Here are some writing we did about trying the feta cheese.

Robin wrote:
Today we tasted a different type of cheese called feta cheese.  It tasted like salty water, but cheese.  It felt slimy.  It looked nice.  The feta cheese was yummy.

Fonua wrote:
Today Room 8 ate feta cheese.  The feta cheese looked like a piece of vanilla cake and it felt smooth.  

Kaleb wrote:
Today we tried feta cheese to see what it tasted like.  The feta cheese looked like a piece of a cake, because it was shaped in a square.  It smelled like ordinary cheese, but tasted different.  The feta cheese felt like melted cheese.  It tasted yuck because it was like salty water.

Our Fotobabbles

We have been learning to write a description using interesting vocabulary.  To show everyone what we have been learning, we have used the Fotobabble App on Miss Bolton's iPhone.

Here are some examples of our Fotobabbles.  You can see everyone's on their wiki page.