Rippa Rugby

On Wednesday, 10 room 4 students went to a rippa rugby tournament in Palmerston North. They all did very well and showed some awesome rugby skills! They said it was an enjoyable day and are looking forward to next year!

Check out some of their action shots!

Tuesday fun with the Minstrel

The Minstrel came to visit us on Tuesday afternoon and he taught us many important messages about water safety and looking after the life in the sea. He was a fantastic singer and really awesome on the guitar!! Some of us won posters and even a hat and magazine! It was an enjoyable afternoon full of dancing, singing and learning. 

Together we are a team!

What an awesome time we had with our buddy class, room 7, on Friday. We worked in teams with our little buddies, and practiced talking and communicating our ideas and strategies to each other. As a team, we had to get across shark infested water (the hall floor) with only 2 squares of carpet, we had to get the hula hoop around the circle without using our hands, balloon relay, and life size naughts and crosses. We had an awesome time and all the groups certainly did their very best. We faced some challenges, as well as gained some great successes. We really enjoy buddy class!

Buzzing Experience!

On Wednesday afternoon, Mitchell was very lucky to be able to visit some bee hives with a friend. He was able to wear a bee suit, use the smoker, and handle the trays with the combs and honey on them. Mitchell thoroughly enjoyed his experience and he was able to bring along a tray with the comb and honey still attached. We thought this was an awesome opportunity to do some awesome writing!

We looked at the photos of Mitchell's experience, and looked at the hive tray. It was very exciting seeing the very things we are learning about. From the photos and tray we could choose one and complete the following sentences.
I see...
I hear...
I feel....
I wonder.....

Here are some lines of the awesome pieces that room 4 wrote:

I hear the bees buzzing angrily around me -Mitchell
I see the sweet honey hiding inside the comb -Ashlee E
I feel like the bees are enormously clever being able to construct those combs -Rhianna
I feel the bumpy honey comb on my soft fingers -Anna
I see the bees make delicious runny honey and drizzle it all through the honey comb -Georgia
I hear the loud buzzing sound of the busy bees working -Brileigh
I feel excited about eating the runny honey -Ashlee H
I see gooey, sticky honey bubbling up through the comb -Lila
I wonder how the bees make the honey comb soft - Milla
I hear the slopping of the honey swishing around -Jaxson
I hear busy buzzing bees working really hard making delicious honey -Emily
I see beautiful bees working making yummy honey -Jazmin
I feel the bumpy honey comb tickling my fingers -Ben
I feel nervous thinking about the bees flying at me -Shania
I wonder if no one in the world had bee hives, how would we find honey -Hugo

Colour Day Awesomeness!

Whare Tapa Wha

On Friday we wrapped up our Whare Tapa Wha - Total Well-Being unit. We have looked at many things that influence our health, how we can be healthy, including physically and emotionally. We also learnt about and mapped the many places we have in our community that support our total well being. We looked at the different kinds of Taha Tinana (physical well-being) and how they are different but all play a part in us being fit and healthy.

Oh what fun!

Well, what an afternoon Thursday was! Fun swimming sports was exactly that... FUN! We all competed in some interesting and extremely funny races!! We competed in our houses and had a great time dressing up in our colours and chanting our team chants!! 

Check out the many laughs we had!

Senior Swimming Sports

What an awesome afternoon we had at the Makino Pool for our Senior swimming sports. The weather was kind and we all competed hard! We were able to show off all the awesome skills we have learnt. We all did our very best and many of us won races which we are all very proud of. Everyone did a great job and really enjoyed the afternoon!

Buddy Class teaching and learning

On Friday, it was very awesome for room 4 big buddies to teach room 7 little buddies how to use mathletics on the I-Pads. Room 7 children have never used mathletics so it was extremely rewarding for the big buddies to show them how to log into their account and guide them through answering and completing their tasks. Room 4 love using mathletics and we are certain that we have passed on the passion!

Fun day friday

Today we enjoyed some fun day Friday swimming activities!! We competed in a mini house competition. We had to get as many of our team on top of the tire as possible. It was certainly harder than it looks and than what we thought! We had an awesome time and had many laughs and many big crashes!!

We are AAA Room 4 students

We have been unpacking what we think Attitude, Adventure and Achievement mean to us and what they look like in our school setting. We brainstormed in groups, shared as a class and then took photos using the I-pads. each group then created a pic collage to show what each of the words look like. We have displayed these in our classroom for us to refer to and remind us how to be a AAA student.