Tales from Athletics Day

We have been practicing writing narratives in Room 10.  We have careful to include an orientation, problem and resolution in our stories.  Here are some of the narratives we wrote last week.  We'd love to hear your feedback.

What we know about friendship

The Tigers have been learning to activate their prior knowledge to help them read and understand new texts.  This week they used popplet to think of all the things they knew about friendship before they read a journal story called 'Friends'.

Poetry Readings

We have been practicing poetry readings this term.  We are trying to make our reading interesting by using expression and changing our tone and pace while we are reading. Here are four recordings by Faith, Elizabeth, Cornelius and Jadaleigh.  We hope you enjoy them.

listen to ‘Push Power, by Faith’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Push Power, by Elizabeth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Push Power, by Cornelius’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ice Cream, by Jadaleigh’ on Audioboo

Ice-Cream Sundaes

On Monday we celebrated getting 100 marbles again.  We decided that ice-cream sundaes would be a great way to celebrate our achievement and it was!   Check out the video below to see photos our our ice cream sundae experience.  Thanks Falakiko for taking the photos. 

Making Porotaka

We have been reading and learning about Matariki this week.  As part of our reading programme we read and followed instructions (with the help of Nana) to make a porotaka.  It was a little tricky but also a lot of fun. Here is a Jadaleigh explaining how to make a porotaka.  She used educreate on the ipad to make her video.  

Here is a video showing us as we made our porotaka.

Fr Presentations

Here are some more presentations from our buddy learning with room 6.  Can you think of anymore words that start with fr?

Jolly Roger and the Coconuts

The Rhinos reading group read the play Jolly Roger and the Coconuts.  They have used puppet pals to perform their play.  Take a look at their finished movie.