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'.

Tongan Language Week

Malo e lelei!  It's Tongan language week and in Room 10 we are very lucky to have a lot of Tongan language experts who are very keen to share what they know.  We are going to make a series of videos to help people learn some basic Tongan words.  Siale, Agnes and Falakiko have created this video to teach you some greetings and how to say goodbye. 

Tongan from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

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. 

Netbook Learning

Last week was our first week with our new netbooks.  It was a lot of fun using them and we have learnt a lot.  Here are some of the Room 10 children sharing what they have learned so far.

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.

Playing with Numbers

The Tapawha maths group have been learning to show two digit numbers on place value material.  As an independent activity they worked with a partner to create ty numbers using blocks.  Here are some pictures they took of their work.  Well done! 

Maui and the Sun

Last week we were learning to follow the literacy cycle to complete a piece of writing.  We decided to retell the Maui and the Sun story.  First we planned our story and then we used this as a guide to write our story.  Our next step was work with a buddy to reflect on what we had written. Once we had finished our reflection, and made any changes necessary, we conferenced  with Miss Kirsty and then we were ready to share our work.  

Sifa and Falakiko reflecting on their work

Perenara and Taiala have recorded themselves reading their stories.  Have a look and let us know what you think. 

Into the Deep

We are lucky to have a temporary pool at our school and this week we started our swimming lessons.  We have had lots of fun learning to blow bubbles underwater, float on our tummies and backs and kick with long legs.  After our swimming lesson on Tuesday we made our first video using the ipad.   Kira helped people record themselves and Sifa has edited the movie using imovie on the ipad.  Well done everyone!

Take a look at this video to see what we got up to in the swimming pool.