Have you sprinkled some sparkle statements today?

We have been learning to give and receive SPARKLE statements to help build up a friendship bank with others and to STOMP OUT put downs.

Why would you possibly want to make others feel upset and hurt, when you could say kind things that make them feel the warm fuzzies!? It doesn't make sense does it! What's even better is when you are kind and encouraging to others, YOU feel good too!! So that's double the fuzzies!

It is a good time to have a think about what this all means and how you are making sure you're helping everyone in our class sparkle and be the best that they can be. We should be dishing out sparkle statements to people every day, so please comment below and give us all some ideas of what you say to others that make them sparkle and feel the warm fuzzies too...

Leave a little SPARKLE wherever you go.... you will never be forgotten!

Kei te pehea koe?

During Te Reo, we have been learning to ask and respond to others about feelings. We all really enjoy speaking in Te Reo and lots of us are getting pretty confident. Use this poster to practise and teach your family at home! 

Kei te hiamoe, so I think it must be time for me to go home!!!

ANZAC writing

Here is just a few of our sequin poems we wrote using powerful verbs, adjectives and nouns to describe what we thought war would be like.... More ANZAC writing to come soon.  

War

Scared, lost

Wounded, crying, shooting,

Soldiers, mud, gunfire,

Died, waiting, terror,

Cold, quiet, army

Scarred

By Summer

War

Silent, injured

Screaming, dying, waiting,

Mud, poppies, Gallipoli, Last Post,

Crying, shoot, fighting,

Scars, damage

ANZAC

By Ella

Gallipoli

Fearless, heroic

Yelling Fiery Shrieking

Trenches, mud, bombs, troops

Sneaking, injured, lost

Cold, Believer

ANZAC

                                                     By Daniel

We will remember them...

Over the last few weeks we have spent lots of time discussing how thousands of men went off to fight in World War 1 and why we now have ANZAC day every year to remember and honour all the brave soldiers that served our country at war. As you all know, it has now been 100 years since the battle that happened at Gallipoli landing in 1915. Thanks to Ella, we have some pictures to show you how we remembered the soldiers in Kahikatea 7.

 We made poppies to put altogether in our class wreath

We held a small class service to lay our wreath before our special whole school assembly. Daniel and Summer read famous poems while we all remained silent and still.  

We were also lucky to make ANZAC cookies.

Please comment below to tell describe what you thought about WW1 and what you learnt about ANZAC Day...

School Triathlon

We really did end the term with a bang and I have to say I left school with the warm fuzzies!
After our fantastical assembly, we went out for the School Triathlon. It was neat to have the juniors joining us this year and having the parents stay to cheer everyone over the finish line. Well done to everyone that got involved, it's all about having a go and challenging yourself!

After such a busy term, I hope you are all enjoying a well deserved holiday. I know I am and in case you were wondering, yes the Easter Bunny found me, so lots of chocolate all around! ;)

EOT Assembly

For the last two weeks of Term 1, Room 7 & 8 worked super hard to put together an amazing assembly highlighting our time at camp. The assembly really did share with our family and friends just how busy we were and how much we squeezed into our camp week! We were all entertained for half an hour so thank you for your hard work :) 

#BacktheBlackCaps!!

With some super keen cricketers in Kahikatea, we are all pretty excited that the Black Caps are through to the World Cup finals! Getting through is already a pretty big deal, but imagine if they won!! Either way they are making history! The team needs all the support they can get so that's why we are proud to say we #BacktheBlackCaps!!!!!

Zentangle Art with Robbie

This is my fabulous Zentangle art. Zentangle art is when you use lots of different patterns inside shapes. We have been learning sketching skills such as thick and thin lines and shading. We are doing zentangle patterns in a speech bubble, which will be put with a photo and our poems. 

By Robbie and Miss Dagg

Aongatete Camp 2015

The Year 5's had a fantastic time at Aongatete Camp! A few of the great things we did were bivouac and raft building, visiting Matakana Island to go fishing and play with the crabs, comparing an estuary to a stream, bush studies and sipping on billy tea with Mr Brown! One of the major highlights for many was learning different tricks and building confidence while kayaking and being dare devils on the Water Park at Waimarino! What an adventure! 

 

 

2015 so far...

Here are just a few bits and pieces from the year so far.

Our All About Me bags were a hit and everyone was eager to see what one another had brought in to share with the class. 

We got to learn some new netball skills with Aroha from Sport Waikato! We can't wait to play our new game of modified netball again

The school had a Freaky Hair Day and raised $700 to go towards Javon and his family. 

We swam our little hearts out at Swimming Sports.. Good luck to those heading to Inter-Schools on Friday!

Everyone is working really hard in K7, so no doubt there will be lots more of our learning to share on here soon!

It's 2015... Watch this space!

Welcome back to our class blog...

We are well into the swing of 2015 and what a start it has been!! We have had so much on, with our Year 5's Aongatete Camp, Freaky Hair Day for Javon, Swimming Sports, Netball with Aroha from Sport Waikato and lots of other bits and pieces in between, which has kept us pretty busy! We LOVE it when our family and friends comment on the examples of Learning and Growing that we share on our blog, so keep an eye out for our updates! 

Let's make it a super year! 

Athletics Day

We have been doing athletics all term and have learned lots about the technique used for each event. We only have a few snaps of Hinuer School athletics day, but it was a great day and everyone gave it their best shot. Good luck to those who compete at inter-schools next week! 

Book Track Classroom

If you haven't already had a go, you have got to check out Book Track Classroom!! It is a really neat website that has a load of books that you can read. But they aren't just any type of book- these books have music and sound effects, which helps brings the story to life, kind of like a movie! 
What's even cooler is you can put in your very own writing in and add music and sound effects to make your writing come to life too!  I am so pleased to see you are all as excited about it as I am and lots of you have already published your own writing- keep it coming! 
Check the website by getting your log in details from Miss Dagg and copying this address- www.booktrackclassroom.com into a Google Chrome or Safari window! 
Can't wait to see/ hear what you come up with :) 

Excellence

The Value of the Week is Excellence...

We don't always have a blog post dedicated to the value of the week, but striving for excellence and being the best we can be is something to be encouraged and celebrated. Why would you only want to be average when you can be EXCELLENT!? Sometimes the only thing holding us back from excellence is our attitude, so make sure you have a good one! 

How do you work towards excellence every day??

Senior Science Day- Physical World

We had another successful science day in the senior school, with Mr Cordery doing elastic band energy to make catapults, Mrs Warrender doing Static Electricity with Balloons, Mrs Clements doing how things move using inclined planes, wheels and screws and in my class we used levers to make a catapult, pulleys and wheel and axle to power little milk carton boats. (Sorry the video won't load so pictures will have to do this time!)

What I loved seeing was how people were thinking outside the box (or the fish bowl!) and thinking of other ways to solve problems and make things work. Science day really was a great way to show our value of the week, creativity!

What other ways do you show creativity??