Solving multiplication problems

We have been learning to solve simple multiplication problems. We used 'Explain Everything' on our ipads to show our strategies.

                                                                               

     

Literacy Day

Narrative Writing Competition

This term we have been busy doing a lot of narrative writing. Miss Hadwin organised a narrative writing competition for our school. We gave our entries to Mr O'Connor (Whaea Barbara's husband ) to judge. On Literacy Day the prize winners were announced.

Congratulations to Zara for being the Room 2 winner! You may read her winning story below.

Once upon a time there was a young child that lived in a village. Everybody was busy.

One day the young girl was walking on her own. When she was tired she stopped and then she saw a maze. The maze had vines all over it. She tried to get out. She found a way out so she tramped and then she saw a tree. She got too tired. She fell asleep under the tree. When she woke up it was all a dream. The little girl wished it was real.

But it did come real one day. She went to the maze with her family. It looked scary. The maze was made of  electric walls and the vines were dark green.

They walked and found the right path and it led them home.

Book Character Dress Ups.

We enjoyed dressing up as some of our favourite book characters.

 

      

 

Visiting Author

We were very lucky to have the author Ruth Paul  come to our school. Ruth writes and illustrates children's picture books.
Ruth read us her book " The Animal Undie Ball" We then made up a story about a car, a rainbow and some clouds with her. She drew this great illustration about the story on our whiteboard.

 

Cross Country

We had a great Cross Country day at Bledisloe Domain.  We had all trained hard for this event and we ran well on the day!
We wrote stories to describe our races.

 

Calais & Jahrell on the start line.

Jahrell looks behind to see who is coming closer.

Miss Hadwin banged the blocks together. I ran and I was in the lead. Tahuri was behind me. I jumped over the black tackle bag. The big kids were showing me where to go. I ran on the muddy grass. I sprinted around the corner and I won.

           Jahrell

   

Zara, Nikara, Arohaina & Ripeka ready to
jump the tackle bag.

Miss Hadwin clapped the blocks. I sprinted around the curve. I started to jog when I got tired. I jumped over the tackle bag. I kept running until I got to the finish line. When I reached the finish line I was puffing and puffing. I cam fifth place and I was happy. The race was fun and I enjoyed it.
                    Zara

Franky running along the back straight.

Bang went the blocks. I ran around the bend behind everyone but I got faster and faster. I was happy. My dad was cheering for me. I climbed over the fence. it was wooden. The grass was muddy.
When I got to the driveway the stones were hurting my feet. I slowed down at a little hill. I was nearly there! I saw my Dad waiting for me. I came third place. I felt proud.
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When Miss Hadwin banged the blocks together we ran fast around the grassy field. We climbed over the wooden fence. We ran up the stony driveway. I saw Whaea Barbara. I ran around the cone. We ran back don the driveway. Finally we were finished. I was happy when the race finished.
                                     Gail

Angela jumps the tackle bag.

Miss Hadwin banged the blocks together. We ran around on the grass. I sprinted and sprinted all the way. I jumped over the black tackle bag and I jumped over the yellow hurdles. Then we got to the finish. I was first. My Mum was so proud of me. After the race I was puffing and puffing until I had some water.
                      Angela

Miss Hadwin clapped the blocks together. We ran and ran. I sprinted and sprinted until I got to the tackle bag. The grass was squishy under my feet. I was puffed. I jumped over the hurdles., then I ran very  fast to the finish line.
                        AJ

Bang went the blocks. I was running fast around the field. I ran up the driveway.

I climbed over the fence. I was tired.

I ran and ran. Everyone was waiting for me.

I ran to the finish.

               Mark

                         

      

  

Josh - Explain Everything screenshot

Today Josh worked with Mrs Ritchie to use shapes and describe a
 character from his reading book.

Congratulations Josh for being our latest merit award winner for your 

improved fluency and expression in reading.

Reading Responses on our Ipads

We are learning how to do reading responses on the ipads. We can take photos, crop them and use them in our responses. We are learning to use arrows and shapes too.