what i love

I am crazy about cute fluffy animals
I am addicted to hot chocolate with marshmellows floating on top
I never tire of reading books
I can consume three caramellows in five minutes
I love to mess around and have fun
I like to wear beautiful dresses at parties
I like to run around and play with my cute fluffy puppy
by Poppy

Te Reo Maori

Our Te Reo Maori focus is on the classroom or 'akomanga'.  Students learned names of objects around the classroom.

Next the students learned to say a question and answer in Maori.

He aha tenei?  (What is this?)
He ________ tenei.  (This is a ___________.)

Students practised with their partners saying the sentence structures in Maori.

Afterwards, the students used the ipads to show what they have learned.

Here are some examples of what they did.

Can you say these words?

Spectacular Spelling!!!

At school we were doing spelling as part of our curriculum. We needed to make sentences out of our spelling words. It was quite challenging.

By Thomas Patton

 

Halloween Haunting!!

Soon it will be Halloween. We might be able to do some creative Arts to do with Halloween at school. Here are some questions for you:

What is Halloween all about?
What do you say on Halloween night?
What do you collect from different houses?

By Thomas Patton

My trip to the Bay of Islands

In the holidays me, my grandpa, grandma, my friend and his grandma went on a trip to the Bay of Islands for 3 days.

First when we arrived it was very wet so we found a hotel to stay in for 2 days. When we found our room we first unpacked our things.

After the rain cleared it was lunchtime and we didn't have any food so we all got in the car and headed to the nearest food court. My friend wanted to eat McDonald's so we did.

While we waited for the food my grandpa got out his iPAD and let me play EXPLORATION on it until the food arrived. Just in case you don't know what EXPLORATION is, it's like a game and everything is made out of blocks and you can build anything. There are 3 modes: Flat mode, Earth mode and flying blocks mode.

Stanley      

Lek`s Amazing holiday

In the holiday I went to the Coromandel for 3 days.

First we got everything ready, then me and my dad got the jetski then every one got in the car.

Next we drove to Coromandel. It took two hours then when we got there we put every thing in place then my grandparents and my uncle arrived.

We had dinner on the BBQ every day!!! We and my family went to the the beach every day too!! Me and my uncle played monopoly too.

Finally we went on the jetski but... it got stuck. My dad quickly got it back on the trailer. After that we went home. It was the best holiday ever!

by Lek

 

White out

In the  holiday we went to Mt Ruapehu. We went with my dad's girl friend's family. We did sking the first couple of days and that went well, but on the last 3 days there was a white out.

So our first idea was to make slushy's and to have a snow ball fight, that did not go to well because the snow would not stick so we ate it instead. It was almost powder then we got the idea of tobogganing.

Weeeeeeee, crash, that is the noise of us tobogganing. We did not go very fast though so we went rolling down the hill.

We went back in a terrible blizzard and then that turned in to a white out. What is a white out you ask? It is after a blizzard you can not see anything only white. It is terribly cold and windy. I did find it a bit worrying and scary. The worst part was it lasted for 6 hours and sitting inside the whole time and doing chores. Then on Sunday we went home.

Rebecca