Tukutuku Panels

In Term 3 all the Senior Star classes are making a tukutuku panel. Our class got with a buddy and designed a pattern for our panel. We also had to come with a meaning for our design - what it symbolized. The class chose 4 patterns to be transferred onto the panel .

The photo is showing work in progress. We will update you with news about the panel as it progresses.

Reading

Super Stars and Reading Racers have been reading novels. The books were: Madam Spry and Mr Mustard and Tas and the Tagger.

The W.A.L.T. for Super Stars was: We are learning to reread to help with meaning.

And Reading Racers W.A.L.T. : We are learning to read on for more information.

Our main task is to summarise the chapters we are reading and we are also completing a character profile.

Super Stars liked these parts of the novel:

Bailey: Madam Spry was captured by Mr Mustard.

Tasha: Hugo ate Madam Spry's lime flavoured jelly beans.

Caleb: Mr Mustard made an illusion of a headless man with a sword in his hand.

Kayla: Madam Spry defeats Mr Mustard.

Natasha: Madam Spry sang and all the windows broke in Mr Mustard's house.

Reading Racers liked these particular parts in their novel.

Michaela: Tas and Josh pushed the mattresses on top of the tagger.

Natalie: Tas saying a speech at the marae.

Logan: The tagger chasing the boys.

Devon: Tas and Josh playing on the mattresses when they weren't supposed to.

Classics

The reading groups Rockin' Rhinos and Pink Panthers have been reading classics. Our Learning Intention is to summarise a novel. Some of the titles we are reading include The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Little Mermaid, Lord Of The Rings and Peter Pan.

We have been doing chapter summaries while reading our book, an A-Z exciting/intriging words list and an author study as well as finding out what makes a novel a classic.

Tangimoana beach!!

On Tuesday Room 15 and Room 14 went to Tangimoana beach to plant spinifex as part of the program set by DOC, seeds for schools. We planted spinifex on the dunes so they can help the dunes to protect the beach. We worked with Kelly Stratford from the Department of Conservation

No plants, No dunes, No beach!

We are learning to inform others

W.A.L.T: locate specific information.

 

Room 15s Fantastic Dioramas

                                                                   Rona and the Moon
                                                                                                                         Maui and the Fire Woman
        The Fish of Maui

Room 15 created some Fantastic Dioramas  to help retell our legends .

YOUNG LEADERS DAY

Buenas Dias,

My name is Shawanda. On Monday the 15th of June, 10 of our 11 young leaders went to a  young leaders day in Palmerston North. I was one of the lucky ones to go. There was 5 speakers and my two favourite were Babara Kendall and Farah Palmer. I thought that those 2 speakers had an amazing stories to tell all the leaders. When Farah walked on stage, she sung a song for us. The song was about the Black Ferns. When she was finished she continued on to talk about her life and how she became a leader of a sports team. Farah had alot of things to talk about. The other speaker i enjoyed was Barbara Kendall. Barbara is a wind surfer and was previously on Dancing with the Stars. Babara started talking about how she became a wind surfer. Babara said how she was nervous about doing dancing with the stars and she nearly wanted to give up because she was so stiff. I really enjoyed the day and i hope that maybe one day I'll see your blogs about young leaders.

Well, as Shawanda said, 11 young leaders went to young leaders day. As Kea House Captain,  I was one of those leaders. But, I got an added bonus that day. While the Mayor was speaking, I was back stage with a lady named Goff, the tech person. As well as meeting Charlie from What Now, I got to go on stage and give a gift to the mayor (lucky!) My favourite speakers were Babara Kendell and Rob Harley.They really showed me what it takes, and how to be a leader It was so much fun I bought 2 bags (one free for going backstage) and a Halogen Foundation badge. Plus, everyone got a cookie! 

Hi this is Summer I  was one of the House Captains chosen to go to the Young leaders day. I was inspired by some of the speakers. Some of the speakers were Farah Palmer, Babara Kendall, Nick Tuitasi, Rob Harley and the Mayor of Palmerston North, Jono Naylor. They all taught me to be greatful for what I've got and stand up for my self. When young leaders was over, we all got a yummy cookie. 

 

Rm 15's Oral Language Legend Retell!

This term in oral langauge Room 15 has been learning to retell a legend

 Room 15 students had to choose a Maori legend to retell with the aid of a visual prop. We could choose one of these legends:

Rona and the Moon, The Tree that Could not be Cut Down, Maui and the Fire Woman, The Fish of Maui, and Maui and the Sun.

Here are some pictures of our retells

Marae Recounts with a difference!!!!!

We are learning to inform others.

Success Criteria: Use an ICT tool to inform others of our trip to Aorangi Marae

                               Completed work needs to show text and /or pictures

                                

Room 15 are allowed to choose from Kid Pix, Wordle, Scrap blog, typed recount, Comic Life and Keynote to share their experiences at the marae.

As they are completed examples of work will be posted.

Kids for Kids world vision concert with Suzanne Prentice

Hey guys it's Rach and Sha,

On the 9th of June 518 kids (17 schools) sung in a show (and morning rehersal) with Suzanne Prentice to raise money for children in developing countries. It's called Kids for Kids and the show this time round was 'Shake Rattle and Roll'  

At the rehearseal 25 people auditioned for the solo parts for 3 of the songs. I was one of the lucky nine people to be a soloist. The song I was singing solo was 'Don't Rubbish the Children' a song especially written for children in poverty. For the song there were two groups of three. I was in the first group with two other girls named Makyla and Rebecca. I sang the last half of the first verse with Rebecca.

Before the show my Mum bought me a red Kids for Kids top and after the show when we were getting off the stage, she got it signed for me by Suzanne  Prentice!:D  I had curly hair (60s style!) to suit the theme. After the show someone from the audience that I didn't know told me I was one of the most enthusiastic ones there! Yay!

  

Te Manawa

Thanks for the comment Sullivan. We made a fish out of flax. Here is mine.

Natasha

Flax fish

Thanks for the comment Horohoro. Te Manawa is in Palmerston North and  here is a photo of my flax fish.

Mason

How to minimize and publish a picture

Here's some steps .....

1. Open iPhoto and choose a picture.

2. Double click on the photo, then click file and click export .

3. Change everything to the smallest thing/size make sure it is saved on desktop and save it as JPEG but don't worry about the filename .

4. Now go into the blog and create a new post .                              

5. Click on the picture that is next to the abc tick in the tool bar above your writing .

6. Click choose file select your picture from the desktop.

7. Then choose where you want it to go on your page and click upload image .

8. There it is !!!

By Lucy and Ruby

Inserting a picture

Summer has shown Mrs Trembath how to minimize a picture to insert into a blog. Here goes!!!!!!

This was a picture we took in the Palmerston North library and it was above the children's issue desk.

I thought it looked bright.

Mrs T

Lamington day

On the

 26th of May, it was you guessed it, Lamington day !! 

We Ruby and Summer and around about 15 others were lucky enough to leave Mrs Trembath with hardly anyone in her class to go make Lamingtons. We entered the hall to see nothing but Coconut, Sponge, Syrup and Lamingtons! After about 2 minutes of work we already had Coconut and the works plastered to our T-shirts and by the end of the day we had it everywhere that you could see! As usual there were arguments over what flavour was better (RASPBERRY!!!!!!). 

All of the rejected Lamingtons went straight into our mouths and trust us there were a lot of rejections !! But I guess it wasn't too bad.

 Ruby and Summer !

Te Manawa

On Wednesday the 13th of May Room 15 and 13 all went on a huge bus to Te Manawa.  It was great fun at Palmerston North. There was a room full of Mirrors and motorbikes. We went scavenger hunting and then we had to go to the Library because it had started to rain.  I learnt to make a fish out of flax.

Micheal

Te Manawa

Room 15 &13 went to Te Manawa  for a trip to learn about Maori weaving. I  made a fish with Room 15  It was so hard to do but we got  there in the end. I enjoyed  the library  beacause it is  so warm and it is so  peaceful and it is so quiet  in the library.  It was so cool  in  Te  Manawa.

Bethany

Going to Junk and disorderly !!!

I (Ruby) was one of the lucky Room 15 people that got picked to go to "Junk and Disorderly".

We all raced off to the hall not knowing what we were in for !!

When we got there we did a few exercises like ... introducing ourselves and doing weird dances !

After that we got a choice,  either make musical instruments out of junk   or    make giant flying pigs !!! I thought I was creative so I chose to make a flying pig !

Us pig makers split into 2 groups and got 2 pieces of willow to tape on top of each other. When  there were lots of those our group started to make a frame for the pig . After the frame was done we covered it all by using PVA to glue white tissue paper on it then we let it dry over lunch. When we came back we covered one pig with lime green tissue paper and the other pig with hot pink . After that we put pink and purple spots on the green one and black squiggles on the pink one.

We were there the whole day so we did not get time to put the wings on but trust me it was AWESOME !!!

Ruby

Junk and Disorderly

 On May the 20th I  found out that I was leaving to go to the hall in  about 10 minutes. I didn't know what for but I was still excited. I asked the teachers Mrs Martin and Mrs Trembath whether I was in trouble. They replied, "No you're going to do something fun!!!"

When we arrived in the hall, all we could hear was the other kids then we heard a loud sound. It was Rob and his loud horn. While we were there we made giant flying pigs -  they were HUGE!!!!!

My group's one was lime green with pink and purple spots. It was coming to the end of the days so everyone got told to pick up the rubbish and get into a circle.

The day was over. We all said thanks then headed back to the quiet classroom.