We put on our" thinking hats" to talk about our Flax work with Mr McCloy. 

Black: What was wrong with this?

Yellow: What are the good things?

Red: What do I feel?

Green: What new ideas are possible?

It was a little bit hard folding the flax over the middle. Daryan

It was hard on my hands scraping it. Fergus

It was very hard and it hurt my hand. Micahla

It was hard to get the flax off. Blake

I found it quite hard to scrape the flax off but mum showed me what to do. Jack

It was hard to scrape the shell on the flax. Lily

It was quite hard to scrape the stuff off. Ruby

 

It was good having mum there to help. Harry

It was easy to scrape the flax off. Hadley

It was good that Hadley's mum helped me. Michael
I felt good when I scraped the flax. Aramac
It was hard plaiting so I made up my own way. Shannara

Working with Flax

Dear Room 2,

I have sent you an e-card. It is an electronic way to send a letter. You might like to send an e-card to a friend.

From Mrs Paterson

http://pbskids.org/cgi-registry/arthur/ecard_read.pl?card_id=6264862

On every second Friday, we have time with our big buddies from Room 9. They are the oldest children in our school. Today they were teaching us some soccer skills because there is going to be a House soccer competition starting next week. Some of us danced and played in the playground when we were finished.

I liked doing the dancing with my buddy. Harry.
I liked playing soccer with my buddy. Jessica
I scored two goals in soccer. Hadley
I liked playing in the playground after we played soccer. My buddy gave me a piggy back on the flying fox. Emma
I liked dancing with Shannara. Lily
I liked playing soccer with Josh. We won. Daryan
I liked playing in the playground. We did the flying fox. Micahla
I liked running with my buddy to the playground. I won the race. Fergus.
I liked playing soccer. I kicked the ball to my buddy. Ruby
I liked playing soccer with my buddy. We practiced kicking. I got the ball past him but he couldn't get it past me. Blake
I liked playing in the playground with my buddy. I got a piggy back on the flying fox. Emily
I got stuck up in the tunnel. Mrs Robinson helped me go backwards to get unstuck. Aramac
I liked dancing with Lily. We danced to hi 5 music. Shannara
I played soccer with my buddy. I got it past my buddy because the cones were too wide. Jack

Our Spider Masks

We made spider masks because we read a story and there was an old woman and two spiders. We drew korus and then we did rubbings on the concrete. Mrs Paterson put them on a headband.
By Lily

People wear masks so they can pretend to be someone else. We pretended to be a spider like the spider in “The old woman and the spiders.”
By Micahla

We made Humpty Dumpty's yesterday as our letter of the week is Hh. Today we wrote letters to Humpty Dumpty to see how he was feeling after his fall.

Lily and Micahla are this weeks bloggers and these are their letters:

Dear Humpty Dumpty,

Where are you Humpty Dumpty? Are you at hospital Humpty Dumpty or are you at home? How are you feeling? How about I come and see you Humpty.

From Micahla

Dear Humpty Dumpty,

Are you alright? Are you in hospital? Did you break any bones? Do you want me to visit you and my mum could visit you too.

From Lily

Today it was uniform day. Children could dress up in their club uniform. We saw a Pippin uniform, Kea uniform, motor cross uniforms and dance, rugby, soccer, gymnastics uniforms. I couldn't wear my uniform because it is too cold to wear togs!!!

by Joshua

It is cool having uniform day. I am having fun wearing my Pippin uniform at school. I like Pippins because we get to colour in pictures and make pizza.Next Tuesday our Pippin Teacher is going on a holiday so we are going to have some other people.

by Shannara

We told our own story about the storm. Mrs Paterson wrote them down and put them into "Wordle". It made the words into different styles. We copied lots of different styles to see which one we liked. Which one do you Like?
I chose the hearts because I liked them.

by Shannara

The morning after the storm:

What a wild, wild day and night. I had to wear shorts!!!!! and wade through deep water just to get out of my street to go to school! What a sight. Luckily the water was no longer lapping at the doors.
When I got to school we found Room 10 was inaccessible so they get a day at home!!! The playground is a mess and all the shade sails are ripped and tattered. Let's hope that is the worst of it.

What a wild wet day we have had today. Once all our lovely children were safely on their way home the teachers locked up and made their way home. What a surprise I got when I found my street was flooded. Mr Paterson and I had to roll up our trousers and wade through knee high water to get home. This is the sight from our window. I wrote down words about the wild weather and put it into "Wordle". Look what it created.

Shannara and Joshua are this weeks bloggers. This morning we had a very special visit.



A little piglet came to school and he was cute and his name is Maximus. His mum is Mrs Alderlieste. He is soft and only 3 days old.
by Shannara


Maximus came to school and he was cute and little. Maximus is a piglet. Maximus’s mum is Mrs Alderlieste. He is 3 days old.
by Joshua

Maori Language Week
We took photos of all the teachers around the school so we could make a maori book called "Ko wai tenei?" or "Who is this?" . It was fun taking the photos.I liked learning maori. We learnt up to 20 in maori and instead of playing "21" we played "Tahi ma tekau". It was a bit hard to play "rua tekau ma tahi" but we will keep trying. It was real fun.

by Emma

We have been learning maori. We can say how we are feeling .When Mrs Paterson says "Kei te pehea koe?", we can say " Kei te pai ahau". That means we are feeling good. Sometimes I say "Kei te wera ahau" which means I am hot.
We read a story about Hatupatu and the birdwoman. The birdwoman got cooked. We made these lovely bird pictures with koru designs.

by Jack

This term we are learning to write letters. Today we wrote letters to Mrs Paterson to tell her about our holidays.
Emma and Jack are this weeks Bloggers. They will be sharing some of their writing and some of their reflections of things we have done during the week.

These are their letters about the holidays.

Dear Mrs Paterson,

In the holidays I went to Monkey Bay. I touched the seaweed. It was smelly. We went into the cave. We almost touched the water.

From Emma

Dear Mrs Paterson,

In the holidays I went to the Warehouse and I bought a remote control truck. Poppa gave me money because I hung out my Poppa's washing.

From Jack

I hope you are all enjoying your holidays. I can see that lots of you have been viewing our blog. How is the maths challenge going.
We are beginning our cross country training on Monday so I hope you are all ready to get fit.
We have had a bit of a change around in Room 2 so have a careful look on Monday.
I hope you have enjoyed playing your snakes and ladders games over the break. I'm sure you will know lots more words now.