Poetry festival

Well done to all the students who were chosen for the poetry festival.  Only choosing four was such a difficult  job!
The poems were awesome!

Whole school assembly

Fantastic  work Araminta 😆

Ambury Farm trip

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Pakuranga Heights Koanga Festival 2015

Ka Pai Kiri, Kayson, Wilson, Aaliyah, Emily and Manuel from room 8 and the Kapa Haka group on your performance on Saturday. It was spectacular to watch all your hard work come together so beautifully.

Values assembly

Well done Jaya and Elaine for showing the school values. 

We are pushing waste free lunch at our school. How can we help each other achieve this?

Inquiry learning

Pukeko and Takahe.

We read an article about the recent shooting of four Takahe that were mistaken for Pukeko. 
We decide  to find our more about each and did a venn diagram to compare them.
We definitely  can tell the difference between each.

Junior assembly

Today we had Junior assembly.
We'll done  Serina, Wilson, Brooklyn and Cindy for receiving a certificate. Keep up the awesome work.

We also did an item with room 10 using boom whackers and then sang a poem Popcicle.
It was outstanding!

Another fantastic item at assembly was the Kapa Haka performance. Fabulous performance!

Inquriy learning - Animals

INQUIRY - Animals

Today we sorted out the animal cards, We had to categorise them into groups like scientists do. 

What groups did your team have? 

What other groups could you make?

Then we grouped them into size....

Science experiments

How clean are you hands?
We are looking at how clean our hands are in room 8. We used a control (untouched) piece of bread. A piece touched with freshly washed and clean hands and a piece that everyone touched.

Check out the mould that is growing on our bread.

Remember its important to wash your hands.

Book parade and book week

This week was book week. We made bookmarks, ispy books and wrote our own narrative.

Full school assembly

Today at full school assembly Aaliyah received a certificate. Ka pai Aaliyah ☺

Kelly sports and soccer

Buddy class sports

Volcano exploding with our buddy class

Exhibition art

We did shiloettes for our exhibition art. Using paint.
We started with our background which was done using dye and bleeding the colours together. Then we made stencils of native NZ birds for our shiloettes.
Dont they look stunning.

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Wheels Day and Fulton Hogan visitors

Today was wheels day.
We also had Hulton Fogan visit with their road trucks! It was super fun to sit inside the and find out how they were made.  

Volcanoes - Inquiry unit

For our next Inquiry we are learning about volcanoes.
Put your thinking caps on.

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Can you name some volcanoes in Auckland or New Zealand?

What does magma and lava mean?

How does a volcano erupt?

What does active, dormant and extinct mean?

Can you ski on a volcano?

What comes our of a volcano?

What are the different forms of volcanoes?Can you give an example of these?

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Emily 's kittens come to visit

Last week we were very lucky to have a cuddle with Emily ' s two kittens. Brains and Lola. Only 8 weeks old and so cute. We had so much fun. Thanks Emily and your mum for bringing them in.

Whole School Assembly

This week at assembly we had Zavier win a voucher from the raffle for the I spy flag competition. Rhys received a cetificate for being a great thinker. Cindy, Rhys  and Kiri took part in the Samoan group performing two songs they learnt in 3 days! Also or Kapa Haka group Wilson, Emily, Kiri and Manuel did a great performance  today.
Well done!

Kiri was awarded top kid. An amazing achievement. We are all so proud of you.