More Edwin Fox Slideshows!

Edwin Fox Slideshow

It's great to see that the children can demonstrate their great learning from The Edwin Fox visit in such a creative and collaborative way. I hope you enjoy watching the slideshows as much as they did creating them! More coming soon!!

Awesome Writing

Here is more wonderful Mythical Creature writing. I just love the way that Mia has used descriptive language . Well done Mia, you did a great job with this!

Kung Fu Panda!

The class have been really enjoying our weekly sketching sessions and the results have been amazing. Here are some of our latest sketches.

Reading Rewards!

Here are the first 2 children to earn themselves a Reading Reward, by reading for at least 40 nights, since the 2nd week in Term 1.

I wonder who will be next...?

Geometry Unit

Last week we looked at 2D shapes and learnt some new vocabulary associated with them- then the children worked in pairs to groups them into Venn Diagrams, according to their properties.

Merit Awards!

Well done Jemimah, Dan and Will- these Merit Awards were well deserved. There are many more children whose effort and achievement are heading towards receiving one too, so watch this space...!

Edwin Fox

The Edwin Fox was a fantastic experience and we learnt heaps about what life was like for the Early Settlers who made the journey from the UK to New Zealand. Thanks so much to the parents who made the trip possible! If of you have photos you could share please e-mail them to me. Thank you.

Larrissa Robertson said... This looks like a very informative trip. We had lots of news about this trip shared at our house. How lucky we are to have this amazing resource so close to us.

Letter to Mr Hewson

For this weeks writing 2 of the groups have been writing letters to Mr Hewson. Here is Dan's letter. When we have enough letters published we will send them to Mr Hewson.

Awesome Day!!!

Wow Room 16 had a great day today!
First of all we got a package in the post containing a book and a really cool card from Jenny Hessell, the author of the Grandma McGarvey books.

After that who could believe that the day could get any better but then Room 16 performed their Haka with Room 13 and Room 15 so confidently in assembly. I was very very proud of them, especially the fabulous leaders at the front- well done boys!

Then I had to leave assembly but I heard that Room 16 won for the class that brought in the most Gala donations!!

to everyone in Room 16 for a great day and a great week. Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday! :-)

Wonderful writing!

We have started an exciting writing programme this week which will continue until the end of the term. Room 16 are working with children in Room 13 and Room 15. Some children will be taught by Mrs Joshi and some children will have a mixture of me, Miss Meyrick and Mrs Herdman. Each week there will be a different writing focus for each group.
Koby was working with me this week. We focused on letter writing and wrote two different kinds of letters- one a very creative letter and the other to Mr Hewson! For our first letter we read the book "The Day the Crayons Quit" and then wrote a letter to one of the crayons to beg them to come back!

Jemimah is an "independent worker" and gets feedback from me on Hapara each night and a chat about her work in the morning. Her task for the week was to write at least 3 paragraphs about a mythical creature.

Edwin Fox Trip

I currently have four definite offers of transport, plus one possible, plus my car...meaning I still need one more car for our trip next Thursday! If there is a grandparent that would like to help us with transport and visit the Edwin Fox then please let me know! 

More mihi

Movie on 8-03-16 at 2.10 pm from Naomi on Vimeo.

Movie on 8-03-16 at 2.11 pm from Naomi on Vimeo.

Tryathlon Champions!

Room 16 are very proud of these four children, who took part in the Nelson Weetbix Tryathlon at the weekend. It sounded like an awesone event. Well done guys!!

E-mail from an author!

I couldn't believe it when the husband of the author of the Grandma McGarvey books just happened to be visiting our school last week! When he heard that we had been writing character descriptions of Grandma McGarvey he just had to come and have a look and when he saw the fabulous writing he asked me to send some of them to his wife, Jenny Hessell. Here is the e-mail I received back from Jenny! I've also uploaded some more of the wonderful writing that the children did.

Dear Naomi

Thank you so much for getting in touch. It's great to hear that Grandma continues to entertain and inspire. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your students' work - what lively, perceptive writers. Could you please let me know the name/number of your class and the postal address of your school so that I can respond and thank them for sharing their work.

Warm regards
Jenny Hessell

Who is The Fairest of Them All?

We REALLY enjoyed the show this morning! Thanks to Mrs Holmes who organises all these great performers to come to our school and entertain us!

A fantastic day!

We had a such a great time at Waikawa Marae today- beginning with a Powhiri, then shared kai, 4 activities led by a team of wonderful students from Queen Charlotte College and finishing with a farewell of waiata and speeches. Thank you Waikawa Marae for making us feel so welcome and thank you to our fantastic group of parents who came along to support us!

Sticks from Naomi on Vimeo.

Awesome Olafs!

After a busy afternoon of Choir and the netball taster session, we managed to squeeze in some more sketching, with fantastic results!

Wonderful Waiata!

Today we had a run through for the Powhiri at Waikawa Marae, with Rita who is one of the marae's tangata whenua. She talked to us about what would happen at each stage of the powhiri and then we had a practise altogether with Mrs Zydenbos leading us. Mrs Zydenbos will be coming to the marae with us and calling the response to the karanga. Mr Hewson will also be coming with us to make a Whaikorero, on behalf of us, the manuhiri. 
These are 2 of the 3 waiata that we will be singing.

Kowhai Waiata from c on Vimeo.
Kowhai Waiata2 from c on Vimeo.

Meet our Class Librarians!

Here is our wonderful Room 16 Library team, working hard.

 Lucy is sorting out the library cards.

 Amelia is issuing the library books.

 Dan is putting the returned books into the box, ready to be put back onto the shelves.

I interviewed the librarians.

What is the best thing about being a librarian?

Dan: Scanning the books because I like people smiling at me and saying thank you.

Amelia: Putting the books into the slot.

Lucy: You get to issue books.

Is there anything you find hard about being a librarian?

Dan: Scanning the wrong barcode because there is usually 2 barcodes!

Amelia: No nothing!

Lucy: Getting the book into the slot if the book is open!

What do you think being a librarian teaches you?

Dan: When you're older you will know all the skills if you want to be a librarian- like in Y5 or 6

Do you want to be a school librarian in Y5/6

Amelia: Yes because I think it's fun to see the smile on little kids faces

Lucy: Yes it's really easy and a great job.

Dan: Probably I'll think about it when I'm Year 5 or 6