Princeton's Popplet

Princeton shares a little about himself on Popplet on the iPad.

Sent from my iPad

Kade's Popplet

Kade made this poppet on the iPad all about himself.

Our Assembly Term 4 2012

We had a great assembly today.  We all worked hard and it was a huge success.  Here are the video clips we played.  Our music video will be added once we are finished.  This will show the dance we performed today.

Lachlan's Story

Today Lachlan wrote a story using the Storykit Application on the ipad.
Click on the link below to have a look.


Lachlan's Story

Listening hard

Charlie was listening very hard to Whaea Kat teaching today.
He had a great spot on the table and Room 9 could make sure he was joining in.

Charlie met Whaea Helena

This is our principal Whaea Helena Baker. She was very excited to hear all about our kiwi and the adventures he will go on.

Charlie and Room 9

Today we named the Kiwi and his name is Charlie.
This is Room 9 on a beautiful day.

Our Visitor

Whaea Kat brought in a budgie for the start of our Bird Unit. He was pretty good all day but when we got too loud he would squawk and squawk.
It was nice having a new class member and hearing the chirping as we worked.

Thank You Whaea Kat

More of kiwis adventures

Photo 1: This is Lennox ( Whaea Josie's son) we had a bit of fun.
Photo 2: We had a winking competition, I wasn't very good.
Photo 3: This was the lunch that I told you about, I'm a good boy drinking lots of water.

Kiwi's first day as Room 9s Travel Buddy

Hi my name is kiwi until Room 9 name me.
I was lucky enough to have been picked and brought by Whaea Josie today.
This photo was me visiting her mums house for lunch, we had ham on toast with cucumber and tomato. I didn't like the tomato much.
I can' t wait to meet the Room 9 children and Whaea Kat.

See ya soon Mrs Blackburn and badger class. I am being posted to you this week.
I think I will have a nap in the mail so I am relaxed and all ready for my new adventure.

We Are Famous!!

We sent a message to the Interface magazine (an educational magazine about ICT) as we wanted to be added to the blog list.  However, it wasn't working.  We are in the lastest issue of the Interface Magazine talking about our issue and how its all sorted now.  They have even included a photo of our blog and our blog address.  WE ARE SUPER EXCITED!!! Yesterday we had our first message from a school in Dannevirke because of this article.  Well Done Us!!!

We had a go at Puppet Pals

Bulldogs reading group were introduced to the app Puppet Pals and were given a task today.  They had to create a scene with characters and use different voices.
This was our first attempt.

 

 

 

Our Kapa Haka Videos check out our new Video Page at the top

Production

Some of our amazing costumes from our production, 'Te Wao Nui a Tane'

Pukana

When we had our dress rehearsal for our production we had photos around the venue for some fun.

Room 9 doing the pukana!!! (we are actually very good at it)

 

 

 

 

WOOHOO!! We have had over 1000 hits!

So we have finally reached over 1000 hits on our blog.  So exciting!  Room 9 are loving being a part of quadblogging and have started to add their own comments and replies.  They will only get stronger and more confident in doing this.  We love watching all the countries that come visiting and reading what we do.

Thank you to all our visitors!!

Statistics - Junior Style.

W Are Learning To: use tally marks to record data.
We all had a snack bag of chips and we had to work out the average number per bag.  We recorded one tally mark per chip we ate.  As you can imagine we loved this activity.  We also all know what a tally mark is and how to use it.

Our class rules by Ihaia

This is Ihaia doing our 5 classroom rules that we go over everyday.  He has grown in confidence over the year and I am so proud that he is able to get up and do this.  Ka Pai Ihaia.

Crying Caterpillar Poem and Actions

Crying Caterpillar
“Caterpillar, Caterpillar, Why are you crying?”
“I am not a butterfly… I can’t go flying!”
“Caterpillar, Caterpillar, don’t you know?
You have to eat and eat to grow!”
“You will be a butterfly.
You will go flying!
Caterpillar, Caterpillar, Stop that crying!”
Jill Eggleton

Quadblogging

We have been lucky enough to be accepted into the Sep - Dec intake of Quadbloggers.
This means we have been matched with 3 other classes from around the world. Each week one of the class blogs is the focus. Each class will visit the blog daily and students will comment on the posts.
This is an amazing oppurtunity to create an authentic audience for the children, get immediate feedback on posts and work. We also get to meet and talk with other students from around the world. I am hoping this is just the beginning of an on- going relationship with these classes that can continue.

Please have a look on our Quadblogging Tab at the top of this page to view our Quadblogging classes.

Pompoms

For our Big Book response to 'Eggs, Eggs, Eggs' By Jill Eggleton we made pompoms chicks. This took a long time but we got there in the end.

Rangi and Papa

Song we have been practising for our production.  This song is about Ranginui and Papatuanuku.  Whaea Roxanne taught it to us it was so helpful having the actions to use and practise with.

Whole Brain Teaching

This is our first attempt at teaching each other using Whole Brain teaching.
We are re-telling the last 3 scenes from our big book, 'The Grumpy Rhino' By Jill Eggleton.
We have to use large gestures and teach each other.

Kyrah's Descriptiom

They have whiskers.  They like to eat green  grass

Lachlan's Description

He is up in the air.
His leg is sticking out.
There are clouds.

Hana's Description

He has a cool red hat. 
He  has a sword
He has a purple string around him.
He has black boots.
He has a gold necklace.

Kade's Description

The animal has orange eyes and whiskers. It is a girl and she has fur. It is safe in the grass. It has 4 legs and eats meat. It can live at the zoo in a cage sometimes. DO you know what I am?

By Kade

Evelyn's Descriptions

 

The Babboon

My animal is related to a Monkey, gorilla, chimpanzee and a chimp .  It has a very, long nose. They

have a very, very red bumbum.  They live in trees and they groom each other and they eat the

bugs in their hair. 

 

The Giraffe

This is a very, very tall animal, it is brown with lines through it.  It lives in the wild and birds hop

on it.  They have very long legs and it can eat spikey things with its very long tongue.

It has a tall neck.

 

By Evelyn

 





 







 

Meteorite Cookies

We read a book about a meteorite landing in someones house, we decided that they looked like biscuits.  We had our maths brains on today and had to work out the ingredients only using 1/2 a cup.  We followed the recipe, baked, cleaned up and then we ATE, that was the best bit!!

Olympic Festival

Room 9, 10, 14 and 2 were involved in the Olympic Festival at Arena Manawatu.  We were involved in
Football, Squash, Rugby League, Rugby Union and Soccer.  We had an amazing day.  This is a shot of all the schools at the end making the Olympic rings.

Certificates Term 3 Week 3

Back - Princeton, Ihaia, Shania
Front - Evelyn, Natahlia, Mary-Jane, Ebony

Tree art and Response

Amazing Bird Art!

We have been looking at birds because of this we decided to make a bird using shapes and coloured paper.  After this we wrote a story describing our birds, where we live and what we do.  Enjoy!

Hi, my name is Fantail and I love New Zealand.  I'm pleased to see you.  I love bread, do you?  I will tell you all about me.  I have a big head and I always go down 18 Duff Crescent.  They throw bread out all the time.  All the other birds join me.  I'm good at describing myself and as I was saying I have a big head, one googly eye, a long tail and a purple body part.  How was that?  Awesome?  I'll see you again sometime.
 By Kade

I am an eagle and my name is Evelyn.  My friend is Tasha.  I eat worms and bugs.  I live in a tree with little chicks that are cute.  There are four of them and they are bright and colourful.  I fly through the forest flapping my wings.  My friend flies with me.  I love being wild and free.
By Evelyn

Hi, I will introduce myself to you.  My name is Naruto and my friends names are Dragon-Jade, Fantail and Justin Bieber.  Justin Bieber's wife is Evelyn, Fantail's wife is Jade and Dragon-Jade's wife is Bianca.  All of my friends live in a nest.  Do you know why they live in a nest? It is because they all have a family but I am single.  Do you know why I am single? Its is because I do not want a wife.  Do you know how I feel right now?  I feel free because I can go anywhere, I can hang on trees, I can eat worms and I can put my beak in the mud.
By Princeton

My name is Amelia Lambert.  My mum is a Lambert too, but my dad is not.  My family lives in a nest.  I love to eat worms.  My eagle friends are colourful just like me.  We are scary like some birds. 
By Natahlia

I live in a tree in New Zealand and ny name is Tui.  I am a six years old, I can sing loud.  I can wake people up because I am loud, a loud singing bird.  I'm brown, yellow, big and fluffy.  I love to eat seeds and bread.
By Ataahua

Ataahua's Kaupapa Art Display

My Day at Cross Country

At-crosscountry

To Our Viewers In the Netherlands

To Holland

Why did you decide to look at our blog?
Do you like it?
What part did you look at?
Did you look at the whole thing.

Thank you for reading our blog

From Taitiana

Letter to our viewers in Japan

To Japan

What did you like about Room 9's blog?
Would you like us to put anything on?
I am in one of the videos.
I go to Takaro School.
My name is Evelyn, I live in New Zealand and I am in Room 9.

From Evelyn

Letter to our viewers in the Netherlands

To Holland.

What did you look up on our blog?
What did you like about it?
My name is Patience and I am in one of the videos.
I hope you enjoyed our videos and reading our blog.

From Patience

Letter to our viewers in Japan

To Japan

Room 9 hoped that your Country liked our blog.  
Did you like Room 9 videos?
Were we fantastic?
What else would you like to see on Room 9 Rockets?
What does your Country look like?

From Shania

Letter to our viewers in Japan

To Japan

Why did you look at our blog?
Did you like it ?
Thank you for going on our blog.
What is your favourite part?

From Natahlia

Cross Country 2012

After a few days/weeks of getting ready for the cross country, we were ready!  On Friday 25th May 2012 we had our Awa Cross Country.  We had to wear our awa colours and come dressed to run.  As Year 2 & 3s we had to run 2 laps of our school track. 
These are some of our photos.