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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