Our fish!

We have had a couple of great suggestions for names so the yellow fish will be called Sunny (thanks Abbey for this idea) and the red one will be Ferrari (thanks Nate).  I wonder if that means the red one is a fast swimmer?  We'll have to wait and see...
By Mrs Sutherland

Mixed up stories

We love a book that has mixed up stories in it...so we decided to make some ourselves!  Here is one by Kayla.

Her story says:

The snake
got a scooter which he loved
and sat on the chair that belonged to
the jail.

Each part of the story is on a different colour so we can choose different ideas to put together to make new stories.  Here are some others we made today:

Abbey's story -
A cat
made a wooden boy
and bought some food for
a magic bean stalk.

Hannah's story -
Hannah
was captured by the police crew
and had to wear handcuffs when she was put into
a shark.

Jada-Arielle's story -
The book  monster
had tiny, cute babies
and took them to her house to show
the dump.

You can see some of them end up very silly...but they always make us laugh and enjoying reading!

Help us name our fish

We thought it would be fun to give names to the fish down on the right hand side of our blog.  Would you like to leave us a comment with some ideas?  We will collect all the ideas and choose the ones that the most of our class agree on.  Have fun!

Science Fair - Room 12

This was the project from Room 12 that we liked the most.  These are some of our thoughts about it:

• It was good that they made a bow and tested it (Hannah, Reuben H)
• I liked how they made one bow tougher than the other one (Kayla)

We also thought of some more things that make projects interesting:

• you need pictures because that's how you can see how they made things (Kayla)
• pictures make the boards colourful too (Jada-Arielle)

When we got back to Room 10, we made a list of the things that are important when you do a Science Fair project:

• You need a good idea
• You need a cool title
• You need lots of pictures and colour to make it interesting
• You need to make sure your face is not in the photos
• It helps if you can show what you made

Science Fair - Room 11

Isn't this a cool Science Fair project?  It was our favourite one when we looked in Room 11.  These are the things we liked about it:

• the title is colourful (Loisi)
• the Lego kit would be very handy because it splits Lego and that can be hard to do (Nate, Abbey, Ben G, Reuben H)
• the bucket on the top is cool (Leighton, Amon)

We thought it was a very interesting idea and that is SUPER important for the Science Fair! (Abbey)

Show you care!

Last week we had a magician come to do a show at school.  He told us it was not really magic...it is just tricks that fool our eyes!  El Gregoe was very clever and we loved the animals he used in the tricks too.

As well as having fun, we learned some very important lessons about bullying.  Bullying is NOT ok at anyone's school.  We need to care for other people and think about how they are feeling.  Being kind by choosing the right words to say and the right things to do means you can have a 'Bully free zone' at your place.
El Gregoe told us another thing - you might know this saying, just like we did:
Treat other people the way you want to be treated 
or as we say it -
Do to others as you would have them do to you.


Have you got any ideas to help us make the right choices and care for people?

Harold was here!

All of the school had a turn at going to the Life Education truck in the first 2 weeks of the term.  Harold is a giraffe and he is the mascot for the Life Ed programme.  Room 10 had a great topic called 'Space Invaders'.  What do you think that would be about?
'Space Invaders' was about how our body eats and uses food for energy.  It made us think about what we eat and if it helps us to be strong and healthy and smart.  We looked at our lunches boxes and talked out the food we eat.  We made a food pyramid to help us think and labelled as much food as we could in Te Reo.  It was a real challenge but we are pleased with the learning we did.
How do you think we went?