Digging into Clay

Liam thought that making clay was fun because he liked squishing it and making it into a pot. He liked the coils and the designs he created.
We all thought he should become a real potter.

Gabriel thought it was hard to make a pot at first. He rolled up some of the clay to make the coils. He carefully put the coils on top of the base. He thought his coil pot was beautiful because it looks great, inside of the pot and on the outside of it.

Jah-Royal added spirals to the top of his pot. All of the pots had interesting designs and were made strong by using thick clay and joining them carefully.









Melissa made spirals for her first one. Then for her second one she watched how Rongomai did a love heart and had a go at making one too. She likes working with clay because she can make different designs and different shapes.

Jenna loved making the pot because it was a bit of a challenge. It was hard to make the outside and it was hard to make the base and try and make it strong. She liked her finished pot because she really liked the shape of it.

Tominiko liked doing clay because he liked making different shapes. He thought his finished pot looked like it was about to break so he tried to fix it. It was an interesting shape, a bit like a diamond or a rectangle.

Rugby Skills with Jason

We had to work as a team to complete 'The Bamboo Challenge.' We need to try it again to work out how we can solve it.

We had to run around and dodge each other, making sure we held the ball with two hands.

Jason made us have team races and push the ball with our heads to show we had good control of the ball. It was funny to watch.

We ran quickly back to our teams, carefully holding the ball. Our team mate was watching, getting ready to run quickly.

It was a lot of fun learning new skills and then having games of 'Rippa Rugby.'

Our whole team challenge was to pick up a ball with all of us holding on to it. We had to race without any of us letting it go.

We had to start from sitting down and work out how to move as a team.

Jason told us that some of the skills we were learning were what the All Blacks used in their training.

Our Student of the Week!

Congratulations Ihaka!

Ihaka earned this special award by:

• Listening carefully and focusing on his learning.
• Being well mannered and considerate.
• Sharing his well thought out ideas and always working to a very high standard.

We are pleased and proud to have Ihaka in our room.

Our Room Was Full Of Characters On Literacy Day

Oakley (from Star Wars) and Jenna (Creator Monster High Doll) sharing a reading task.

Makeleta (Little Red Riding Hood) and Arabella (Jemma from the Soccer Show Off) buddy read together.

Rory (Geronimo Stilton) and Lily ('Popular Girl' from High School) do the same.

Milla (Fancy Nancy) listens carefully to Jorja (Little Red Riding Hood) while she was reading 'I Want to be an All Black'.

Mr Melrose ( A Wolf) read a funny and scary story about another wolf.

Ruby and Rongomai LOVE reading!

Thanks to Ihaka's help we could find Wally in our classroom.  A great costume Liam.

Gabriel (A Big Bad Wolf) was brave to share a story with Shrek!

Tiffany is Lost

We wrote a narrative about a little girl who got lost in town at lunch time because she ran ahead of her parents. Luckily a person from a cafe helped her.  Our purpose for writing was to entertain Room 10 students.

After I read my narrative Mya gave some information about my narrative. She told me that she liked to hear some verbs and adverbs. - Gabriel.

 Owen said that my narrative was good because he liked the adjectives and speech marks. He told me that he hasn't done speech marks in his writing that much. - Jah-Royal.

I liked reading my story to Harrison because he had good manners and listened nicely. He said my story was good because I had a lot of adjectives and I had neat writing. - Liam.

I felt nervous when I was sharing my narrative because I have never shared my writing to someone new.  We talked about the story and I liked her comments. -Marnel.





Oakely was happy to read his story to someone from another class.

Brandon said to me that he liked the story. He listened carefully. I liked writing the story because we read as a whole class. - Timothy.

Congratulations LIly!

Well done Lily. 

You earned your certificate because you have been finding word patterns in spelling, sharing your well thought out ideas in discussion and show initiative to be helpful in our classroom.

Throwing Some Fun into Room 13

Logan taught us how to chest pass with a rugby ball. He helped us to learn to do side passes. Oakley thought it was a lot of fun to learn new passes.

We had to remember to look at our partner before we passed the ball. It was fun counting how many passes we were able to do.

Logan was very good at teaching us how to move around and look for a person to pass to. We had to think about where to run to so we were in a good place to be able to catch the ball. It was important to be careful because if we dropped the ball we had to give it to the other team.

Mrs C was very impressed with the title for this post that Arabella thought of.

Swimming into Collage

Gabriel made a collage of an orca by sticking pieces of ripped coloured paper on to a piece of black paper. He is the first one to be finished. Gabriel thought it looked really fantastic because the orca looked like a real one. Kambel noticed that the background looks like it has reflections in the sea. 

Other people in our class are working on creating owls, turtles, giraffes, penguins, hens and cats. 

Friendly Japanese Students

Aki showed us a new game. We had to put our hands on our head and then quickly snap our hands onto a card with a certain letter.

Tiayo helped us to play the card game. It was fun when we snapped the cards. We laughed when Tiayo pretended to say one of the letters when they weren't there.

Toshi had a paper that he used to help him call out the names of the cards. We learnt to pay close attention to what letters he called out. 

Saho and Aki said we had to draw pictures for the cards. We had to colour them in. At the end of the card game they gave us some stickers.

The Japanese students performed a dance about fishermen catching salmon in a net. They were singing a Japanese song. They sang a few songs to the whole school. 

Vice Versa Dressed Up Day

Room 13 have dressed up as girls and boys, but we have swapped over, explained Rory. Bella added that we dressed up for the Cancer Society fundraiser. We brought a coin donation, said Kambel. 

Paige thought that Luke looked good dressed up as a girl because he had his hair tied up in a pig tail.
Gabriel liked Liam's dress up because he really looked like a girl. He wore a dress and had some eye make up.
Milla liked Lily's costume because she has a beard, which she made out of mascara and she looked like a real boy.

First Lady Michelle Obama Carpool. Fun to watch with a good message.

Room 13 Assembly song

Our Museum Trip

On Thursday 16th we visited the Ashburton Museum to look at all of the exhibits and learn about volcanoes, rocks, under the ocean and the landscape of our area.

Bella was listening to Simone tell her all about rubbish on an island. People leaving rubbish on the island is a bad thing because it can go into the water and trap the animals. Jenna heard that people left rubbish on the beach and even in trees. Marnel saw ribbons on the trees that were used to mark where the rubbish was.

In the Art Gallery Jorja watched a video about underneath, at the bottom of the sea and she got to draw what she thought was at the bottom of the sea.

Kambel drew volcanoes under water and coral. He thought it was cool to learn that volcanoes under the water could still have black smoke.

Paige thought the three kinds of rock families are called hot rocks, flat rocks and metamorphic rocks. Makeleta learnt that igneous rocks came from volcanoes and Mt Somers used to be a volcano. Locky liked holding the volcanic glass rock the most because the glass on it felt smooth. Jah-Royal learnt that igneous rocks came from volcanoes. Timothy found out the pumice rock was very light.

Milla could see a photo of a man and woman sitting on a bench and they were hugging. There were three glass things to look through and the each had different pictures in it.

Nathaniel looked behind the secret door behind the photos and saw another picture of a glass bottle and a man.

Ruby was looking at blue paintings of faces. She thought they were interesting because of the shapes.

Congratulations Liam

Liam, you are a good leader in our class games and sports activities. You share your ideas with your team and help them to work out what to do. You have very good manners and are a good friend.

Did you know there is a cat looking over your shoulder?

Rongomai - Our Student of the Week

Congratulations!

Great work, Rongomai.
You are a student who is reliable, especially when setting up the class computers each day without being reminded.
You are always helpful and friendly to everyone in our class.

Pink Anti-bullying Day

We chose to wear pink clothes to school to show we know how to be kind to people and to look after our friends.

We sang at the start of the day. 

We decorated our hair.

We wore our angel wings.

We listened carefully when our friends shared their extra homework activities.