We started our new Inquiry today.

We looked at pictures and decided what they had in common.

We then decided how we could group them.

Next we completed a mission finding where we use electricity around the school.

Nga Iwi E

A waiata we love to sing at school.

Book Character Dress Up Day

We had an awesome day dressed up as different characters.

Mrs O'C was missing so we had The Cat in the Hat teaching us. He was the best reliever ever!

Here is Spiderman and Greg from 'A Diary of a Wimpy Kid'

Emmett and Lord Business.

Batman and Spiderman showed their super powers.

Spot the odd one out. Three fairy tale characters and a gangsta!

Here is Pippi Longstockings and Fancy Nancy.

Superman and a skeleton.

Steve from Minecraft even visited B2!

Here are some Pic Collages that we made:

Taniwha

By Yoon Seong

My taniwha has lazer strikes.  He blows fire for fun. He lives in my shed.  He has razor sharp teeth.  He loves food.

Theo

My taniwha has razor sharp teeth.  They are white.  He is orange, red and green.  My taniwha is scary.  He eats a lot of fish.  He is a very good flyer and is faster than the wind.  My taniwha is a very good runner.

Will

My taniwha has sparkle razor teeth.  He can fly like a jet.  He is fast and fun.  He helps shop.  He’s brave.

Matthew

My taniwha’s name is Fredle.  He has a spikey tail and when he is in danger he spikes them.  He eats fire to punch fire balls.   Fred is funny to nice people and he gets angry when people are not nice.  He really loves it when nasty people are far away.

Eddie

We have moved....

Our old classroom at reading time....

Our new studio at reading time...

Thoughts about our new space...

Our new classroom is not a classroom, it is a studio. Our studio is more colourful than our other classroom. I like the furniture and my favourite furniture is the cookie pads. We have a lot of rooms in our studio.

Nathan

We have moved in with Room 8. We now have a bigger writing corner so Room 8 can write as well. I like being in our new studio because it is more exciting than our old classroom.

Melissa

Hooray, hooray, we’ve moved to the new school. In the new school we have this chart, a self-directed learner chart.  A self-directed learner is a person who does things by themselves and who is independent.  You don’t want to be a teacher-directed learner because you have to follow the teacher and go in certain spots. The studio is colourful.

Charlotte

The new school is as colourful as a rainbow. The couches in B2 are blue and green. We share space with all B1 and B2. Our chairs are much better than our old room 10 chairs. When we were in our old room 10 the chairs were horrible because they always use to fall down when people sat on them. Our new school is always perfect. Well almost perfect.

Caitlin

Room 10 has shifted to B2. It has big couches. I like the kneeling tables best. Next I like the cookie pads. They are only for sitting on. Fourth, I like the flower table. Fifth, I like the standing table. It is really different because the colours are lighter.

By Zara

In B2 we have made some new rules. Use walking feet inside. In B2 we use inside voices and keep our hands to ourselves. Do not stand on the cookie pads and you can move the couches. No climbing on the tables. We don’t run inside B2. You should not go in the teachers room.

By Eddie

Our new learning space has a lot more colours than our old room 10. It has bright and colourful furniture. We share the space with room 8. We have new rules. They are use walking feet, sit on the cookie pads, say nice things to each other, use an inside voice, put things away and keep our hands to ourself. Our old room had no colours.

By Tainui

Taniwha descriptions

My taniwha’s name is Addison.  It has a big tail. It is very big.

Jordyn.

This is my taniwha.  He is colourful.  He can play minecraft.   It has red sharp teeth.  He has bony legs and tail.  It is shy and happy and it eats up rubbish.

Nathan

My taniwha has a love heart head and my taniwha has snowy white teeth.  My taniwha has pony two tails.  My taniwha likes playing in the snow.

Summer

My taniwha has lazer sharp teeth that are shinier than a crystal ball.  She likes to swim in the deep blue moana.  She has a very little tummy and face.  My taniwha name is Rosa.  I swim on her back everyday and we have fun together.  She has sparkly blue eyes that shine in the sun and also the moonlight.  I love my taniwha – she is great.

Melissa

My taniwha has sharp teeth to chomp.  My taniwha went swimming in the moana in the moonlight.

Addison

My taniwha’s name is Cutey.  He has razor sharp teeth like a shark.  He lives in a dark, scary forest.  He sleeps in a spooky cave.  His eyes are like blue spirals.  He is as colourful as a rainbow.  He has patterns on his body and he has checkers on his face.  He eats scrummy, yummy lollies.  His bed is made out of spiky, prickly flowers.  He is as big as a person on top of another person on top of another person on top of another person.  His nails can turn into security cameras.  His nose is as sparkly as a diamond with the shiniest glitter in the universe.  He is a famous as Taylor Swift.

Caitlin

My taniwha is called Voilet and it’s a girl.  She has very sharp spikey teeth.  When I have a picnic my taniwha comes up to me.  Sometimes she wants some food from the picnic and I say “ OK Violet only a little bite”.

Poppy

My taniwha has stripes on his tummy.  He can fly.  He has a spikey tail that whacks everybody.

Liam

My taniwha is scared and he runs away.  My taniwha roars.  His name is Fredo.  My taniwha’s tail is very long.  My taniwha’s big.  He has sharp teeth and he scares people away.  My taniwha is really fast.  He will bite you, except me.  My taniwha’s teeth are as sharp as scissors.  It lives in the water.

Patrick

My taniwha has a pony-tail like me.  He has  square teeth. 

Emma

My taniwha’s name is Jeffery and he lives in my garage.  Jeffery is big and strong.  Jeffery has bright and beautiful colours.  Jeffery has koru shapes.  He has lazer eyes.  He changes colours.  He’s cute like a kitten.  He has a crown.  Jeffery can really quietly sneak.  Jeffery has a tail like a lizard.  Jeffery can fly like a bird. 

Tainui

My Taniwha’s name is Fredell.  He shoots fireballs out of its mouth.  He changes colours.  He has a scaly long tail.  He has a bony tummy.  He has sharp, white, sparkly teeth.  It has glowing red eyes.  My taniwha is invisible.  It has koru patterns on his back.  My taniwha lives in minecraft.  He has an army of wither skeletons.  It eats dirty rubbish.  My taniwha is very fat.  It wakes up at night.  It throws TNT at people.

Barnaby

My taniwha is shy because whenever anyone comes close he quickly camoflages.  He needs to know you before you can touch him.  My taniwha can be really kind, he helps you do your jobs. He LOVES pats.  If you pat him for ages he falls fast asleep.  My taniwha is very scaly like a crocodile.  He is very colourful like a rainbow.  My taniwha loves playing in the white snow.

Charlotte

My taniwha’s name is Violet.  She looks like everything around her.  Her teeth are as sharp as a sword.  Every night her teeth clash and clang like 100,000 drums.  She has 10,000 teeth.  Every day I go on Voilet on the crystal clear moana to give her exercise.  She loves to get birthday presents.  She can be invisible.  When she is invisible you can’t touch her.

Izzy

Taniwha Descriptions

My Taniwha is called Cutey because she is cute and she lives in a sparkle shiny house.  She has an orange mouth, her eyes are green.  She is really colourful and she has spirals on her tummy.  She can juggle and fly and swim and she is really, really, really brave.  She has a yellow face.  She can do ballet and is really good at maths.

Maia

My taniwha is Max.  See him, he is very cute.  But don’t get too close because he is shy.  He is adorable.  He is the kindest taniwha you have ever met.  Surprisingly Max isn’t very big, he’s about medium size.  He’s got a soft spine and koru shapes.   He likes to sleep a lot.  He’s not afraid to do anything, he can be weary.  He could scare you but he’s friendly as I mentioned before.  He sleeps in my house.  He has special powers, he can touch the mighty sun.  He can fly.  One last thing he is very cheeky.  That is Max!

Jaxson

My Taniwha’s name is Ella.  Ella lives in nature.  She can change colour.  She is invisible and brave when it’s dark.  Ella has sparkly, fiery eyes.  She can fly and has koru patterns.  Ella has a sharp colourful back.

Annabel

My taniwha’s name is Ruby.  She lives in a house next to my house.  She is shy to other people around her.  She likes to swim in the  shiny moana.  She is happy.  Every day at night she is scared and she has a soft toy.  She likes people.  She loves me as much as an elephant  and I love her too.

Zara

Mrs O'C and Mrs O'Neill can't wait to share our awesome new learningspace with you all!

A moment in time

I heard the gun go bang. All of the runners started at the same time. I heard the crowd screaming. I saw flags waving. Some of the runners were really fast and some were slow. I saw feet zooming and racers arms pumping. 
By Patrick

I heard the crowd roaring like a lion. I saw people waving their flags like crazy. I felt like a zooming cheetah. I wondered who will get the shining gold medal. 
By Caitlin

The crowd was quiet for the racers and I wondered who was going to get the gold. I felt happy because the racers did not take a long time. 
By Xavier

I saw the teams start at the same time. I heard the gun shot. I heard the crowd go ballistic. I wondered how Usain Bolt got so fast. I felt nervous. 
By Tainui

Measuring

Last week, in awesome Room 10, we were learning all about measurement. We all got an enormous piece of paper. We found a buddy. My buddy was Matthew. We all had to draw around each other by taking turns.First I drew around Matthew then he drew around me. We measured each other with pink rods. The next day we measured our ankles and wrists.  We learnt what parts of our bodies are longer than other parts of our body. My ankle was longer than my wrist.
By Charlotte

For our maths topic we were learning about measurement. We figured out that our hands were smaller than our feet. Next we tied a piece of string around our head and then a piece of string around our ankle.  The piece of string around our head was bigger than the piece of string around our ankle. We also measured how tall we were. We learnt when you measure two different things, the things that you use to measure need to be the same size.
By Tainui

We used string to measure how tall we are.

We compared our heights using the string.

We checked to see if the length of our hand was longer than our foot.

We discovered lots of measuring words: