Columbian Christmas Around the World!

Sock Puppet Fun

In Ruma Rima we have been making sock puppets. We created our own puppet so that we can write a play for our puppets to perform in. Here are our puppet creations.

Patterns with objects by Mylah

Patterns by Indi, Billie and Alaska

Student Voice Term 4 2018

Descriptive Writing by Indi (moving into Narrative)

Oncology Bags

We have been invited to decorate bags for patients visiting the Oncology Department at Hospital. The bags are to be decorated to help cheer up the bags and send a positive message of support to patients at a difficult time. We are very proud of the bags we have been working on.
 

Getting Ready for Alice In Wonderland with the Drama Group

Descriptive Writing by Benny

Environmental Toondoo by Ilish

By Ilishf | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

WALT create a cartoon on Toondoo
WALT convey a specific message to our audience related to our topic work.

St John's Term 3

Beeswax Food Wraps

Level 3 Social Science AO: Understand how people make decisions about access to and use of resources.

As a way of reducing our own plastic use we are going to be making beeswax food wraps to use in our lunchboxes. They smell delicious!! We are using the ironing method to make these.

Class Photo at Karoro Beach after our Clean Up

We are learning to understand what a living landscape is.
We are learning what a living landscape is and how people's actions effect it.
We are learning to take action to improve our local environment.

Ruma Rima had an interesting trip down to Karoro Beach. We went to pick up rubbish and investigate the types of rubbish found. We were shocked at the amount we found as first glance would indicate that there was very little. After our clean up we all had a game of volleyball on the sandy court. The game was a lot of fun. The beach is a fantastic place to visit and play so we need to look after our local resources/areas.
  Students have written about their experiences in a writing form of their choice. They needed to include specific language features and emotion.

Walt use descriptive words in our writing and make the reader feel a certain way by Breanna


We are learning to add descriptive words in our writing and use words that make the reader feel a certain way.

 The air was as cold as stone as the class walked down to the Karoro Beach to pick up litter dropped by people or washed up by tides. The class was divided into groups that parents volunteered to chaperone, luckily I was in the same groups as Breanna my BFF and Amanda, Hannah's mother was our chaperone. The group members were myself, Breanna, Hannah, Hamish and Issac.
The beach looked clean at first glance but it was when we looked under the driftwood when I felt a tsunami of anger rush over my head. I never expected a rubber jandal or a cap to show up and pipes that were old and had some brown stuff on the end but we also found some other weird things like, a syringe that might have had contained some medicine against a cow disease and a vial filled with a yellow unidentified liquid that might be illegal drugs or something else yucky. On the cycle trail in the penguin zone I was shocked to see rubbish in between the trees forming a cave like shape. As my group went in the first thing we saw was plastic but the big thing that was in there was a massive piece of metal.
Although the beach was a tiny bit cleaner we, and I mean all of humankind, need to decide if we want beaches covered in litter or beaches litter free and healthy. In half an hour our entire class found 498 pieces of plastic and that’s not cool. It’s your choice to look after the environment. by Emma


 We are learning to add descriptive words in our writing we are learning to write to make the reader feel a certain way.

    by Charlie


 W.A.L.T add descriptive words in our writing.W.A.L.T make the reader feel a certain way. by Jordyn


 We are learning to use descriptive words in our writing. We are learning to make the reader fell a certain way about our writing. by Luken

 We are learning to add descriptive words in our writing we are also learning to make the reader feel a certain way.

by Jack

Space Non Chronological Reports

Mindmap Example Space

Space by Jenny Barrow

Setting Up a Solar System on the Filed

Creating an Ocean with Sam & Mrs J

E.T. Calling by Ilish

Satellites by Hamish

Fynn's Geometry Slide Presentation

Some of Our ANZAC Poems

Get NZ Writing School Kit Sponsored by The Warehouse

We have had a fantastic time writing using simile, metaphor and alliteration. We have written a number of poems. Some about what we heard outside our classroom and some we found in pages of texts. We then wrote a short poem about ourselves for our partner school. These were sent away last week to Manukau, Aukland. We are looking forward to receiving their work in the near future. Thank you School Kit and The Warehouse for providing this unit of work and some resources for us to use. We have really enjoyed it. Here are some photos of some of our work in progress and completed on our classroom wall.

Hangi Photos

Hangi

We have been learning about the hangi process. Recently we held a hangi for our school family. We used a multikai cooker for our event. The students looked at both the multikai cooker and the inground hangi. This is some of the work created to show our understandings. By Breanna By Alaska By Benny By Hannah

Kawa of Care

We have been learning the Kawa of Care which tells us how to take care of our device and how to be
a Smart Learner.

Safe Cycling 2018

In Ruma Rima we have been learning all about safe cycling. We learnt about basic road rules, how to fit a helmet correctly, and the position of the bike on the road. Then we practiced skills like scanning, riding in a straight line, sharp turns, braking and slow riding for control. We had an awesome day thanks to NZ Police and Constable Jos.

What We Already Know About Changes As We Grow

We are going to visit with Harold from Life Education tomorrow and Thursday. We are going to be learning about changes that happen to us as we grow and how to stay healthy and happy. This is a Padlet showing what we already know. You might like to add what you know about this to the Padlet by double clicking on the Padlet and adding a comment into the box. Remember to add your name in the title bar so we know who is commenting. Please make sure you do not delete any of our comments.

Introduction Fynn

We are all still working on our introductions. Here is Fynn's introduction and we hope to get all of our introductions up very soon.

All About Me Digital LI's and SC

Kia Ora From Ruma Rima