ASB Get Wise

In the last week of term, we had a special visit from Amy from ASB get wise program. She taught us things about money and we even had to plan a shopping list based on which product is best value. It was soo much fun.

ANZAC Wreaths

As ANZAC day this year is in the middle of the holidays room 10 decided to do a bit of art in anticipation to help celebrate this special day where we celebrate all those who fought for our country. To do this we; read a series of pictures books and had really deep discussions about the war, watched a few clips for TV3 series called The Great War and some spectacular students even took it apon them selves to do their own research.  

Maths

Today Miss Ewart said we could that we could do maths but not any kind of maths geometry maths but with shapes we are very thankful that she let us do a different kind of maths that we are very lucky our teacher is the best .😀We only have one picture but that's just a little sneak peak of our blog because we have more to come this is silas's one 

 

Pokemon Cards

Hey team, here are the rules for Pokemon cards - starting Monday

• Students can bring 5-10 cards to school
• Students to only trade within their own group i.e Year 1 & 2, Year 3 & 4 or Year 5-8
• If students are bringing more than 10 cards they are told not to bring any for the next week
• If they continue to do so parents are contacted and they are not to bring any cards for the rest of the term

Home Reading

A massive congratulations to Blaine for being the first one in room 10's reading class to bring his My Home Reading Book. Remember it is your responsibility to bring it to the teacher to get it all signed off.

Why did people settle in Parklands?

Here are just some of the ideas that room 10 came up with on why the Maori & European settles choose Parklands.

Top half Maori, Bottom half Eurpean

Characters Characters Characters !!!

As part of learning how to write spectacular descriptions, we have focused on developing characters that create a vivid picture in the readers mind. We have also been looking at different kinds of sentences to help create impact in our writing.

This was our brief. 

The girls working hard and sharing ideas.

Deacon's pencil nearly has smoke he's working
so hard.

Jack editing his work to make sure its fit for purpose.

Wow ! where are the weeks going. Here is this fortnights certificate recipients. A big congratulations to Stella form room 10 & Taiki from room 11. Keep up the awesome work people !

Rad reading part two

People are teaching there groups. Paige was teaching the green basket, Charlise is teaching the blue basket and Deacon is teaching the red basket. From ya bloggers Tahlia and Trinity 😘