A Picnic at Totara Park

School is over for 2011 and to celebrate all of our hard work we had a school picnic at Totara park.
We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and look forward to sharing our work with you again next year.

To all of Mrs Nathan's amazing star students, good luck and don't forget to come and visit me in Room 10 :)

My Dog

We read Margaret Mahy's story 'My Dog' and then we wrote our own dog stories.  Here are the paintings we did to go with them.  Check out our stories on each of our pages.

My Dog on PhotoPeach

A Russian Dance

Here is a Russian dance that we are hoping to learn in time for prize giving.  Hopefully we will be able to video ourselves for you all to see.

Clever Mathematicians

Mrs Nathan asked us to solve this problem.
I had 8 apples and then I bought 5 more.  How many do I have now?

 Here are 4 different ways we worked it out.

Stage 2- Counting all

Stage 4- Advanced Counting

Stage 5- Part-whole thinking

Well done Room 10! You are great at solving number problems.

Pizza day

Today the whole of Room 10 had pizza for lunch.  It was from Hell Pizza in Manukau because Tyler won a Halloween colouring in competition.
Tyler's mum brought strawberries and juice for us as well.
The pizza was so yum that we ate until we couldn't eat anymore!

Thank you Tyler and Hella Pizza Manukau for our yummy, yummy lunch!

 Congratulations to Tyler, who is a great artist!

Kiwi Can

Today at Kiwi can we talked about Honesty.

I am honest
I am true
If I can do it so can you.

When we tell little lies they grow into big lies and then we get in big trouble. It is always best to tell the truth. We will still be growled at but it won't be as big.

Tyler and Andre were our Super stars today.

Our Shared Writing

Once upon a time a shiny fish was swimming in the ocean when he saw a huge whale. He very carefully swam over to the whale to talk to him.
"Hello Mr Whale." he said.
"Hello yummy little fish." said the whale. "What can I do for you?"
"Can you help me find my fish family?" said the shiny fish.
"I think I saw your family swimming this way." said the whale as he opened his mouth wide.
"Oh thank you Mr Whale." said the little fish and he swam inside.
The whale quickly shut his mouth and swallowed the little fish whole.
"Yummy!" said the whale.

Hamburgers

We made hamburgers with Miss Lendrum! Yummy!!!!!!!

School Athletics Day

On Friday we had our school athletics.
Congratulations to Jabez who was 1st and Zachariah who was 2nd in their race.
Also to Lopa and Clare-Ellen who were both 3rd in their races.

Here are some photos of us from the day.

Kiwi Can

In Kiwi Can this week we continued the topic of Honesty.  We had races and we really needed to be honest about whether we went around the cones the right way.

Mafile'o and Nikura were our superstars this week.  Well done boys!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Isaiah who won a prize in the Faber-castel colouring competition. He was one of 250 entrants to receive a box of goodies.
Great work Isaiah!!

Grumpy Bear

Grumpy bear wanted to sleep but all of the animals were making too much noise.
He growled at them but they didn't care, until he showed them his teeth and his claws!

Term 4 begins

Wow our holidays went fast but we are back and ready to learn, learn, learn!
 
It is the first week of Term 4 and we will be spending a lot of time getting ready for Prizegiving and of course all that last minute learning before we go on holiday over Christmas.

We started our term with Kiwi Can and this week we looked at honesty.  It is important to always tell the truth whereever you go.

 

Our Kiwi Can stars this week were Lilly and Chaise. 

They showed how honest they were during the numbers game. 

 Great job ladies! 

We are very happy that the All Blacks have won the Rugby World Cup! 

Congratulations to the All Blacks, you are fantastic role models and we are very proud of you!

Rippa Rugby Day Photos.

Here are some photos from our awesome Rippa Rugby Games

Duffy Hero

Yesterday Alison Quigan came to our school to talk to us about her job and her love of reading, writing and acting. 

She gave out some Duffy books and Steven was the winner for our class.  He won the book because of all the great work he has been doing in Maths.  Congratulations Steven!

Sports Report- Australia vs Russia

On Saturday Russia played their last game against Australia.  We think it was their best game yet because they scored 22 points against Australia.


Well done Russia.  Even though you had to go home early, we know that you will be back next time and we will be cheering for you!
Dosvidania Russia

Rippa Rugby Day

On Thursday we had an amazing morning! Miss Breen had organised a Rippa Rugby Tournament for the Junior School.

We played as Russia and all dressed in red.

 We won our game against Australia but lost against Canada who were in Pool A with us.

Our try scorers!

   The good news is that Russia won the overall pool and got the title of the best cheer team.


Thank you Miss Breen for organising such a great morning for us :)  We can't wait for our next event!

Sports Report- Russia v Ireland

Russia played Ireland yesterday.  Russia scored two tries but Ireland still beat them :(
The score was 62-12.  Well done Ireland you had a good game.

Russia's next game is on the 1st October against Australia.  Do you think they might win?  We hope so!

Kiwi Can

On Wednesday we went to Kiwi Can with Room 8.
We learnt more about bullying.
If you hit someone or are mean to people they will be mean back to you.  So make sure that you are nice and kind to everyone.

We played statues

Zachariah and Chevelle were the stars for this week.

Sports Report- Russia v's Italy

Last night Russia played their second game against Italy.
While Russia played hard the Italian scrum was just too strong for them and they lost 53-17 with Russia scoring 3 tries.
Here are some photos of the action.

 

We can't wait for the next game on Sunday against Ireland.  It's going to be tough but we will still be cheering for Russia.

Sports Report- Russia v's USA

We are very sad to report that USA beat Russia 13-6.  We think that Russia played a great defensive game and they stopped USA from scoring a lot of tries!  What a great effort for their first ever World Cup game!!!

Here are some shots of the action

 

Welcome to Room 10

This week we had three new people come to Room 10.

 

Welcome to Room 10 Schaniya, Isaac and Chevelle, we are very glad you have joined us!

Kiwi Can

Today in Kiwi Can we talked about bullying.
There are two types of bullying.

• Physical which is hurting by touching
• Verbal which is hurting with words

Room 10 don't like bullies and we always try to be nice to others.

Here is a video of Zachariah leading our warm up!  You are a natural leader Zachariah!

Rugby World Cup, Russia's first game!

Tonight the Russians are playing the USA.
We all have our fingers crossed that the Russian team do well in their first game.
We will be cheering for you Russia!!!

Go Russia!

Davay, Rossia!

September 9th a real celebration day

On Friday the 9th September we had a black out day to support the All Blacks and to celebrate the opening of the Rugby World Cup.  We all came to school in our black clothes.  Some of us even had our faces and hair decorated.

 

Then we had a whole school brush off to end our Oral health unit.

 

What a great day!

Rugby World Cup

Room 10 are very excited about the start of the Rugby World Cup this week.  We have choosen to adopt Russia as our second team.

Russia has entered the Rugby World Cup for the first time ever and while we can't go to any of their games we will be cheering them on... as long as they don't beat the All Blacks ;)

If you are from Russia or know someone from Russia could you please ask them to visit our blog and share some information about their country, this will help us with our learning.

Go the Mighty All Blacks!!! and Yay Russia!!!