LOVE LETTERS FOR STARSHIP!

Room 18 and Room 10 have been working together to create gorgeous Love Letters to be sent up to Starship Hospital to brighten up the walls of sick children.  This is part of our inquiry into Kind Hearts.  Check out some of our beautiful creations.  Please remember if you have any good condition used clothing or non-perishable food items that you are willing to donate, please bring them to Room 18.   

"Kindness doesn't cost a thing!  Sprinkle it EVERYWHERE!"

Haiku Poetry

This term we have been learning different types of poetry.  So far we have learnt about a cinquain, a shape poem, a senses poem, haiku poem and an acrostic poem.  We have enjoyed doing poetry because everyone is able to do it! Check out our gorgeous published haiku poems below.

A Haiku poem is a poem that originates from Japan. It is usually about a season or nature.  The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables and the third line has 5 syllables. 

Calendar Art 2016 - "Our Creative Minds"

Random Acts of Kindess

This term our inquiry is around Random Acts of Kindness.  Our teachers have set us a goal to see how many hearts we can add to this tree to make it bloom.  On Tuesday Leigh from the Kind Hearts movement Palmerston North will be coming to speak to us about the project.  Today we started to compile a list of a few random acts of kindness we could do at school, at home and in the community - we are excited to see where this will lead us.  Watch this space to see our tree bloom. 

RIGHT CHOICE DAY

We had heaps of fun during our Right Choice Day for Term 3.  We had a 'Black Out Day' to support the All Blacks.  Some of the the games we played were pin the rugby ball on Richie McCaw, kicking the ball between the goal posts, weetbix eating competition, a rugby quiz and we posted a facebook message to Richie McCaw wishing him best of luck.  We also celebrated with a delicious shared lunch.  Our teachers are really proud of the hard work we have put into our learning this term.  Oh yeah and did we mention...RICHIE MCCAW WROTE BACK TO US!!!

A few updates

Congratulations to Jade, Shirley, Gus and Blake who all received a prize for netball and rugby prize giving.  We are proud to have such amazing role models in our class who try their hardest and get involved in sporting activities outside the classroom - well done! 

On Friday we had the last school disco for the year.  Everyone looked beautiful all dressed up and had an awesome time dancing the night away!  We sure do have some movers and groovers in the class! 

Our class was selected to be a part of the Feilding Schools Cultural festival where we got to perform a the Civic Centre in front of hundreds of people.  Our performance was based on the centenary of Anzac Day.  We were part of learning the folk dancing and battle scenes. 

WORLD CUP FEVER HAS HIT!

For buddy class this fortnight we were lucky enough to go over to the senior playground and spend some time exploring the playground.  This was exciting and it was great to challenge our bodies to stretch higher, reach further and jump higher then we thought possible.  We also had an organised game too which was lots of fun.  

Mr Linden's Library

One Saturday morning Ashley went to Mr Linden's library.  She found a book about fairies.  Mr Linden said to pay for the book so she bought it.  But Mr Linden said to her "Don't get that book."  But it was too late.  She snuggled up in bed that night and read the book, then fell asleep.  When she fell asleep the fairies came out of the book!  The flapping woke Ashley up.  She screamed with fright.  The fairies said to Ashley "Open the page, we want to get back home."

Unfinished short story written by Jade, based on The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. 

The House on Maple Street

It was 100 years ago, the start of World War 1 in the USA.  Astronomers from NASA where trying to make a rocket to find other planets with life, so they replaced a wooden house on maple street.  One week later, it had an engine and a room for the astronauts.  Two weeks later it was ready, it was time... 3,2,1 BLAST OFF!  The house rocket was off!  It was the perfect lift off! 
A short story written by Blake based on They Mysteries of Harris Burdick. 

One spooky night on the first of July, I was walking down Maple Street when I saw Doctor Mystery's house.  I saw steam as hot as lava and as white as snow coming from out of the bottom of his house.  I thought it was going to explode, I was worried.  There were rockets on the bottom of his house.  When the house was lifting off it sounded like a heard of elephants.  "Wow," I said!  It was the perfect lift off on this spooky night.  
A short story written by Isabelle based on the Mysteries of Harris Burdick. 

E Rere Taku Poi

To celebrate all our learning about Space, Purapurawhetu had a space themed Right Choice Day!  It was great fun.  We started with a dress up parade, then we got to choose to make a robot, make an astronaut, bring a toy from home or do some space cooking! At the end of the day we watched the movie Escape From Planet Earth.  We are proud because every single member of the team made it to RCD!!!

Congratulations Jessica and Brody for being awarded excellence certificates at our whole school assembly on the last day of term.  We are very proud of the effort you put in to being the best you can be. 

Jade

On Saturday the 20th of June there was a big flood.

Nikita stayed at my house. When we woke up we were playing in my bedroom.  We went outside there was lots of water on the road. We went in the car to look at the ourua river. And we went to the creek it was getting higher and higher I was scared because I thought it might go in my house.

"Why is the river going higher and higher?" I asked Mum.

"Because there has been lots of rain for a couple of days jade girl," Mum said.

Hunter

On Saturday morning it was flooded in Feilding.

On Sunday it was still flooded so brother asked my dad "Can we go down puddles?''
Dad said ''Yes." So me and my brothers went to the bridge and Feilding High school courts and North Street School and then we went back to the bridge down North Street and the water was nearly up to the bridge.

Finally me and my brothers went back home and had a shower because we got wet and we were cold . Me and my brother were outside and then Caleb (he is my other brother) he went inside. Me and my other brother Kodi were outside playing in the puddles. In the middle of the day my mother said ''The water is nearly up to the bridge". The next day when we went to school my brother said ''The water has gone down.''

Blake

On Saturday there were loads of floods. There was one across the road.

First we went to Palmerston north.there where floods every where. Next we went to countdown on the way mum said "Oh no!"

We went home because it was raining. I cleaned my room. Then dad came home we watched the news. Dad and I went to the stream and it was high.  The water was wavy and was flowing very fast.  There was a slip on the other side of the bank because of all the rain.

 We went back inside.  "Will it rain all night? I said.

I went to sleep thing about the rain.

Tupou

The Flood

On Saturday the 20th of June we had lots of rain. I stayed home Mum took a video of the river on her phone. Mum said "Stay in the house!"

I thought the flood was scary because I thought our house might flood.

As part of our writing programme we have been learning how to ask open questions to use question marks correctly.  We thought buddy class would be the perfect opportunity to practise asking open questions, so we got together and asked 10 open questions to get to know our buddy better.  Some of us learnt that we had quite a lot in common with our buddy.  We also found that by asking open questions we talk a lot more then when we ask or answer closed questions.  

Afterwards we introduced Room 10 to Gonoodle!  We had some funky moves going on!!!

Brody has been learning to use doubles and halves to help him solve addition problems.  It is great to see Brody reading and applying feedback given to him.  Ka pai Brody - you've got this now!  

Shirley was asked to create a fact file based on a planet of her choice using the text from her reading group.  I am proud of Shirley for picking out key facts and using key words to summarise the information.  Tino pai Shirley - keep up the great work.

Congratulations to Mercedes who received Leeroy (Purapurawhetu's supreme award) for consistently displaying the values of REACH and many other values.  Mrs Morris had so many super things to say about Mercedes she had to write a super long blurb on the back of her certificate! 

 We have been learning about Matariki.  We learnt that Matariki is when seven stars can be seen in the night sky, this signifies Maori New Year.  During Matariki people celebrate by coming together to celebrate by singing waiata and dancing, sharing stories, kai and much more.  We were lucky to have Tracy come in to share the myth of Matariki with us.  We also made stars our of harakeke.  We have been learning a variety of waiata, made poi and will be learning some tradtional rakau games this week.

Reading Strategies

WALT - make inferences.

We have been learning how to 'read between the lines'.  To make an inference we know that we have to use our prior knowledge and the clues that are given in the text.  We used the book "No David" by David Shannon to help us understand this.  Check out our learning below.