Discovering Sunflowers

Discovering Sunflowers - an animation by Shardia and Laura

Laura teaches the class

Yesterday Laura bought “teach the class” from the Room 4 shop.

It cost $25 Room 4 dollars.

Laura taught Room 4 hula hooping.

Laura taught Room 4 all sorts of hula hooping.

Laura is really good. We wondered how Laura learned it all.

She could even do it on her leg. We all thought she is good.

By Laura and Waima

Happy World Teachers' Day!

Today it is World Teachers' Day.

Room 4 got two people from every class in the school to help us make a special surprise for our teachers.

We made a wonderful video saying why we like our teachers.

We hope you enjoy it, from all the students at Waiuku Primary.

Writing by Natasha, Waima and Laura

Art Exhibition

On Wednesday last week Waiuku Primary School had an Art Exhibition.

Each class did some artwork.

Room 4 did a print of “Where the Wild Things Are”. Some people got certificates: Jack D, Luke, Tauryn, Waima and Ryan. There was heaps of art there.

Other art works were good too. Room 6 did a “Where the Wild Things are” paper mache monsters. They were really cool.

There were heaps of different colours. We loved all of the art.

By Laura and Waima

Arts Alive Performance

On Monday the 20th of September, Syndicate 2 did an Arts Alive performance.

First Room 6 did an interesting dance all about magic playdough. When the kids were not looking it would jump off the big table.

Then room 5 went and did a cool play about The Three Little Pigs.

Last was our class, Room 4, we did two ribbon dances. Our first dance was not that good. Our next dance was really good, it looked amazing. We did lots of circles and moving with our ribbons and bodies.

By Waima and Laura

Ka Kite Winter

Ka Kite (Goodbye) Winter!

Ka Kite warm hot chocolate (Laura)
Ka Kite cold weather (Jaidyn)
Ka Kite bad storms (Caleb)
And freezing dangerous wind (Waima)

Haere Ra fun playing inside (Ryan)
Haere Ra mud all around (Cory)
Haere ra hot fires (Natasha)
And fun cool games (Tauryn)

Kia Ora tweeting, singing birds (Emily)
Kia Ora beautiful butterflies (Campbell)
Kia Ora baby lambs and bugs (Selena)
And buzzing bees (Jack B)

Haere Mai bright leaves (Shardia)
Haere Mai extraordinary, happy flowers (Aidan)
Haere Mai growing grass (James)
And blossom trees starting to grow (Emily)

WALT use adjectives in our poetry to make it interesting.


We decided upon the following success criteria as a class. If we do these things it will make sure our poems are interesting.

• use one adjective to describe the 'thing' per line of poem
• don't use the same adjective twice.
  
  

Check out this video to learn more about adjectives:

• An adjective can make our poems interesting - Jack B.
• An adjective is a describing word - Ryan
• An adjective describes a thing "noun" - Laura & Tauryn
• Using adjectives adds more detail - Cory

Arts Alive Inquiry: The Musician

On Monday a musician named Steve came to our school. He came because we are learning about The Arts and he knows lots about music.

Steve played a song for us on his guitar and harmonica. He came after lunch for us to interview him. We wanted to learn about music and why he likes music. We wrote some questions to ask him. Here are some of them:

• What is it like being a musician?
• How many times a week do you practice your music?
• Who writes the lyrics to your songs?
• What is fun that you like about music?
• What type of music do you like the best?
• When did you start playing music?

Steve said he like the blues the best. The blues are songs that people wrote saying how they felt - Campbell & Lexie

Steve also said he practiced on the guitar every day - Laura

Steve thought it was fun being a musician. The hard part about being a musician was when he missed home - Ryan & Aidan

Sometimes his friends write some lyrics and sometimes Steve writes them by himself - Tauryn

Sometimes Steve gets music off the computer to practise with - Cory

It was fun when he played the guitar - James


I liked when he played the guitar because I want to get a guitar - Jack B.


Listen in the below video to Steve singing one of Room 4's favourite songs - Shadow Dance

Cross Country Running!

Last Tuesday we had the School Cross Country.
We have been training a lot and trying to run really fast.

First we sat in lines in our year groups. There was a year 2 girls and a year 2 boys line. The Year 0/1 girls ran first, then the boys. Next it was our turn... some of us had our hearts pumping really fast. Some of us were really nervous.

The year 2 girls ran first. Room 4 got some great placings:

• 2nd - Natasha
• 3rd - Laura
• 4th - Lexie
• 5th - Waima

Then the year 2 boys raced. Here are some of our best results:

• 3rd - Ryan
• 6th - Jack D
• 7th - Aidan
• 8th - Gil
• 10th - Jaidyn

After the race we felt proud of ourselves but we were really puffed. It was so great to have lots of our parents and aunties come and watch us. We were very happy!

Shared writing by Room 4

Amazing Space Artwork Pt 2

Here are the rest of our amazing space artworks.
Enjoy :)


Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Space Poems

We are learning how to present space poems.

At the end of the term we are having a poem recital. We have been learning different space poems and working hard to recite them with expression and to read them clearly. We don't want it to sound like we are robots reading!

Take a listen to us reading the poem "Space" and let us know what you think of our presentation!