Our Maritime Museum Trip Video

Here is a video of what we did and experienced at the Maritime Museum.

Fiafia Practises have begun!!

Starting yesterday, our whole school divided up into different groups for our first fiafia practice. There was a Tongan, Niuean, Samoan, Cook Island, Glee, Jump Jam, Dance, Singing/ Band, Music Video, Dragon, Hip Hop and Stomp Group. We will be practicing over the next five weeks for our big performance in term 4. You can click here to see our school Pasifika from 2008.

Calvin's Maritime Museum Experience

For some of the children, it was their first time visiting the Maritime Museum and also travelling on a ferry boat. Listen as Calvin shares with you some of the exciting things we did there.

Korobeau and Takai read Watch Me Swim

Takai and Korobeau are two people in the Penguins reading group. They've been learning to use the pictures to help them read carefully. Here is a story that they have practised very hard at reading. It is titled Watch Me Swim by Pam Holden and Illustrated by Christine Hansen.

Photos of our Maritime Museum Trip

On Wednesday the 11th August, Rooms 9, 10 and 13 travelled by bus to the Auckland Maritime Museum. We were met by wonderful people who looked after us and had organised each programme for us. It was a great day and we even got to go on a ferry ride to Devonport. Thank you to David, Salty Sam and others who were involved in making this an unforgetful trip. We would also like to thank our parents and family for helping us out as well. Watch this space as more movies from our trip to come especially children's writing!!

Toia Mai te Waka nei

Over the past week we've been learning a new Maori song in class. Here are the lyrics and interpretation from Maori to English. Click here to visit the site.

Tōia mai1 te waka nei Kūmea mai te waka nei Ki te takotoranga i takoto ai Tiriti2 te mana motuhake3 Te tangi a te manu e4 Pīpī-wha-rau-ro-a5 Kūi! Kūi! Kūi! Whitiwhiti ora! Hui e, tāiki e.

Haul this canoe closer haul the canoe here to its special resting place; the Treaty gives us our autonomy. May the cry of the bird, the shining cuckoo - Quee! Quee! Quee! - signal a change for the better. Draw together, beome intertwined!

Mao's visit to the Life Education Bus

Here is Mao's writing and a picture of her favourite giraffe Harold.

Yesterday our class went to the Life Education van. First we lined up at the front of the van. And we learned about Tam's body. I had fun.

Carpet Kid by Quasia

This is Quasia's writing of what happened at the Life Education Bus and when Harold visited.

A Pirate Limerick Poem by Room 10

Over the last week, we have be learning about Limerick Poems. Do you know what a Limerick poem is? We looked up some examples from this website about Pirates that had lots of good information and activities to do. Here is what we came up with as a class.

There once was a pirate named Peter
He loved to sit next to the heater
He tried to go to sleep
But was hungry for sheep
And he ran a hundred meters

If you have any ideas or would like to share a limerick poem with us, feel free to do so. Here are some pictures that Kavaliku and Calvin have drawn of a pirate.

Life Education at Pt England School

Every year Pt England School are visited by the Life Education Bus. It travels all across the country teaching children about different things. Click here to find out more.
From this Room 10 wrote a paragraph about one thing they learned and experienced. This is Rave's paragraph. Look carefully at her picture and do you know what his name is?

In the Life Education Van we chose some doctors to pick something out of a bag with blood in it. We got the heart and put it on Carpet Kid. We got different things to put on Carpet Kid.

Immersion Week

Team 3 here at Pt England School spent Week 1 changing classes each day from 12noon until lunchtime. Each teacher had organised and planned for each class to do an activity around our topic for the term "Mighty Mariners". Here are some photos from Room 10 and what they did with their teacher. Can you figure out what kind of mariners they are?

In the Holidays.....by Asena

This is Asena's piece of writing that she did during the holidays.

In the holidays, it was my birthday. Me and my family went to the movies to watch Karate Kid. It was so fun because we bought two packed of popcorn and two drinks. When I was watching Karate Kid I was eating popcorn and drinking coke. The popcorn was so yummy that I ate the whole popcorn. My favourite part was when Karate Kid knocked out the boy that bullied him.

Korobeau's Holiday Writing

During the term break all of the children in Room 10 had homework to do. One of their tasks was to write a paragraph about what they did daily. We did this because it's important for us to continue learning even if we're on holiday from school. You might like to leave us a comment about what you did during the holidays.

This is one of Korobeau's piece of writing:

Thursday 8th July, 2010

I woke up at 6.15am and watching the FIFA 2010 World Cup Semi-final between Germany and Spain. Spain won and will go the final to play against Netherlands. Paul the Octopus chose Spain to win the FIFA World Cup. FIFA means Federation Internation Football Association.

Mighty Mariners

This term our topic is called Mighty Mariners. Our focus question is: What does it take to explore the sea? Our learning outcomes are: to explain why people left their homes to explore the oceans and new lands, to explain one or two different technology used by early explorers and to explain and describe how a chosen group of people prepared for sea travel.

This is going to be an exciting term because we also have the Life Education bus with our friend Harold here for the next two weeks. We will also be practising for our school Cross Country competition. We've also got a trip to the Maritime Museum in Auckland and our school wide Pasifika at the end of the term.

If you can help us with any ideas or can answer the above questions and learning outcomes, please keep visiting us and don't forget to leave us a comment!!

An Earthquake Animation by Lee

This is Lee's animation of an Earthquake. He's worked really hard on adding details in his graphics and he can even turn his slideshow into a quicktime using iMovie. Well done Lee!

Calvin's Earthquake Animation

This is Calvin's animation of an Earthquake. He is really clever that he can even turn his slideshow into a movie. Calvin has worked hard on the details in his graphics and even wrote a paragraph explaining what an earthquake is. Well done Calvin!

Kavaliku's Earthquake Animation

This is Kavaliku's animation of an Earthquake. He worked extremely hard to put all his graphics into a slideshow using kidpix. Great work Liku!

Keis' Earthquake Animation

This is Keis' animation of an Earthquake happening. She has worked really hard this term to write a paragraph about what an earthquake is. Listen as she explains. Excellent work Keis! This photo was taken on our term 1 picinic at the Pt England Reserve.

Korobeau's Animation of a Volcano Erupting!

This is one of Korobeau's movies that he has made this term of a Natural Disaster. He has worked extremely hard to show what a volcano will look like when it erupts. Excellent graphics Korobeau!

An Earthquake Animation by Leka

This is Leka's animation of what an earthquake will look like. He created this using kidpix and has worked hard on his detail in graphics. Great job Leka!