Merry Christmas!

Our school is now officially on holiday. We wish you all the best and a Happy Holiday over the break. Our blog will still be posting so watch this space. God bless from Room 13 and Miss Takerei and Miss Lavakula

Presents!!!

We are blessed! Johnson & Johnson & the Variety Club came to our school today and presented us with gifts. It was so lovely of them and we just wanted to say thank you for our presents!

Johnson & Johnson

Taunese's Farming Animation

Taunese created a farming animation using hyperstudio. Watch and listen as she shares with you her work!

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2013 Who Pushed Humpty?

Our school is part of the Manaiakalani Cluster. Here is our entry for this year. Click here to view all the entries from all schools involved.

Aaron's Farming Animation

This is Aaron's farming animation of how we get milk and eggs to our houses. Watch and listen as he shares with you his learning.

Promise's Guy Fawkes Animation

November 5th, is Guy Fawkes day in New Zealand. Do you know how it all started? Listen as Promise shares with you his learning. Well done Promise!

What Now: Ultimate Trip

Aaron has been following What Now closely and it was all his idea to make a movie to enter this competition. This is our entry.

Niuean Language Week

This week is Niuean Language Week. Watch and listen as the children share with you the days of the week and the Niuean villages. Thank you to all the children that made this movie.

What in the World is going on?

 

Our topic this term is related to social sciences and our team will be looking at Farming. Room 13 will be looking at the celebration of Harvest and Thanksgiving. We will finish our term on Thursday 19th December. Our class have decided to start this term strong and finish this term strong. We hope you have a wonderful term too! Here is a silly video clip of what teachers do to get children interested in the topic.

Shavana's Cat Poem

Hello this is my poem about a fat cat I hope you like it

On the carpet there was a cat
You have to look twice
For a big fat cat
Might be sleeping somewhere!
On the top of the mat
Can you find a black nose?
Against the cool bench
Can you see two round eyes?
Whiskers that sharp
oh! my fat cat.

Action Movie on iPads

Here are a few movies that the boys have made using an app on an iPad.

Skyping with our buddies

Here is a short video of Shelford video conferencing with his buddy Cameron from Newington College.

Skyping with our buddies

This term our class has had the privilege of connecting with a Year 3 class in Australia, Sydney from Newington College. The children started with emails and have finally had the chance to talk to their buddies via Skype. Here is a snapshot of Kyan talking to Cullen. Each buddies are given 10 minutes because of time difference and trying to get everyone through. Kyan and Cullen talked for 30 minutes. It was nice to see them getting along like old pals. Here is a snapshot of Kyan and Cullen chatting via skype.

A Fair Swap

Here is a movie made by Jalen and Lukis sharing their learning about a story they read. Well done boys. They created this using an ipad and edited it, all by themselves.

Youth Town

Last week on Wednesday 11th September, rooms 13 and 14 had an excursion trip to Youth Town in Auckland CBD. Watch Aaron's movie that he has created to share with you some of the things we did.

Baking in Room 13

Today Jessica, Shavana, Mele and April made 'Super Moist Chocolate Cupcakes'. We were learning to use our knowledge of fractions and measurement to create yummy cupcakes. Here are some photos to share with you.

Jessica's Cross Country Writing

Last Thursday, Point England school  had cross country  outside on the court. It was a beautiful nice day, it felt like I was baking in the hot sun. All about cross country was the fun run that’s why we did it.

Looking around me was the only fast people that I know, I was shaking nervously to death because I always think that I will come last but when I was standing waiting in line till its my turn. I saw My friend it was her turn to run its almost like a marathon. Everyone was sprinting and gasping for air running in the squishy mud their feet was like a stick covered with Dark Chocolate I said to myself “eeeeuuuuu that’s just disgusting’’.

Behind me was the ten year old boys it was so gross because I felt something under my bottom it was a sticky bubble gum stuck under my bum. I looked at the back of me there were two boys laughing at me. I knew it was them so I undid it, because someone might look at my bottom and then mock me.

Then my friend said to me “is it  our turn?" I Replied "Yes it is" so we lined up and walked normally to the beginning. Our Principal said we just have to wait until all the other people clears the track for you guys okay when it was time he said the magic word get mark get set go! we ran fast as we can and there was buzz of excitement cheering for our house colours.

When I looked down I saw mud oozed through my toes it was just not cool. When I was running and running I was almost the last one in the ten year old girls but I said to myself “I can do this Jessica’’ and so I ran and ran until I met My Bff and said to me “I don’t want to do this ever again I’m just going to stay home next year’’ when I passed Miss walter and Miss King I raced till the end. I was so exhausted so this lady said here you go. "Thank you", I said.

Check out her blog here.

Should this have happened?

The Kiwifruit group have read a book called 'Should this have happened?' written by Jill Eggleton and illustrated by Richard Hoit.  They have been learning about Debates and how to present their ideas in a form of an argument.

Their statement was 'Georgie Porgie should not have kissed the girls'. Here are there teams.

Here are some of their ideas and photos of them.

Taunese: Georgie Porgie should have kissed the girls because he had no friends and he wanted people to like him. Georgie Porgie should have kissed the girls because he was practicing kissing girls for his wedding day too and he wanted it to be perfect. I think Georgie Porgie should have kissed the girls because he was lonely and had nothing else to do.

Rowana: First of all Georgie Porgie should not have kissed the girls because he already had a wife. I think that the girls died because georgie porgie was so smelly and his smelliness was so bad. He wanted to make the queen of france jealous so he kissed the girls and the girls cried because they felt sorry for the queen.

Kyan's Humpty Dumpty

This term's topic is called Life's a Stage. We're learning about different fairy tales, nursery rhymes, fables, myths and legends. We've only been at school a week this term and here is a finished animation from Kyan. Well done Kyan!

Spoken Word

At Pt England School we have a Performing Arts group. There is a small group of children who have been learning about Spoken Word and preparing themselves to perform. Here is a video clip of Tihi and Promise who performed today. They were magnificent! Tihi Promise