Last Day of School for 2010

This has been an eventful year for us. Now it is time for a well deserved holiday. Our blog will continue to share children's work, up until the New Year. So, please keep visiting us and leaving us a comment. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year. School will resume on Monday 7th February, 2011.

Team 3 Item for Prizegiving

Last week on Thursday 9th December, 2010 our whole school had prizegiving. This year it was different because we had Junior Prizegiving (Y1-4) at 2-3pm and the Seniors (Y5-7) had theirs from 7pm-8.30pm. This is the first time our school has done prizegiving this way. This movie is our item that we did on the day.

Prizegiving 2010 Team 3 Item from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Brandon's Term 4 Animation

This term our topic is called Little Critters. This was the task for e-learning, Term 4 2010

What do we know about minibeasts?

The children had to create an animation that showed their understanding of a minibeast’s characteristics, habitat, lifecycle and other interesting facts.

Here is Brandon's complete animation. Watch and listen to see what minibeast he is describing in detail. Well done Brandon!

Milo Rugby Skills Day Movie

Here are some highlights from the day that Sela wrote about.

Film Festival 2010 ~ X Factor!

Every year our school takes part in the Manaiakalani Film Festival. We've made our movie called X Factor to showcase our talent here in Room 10. Click on the above link to check out all the other movies that were shared today. Thanks Mrs Burt for all your hard work!

X Factor from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Snail Creations

During week one, Team 3 classes swapped for the afternoons and learned about one little critter with each teacher. In Room 10, we learned about snails. We labelled a snail and found out interesting facts about them. We also made snails using playdough and had a race with them. These are photos of our creations.

Nga Waka e Whitu

Whaea Raewyn comes in every Tuesday morning at 9.30am to teach our class Maori. For the last couple of weeks she has been teaching us to use the rakau and sing Nga Waka e Whitu. Here is a movie of what we've been doing so far! Kia ora Whaea Raewyn.

Sela retells Kupe and Te Wheke o Muturangi

Here is Sela's retelling of the legend Kupe and Te Wheke o Muturangi. Also attached is her picture of the octopus.

Long, long ago Kupe and his fleet wanted to go fishing. They disturbed the giant octopus, who was sleeping. Kupe threw the water gourd overboard to distract the giant octopus thought it was a person. But then Kupe got his hunting knife and stabbed the giant octopus to death. Then they were all happy that the octopus could not eat their fish anymore.

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.

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!

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.

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?

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!!

Maungarei, Maungawhau

During our sessions for Maori we have been learning about the Maori guardians and here is a chant as well as some of our graphics the we have drawn so far.

Term 2 Active Earth

Term 2 has begun and we are back! This term our topic is called Active Earth. We will be studying and learning about Volcanoes and Earthquakes. Our focus question is "What causes the earth to move and erupt?". Stay posted to see what we will be doing. Thank you for visiting our blog and leaving us a comment. Click here to visit our civil defence site and how you can prepare yourselves for a natural disaster.

Miss Lavakula and Room 10@Pt England School

Making Butter for Fairy Bread

During one of our writing sessions, we got to make butter for fairy bread using cream. Here is a movie that shows what we did. Children's movies of their recounts will be posted soon.

2010 has begun and Room 10 are back!!

Welcome to the first post for Room 10, 2010. We are a new class of children who are ready for a whole new year of learning and blogging. We look forward to sharing our work, commenting on other blogs and reading your comments and feedback.

These are the children that are in Room 10 2010.

A Limerick Poem by Daley

This is Daley's Limerick poem that he worked hard on all by himself. He wrote this last year in term 4.