Gloria and the Blindfold Race

This is Gloria's recount of what happened in our Blindfold Race. Listen as she explains how much fun it was.

Anamei plays the Room 10 Blindfold Game

This is Anamei's writing for the blindfold game. Listen as she explains what she found really funny.

Levi and the Blindfold Race

This is Levi's reount writing for our class blindfold race. Listen carefully as he has tried really hard to include interesting words.

Room 10's Blind Fold Race

Ever tried to race while blindfolded? As part of a writing experience and motivation. Room 10 went outside and divided themselves into four groups. Then, each person had to have a partner. One person was blindfolded and the other person acted as the guide again and had to instruct their buddy where to go. Stay tuned for children's writing of this fun-filled game.

Hayley's recount of our Silly Sandwich Game

This is Hayley's recount writing for our Silly Sandwich Game in class. Listen as she worked really hard to write this amazing story.

Making Silly Sandwiches in Room 10

This term as part of a writing motivation we made Silly Sandwiches in partners. One was blindfolded their arms were making the sandwich and the person sitting down on the chair and wasn't blindfolded acted as the guide and gave their buddy directions and instructions on what to do. Below are some photos of this experience. As you can see it was a lot of fun and laughs. Stay tuned for stories that the children have written.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2009: A Crazy Story Take 2

This morning our whole school walked down to Tamaki College to watch lots of amazing films made by our school and schools in our cluster. It's a great time to celebrate and see all the wonderful and amazing things we have done this year. This was our movie that we made for this Manaiakalani Film Festival. Click here to see all the movies that are being shown today.

Skype with Dr Strange and some of his students

Last week we were very fortunate to Skype with our friends in America. For a majority of the class, it was their first time (including the teacher). The children were all very excited to speak live with Dr John Strange and some of his students. Below is what we recorded but if you click here and then another link on that post, you will see what Dr John Strange recorded. It was lots of fun. Thanks again to our friends in America. We hope to Skype again with them, our friends around the country and the world soon.

Gloria and our White Sunday celebration

Here is Gloria's version of what we did to celebrate White Sunday.

Anamei's recount of our White Sunday

This is Anamei's version of our White Sunday celebration on Friday 23rd October, 2009.

Othaniel retells our White Sunday

Following on from our celebration of White Sunday, the children wrote recounts of what happened. Here is Othaniel's version.

Room 10 celebrates White Sunday

This term our topic is Food Glorious Food. We will be learning about different celebrations and the foods that are eaten on these special occasions. Our first celebration was White Sunday. This a movie of how and what we did to celebrate this event in our classroom.

Gloria and her Term 4 Immersion Assembly

Listen as Gloria retells our Immersion Assembly, a tradition that happens on the first day of every term.

Our friends in America

We have been very fortunate to have friends in America that leave us lots of comments. We even have been sent a movie for us. Click here to see it. Thank you to Dr Strange and his lovely grandaughter.

Anamei retells Term 4 Immersion Assembly

As promised here is a story of our Immersion Assembly that happened on Monday 12th October here at Pt England School. Listen as Anamei describes what she saw and what she enjoyed most.

Term 4 Immersion Assembly

Term 4 has begun and our topic is "Food Glorious Food". At the beginning of every term we have a special assembly to get everyone interested in the topic. Here are some pictures that the children have drawn using kidpix. Leave us a comment and share with us who or what you think they are dressed up as or doing. Stay posted for stories from the children as well.

Incey Wincey Spider by Saadiya

This is Saadiya's animation for Incey Wincey Spider.

Incey Wincey Spider by Evan

Last term our topic was The Art in Storytelling. Our e-Learning task was to draw and animate a nursery rhyme or fairytale. This is Evan's animation for Incey Wincey Spider.

Hickory Dickory Dock by Daley

This is Daley's animation using kidpix of the Nursery Rhyme: Hickory Dickory Dock.

The Ugly Duckling by Gloria

This is Gloria's writing for the Tale of the Ugly Duckling. She has worked hard in term 3 and was able to write the beginning of the story. Listen and you'd might like to leave her a comment about what happens next

Once upon a time there lived a mother she laid 7 eggs. She said "come out now, I will count to 3 and then you come out 1,2,3". And out came 6 eggs but the mother duck saw one she told the duckling "come out", the duckling said "I'm trying, I'm trying" the egg hatched and out came one ugly duckling. The mother duck was curious, why was the duckling different? But she just remained silent. They went to the pond to learn how to swim. They ugly duckling was the only one that could swim. They went to meet their mother's friends. Some of the friends were teasing the ugly duckling and the mother said "stop it, it is just his colour". She was so unhappy with them. So they went back home. One of the ducklings were playing a game, the ugly duckling asked them "can I play with you?". The ducklings said "No, you are too ugly to play with us, go away.