It's Almost the Amazing Aloha Night

Guess what's happening this Friday night?

Aloha is coming to Grey Lynn School and everybody is doing a performance!

Room 14 brought in pumpkins and onions? For what you may ask?
Well it's for the Umu...what's an umu we hear you ask?
This is how you pronounce umu - ( oo-moo)

Well, an umu is....a traditional way of cooking from a country called Samoa. The food cooked is a pig, pumpkin, onions, and some kumara. But in Samoa they would include other foods.

The cooks dig a hole and the food is cooked inside the earth. The earth becomes the oven.

At Aloha there will also be lots of games, a raffle, some bands are performing, Samoan group and bollywood group, candy floss, glow sticks, and lights.

Every class is responsible for running and shop(gazebo).

Our class is responsible for the umu and we are also the Samoan Group for the night.

We hope to see you at our school for some awesome, amazing, astonishing, amusing, addictive, astounding Aloha fun !

Room 14

Resilience

In Room 14 we have been learning about the values of Grey Lynn School. We call them the 3 R's...

RESPECT     RESILIENCE     RESPONSIBILITY


We talked about resilience today ! We talked about how we are like a rubber band...we can be stretched and pulled but it always snaps back.

We came up with sayings like:
We bounce back !
I am a rubber band !


Stay tuned for more examples of resilience.


Do you show resilience in your life? Share your stories with us !


Room 14



Resilience is in the house today ! from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Handwriting Stars of the Week

Check out Oliver and Romy's handwriting. They were the stars of the week because they followed the directions correctly, tried to keep all their letters the same size and it was very neat and tidy.

Well done!

Hip Hip Hooray !

P.A.T. Week

This week we did PAT tests. We did four of them. It was our first time doing such big tests.

Here is how we felt about them.

It was really fun for really hard books.  by Ina

It was fun.  Livana.

They are all great.  Molly

Happy. by Nasoni

Is really fun.  by George

Our first Class Photo.

We were all at school today so Andrea said we should take our class photo !

Andrea then "played" around with them. She calls it editing. She used Picnik. It's a lot of fun !

Enjoy the montage!

New Year, New Name !

Welcome to 2012 !

Welcome to the most exciting year yet ! Yes. I am making that prediction in my school holidays ! Maybe it's the holiday feeling making me crazy, maybe it's the new students I am going to have, maybe it's the sun...well, we've hardly had any sun...so it must be the new students who are going to make up Room 14!


We are now called, Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers, as we are not part of the Kowhai Team that makes up the middle school at Grey Lynn School. We are Year 4s and all new to blogging. 


Keep your eyes posted. We will back in action by January 28th !


So enjoy the rest of your holidays and we promise to blog on our first day of school.


Bye for now !


Andrea