New Zealand Book Month

We are reading and sharing our favourite books in Room 16 as a way of celebrating New Zealand Book Month. We have to bring in a favourite book every day to share. Andrea has made a calendar of when we get to share our favourite book. 

Here is Andrea's favourite, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. 

She likes it because it teaches us a lesson on what kind of friend we should be. 

Share your favourite book with us by leaving us a comment. 

Click here to listen to Shel Silverstein read his book.

Shel Silverstein - The Giving Tree

Pinkalcious

Pinkalious 
I  Like  it  because  it   is  funny.
My  favourite  page   is page13.

" The   next    morning    when
I   woke  up   I  was
PINK. My   face  was  pink,  my  hands
were  pink  and  my  belly was   the  
color  of   a    sunset."    

By Ruby                                

My Wizard House

I    made   a    house     with     Catherine. We  called    it   the

Wizard's Place.   We     made     it   one     year     ago. Now  she  

lives  in   Germany.

By Hollie       

Cherry's Kid Pix

I am learning to draw bigger pictures and using the correct pencil size.

How do you like my picture?

By Cherry

Benjamin's Lanterns

I went to the lantern festival and it was fun seeing lanterns. I used Kid Pix to draw my picture. 
 By Benjamin

My Leapfrog

This  is  my  leapfrog.   It  has  lots  of  games  on  it.  There  is  pet pad  camera, my stuff,  my books, sneak peeks,  story studio,  art studio and games.   In  Pet pad  you  have  to  shower your pet shampoo,  scrub, and  rinse  again.  On  Story studio   there  is  an, All about me section on  it.    All about me  is where  you  do a  story  all about  yourself  and if  you want  to  get  someone  to  take  your  photo  or you  can  draw  yourself  instead. You  can  also get  a  picture and  colour  it instead.

By Ellie

Little Mickey Mousies

I got the purple mouse my sister got the blue one. We got them for Christmas 2 years ago.

We have named them. My one is called Poppy and my sister one is Tweet.

Our cousins have one too. Mac has one of them. It's  a black and white one.

I like my mouse because it is purple and it is my favourite colour.  

By Alexandra

Lanterns

On Thursday me, my Mum, Dad and Charlize went to the lantern festival. First we went to a cafe for dinner. We took a really long time. Finally we went Lantern Festival. We took three hours. First we saw lanterns hanging from the trees shaped like dragons.Then we saw cute little lanterns shaped like ducklings.After that I saw turtles with instruments.It was really fun.
By Kassidy.

Art gallery

In the weekend I went to the art gallery.The exhibition it was called "Who shot rock and roll." After that we went to the cafe for lunch. I had egg then we went to flipper ball. We lost.
by Ethan.

Walter

I  wish  I  could be  famous.

I  dream  of  getting  lots  of  trash  packs.  

I  like  my  family.  

I  am  weird.          

I  used  to  have  more blondish hair

But now I don't.

I seem to be funny

But really I'm crazy!

Stupendous Statistics

Part 2

Here are the rest of Room 16 talking about their statistics.

Stupendous Statistics from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Ethan

I wish I lived in ice cream 

and dream of being chased by ginger bread men in a candy forest.

I'm a boy.

I used to live on K Rd but now I live in our house.

I seem to like rugby but really I'm shy.

Sensational Statistics

WALT sort items using similar characteristics. We had to sort the animals on the sheet and we got to choose how to do that with our partner. 

Here is the first video we have made as Year 3s. We are pretty excited with how it looks and cannot wait to do another one.

Enjoy!
Grey Lynn Scribblers

Sensational Statistics2 from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

The day Panda came to school!

 Here is some pictures of my puppy, Panda visiting my classroom. He is a Pomeranian Papillion cross. 

By Rosie

 

Jolie

I wish I had a pony

I like horses.

And I dream to go to London again

I am friendly

I use to live in London

but now I live in New Zealand

I seem to be funny,

but I'm really serious.

Cherry

I wish I lived Disneyland.  

I like roller coasters.

And I dream  that  I  went  all around  the  world.

I  am  a  girl.

I  used  to  to  be  in  room  one.

But  now  I  am  in  room   16.

I  seem  to  like  singing.

But  I'm  really  better  at  dancing.

Geoffrey

I wish I had a solar system. 

Like planets and I dream of visiting space.

I am Geoffrey.

I used to be into dinosaurs.

But now I'm into the Omniverse. 

I  seem to be 7. 

But I'm really 6.

Acting out The Rules

We did keeping hands and feet to yourself we will say stop it when someone is touching or bothering us. By Red, Geoffrey and Rio

We  acted out  listening to the speaker. By Zania, Ruth and Zylah.

We acted out how we need walking    feet  in   the   classroom. By Elizabeth, Cherry and Jolie

Today we got to act out the rules we are putting in our class treaty. Acting out the rules helped us figure out if the rules make sense. It also shows us what we should and shouldn't do.

Some of us found the acting hard because we were shy but we showed resilience and our friends helped us get through. 

Our Class Treaty

We always include other people. By Ethan and Elliot

We acted out how we are respectful for other people's stuff. By Rosie, Ellie and Isabelle 

Yesterday was the first day of school and we started to make our class treaty. We decided that a treaty tells us how we should act and what we should be doing. 

We did our first draft and then we went home to have a think about it.

Today we looked at the treaty again and we acted out the rules to see if they were easy to understand.

We were acting out how to include people and be friends.

Welcome to 2013

Hi All!

I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas and a relaxing holiday break. We have a few more weeks until we're back to school, but I thought you would like to see your pictures of how you looked on the day we met in 2012.

Enjoy the rest of your holiday and I am excited to see you on Monday, the 4th February 2013. 

Ciao for now!

Andrea

Christmas

One day Santa was flying over Rangitoto when an arrow hit a reindeers foot and they went wiggling and jiggling and they fell down and down. Then the sleigh was about to hit the ground when Santa did a stunt roll out and then crash, bang, boom. When Santa woke up he was in a big red sack but then he realised that he was in his sack with all the presents. He remembers that someone wanted some L&P so he pulled out the bottle and shock it up and unscrewed the cap a bit, poof the cap went flying through the sack. He heard someone shout oowee and then santa made the whole bigger and wiggled out, he said I’m free but then he realised that he was surrounded by Tiki pointing spears at him.

They said mog bog and their leader came over with some fish and chips and some pavlova. Was wearing a cap  with AB on it. They took him to a rugby goal post and they said win or die but then Santa remembered he was terrible at kicking, but Santa realised he had his lucky shout gun on him, so he grabbed it and tried to shot the Tiki, but they dodged. So he got his bazooka and tried to hit the Tiki but it hit the tree, so he called the swat team to launch a rocket and it destroyed the Kiwi. Santa live happily ever after. 

By James

Funny poses!

Here are some funny poses we made during our athletics practise. We learned how to make them using screen shots!

Funny Poses from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Hallowe'en Inquiry

Our project is exciting. We have been working on it for a really long time and it was hard and we learned that finding facts is easy but it was hard to choose the right ones . We found putting the facts into our own words quite easy.

Ina and Oliver

Ina and Oliver Inquiry - Hallowe'en from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Inquiry and Pancakes

Recently me and Violet did an inquiry project. We had to create and answer a big question.It had to be on celebrations.We did pancake day.We did a stop motion iMovie to help show our learning.

We hope you enjoy it!

By Anouska and Violet

Pancake Day from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Symmetry

We are learning what symmetry is I think symmetry is where if you fold the page it will be the same. Like if you were trying to make a square you would only draw half a square or if you were trying to do a circle but you would draw but a semi circle.

By Hannah
















We are learning about symmetry. Symmetry is  a  patten like diamond or a square on both sides.
By Joel

Symmetry in Maths

We are learning about symmetry. Symmetry is a picture,photo etc so if you folded it in half you would have the same thing on each side and this is my picture. 

Jack

Jack's Symmetrical Picture

Rm 14 is learning about symmetry and I think symmetry is a pattern that reflects like a picture like a mirror. Eli

Eli's Picture

Symmetry using Kid Pix

We are learning about symmetry and what I think symmetry is. I think symmetry is where if something is on one side of the page it will be the same on the other. 


By Ellah

Last day of netball

     Last day of netball

On Wednesday the 28th of November 2012 it is Grey Lynn’s year four teams last netball game.In most other games we have lost .Our  biggest score was 3 -12. Sadly we had 3.

     So wish us good luck !

By Livana

CRYSTAL MANIA!!

One time me,Oska,and Mum went to Crystal mountain. Once we got there we got out of the car and went inside. Inside Crystal Mountain was a gift shop and a museum. Firstly we went to the museum w.o.w. It was amazing! There was a six foot amethyst and fools gold, rose quartz and a sapphire.Next we went to the gift shop .I got an Opal and a Chinese jade. Oska got fools gold and a amethyst. Mum got an smokey quarts and a rose quartz then we got in the car and drove home.

Jack

The Stupercalifragilistic show.

On Sunday I went to Mary Poppins and it was really fun. But it was really annoying because somebody brought balloons into the theater so they kept on letting them go in front of me so that was a little upsetting, but I still had fun. Mary Poppins is so cool. I got this little thing and its Mary's umbrella. 

by Ella

Mary Poppins

On Wednesday me my dad and Carli  went to Mary Poppins. First we drove to the Civic and then we got our tickets. Then we walked to the Korean restaurant. We had some pork and eggplant. After  that we went back to the Civic and went into the theater. I saw my friend Orla.  I went and said hi and then the show started. It was AMAZING! At intermission time me and Orla went and bought an ice cream then we watched the rest. It was awesome.  I Loved it!

By MOLLY

Going to Africa

In two weeks me and my family are going to Africa. My uncle and his wife were in Africa and they saw 202 elephants in four days. Me and my brother Matthew are going to see if we can see more than 202 elephants in four days. We are going on a safari. In a  safari elephants and giraffes  walk out in front of the jeep that you are in. We are staying for 1 month and I wonder if Santa is going to come to Africa. We have a little elf called Elf-a-magic. He is one of Santa's little helpers. He reports back to Santa to tell Santa if we have been good. I am really exited about going to Africa. I know we are going to have a fantastic time in Africa. 

By Hannah

INA'S COOK ISLAND UKE

When my mum went to the Cook Islands she went to the market and she bought me a present and it was a Cook Island instrument and it was called a ukulele. It is a 100 years old and each year we put a new plate on it so it can't break. In one  month I am going to go to Australia for a tournament and I am still learning how to play. I will be really scared because I am vs my little brother Tama and I hope that I  come 1st, 2nd or 3rd, so wish me luck and it has 8 strings. But it only has 6 now and it is really lightweight and hard to hold because it keeps on slipping. I think I need a neck strap. I am going to play it at my birthday next year.

By Ina 

Fan Club

Hi Room 14! 

I have figured out how to share our Speak Pipe messages on our blog. Here is our latest message from a famous person in Canada! He is one of your biggest fans...(and mine too) Can you guess who he is? 

Have fun listening and your work is being read, shared and enjoyed all around the world! Keep it up. I am a very proud teacher! 

Andrea

Our very first PODCAST!

Oh my goodness! I am so excited!

Room 14 have been working hard , very hard at writing fractured fairytales. They had to rewrite a known narrative with a Canadian feel. This was to show their understanding of the elements of a narrative and their knowledge of Canadian culture.

They recorded them using Garageband and then I uploaded them. (this part was rather technical)

We hope you enjoy it! Keep tuned for more! Our dream is to run our own Podcast Radio Station in iTunes. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Here is Violet and James with their story:
Bear Brown and the Seven Caribou. Enjoy!

The Athletics day Trailer!

Today we just made a Movie Trailer For our athletics Day practise on iMovie.
It took us a LONG time but Its so funny! There was a problem when it could't import it was because there were SO many videos so it took AGES to load, but it finally worked

 If You want To see it Its here ---

Athletics Day from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.



BY:
Felix E

Learning New Technology

Today we learned how to use movie trailers in iMovie. It is a lot of fun. We made one together. It took a long time and we had to problem solve and make group decisions. Some people's ideas won and other people will have to save their ideas for their own trailer.

We talked about how else we could use movie trailers. Some of us said we could use them to sell a book to an audience or share our narratives.

All I can say is ... WATCH THIS SPACE! 

Here is one version of our movie:

Athletics Day Build up from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

Warm Fuzzy?

The warm fuzzie club.

Introducing the warm fuzzie club.

In our class we have been learning how to make a REAL booster statements so we made the warm fuzzie club. We get to put up our warm fuzzy if we say something positive to someone else. Our reward is we feel good inside for making someone else feel good. 

We have a warm fuzzie board and everyday our warm fuzzie police record the people's names. 

So far we have had a lot of people giving warm fuzzies. 

Feel free to pop in and get all warm and fuzzie too!

By Phoenix 
with help from Andrea

Wordle

What is a wordle?  A wordle is another way of organising ideas and words into a word cloud. Wordle choose the layout and you can adapt it, but it cannot be made into pre-froemd shapes like Tagxedo. 
Wordle also makes words bigger if they appear more than once. We discovered that this was a good way to see what words help define a topic. It also showed us that a lot of us had the same ideas about celebrations. 

For example, when we did a wordle for celebrations, using the same words we did for Tagxedo, certain words were BIGGER!  We decided that this meant that these words were more important in our brainstorm about celebrations. What do you think?
Room 14 




 If you want to make a Wordle of your own, click the link below:



http://www.wordle.net

Celebrations Using Tagxedo

We have been learning about celebrations. Today we listed all the celebrations we could think of. We also wrote our four favorite celebrations, but first we brainstormed and used different web based programs to display our learning.
Molly

First we used tagxedo. Tagxedo makes word clouds. It can organise your words into shapes. We chose shapes that reflected our Celebrations unit.

Here they are:

  A tagxedo in the shape of a pumpkin for the Celebration of Hallowe'en.













Tagxedo in the shape of Cupid for the Celebration of love - Valentine's Day.


If you want to make one of your own, click here:
http://www.tagxedo.com

MAKING AN ATHLETICS MOVIE

On November the 1st room 14 made a movie on imovie.There was quite a few FUNNY poses.James and Ellah took the films on an ipad 2.It took us a long time and allot of effort but it was eventually done.The race has about 8 FUNNY poses.I hope Andrea puts the video on Room 14s blog.

By Harry