Our birds

Our birds are called Pop and Dawn.Pop has green,yellow and black he has a bluish top beak.Dawn on

the other side is completely white has a brown top beak.They sometimes have big fights.My favourite bird is Pop.Because he's not just one colour and not so angry.They usually have fights about their seeds. They're really funny.I wish I could have a budgie but I'm getting a rat.By Ruth.

My friend

This is my friend Izzy she is on an iPad. I love to play with Izzy and other friends. Izzy is my best friend. We play together a lot but we don't play together everyday because sometimes we want to play with someone different to play a new game and other stuff.  By Ellie.

The Wally books

Hi it's Elizabeth. Can you can find Wally ? You can find him  In a wally book.  It can be hard but you can do it. You can find a dogs tail, scrolls and you can find the long beard you can find Wally friends. I like these books a lot.

By Elizabeth 

Shannon the ocean fairy

Hi everyone I am going to tell you  about my favourite book. The  book is called Shannon the ocean fairy. It is about  a fairy that got her enchanted pearls back with help from two friends Rachel and Kirsty. They went on dolphins around ocean. Shannon is very pretty fairy. She has lovely gold hair and a lovely pink skirt and a lovely green top. I wish I  was like her and she was my friend. Thank you for reading my story bye. By Hollie

All about warm fuzzies

Warm fuzzies are for our manners so we stay focused  and so we are all quiet. They're are different warm fuzzies like big fuzzies or medium fuzzies or small fuzzies or rainbow fuzzies.It works like this: room 16 gets a booster statement, we get a rainbow fuzzie.  If we are all quiet we get a small fuzzie. If we're all focussed,  room16 gets a medium fuzzie. If we use our manners we get a big fuzzie. The fuzzies have helped us to be more focussed I class. 

By Zania

Sumdog

Sumdog is a maths game where you can get money to buy cool clothes for your avatar. You can play against other people.Lots of people around the world play Sumdog every day! Sumdog is a great learning game to play and it's more fun than games like minecraft.I love playing SumDog. It's like a game made by famous inventors!

By Rio

Flippa ball

On Sunday I played flippa ball.

This week I got Player of the day.I got it for scoring a fabulous goal.They beat Us 2-1.I played attack 

both half's.I played in the number 3 in blue caps. our team is me, Ty,Charlie,Barnaby,Elizabeth,Hollie,Emma,holiday,Sam. We usually get thrashed because we play Year 4's. But I still feel great after a game because I have friends with me.

By Ethan

Andrea

This is my awesome  teacher Andrea. She is very funny and does fun thing with us. And she  loves her coffee in the morning. she is my favourite teacher.she loves Canada and loves when we're quiet. She has 3 children and 2 go to this school too.

By Ruby

The Play-ground

My famous place in Grey Lynn is the play-ground because you get to climb anywhere you want.You get to play almost anywhere you want.The play-ground is a really good place to play. I think you,one day,will want to play on the play-ground.

By Walter

Our Budgies

Room 16 has budgies called Dawn and Pop.My job is to look after them,the first time I put my hand in their cage I was a bit scared that they were going to bite me.But when I put my hand in for the first time they flew to the other side of the cage.I was really relieved that they were scaredy budgies because all the other budgies I know bite you the minute my hand touches the cage.Now I'm not scared at all because I've been doing it for a few weeks but we are going to change the jobs soon so I better not get that used to it!
By Kassidy

Our budgies

Our budgies are really cute because they are always cleaning each other and taking out their feathers. Pop is the green bird and Dawn is the white one. Dawn really likes food and Pop is always helping Dawn with her feathers. At the moment Dawn is the one that has lots of feathers coming out. I like having budgies in room 16. By Zylah.

The Class Budgies

In room 16 we have two budgies called Pop and Dawn. Their favourite food is silverbeet. Sometimes when they eat silverbeet they have green poo! Sometimes the budgies chirp when we are working.They go home on Friday with my teacher Andrea. They are Andrea's son Theo's. Theo has the responsibility to look after them and clean up the cage after the week. Pop is green, yellow and blue and Dawn is all white. When Dawn is eating out of the bowl she has to go in it. If there is something like silver beet in the cage Pop starts flying around and Dawn starts making horrible sounds and it starts a fight! But they are usually calm. Andrea sometimes has to move so that they are not just going for one area in the cage.  The buggies can sometimes be really funny but Andrea said we can't laugh really hard because the other classes are working. It is usually hard to not laugh because sometimes they do something really funny and you just can't help it. Well if you have budgies you'll know what I'm talking about. So I hope you like jokes. So I think if you like jokes  I think budgies are the thing for you,it's just the cleaning. By Jonty

My Favourite Garden at Grey Lynn School

My favourite garden

My favourite garden is nice and green it also has a big spot were you can sit.

When you sit there you can hear little birds there so pretty because they have lots of

colours.The flowers there are a flouro orange! There's only one tree there but that's ok.

By Ruth

My Favourite Place

My favourite place is the Memory garden in Grey Lynn school,Grey Lynn.

Why,because it is a very relaxing place to be with all the Birds singing.

Another reason is because it is very historical and I like painting pictures about it in my head and I like thinking about it.

By Noah

My Favourite Playground

The playground is my favourite place in the school because whenever me and my friends play on it we make up new games and it's loud,which I like, but not our teacher Andrea.  The cool thing about the playground is that whenever me and my friends are playing on it we never fight.

By Sam.

The Lorax by Dr Seuss

We read The Lorax. We wrote about it and also drew how we can be a Lorax at school.

I responded to the text by drawing a picture of my favourite scene using Kid Pix.

The street of the lifted Lorax

WALT answer questions by repeating part of the question in the answer so the reader knows what we are saying.

Q - What will the boy do with the truffula?

A - The boy will turn the truffula into a sneed.
Q - The Once-let thinks it is okay to chop down trees. Why?

A - The Once-ler thinks it is okay to chop down trees because he wants money.
Q - When did the Street of the Lifted Lorax change?

A - The street of the lifted Lorax changed when the last tree was chopped down.

Noah.

This is how we can be like the Lorax at Grey Lynn School. 

The Lorax

Walt answer questions using complete sentences.

We had a series of questions to answer about the book.

Q - Who does the Lorax speak for?
A - The Lorax speaks for the trees.

Q - What if the Once-ler never came?

A - If the Once-Ler had never came there would've lots of trees.

Q - Where does the Lorax live?
A - The Lorax lives in trees.

By Walter

This is how I will be a Lorax at Grey Lynn School.

My Rocket

This is my rocket the rocket can open up and it has
a big fuel tank on the back of the rocket and the
rocket is made out of metal and plastic and it came with two astronauts and an astronaut has a gun in it's hand and the rocket has a stand so it can 
stand up. by Red
 

The Leaves

My group has been looking at our plant for little time and our plants are growing. I can't wait  to see how big and strong it is going to be. I am trying to think what colour it is going to be. It is getting its leaves.We are getting one bigger and one tiny. The bigger one cooler because it is going to be a flower and I  like flower. By Alexandra

Recording observations using the ipads.

Inventions Key and Swimsuits for Chickens!

We really enjoyed reading Funny Frank by Dick King Smith. It is from our school library. Frank is born a cockerel but he wants to be a duck. A little girl finds him and wants to help him so she asks her mum to make something fro Frank to swim like a duck.

We used the invention key to design our own suits for Frank. We used labels to show the parts and designed many different suits that we thought would work for Frank.

Enjoy the slideshow.

Room 16

Inventions Key - Funny Frank from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Does a Giraffe have a blue tongue and other questions during writing!

In Guided Writing time we write with Andrea in small groups. We do our best writing here. We all talk about what we want to write and how we're going to do it. We help each other with ideas and then we get on with our writing.

If we get stuck on a work, we have a try at spelling it in our Try Book. If it's right then we can get on with our writing. If we still need help spelling it then we have a mini spelling lesson with Andrea.  Once we have learned the word then we can get on with our writing.

It's the same process with our handwriting. If we do a letter the facing the wrong direction then we do a mini handwriting lesson as well. We fix up the wonky letter and then get on with our writing.

Sometimes during writing we get stuck on what to do next or we have a question about something particular.

For example, we were writing animal riddles and we needed accurate facts about them. We used the ipads to look at images, or facts and then we get on with our writing.

We say that a lot during guided writing. We have a lot of tools we can use so we can "get on with our writing."

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Eco Warriors in Action

Room 16 is participating in the Tui Garden Challenge.  We have adopted the garden behind our classroom and where students park their scooters. 

We are using the Inquiry Process to investigate how we will transform the garden to help answer our big question this term: What's Bugging Us? 

 We discovered that a lot of the native bugs and birds at Grey Lynn School have disappeared...prbably due to all the construction and noise. We are trying to figure out what plants need to go in the garden to attract the right bugs for the birds to eat. 

We will keep you updated on our progress. In the meantime, visit our Blog below on the Tui Garden website where we will be posting updates.

http://www.tuigarden.co.nz/school-garden-challenge/news/our-investigation#comment-1358

If you have any ideas on what we could do, please include them in the COMMENTS box.

WE LOVE COMMENTS!!!!

Aiko, the Dancing Movie Maker!

Aiko has just made her first iMovie. Enjoy the movie starring her, participating in her ballet competition.

Aiko's Ballet Recital from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Funny Frank - A story about being who you want to be!

We read Funny Frank as a whole class during shared reading. It was written by Dick King Smith.

It's a book about a young cockerel who wanted to be a duck and swim.

Stay tuned for some reviews of Funny Frank. Here's a hint. We really enjoyed it.

Here is a short Mash Up of some of our Kid Pix drawings.

Funny Frank from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Focussed Learning

One of Room 16s goals is to be focussed learners at our desks. This means when we are at our desks we are only doing things that will support our learning.

Here is our brainstorm:

Focussed learning looks like:

Brainstorm using WORDLE to organise and present our ideas in a creative way.

When we are "caught" being focussed workers, Andrea tells us to go and visit the Focussed Learning Basket. Inside the basket are lots of things we can wear or put on our desks as a reward for being a focussed learner.  There is Good Luck Duck, Focus Bears, Focus glasses, champion medals, tiaras (the boys love these) and a lot more. At the end of the block, we exchange the reward for a sticker on our chart. We all have the same chance at getting caught being a focussed worker. It's OUR choice!

Here is a picture of some of the focussed workers in their rewards!

Rene Ranger

Red, Rene and Ehtan

In the weekend I went to a rugby game. After the game I saw Rene Ranger. I asked him could I have a photo with him he said yes.

After that I went and played rugby with my friends. Then me and Monty, Red and Jacob went to the clubrooms. On the way there a big kid purposely spilt coke down my jacket. That didn't matter because I got to meet Rene Ranger. He is my favourite player. 

By Ethan

The Osasis of the seas

The Osasis of the Seas is a cruise ship the biggest one. It took 6 years to build.
It had a wave slide ladder with 22 pools and 5,000 passengers and 2,000 crew. I have been on a cruise ship before but just a tour, its name was called Pacific Pearl. by Rio

Me and Jamie relaxing on the deck.

Rio and Jame in the hallway.

Rio looking out the window.

If I were a explorer

If I were an explorer I would explore my mind and let it go free and run with it. I would see all the patterns in my mind, and find all the pigs.(I like pigs) I would cuddle all the fluffy toys and monsters, in my memories. I would paint the best picture in the world. I would run free and explore massive parts of my mind.

By Ruth

The strange creature and his car

The strange creature and his car

Once there a boy named Michael. One night in his deep sleep he woke up in the middle of the night and saw shadows all over his room.Then he noticed the window was open. He jumped to close it but just as he got there a strange looking creature came in.  Then he jumped under his bed. The creature jumped down onto his desk and then onto the ground when the creature went out of the room. Michael climbed out of under his bed and closed the window. The creature was in the kitchen trying to open the pantry. As mum heard a sound from the pantry, she ran downstairs. An  evil robot appeared and picked up the creature and threw it through the door and they lived happily ever after. 


by Jonty and Weston

This was Jonty and Weston's first buddy blog session. They wrote it on their own and saved their work for the teacher to upload later. This story took 20 minutes to write. 

Class birds

Jolie,, Dawn, Pop and Alexandra

One day our class got pet budgies. The white budgie is called Dawn and the green budgie is called Pop. They are very chirpy while we are doing our work. We are not allowed to put our fingers near the cage. At the end of the day we make sure they have enough  food and water for the night. We should always keep our hands closed when we put our hands in the cage. Our teacher takes them home for the weekend.

We really love the budgies.

By Alexandra and Jolie

Publishing with Wordle

First I wrote in the boxes of the paper and came up with words to describe myself. Then I finished filling them in. When I had my turn on wordle, I wrote what was on my paper into the box on the computer. After that I looked at what my bio poem could look like. By Zylah  

Learning about HTML Language

On Friday I learned how to publish my bio poem on Wordle and to do HTML language.

I liked publishing this way because I didn't know how to do this before and I like learning new things.

By Rio

http://www.wordle.net/create

My new puppy dog

Me and Wilco

In the holidays I got a puppy dog. His name is Wilco. He is a miniature Schnauzer. He is 16 weeks in 2 days.He's been on a plane once because he flew from Christchurch to Auckland. 

By Ethan

Wilco's bones drawn on Kid Pix. 

My ballet dance

In the school holidays I went to a ballet competition.  I wore a red tutu. It had white flowers on it and some pretty red ones too. The stage was very big.I like to dance on stage because it is fun.
By Aiko

Aiko on stage drawn in Kid Pix. 

If I were an explorer I would...

Room 16 is participating in the Doodle for Google competition. The theme is Explorers.

We brainstormed what being an explorer means and then wrote about it. 

If I were an explorer I would...

...explore what it felt like to float in a bubble. - Andrea

...explore if there are things living on Mount Everest.-Walter
...explore if there is life on other planets.- Zania

...explore art and things with strings.-Aiko

...explore Art and space.-Noah

...explore what it would be like to a leprochaun.-Ethan

...explore my mind and let it go free.-Ruth

...explore the hole Universe. Rio

...explore inside my body - Alexandra

What would you explore? 

Exploring...

Room 16 is participating in the Doodle for Google competition. The theme is Explorers.

We brainstormed what being an explorer means and then wrote about it. 

If I were an explorer I would...
...explore an underwater cave. - Andrea
...explore the Sahara Desert.-Sam
...explore a cave made out of candy,chocolate,donuts and explore space.-Rosanna

...explore music. Kassidy                                                                     ...explore Candyland and the trees are made out of lollies.  by Ellie 
...explore under water.-Isabelle
...explore inside the move, The Hobbit.-Lucian

What would you explore? 

If I was an explorer, I would...

Room 16 is participating in the Doodle for Google competition. The theme is Explorers.

We brainstormed what being an explorer means and then wrote about it. 

If I was an explorer, I would...

...explore what it would be like to be a chef. - Andrea

...explore all around Waiheke - Red

...explore Thailand. - Ruby

   ...explore  Rotorua - Hollie

What would you explore? 

If I was an explorer, I would...

Room 16 is participating in the Doodle for Google competition. The theme is Explorers.
We brainstormed what being an explorer means and then wrote about it. 


If I was an explorer, I would...

...explore what makes me Irish. - Andrea
...explore Venice. Jonty
...explore earth. - Weston
...explore what it would be like to go to New York.Cherry
...explore New Zealand by car. -Jolie

What would you explore?

Simile Poems Starring Room 16

Here are some more simile poems. We hope you enjoy them.


Please leave us a comment.


Poetry 3 from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Writing poetry is as fun as eating a purple lollipop on the back of an elephant!

Very funny!  The title is a simile and we have been learning to write them and use them in our poetry and narrative writing. 

See if you can guess who these children are before they pop out from behind their picture. Enjoy their simile poems about themselves. 

Poetry1 from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Simile Poems

We are finishing our Poetry Unit by writing similes about ourselves. A simile is when you compare two things using like or as. 

Have fun watching our movie and see if you can guess who it is before they pop out from behind their picture.

Enjoy!

Poetry 2 from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

The Stinky Linky Poem

Stinky linky sucking his binky,

Rolling down the stairs eating his pears,

It's seeming that he's gleaming,

for no apparent reason in such a cold season,

riding on his tricycle with his mum on her bicycle,

icicle falling on their heads,

time to go to sleep now let's get in our beds.

Bye bye for now see you soon.

By Noah and Sam

A Dream Come True

A dream come true would be to have 100 kittens with little mittens
And we lived in a Candy Land with an awesome band
but thats not all we would want. 
We could have our own kingdom and we would be the queens.
A dream come true.
We would use the force and we would have a beautiful horse.
A 1000 pounds in the castle grounds.
And thats what we would dream.

By Kassidy and Jolie. 

The Mysterious Wood.

The Mysterious Wood.

Flap flap flap went the wings of a butterfly in the magic garden. That garden belonged to Fairyland. All the plants in Fairyland were covered in either snow drops or rain drops. New Fairies were born once a week, but as new Fairies were born they started to want to go on more and more adventures. They started to walk, then run, then they started to fly into the woods! And they meet lots and lots of different types of animals to be friends with. And as they kept walking it started to get dark and started  raining. They had to go home with one of their friends.  Their friend was Wizard. Finally they were at Wizard's house. In their bedroom the Fairies saw a mysterious looking door and so they tried to open it. but it was locked. The next day they went home to have fun.

To be continued

By Aiko and Zylah.    

Room 16 love using Kid Pix!

Here are two more animations. Room 16 is quickly turning into a class of animation experts!

Room 16

Amazing Animations from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Room 16 is Animation Crazy!

Here are two more animations. They both have a similar theme. Can you guess what it is?


Aiko and Elliot

Untitled from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

More animations!

We have been learning about animations. These are our first attempts. Our success criteria are:

Must have 3-4 movements.
Can have a sound effect at the end.

Once we have all finished our first animations, we will plan a longer one around our Space theme.

Watch this space!

Room 16

Kid Pix from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Matariki

Today we are learning about Matariki. We are drawing Matariki on the computer using Kid Pix.  We are also doing buddy poems about Matariki too. by Ellie.

It's all about Practise!

Room 16 has been working hard on their basic facts and improving their speed. 

We have joined Sumdog Maths which is a fun way to practise all maths. When we get enough points we can go into the online shop and buy fun things for our character. 
We have also entered the Sumdog contest where we will challenge other students in Auckland. It starts on July 5th.

http://www.sumdog.com


We have also started using, Are you a Maths Magician site to practise our times tables. In Year 3 we need to know our 1,2 and 5 times tables automatically. 

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/mathsmulti.html

We will report how the contest goes after July 12th. 

Room 16

Eating Cookies

I am very happy I made my first animation using Kid Pix. 

I hope you like it.

Alexandra

Alex from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Sam's First Animation

Today I made my first animation and I'm pretty proud of it.   What do you think?                                                                       

by Sam

Sam's Animation from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Ethan's Animation

Today I made my first animation. I'm very proud.

By Ethan

Ethan's Animation from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Stardome and Cornwall Park

Here is an iPhoto slideshow of our trip. We did observational drawing in the park, played on the playground and then went into the Stardome and learned all about Space.

Stardome and Cornwall Park from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Planet Roll Call

Here is our poem of the week. Read along and see if you can find the rhyming words!

Planet Roll Call

Eight planets around the sun,

Listen as I call each one:

Mercury? Here! Number one,

Closest planet to the sun.

Venus? Here! Number two,

Shining bright, just like new!

Earth? Here! Number three,

Earth is home to you and me.

Mars? Here! Number four,

Red and ready to explore!

Jupiter? Here! Number five,

Largest planet, that’s no jive.

Saturn? Here! Number six,

With rings of dust and ice that mix.

Uranus? Here! Number seven,

A planet tilted high in heaven.

Neptune? Here! Number eight,

With one dark spot whose size is great.

Good bye Grey Lynn School.

Today I'm going on a six week trip.So I'm really excited.The first country I'm going to is Hong Kong. Then I think London. I know my last stop, it's LA.When we are at  LA we are going to Disney land.Woo-hoo!   
I'm sending heaps of postcards and skyping a lot of people. We are going at midnight.I just can't wait till midnight.By Ruth.

I will be back in six weeks.

Grandparents Day

It's  grandparent day today. I drew a picture of my mum and dad.  I am going to bring my picture home.  Some  grandparents  couldn't came  to grand parents day.We all had fun today even if we didn't have our grandparents there.Woo-hoo. We  had a parade and an assembly. It was a lot of fun. 

by Hollie