Greetings

Welcome back to Term 2. It was our turn to showcase at our School Assembly so we put together a movie about our Term 1 greetings. We were learning to say hello in our own and other languages.

Enjoy !

Room 13

The Weirdest Place I would ever Live

We, the Tiki reading group read the journal story, Living in a Shipwreck by Anne Young. We did a fact finding report on the shipwreck story. We wanted to write a blog about it but when we conferenced with Andrea, we decided we would like to write about The Weirdest place they would ever live.

The responses were amazingly creative and quirky. We practised their scripts with each other. We made them into an iMovie which we recorded themselves. There were a lot of funny takes and we learned about the meaning of practise makes perfect. We are still practising.

Here is the result of our hard work and our first movie.

We would love comments so please leave them a message after the movie !

Adios !
The Tiki Reading Group
Room 13

Room 13's Homemade Sports Pie(graph)

This morning Andrea decided that we would do PE and Maths together. We were completely confused beciase we had never done Maths and sports together at the same time.
Our PE Monitors got out some equipment: tennis balls, 2 basketballs and skipping ropes.
We got into groups of three and we listened to the instructions.

In groups we had to count how many catches, skips and baskets we got altogether and record them on a tally chart.

We really enjoyed it. The basketball was hard to get into the hoop because it was high. Some people caught ore balls than others. We all discovered which of the three things we were better at.

When we came back to class we had to add up all the tally marks in each column and the numbers were surprising.
We had 426 tennis ball catches, 20 basketball baskets and 484 skipping rope jumps.

We had to decide what type of graph to use. We put our data into a pie graph and made it colourful.

We really liked PE today.

Room 13

A peek into our classroom !

Term 1 has been super busy. Here is a movie about what we have been doing. We had the Auckland Art Gallery in showing us their road trip, Art in a Suitcase, where artists turned a suitcase into a work of art with symbols and pieces that are special to them or represent something about them. We also had a Wheels Day and we got to ride our bikes and scooters at school and we got our helmets checked for safety. There are also some clips of everyday learning and of us hard at work.

Enjoy the view and keep checking back !

Adios !

Room13

Everything is Real !

I wish the end of the rainbow would land in Siberia and then I could get a pot of gold. Ha ha! Another thing is I wish I could go into the staffroom. I also want Anisah as Teacher Day and a jelly bean swimming pool !

Anisah Room 13

P.S. For our audience outside of Grey Lynn School, Siberia is our name for the play area at the back of our school that has our gardens and magical places to play.

Changes !

Our big idea this term is Changes. Room 13 is looking at personal change and changes around us.

In order for us to get excited about the topic, Andrea, our teacher, let us write about what changes we would make to Grey Lynn School since our school is turning 100 years old this year. We used the immersion step of our learning mode to really get an understanding of what change is and how it occurs around us.

We hope you enjoy reading all the changes we "plan" to make - some make sense, some are for fun, and some are just plain CRAZY!


A change that Andrea thought of was she wishes the school grounds had built in sprinklers so we could run through them and cool down on these hot days!

Enjoy !

Andrea and Room 13

The Power of One

WALT use past tense and time connectives when writing recounts.


Power of One - a blog entry written by the whole class during guided reading time.

Yesterday we went to the Puriri Tree and watched the Power of One - a show about bullying.
Firstly the actors introduced themselves. They told us the rules and started the first scene. Next the actors acted out all the different types of bullying . After that the actors asked people from the audience to act out a scene about bullying.
Finally Filo got dressed up as a super hero and he revealed the Power of One Box.
We learned that there are lots of types of bullying and the power of one starts with us when we tell our parents or teacher if we are being bullied. We really enjoyed the show.

Please comment on our writing. We would love your feedback.

Room 13's Class Treaty

A treaty is an agreement that two people or countries sign. In New Zealand the Maori and the Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi so they could agree to live together and not have wars.

In our class we also have a treaty. Our treaty tells us what we should do in the classroom. Room 13 put their own rules on our treaty so no one will fight in our classroom. We all signed the treaty and put a picture of ourselves around the outside of it.

The treaty is a reminder for us to be nice to each other.

Room 13

We're back.....

Well Room 13 was lovely and quiet and then today rolled around....the day the kids came back ! I must say I was getting used to having the space to myself but now that I have met my new Year 4 Totara Stars I think I'll let them stay. They are such a cute bunch of students - all with unique talents and interests.

We are looking forward to exploring our topic of CHANGE and how we deal with personal changes and then growing that to the community and the world.

I cannot wait to see what the year brings and all the fun in learning we will have together.

Bring on 2010 and let's all reach for the stars !

Andrea

Name change

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

I hope all of Room 8 have had a great break. I am blogging to you from Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. I am looking at Grouse Mountain and can see the Olympic Village from my brothers apartment. This is my Christmas holiday ! FUN!!!!

I have changed the blog name as we are no longer Room 8 and you will all be in new classes next year and a new exciting team - The Totara team.

So enjoy 2010 and keep that old Kauri spirit an apply it in your new class !

Joyeux Noel and Bonne Chance pour 2010 and Year 5 !

Alofa, Mrs Fale

http://www.glsfale.blogspot.com

Room 8's question day

Today in room 8 we were writing questions to room 11. First we got a person's name from room 11 and then we wrote to them. We had to ask questions like, " what do you like to eat? " and " Do you like school... what do you do at home? " Then we did it on a good copy. We will send them to Room 11 and wait for a reply. by Kiamana

ROBOT MANIA

Last thursday we made some incredible robots.
Most of us had done 2 but I did 3.
Therw were robots - big and small
Everyone had a lot of fun.
My dad came in and helped whith some gluing.
Lots of people spray painted theirs.
I had loads of pieces - it was realy tricky planing it.




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jasper

Robot Day

Well the "ro-bags" and "ro-boxes" are finally unpacked and robot day was here.

We had two wonderful dads, Chris and Dermott, volunteer to help us make our robots. Mrs Fale was on the hot glue gun station and we set off to make our robots.

There were washers flying this way and rubber bands flying that way! "Who has an extra eye?" ....I found someones nose !" were the sounds we could hear.

We could also smell the burning smell of the hot glue gun hard at work. " Oh, that's why it is called hot glue!" said Sam.

Dermott was busy helping his line of students turn old vacuum cleaner bits and empty milk cartons into robots with smiles and quirky looks.

Chris was rivalling Mrs Fale for the title of HOT GLUE MASTER as he carefully assembled springs and washers into body parts and made these bits of metal come to life.

Mrs Fale thought today would give her a headache but at the end of the day she was so proud of us and our robots that we had three cheers for ourselves. She couldn't clap as her fingers were sporting a few hot glue gun mishaps !

Tomorrow some of us are spray painting ours while others are leaving theirs for the more rustic look.

Martin Horspool was our inspiration but he better watch out because I think we are after his job !

Thanks for showing us the beauty in a broken telephone and the potential a tangled mess of wire has. You were truly inspirational.

We will post more pictures tomorrow of the final products once the glue and paint have dried.

Room 8

Martin Horspool Robots

The Kauri Team loved their visit from Martin Horspool. He showed us all his robots and gave us advice about how to build our robots. He stressed to us that we need to stop being a throw away society and look at our broken things as something else - not just recycled rubbish. Perhaps it can be a robot with it's own personality that looks like Grampa and then we make it and have our own piece of art.

Thanks Martin for the great advice and the cool post cards and showing us your family of robots.

Room 8

Martin Horspool Robots

Yesterday we saw some of Martin Horspools metal robots that he makes from recycling other people's junk.
All of his robots have their own personality.
He started making robots 2 years ago and before making robots he made metal bugs.
When he's not making he works at a printing press.
Martin Horspool has just started making necklaces with robots on them as well as well making a Brobot for King Kapisi.

A big thanks to Chris Elliot for getting us in touch with Martin. Jasper's dad rocks !

Sofia and Jasper

THE ROBOT MAN

Yesterday Martin Horspool, a.k.a the robot man, came into our class and showed us some of his robots. He also answered some of our questions as well. It was amazing to see what he had done with all this rubbish he finds around the streets - but like some say, " one man's junk is another man's treasure. I hope my robot looks as good as his do !
Thanks for reading THE ROBOT MAN.
by Pipi

My robot

Today at free time I made a robot to put on this blog you are reading right now. I made a robot because we are making robot models out of recycled ingredients. Please comment on my story and robot picture.



by Sam

My Dr Pepper Robot

We are making robots in Room 8 from recycled materials. Mrs Fale's favourite drink is Dr Pepper so she is making a Dr Pepper robot that can drink . Here is the sketch.

Bees Knees

My sister and my dad found the swarm of bees from Grey Lynn School and caught them.
At first they looked like a nest but they were all of them squashed together.
It was very freaky.
My dad found one of my old lego boxes and got one of his old boxes and put my lid on top. Then he brushed the bees into the box and took them home and put them next to my other bee hive.
In order to get the honey, my dad needs to use his bee smoker. Once my dad got stung from using it.
It took about 20 minutes to catch the bees.
It took more than 24 hours to make a bit of honey.
They make the honeycomb in their hive.
The honeycomb is made out of bees wax.

By Jasper

Our class trip to Waitakere Gym

LAst term we went on a class trip to the Waitakere Gym and also did a sculpture walk. WE had heaps of fun and learned how to do gymnastics where real gymnasts practice. Enjoy our movie, Room 8.