1st Day of School 2012

It's finally here !

The day we have all been waiting for...

THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL !


How are you feeling today?


I am a  really  happy . Alice.
I am nervous. Aiden
I'm a little scared. Kahma.
I am exited and happy. Anouska.
 I am excited,nervous and really happy.Amy                
I am really happy .Ellah.
I am exited and really happy. Hannah
I am really exited to hang out with my friends. Felix.
I am nervous and exited. Emily.


I am happy and confident for this year. Molly.


I am happy to be with my sister. Petra


I am happy to be with Andrea this year. Violet 

2 More Sleeps

That's right. 


2 more sleeps until the first day of school! 


BRING IT ON ! 


                                See you on the first day !


Andrea !!!!!!

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

Samoan Fia Fia Performance

Friday was an awesome Fia Fia day. The sun was out in full force and so were our parents. The classrooms were full of parents being shown lots of quality work done by their children. It was great seeing parents being so proud of their children and even better seeing proud children showing off their parents !

Enjoy the Samoan Fia Fia group performance. Well done everyone !

Amazing Amazon

Here is Flynn's inquiry project all about the Amazon. He did all the work himself, including making his original soundtrack using Garageband.

Well done Flynn. You worked super hard!

Birdies Almost Dead

It all started when me and my class, Room13 went for a swim. We left our classroom windows open as it was very hot. When we came back all the Year 6 kids next to our class were yelling at us that something bad had happened.  When we got back from our swim we had to wait outside to see what happened to our birdies.Then a teacher called Ruth from Room 11 told us that she saw our budgies flying next to her classroom.  A cat called Pepper knocked over the cage and one of our birdies called Nudge got out but Ruth shooed Nudge back into the class and she ran for help from Margaret. Eventually they caught the birds and  put them back in their very broken cage.  Nudge bit Margaret but she's ok. Andrea let the birdies rest in the office. Luckily the birds lived. Their little chests were going up and down because they were so scared. When Andrea got home she looked for a new cage on the internet. Lucky for us, Andrea's nanny, Lesley, had an old cage we could use in the meantime. Nudge and Tweet are now getting used to their new cage and soon we will let them come back into the classroom once they are calm.  We don't want Pepper to come back and finish what he started! Now we close our door everytime we leave the class and make sure all the windows are closed.


By Syris

 Our beautiful, broken cage.

New Cage

Nudge and Tweet
having a playdate
with Room 12s birds!

Amazing, awesome alliterations

Lollies, licking, laughing, loopy. Ulycess


Fast, farting, fat, fish.  Toby


Zipping, zapping,  zigging, zebra.  James


Marvellous,  moosey music! Luke

Alliterative alliteration

Terrific,  turning,  tickling,  Tweet.  Bay.


Ringy, ribbon,  ridiculous, ring!!  Chelsea


Lucky,  leprechaun, llicorice, lollies!!  Nina 

Emotion Poems

WALT write emotion poems. We wrote two examples in our writing groups and then did our own in our books.

Let us know what you think and if the poem made you feel the emotion we were trying to convey.

Happiness

Happiness is yellow like a sunflower.

It tastes like chocolate icing on a banana cake.

It looks like a rain shower of gumballs.

It sounds like unending laughter.

It feels like victory.

By the Punctuation Punkrockers and the Comma Chameleons.

Sadness

Sadness is grey like a rainy day.

It tastes like cement drying down your throat.

It smells old and damp.

It looks like a dying bird on a street.

It sounds like a lonely echo in a dark cave.

It feels like no one cares.

By the Exclamation Pointers

Room 6 buddies

We had Room 6 visit our class. They are the newest five year olds in our school.

We are learning geometry and so are they so we thought we could help them learn their basic shapes.

Here is an iphoto slideshow of us working together.

They are really clever for 5 !

Room 13

Elijah The Man

Once upon a time there was a man named Elijah. He was fit as. He had abs, biceps, nice hair and super powers too. But on the 27th of May, Elijah's birthday something bad happened. This evil witch named Ching Chong Ling Long came to get his essence so he could be a massive as giant and take over the world. While Elijah was drinking his protein shake down in his secret lab he saw that the evil indicator saw trouble downtown and so he went downtown. Ching Chong Ling Long said, " At  last, we meet Elijah!" and Elijah said, " Enough talk. Let's fight."  It was a battle of the century. There was boom, bang, and a smash. At the end Elijah just put him in the woshi finger hold.  He 'said' skudosh and that the end.  Elijah won.
 THE END

Jacks P.B.S Poem

Sandwich
yummy, smooth.
biting ,chewing, eating.
yum on your tongue.
food.




Did you guess my favourite sandwich?

keys

                                                                          Keys

Keys are silver or gold or pink or Bold.
They go through locks they get lost in socks.
They lock and unlock 

chains and padlocks.
Locks doors, drains, gates, secret passages and mystery boxes.
But when you a have key don't loose it or give it to anyone...
Especially if you have a mystery box!        

BY Flynn

The Rugby World Cup

New Zealand has won the cup and was the first team to win a second time on it's own home ground.  If you don't know the All Blacks came first,second is France and Australia came third.

On Monday the All Blacks came to Auckland to show everyone the Web Ellis Rugby World Cup. At the Sky City it was really fun. I hope you enjoyed the All Blacks winning!

By Aum.

Rugby World Cup Final 2011

In the holidays me (Nami) and Chelsea watched the world cup FINAL on television. It was a nail biting
match and it was amazing.  The ALL BLACKS WON BY ONE !!!!! (AB -8 Fra -7) Did you know it was Richie's first time of holding the cup?
We hope we will win the next world cup and we are so proud of our team.

 By Chelsea,Nami

Back to school

Welcome back to school everybody.
Did you have a good holiday well so did I. I hope you all have a good first day at school because I did. I would like to see all your work in your class. Hope your teachers are happy with you at the end of the term. Same with your parents too.  I bet they will be proud. Have a good term and remember to love the  last day of term 4.

James

Rugby World CUP winners

In the holidays the All Blacks won against France 7- 8 and that means we've won the rugby world CUP 2011 and we all watched France get the silver medals.  We also watched the All Blacks get their gold medals they looked proud when Richie Mc Caw lifted up the cup. The next day there was an awesome parade with the All Blacks showing the Web Ellis Cup.

Ben and Bay

Diamante Poetry

Here is our first, whole class diamante poem.  A diamante poem had 7 lines uses a lot of nouns, adjectives and verbs. We are learning to use a thesaurus to find interesting words to make our poems sound fantastic.

You can make a diamante poem as well by clicking on the poetry link under our header, Fun Stuff.

Questions? Comments? WE LOVE HEARING FROM YOU !

Room 13

Hot and cold....warm and cool

We are talking about colours of course. WALT use warm and cool colours to add contrast to our art.
Here is the process so far. Keep your eyes peeled to see the finished products !

Room 13

Tumbling and Jumping

Last week room 13 went to the TRI STAR gym. Everybody had a great time. There was heaps of things to do like bar, vault and the foam pit. by Josie

Last  week room 13 went to TRI STAR gym.  We did a  rotation so one group went to the vault while the  others went to bar or beam and floor. Everybody had so much fun! And just so you know, I go to TRI STAR gym and do gymnastics every week. By Nina

Enjoy our photo slideshow.

Room13