Futsal

Futsal a fun and easy game. We have been taking lesons here at Grey Lynn school .Yesterday was are last game .We had lots of fun.


by Emily

FUTSAL

My picture is showing the red team versing the blue team. I used Kid Pix to draw my picture. 


By Phoenix

futsal

Futsal is a game what is like soccer and you use the soles of your shoes.and the ball does not bounce but an normal soccer ball does.There is five players in each team and two coaches like this.

Jack

Futsal Madness

We had the talented Felipe and Juliano from Futsal Auckland visit our school for the last 4 weeks. They taught us the basic skills to Futsal and on our last session we actually got to play two games. 


Futsal is awesome. We all had fun and it was super cool having Felipe and Juliano teaching us. They were always giving us high 5s for doing a great job !


A lot of us had to show resilience when playing as we didn't know the rules, tripped and fell, banged into people and also lost. But we got over it and enjoyed our time. 


Thanks Futsal Auckland


Futsal 2012 Room 14 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 !

My Cousin

On the 29th of February,  my first  girl cousin was born. She was born on a leap year. Her name is Neve.  She lives in  Wellington. I can't wait to visit her.  I bet she will have more clothes than I do by the end of the year.

I hope to meet her really soon.

Molly

My new kitten.

Last Thursday, me, mum and dad went to the Papatoetoe vet to get a kitten. Mum said that we were going to take it home on Saturday,but we took it home on Thursday instead. The kitten is called Minty. She is six weeks old. Minty and her sister were found down the side of a bank. Zoe, our dog is scared of Minty. Minty is an awesome kitten.

Amy

Ina's Bad Fall

On Friday I had a really bad fall off the Grey Lynn school steps. It was really painful so I had to go to the sick bay, but after that I had to go to Starship hospital.   It was really sore because I had to have an x-ray.  It was a little bet sore so after that so I got a treat from my mum. It was a little chocolate and it was really good but the doctor said I was not allowed chocolate because my leg was getting swollen so I had to get another  x-ray and this x-ray was hurting a lot more so my mum gave me a chip, but it was not nice becauseIi didn't like bbq chips. After that I went in to a really cool room to get on my cast. It was heavy so my mum had to hold my cast and then I had to hold it all by myself.  It was getting lighter so it was all finished. I got my crutches and I went back home.

By Ina

Responsibility

We are also learning about our second school value, RESPONSIBILITY.

When we come to school in the morning, we can show how we are responsible by:

Getting my laptop ready to call the Roll. Andrea(teacher)

Putting down chairs and treating people how you want to be treated. Violet

Do focussed listening when we are at your table. By Romy


Do something quietly even when you're not told you. Like if the teacher needed a job done, you can do it for her. Kahma


Read a book at your desk or on a pillow. Jake


You can finish up your work. Joel


Play some maths or reading games. Josh


What do you do in your classroom before the morning bell rings?


Room 14

Kowhai and We Know it !

We are learning about respect, one of our school values.


We can show respect around the school by:


Letting kids join in and treating people how the want to treated.
Jack 


Letting other people play with you. 
By Anouska.


Focussed listening when the teacher  is talking.Phoenix

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!

Respect !

Today we discussed the Grey Lynn School values. 

They are:

 Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. 

We used the Thinkers Keys to help us understand what respect is. We decided to use the Alphabet Key.

Enjoy our A-Z of how we show respect in the classroom. And, as Petra said, we used artistic license when it came to the letter, X.

Stay tuned to learn more about our values. Does your school have values? Share them with us !

Room 14

Introducing Room 14

Here are the wonderfully, smiley faces who make up Room 14!

Enjoy the photo montage !

Andrea

APPS we Love !

Phoenix was busy Friday discovering how he can use the ipads to support his learning in Maths.

Phoenix recommended the APP, Rocket Maths.





Felipe is working hard at improving his English. His first language is Portuguese. He recommends he APP iTouchiLearn Words.

Stay tuned for more, APPS WE LOVE!

Are you using ipads in your classroom? Please share how you use them with us !

James holiday

On holiday me and my family went to the pool. I saw Ina there. A few day later we went to Tonga! When I stepped of the plane it was so hot. I really wanted it to rain.  We were going to Vava on the same day but we got stuck on main Island for 2 days, but we got there  at our house we had a jetty! We jumped of it 100 times may by more!  in the water it was so hot! I bomb in so many times I never wonted to get  out but I had too.

I also loved the bakery. It was so good.

Every night we watch the bats and sat on the jetty and had coke. I loved Tonga so much.        

James

We are Room 14 !

Here is a photo collage of us ! One photo you can clearly see who we are...however, in the second photo, your guess is as good as mine.

Can you spot your features" in the photo?

Have fun !

Andrea

Mr Twit

Mr Twit is a fat man. He is a very very rude person. He was absolutely grubby. Mr Twit was such a old hag. He's horrible and sneaky .He is a evil man.    He's cruel,disgusting,chubby,hairy and has a yucky
beard. Mr twit has bad breath. He is a TWIT.
Romy

Mr Twit

Mr Twit is such nasty old hag!He's SOOO hairy and his beard has chunky bits of rotten egg in it.YUCK! He's also cruel to his wife too! What a BAD man, don't you think? Even his house doesn't have any windows,he thinks that windows are for people to look in!(Which is pretty silly!)They're actually to look of.                                    He's such a gross twit!                                                     


By Eli

The Old Hag

Let me tell you the story about Mrs Twit.
Well she is awfully ugly with wrinkles all over her face and has
one glass eye and walking stick to beat children.  She also has sharp teeth.
What a  Twit.


By Oliver

Ina's holiday

We went into a spa and it was hot and when we got out and went in the big pool it was really cold so we went back out and ran really fast into the big pool and it was also cold so I went to the diving board. When I jumped into the pool it was cold and I still went into the pool but when I went in the pool it was not cold. It was nice and cool. So I got up went and saw James and he went on the big diving board. James did a bomb with Ben. It looked really big and cool. I did a bomb too and the people said it was big but I said it didn't go big it went... really big. After that I went onto the big one and I did a bomb. It went big. So big, Bigger than James' and Ben's bomb! The next day we went to the movies to watch Sione 2. It was really sad because Sione died. After that we went to the arcade game room then we went home.

Seeing blue penguins.

Up, up,up,up! Round and round.The camper van went up and around. Then we were at the top. When we were down at the bottom of the Otago Peninsula there was a seal right up on the rocks. But whew, what a smell! The little blue penguins didn't come in to about 9:30pm. But when they did there were around 150 of them!!!!When they came in they were like a little black wave. The first little blue penguin I saw was a baby.It had come out of it's mother.My favorite was when a little blue penguin came right past the rock I was standing on.What an a amazing trip!!
Hannah

The Muppet Movie

In the holidays me my mum and brother went to The Muppets. We drove to the Northshore and found a park. We still had some time so we went to Freedom for a while. We went and got the tickets and then we went to the cinema. Finally it starred and it was so funny!
The end. Molly

Swimming

Today in swimming we did freestyle and backstroke . It was really cold brrrrrrrrrrr.We went
swimming with room 13. It was really awesome .Ellah and Romy.room14

Canada

Canada is a cool place. It has bears and the best maple syrup.  It is also a beautiful place and I recommend going. It snows there too. Canada is a very cool place and you are lucky to live there. I love Canada and hope you do too.
Emily

First Day of School

Here are some more feeling statements about Room 14s first day of school!

I felt good that I was starting a new class and because I am a year 4 now. By James


I felt awesome because I have a new teacher and because I am year 4 now.  by  Leonardo


The day before they first day of school I was nervous because it was a new year of school but as soon
I got use to it it was awesome! Felix E


I felt really happy because I have a new class and a really cool teacher. by Ina

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

The Big Bad Bully

Elijah, Gwyneth and Oceania decided to make a comic about relationships being powerful. They decided to use the idea of bullying to show this.

They used the iPad 2 to take photos using the APP Comic Strip and also added text to their photos.  It was then downloaded into iphoto and then imported into iMovie. Then they used a storyboard to plan their text. Then Elijah and Oceania added music and transitions to their movie.

This is the students' work, 100%. They worked well and are now the class experts and will teach the other students.

So keep checking back for more iMovies soon !

The shape of rain

I have been learning to write poetry and choose the best words in the best order. I also used words from the water word wall and my own words to write the poem.

I created my poem using the website, http://www.readwritethink.org and then I took a screenshot of the poem I created. I dropped it into iphoto and then imported it into Kid Pix to add a background.

The website is on our blog under Fun Stuff to do. I think you should give it a try.

Enjoy my shape poem.

Flynn

Samoa rugby practise

On Wednesday the whole school went to Western  springs to  look at Manu Samoa  practise. When we got there we sang let's go Samoa let's go. We sang really loud. After that we sang Le Aute really loud .Soon after  we went back to school. It was really cool.
                       By NAMI

Rugby practice

On Wednesday the whole school went down to see the Samoan team practice for their rugby game this Sunday. First we cheered and sang songs. Next we got flags and waved them. After that we watched them, of course for a long time. Then we went back to school.

By Bay

Going to Western Springs

On Wednesday we went to  Western springs to watch the Manu Samoa  practice their kicks and  high kicks. Then when they arrived we said lets go Samoa. lets go!  It was really loud. I  couldn't  hear the man speaking . After that we sang a Samoan song called, Le Aute and said CHOO. The other school on the other side was trying to get louder than us but we were louder.  We hope Manu Samoa win against Fiji on Sunday !

Anetema

Manu Samoa - Shout for Samoa ! from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

GLS Live week 8

Well, we have gone through all the different countries that are here for the Rugby World Cup 2011. WE have saved the best for last, The All Blacks. 


Room 13 brainstormed what they thought people might want to know about the All Blacks and used the iPads to research and write our own stories.


We hope you enjoy our latest edition. 
And please stay tuned...we are changing our GLS direction. 

Ball games

Running
catching
throwing, passing.
Sprinting
team spreading
side by side.
Ball going around
ball out of hand
chasing after the ball
got the ball.
Almost near
the try line
just a bit closer
TRY!!!
YEAH!!!
By Kayleen

Catch and run

Ball flying
mud splashing
toe's kicking
leg's pumping
Touch
By Ulycess

Pass and run

Ball spinning
grass cutting
legs a tired
feet running
body flying-
bang!!!
the balls out
still going
very tired
running hard
nearly there
even closer
try!!!
By Luke

Moon Cakes

Moon Cakes are what Chinese people eat  to celebrate  in Autum because there is a full moon. But it also is the brightest moon.They also have all types of flavors. My uncle's mum makes them for us to eat.


They also are in adds,movies and other things. Everyone in China and Malaysia eat them (but only if they like the taste of it.) I have given few to my friends and they said that they were delicious. I think they are yummy too. I think that YOU should try it! 

Maya

Flynn's Amazing Fractions

Maths

I am learning to write a number problem using fractions.

I got the problem 1/4 of 860.

In swimming lessons there are 860 people. The manager wants to split them up in four groups how many people are in each group?

How I got the answer.

There were two ways:

1.  I divided it by 4. 

2. I halved 860 and that equalled 430 then I halved 430 and it equalled 215.

So 1/4 of 860 is 215.

How I checked it was correct?

I multiplied 2x215 but I also multiplied 430x2 which gave me the answer 860.

By Flynn

14/09/2011

Flash Mobs - The GLS students take over !

We have heard and seen all these flash mob hakas around New Zealand. What a cool idea!  


Friday the 9th September was the opening of the rugby world cup. We have been learning about the RWC in our class and sharing our learning via our news show and stories. 


On Friday, our teacher said we were going get our photo taken by the new Manu Samoa sign. When we got to the road we noticed the whole school there and then we heard the call...we started singing and performing a haka - our own flash mob haka! Traffic stopped and people were recording us on the phone cameras. Cars were honking. It was so cool and fun. We hope you like the movie about our flash mob haka!

Room 13

Our crazy morning tea

On Monday 6th of September three Manu Samoa rugby team players came to our school. It was crazy. Everyone wanted an autograph from each rugby player. Children were running in and out the class getting new things that they could sign. Everybody got autographs  but it was packed people keeped pushing and tugging. In was chaos  but so much fun getting to meet the three rugby team players .They all had a different autograph. One autograph was huge the other two were small . We loved it  because it was the first time ever we all got to meet them. It was even more special since our school has adopted Manu Samoa as our rugby team! 


By Josie and Rebeka on behalf of all of Room 13

Our Team visits the school ! from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

GLS LIVe Week 5 - Rugby World Cup 2011 Edition

Here is our latest edition. We had some green screen issues so we had to be creative in our editing.


5 more days to go until the Rugby World Cup. Stay tuned for a special ALL BLACKS edition this week.
Are there any questions you want answered about the ALL BLACKS? Well ask and we will include it in our show.


Enjoy ! 
Room 13

Untitled from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

How nervous it was to be in the speech finals.

We got in the school speech finals in the Totara speeches. We were very nervous, especially Elijah. Ten people had to say their speech but the worst part for Elijah was there were a lot of people and James' worst part was when he had to say his speech because he thought he was going to go first. But Elijah was first and he was so nervous he got some words wrong. All the people did good speeches. The audience was very respectful. But me and James didn't win, but this girl named Queenie won and her topic was the theater. By Elijah & James    

James and Elijah with their certificates. Way to go boys !

GLS LIVE Week 4 - Rugby World Cup 2011 Edition

Hi all !


Sorry to all our fans for being late this this week's episode.  We had a busy week and our teacher was away on Friday so we couldn't film. 


Anyway, we think this is one of our best episodes so sit back and enjoy listening to more facts about the countries visiting us for the Rugby World Cup 2011.


GLS Week 4 - Rugby World Cup Edition from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Room 13 are currently doing the programme, Keeping Ourselves Safe, and we have looked at how to be safe around the school. Check out the colourful maps and our safety messages.


Keeping Ourselves Safe from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

GLS LIVE Week Three Term 3

We are welcoming a lot of countries to New Zealand for the rugby world cup. We thought it would be a good idea to learn some facts about each country that is sending a team.


WALT(we are learning to) research and put the facts into our own words. 
WALT speak clearly and with a good volume.


Enjoy this week's edition. 


Leave us some comments !


GLS LIVE Week 3 Term 3 RWC from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

Hailly day

 Today it hailed really, really hardcore.  It was really cool and lots of people got hail in their hair . When we first saw it Andrea said we could go out and try and get some. When we got there the whole Totara team was already there. Everyone got hail in their hair and it melted and some people got their hair wet.
It looked like it was snowing. Everyone started to see that it would melt as soon as we went inside, well at least I thought of it that way. HaHa. Anyway, it was pretty cool how the sleet was going onto their heads. When we got inside it was starting to get settled onto the ground. Lots of people thought it was snow but I didn't think that. So do you want that to happen were you are right now because its really F.U.N. 
Oh and don't worry about danger when it strikes. And so that was our story about the hail day at Grey Lynn school.


Kate and Jack

Sleet or hail coming down fast and furious.

Desperate to catch some in their hands.

YAY! Snow...kind of !

Wondering what it tastes like.

Awesome smiles !

Totara Team Welcomes Book Week

Hi there,

Have you ever been lost in a book? Isn't it a great feeling?

TOTARA TEAM CELEBRATES BOOK WEEK 2011

Monday 15th August 2011

We are currently celebrating Book Week at Grey Lynn School and because of this our homework will be a bit different.

You need to:

1. Think about the best fiction book your have EVER read.
2. Complete the book report sheet in your homework book or online(make sure it is as neat and tidy as the example in class, it’s a good idea to do a draft copy first).
3. Come to school on Friday dressed as a character from your book.

It’s that easy!

Click here for your book report template.

Book Report Template

From Andrea