Golden Glory

Sparkling light in the night
Twinkly wishes I'll bring to you.
Pointed above the sky so high
Brings happiness to you.

Molly

My Star.

I float all night waiting for a sound. 
I am always floating.
Sometimes I even come shooting from outer space.

Kids love me as I twinkle.
Oh how I twinkle.
By Ella

The Wishing star

The sparkling sky lights glowing upon us shining bright 
Waiting to grant a wish of a dreaming child.
Shooting gracefully through the night sky to make sure no one's peeking  
Then they bring out their magic. 
These diamonds of the sky are the lights that lead as through the dark.  

By Kahma

Night Sky

Shining shape in the night sky,
sitting  there ,with other  pointy shapes also
in the night sky.

Romy

Night Sky

Twinkling through the night.
shining at the moon.
Talking above us
Glittering as you see us
 floating through
the sky.

By Hannah

The Night Sky.

A shining bright dot in the sky.
I wish I could see you up there in space.
but I watch you here from earth to sky.

By Violet

My lobster!

Hi!My lobster is awesome because it's an amazing exo-skeleton. It  feels so soft!It's soft because the shell has been cooked on the BBQ. I love the way it moves when you hold it.I got it from Daikoku. It's a place in the city where they cook Japanese food in front of you on a bog BBQ. It was awesome!So every time I see a lobster shell on the table,I'm grabbing it!

By Eli!

Poetry in Room 14

WALT write original poems.

First we talked about what a poem is. Here are some of our thoughts:
*entertainment *expressive writing *feelings*emotions*a really short story*a message to other people*showing our thoughts * the best writing *

Then we wrote a class poem together using a website called Read Write Think. 

It helped us write our poem because it made us think of interesting words. It gave us topics to write about. It also gave us steps to work through. We brainstormed before we wrote because brainstorming gets our good ideas out of our head and onto paper. It also gives us a boost.


Here is our poem. We would love some feedback.

Now we are all busily writing our own. We will share them with you soon!

Room 14

Our Totem Poles

We are finished our first attempt at drawing totem poles. We hope you like them.

First we looked at pictures of totem poles in a park in Vancouver called, Stanley Park. Then we watched a video on how to draw totem poles. After that we drew our own following the instructions. We did this in our drawing books.

Then we drew them on an A4 paper. Andrea then photocopied them and enlarged them onto A3.

We chose bright colours as the totem poles we saw in Stanely Park in Vancouver were brightly painted.

Now we are creating our own personal totems.

Watch this space!

Room 14

Letter to Valerie Adams

Thank you for winning a medal in the Olympics even if its silver but it's New Zealand gold. We love you all the same even if you didn't win the gold. At least you tried your hardest with all the pride you hold. I know you had a set back but does it matter? No. It matters that you tried. You are my champion and besides, you could win in Rio.  
From Jack 
Grey Lynn school Auckland

The Javelin

Javelin is cool how the players can throw their sticks really high up and far away. I wish I was a javelin thrower.

By Felipe

Books are cool. eh!

This term we are learning all about Canada. During shared reading and SSR we read and listen to a collection of Canadian books and stories that our teacher, Andrea, has collected.(she is from Canada) Some of her books are as old as she is (haha) and some were bought for her when she became a teacher. 

We are learning to respond to reading and write a blurb about a book to entice a reader to "pick up a book." 

Here is the first edition of, Books are cool, eh!

We hope you enjoy it. Watch for new versions daily!

Room 14

Canadian Book Reviews from Kowhai Kiwi Bloggers on Vimeo.

The Rugby World Cup came to visit!

We had an awesome surprise on Monday, August 6th. The Web Ellis trophy came to Grey Lynn school and we all got to have our photo with it, look at it, smell it, but not touch it. It is very precious.

Richie Mc Caw, the All Blacks captain had said that he wanted as many New Zealanders to see the cup as possible and share in it's glory.

It was smaller than we thought. It was shinier than we thought and it was also made of real gold.

What a great day.

Room 14

THE OLYMPICS

So we all know what the Olympics is but do we know how long ago it started? Well I do. It all started 11 days 23 hours 45 min and 38 second ago well it least i think it did. Well my point is I want to go to the Olympics.  My favorite sport event is the sprints ,I also like the gymnastics . It must be really freaky doing the  Olympics. What if you fall down it would be so embarrassing. I know keep telling you but I wish I could go to the Olympics

Molly

Room 14:and the rugby world cup.

On Monday my class saw the  Web Ellis Rugby World Cup. We got a photo with it.

By Phoenix     (P.S.) Our photo is coming soon! 

My Favourite Book

My favorite book is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. My favourite part was when Harry   met Voldemort in the graveyard .My 2 favourite characters are Harry and Voldemort. If I were in the book I would be saying go Harry! 


By Jake

Totem Poles

Today we learned all about Totem Poles found in Canada. We looked at some examples of totem poles all around Canada and we loved the ones found in British Columbia, which is on the West Coast of Canada.

We noticed that totem poles almost always have animals and people on them.

We watched a video on how to draw one and then did our own, step by step. We had to really concentrate in order to know where to put what.

We will post some pictures of our totem poles tomorrow once they are finished.

Watch this space!
Room14

My Trip

I'm going on the 24th of June from NZ to Bangkok to Vietnam to Cambodia back to Koi Sumi  (Thailand)  then back home. I am looking forward to Vietnam. We are going to do a cooking class. Cambodia sounds exciting. I've been to Koi Sumi before and it's very nice . Amy's mum recommended a hotel last time we stayed in Koi Sumi. We are staying there again! Bye! Catch up soon.

Molly

Going to London.

On Sunday me, my brother, my mum and my grandma are going to London for three weeks to meet my Dad who has been away in Nigeria for two months.
We are staying on a friend of my mum and dad's boat in a river.
We have been saving up for such a long time and now all our hard work at the market has paid off and we get a lovely trip.


By Violet

Room 14s Trip to MOTAT

Hi its Ellah and Anouska  reporting on our trip to Motat. We were going there to investigate electricity.When Room 14 arrived at Motat we met our teacher for the day. At Motat we went into a big classroom . It had a big ball  and when you put your hands on it, your hair would stand on end. IT WAS SO AWESOME. We also made electrical circuits and made confetti stick on a pipe. After a while we went to explore Motat. I had never been to Motat before so it was really interesting for me. I had so much fun in the mirror maze. It was so scary and my heart was pumping. I thought i was going to pass out. What a great trip!


Ellah and Anouska

Our Marvelous MOTAT trip!

Hi it's Room 14 here. We all went on an amazing tour around Motat. First of all we went into the classroom to learn about Electricity. I learnt that if you rub a balloon on your head your hair will stick up like a lion's main.We learnt  about conductors and eliminator's: conductors let electricity go through but eliminators don't let electricity come through. Electricity has to flow though a complete circuit to make the lightbulb work. Static electricity is blue.

By Hannah and Livana

Whakanuia Te Wiki o te Reo Māori Celebrate Māori Language Week

For Maori Language Week we have been saying a karakia in the morning and an afternoon karkia before we go home. by Felix


The koru is a maori symbol. by Livana  
                                                                                                                                                                 My maori symbol is a Tiki because it's my culture. By Maia


My maori symbol is a tiki because I have liked it all my life. by Ina


What is your favorite New Zealand symbol and why?

Let us know.


Room 14 

Our Favourite Canadian symbols

My favourite Canadian symbol is the Maple leaf.
by Harry
My favourite Canadian symbol is the Inukshuk.
By Romy
My favourite Canadian symbol is the flag.
by Oliver            
My favourite Canadian symbol is the Inukshuk.
by Aiden


What is your favorite symbol of Canada, and why?


By Room 14

Canadian Food we want to try...one day !

I  want to try timbits and I have always wanted to taste smores! Violet
I ...Mmmmm,  timbits sound so good!  Molly.
Yum yum!I  would love to have some S'mores. Anouska.
I want to try s'mores.  Ellah
I want to try yummy s'mores!  by Alice

What Canadian food would you like to try?

By Room14

Venus passed the sun

On Wednesday Room 14 watched Venus go around the sun. It is going to be a long time till it goes round again. When I  got home I had my dinner. My Mum, Dad, Artus and I watched the news. It kept on going on about other stuff. Then the ads came on. It exclaimed," Venus is going round the sun." and
people were wearing 3D glasses and some were looking through a telescope.  After that, Deal or No Deal
was on.  The lady Cindy was doing badly.

By Leo

   

by Leo                

Venus passes the sun

On Wednesday, Venus passed the sun!  It comes around once in a century. I thought it was wicked. We checked it in the afternoon as well as the morning. In the morning it was at the top of the sun and later on in the day it was in the middle. Andrea ( my teacher ) told me that it came from the left of the sun even though it was on the right. We saw it on the projector. Once in a while it went blue and then red. My mum said if there were absolutely no clouds then it would go dark. The day before, I made a telescope so when I got  home I could look at it . So when I got home, I did.  I felt happy because it was cool-ish.                                                                                                                                                                                                  By Alice.

Venus going across the sun

On Wednesday the sixth of June 2012, Room 14 watched Venus go across the sun. It was amazing and I will not be alive when it happens again. So, it was great to see it. It was really cool. It was on the news too. All I saw was just one red dot, the Sun, and one black dot, Venus, going across the sun. My picture is Venus going across the sun.


By Maia. 

Just in case you didn't know...

How to eat a lolly... By James, Eli, Aiden and Harry


WALT write and follow a set of instructions!


Here are the boys, instructing us on how to eat a lolly. How do you think they did? Were their instructions clear? Is there anything they could do better next time? Which part was your favourite?


Leave us a comment as we LOVE comments.

No time for Show and Tell? Use an iPad !

Phoenix brought in something very unique to share with the class. We ran out of time so James and Phoenix worked together and used the iPad to record the show and tell story.

First Phoenix wrote down what he wanted to share. James helped him with the writing process.

Then James used the iPad to record Phoenix reading his script.
They also took pictures using the iPad to share the unique show and tell.
They also made a comic strip using the Comic APP.

Finally Andrea imported their footage and made an iMovie.

James and Phoenix's next step is to make their own iMovie.

Well done boys !

Now...do you want to see what the unique show and tell item was?

The Results are in....

Our homemade,handmade, recycled and well planned efforts paid off...and we placed a respectable 2ND place in the Scarecrow competition. St Joseph's, Grey Lynn came first and Westmere placed third.

We are really pleased to have won 2nd place as the scarecrows were all created by the children. 

The Scarecrows all come back to school next week and we will work with Dean and the Forest Team to place them around the school!

There are some cool photos on the classroom window if you would like to see them before their return!

Well done Room 14 !

Andrea

Room 14 Scarecrows

Hi everybody! Do you want to hear about how room 14 designed their own fabulous...scarecrows that went to a competition and went to compete with other schools? Yes ?  I knew you would say that. Now first we had to split into 6 groups out of the whole class. When we were finally sorted into our groups we had to put our ideas together. Then we had to draw our ideas together. Once that was all pushed aside our group shared our hard work to the class. You don't know what's going to happen later in the story. Just that very second day people had already brought things in for making our big scarecrows. Day after day the pile got bigger until all of us were ready to start cracking. We used old clothes, silky materials, string and other stuff. It was cool to see how other people could use there imagination and be so creative. By Friday these awesome things were ready to go to the competition and hopefully win. They are now at the plant nursery, Gardenco Plant Market on Great North Road. You can pop down there and have a nosey and see all of ours, and other school's designs.

By Kahma

Movie by Room 14

How to eat a Lolly !

WALT write and follow instructions.

Andrea gave us a wrapped lolly and we had to write accurate instructions in order for us to enjoy the end result - eating the lolly. If our instructions weren't in the right order then we might miss out on actually eating the lolly. Let's see if we were successful.

Here's a short movie one group made about their experience.

Enjoy !
Felix, Ina, Oliver, Felix

Converting cms to mms...

We are learning to convert units of measurements.  We started with centimeters and worked with Andrea to learn how to convert them to millimeters. We then did some follow up measurements and then worked with a partner to come up with a strategy we can use on our own after we started to see patterns emerge.  Then we went back to Andrea to check our thinking and record our findings using the iPads. 


Here are Hannah, Felix, Emily and Amy sharing their thinking. 


Enjoy.


By: The Squares Maths Group

Nicktoons Unite

Characters
Spongebob,Danny phantom and Jimmy Neutron.
 Jimmy Neutron and Danny Phantom vs  Bazzroncalamitous.
When Jimmy and Danny were walking they saw Calamitous. They fought Calamitous and Calamitous lost.

Episode 1: Nicktoons Unite.
Spongebob was walking and ...

Episode 2: Sponge bob vs .

...he saw Danny,but......HE WAS PURPLE! It's an evil clone!

He fought him and he lost.


Episode 3: Spongebob and Danny vs

The Measuring Machine

Today when I got up, Dad said that since I am doing measuring as a topic I might want to bring this measuring device that measures meters so I can measure how long it takes to get from                                 home to school. So I packed my bag and so on, got the measuring machine and went of to school. I guessed it would take a long time to get to school  -so four thousand meters but it was 568.3 meters.                                     I am going to try to make it up to 1000 meters.       


By Forrest                    

                                

My Rugby Game

On Saturday I went to my rugby. It was at Walker Park. We versed Pt Chev Pirates. I got three good tackles it was a close game. The other team won the score was a11 - 9.

By Joel

My Two Little Brothers

My little brothers are my job. Everyday I come home to my very busy job, my brothers. My first shift is my baby brother. He was born nine weeks ago. As soon as I come into the house mum gives him to me with her face full of joy. My second shift is my other little brother. He was born six years ago. I have to feed him, shower him and get hime dressed. I have to come home from school to work. HELP. By Kahma

Old Green Grasshopper.

Felipe's response to his favorite character from the book, James and the Giant Peach.

My favourite book  character  is  the old green  grasshopper  because he is green and he is also funny. 


By Felipe

Nicktoons: Return of the Toybots.

Characters.

Sponge Bob, Patrick, Danny, Timmy, Tak, Jimmy, SJ 9, Stimpy.


Toybots are back!!!
This is serious

Mothers day

On  Sunday  I  woke  up   really   early   and   went  to  the  lounge  and   watched   TV. Then  my  to  brothers    came   out   to   remind   me   it's   Mothers day   so   I    went    to   my  mum's   room   to  give  her   my   card. Then   my   dad   got   her  present. It  was  a  fishing  rod. Then  we  all  got  up  and  had  breakfast. Then  we  got  dressed  then  I  played  outside. I  had  to  wait  for  a  long  time  then  we  finally  went out.  When  I  went  in  there  was  lots  of  food  we  had  some. Then  I  played  with  the  elevator. It  was  fun  then  we  went  home. It  was  fun  today.


Josh          

Thunder and lightning netball game.

On Monday the 14th of may, grey Lynn 4,the grey Lynn netball team, had a netball game against  west mere. My positions were wing attack, goal defence , goal keep and wing defence. First I was wing attack. After about ten minutes of the game everyone heard lightning and thunder. Then the alarm went. Everyone rushed for cover. Some people said that the game was over and some people from our team, including me said "I wish we could keep playing". Then to everyone's surprise we got back on. One  Westmere girl elbowed me in the face! Then we swapped again and again. After that we looked at the score board. We lost by 0 points. Then mum,who is the coach, announced who was player of the day. It was me! Mum gave me a bag of lollies and a certificate. Then I opened the lollies and handed them out. What a fantastic night!                                                                                                                                            By Amy.

Mini me!!

On Friday before my cousins came  over I made me in my drawings. First I made the head and then the
body,legs and feet. Next  I had to cut it out which sounds easy but it's not at all I all so  had to sellotape them together  wich  is hader then the cuting. and that's how mini me came to life!

By Felix

My trip to Canada.

Hi it's Emily. I am going to Canada this week and I am staying there for a year. I am very excited and nervous. It is a big thing we are doing we are going also because my mum is from Canada.We are going to stay in camper van. I am going to miss my friends and family but it least my Canadian  family will be there.
I will miss N.Z. (and pavlova my fave!)

by Emily

Knock Down Tenpin Bowling

On Sunday me, Oska,Oliver and Kaya went to tenpin bowling. Once we got there dad paid and the person gave us our shoes and we got started. Kaya started. Oska went second. Oliver went third and I went last. On my first go I got a strike and on my second to last go was also a strike. I was amazed. After our 30 minute game we had chips. Dad gave us 6 tokens and two dollars. Oska went to Animal kasier. Well I did something sneaky. I went deal or no deal. I won 50 tickets. WOW! Since my luckier score I played again but I only won 23 tickets. Since I was greedy I went to one more game and lucky me, I won 50 tickets [I did not hijack it {I am to young}and I asked Oliver if he wanted to combine tickets and he said yes so I gave him my tickets and went to Oska. So we went to the ticket eater and me and Oliver had 143 tickets well Oska went bozom when he saw the number so we spend all our tickets and we went home.


By Jack

My Friend's House

On Tuesday I went to my friend's house. At my friend I played on his ipod. After that we went to eat popcorn, cake, chips and some orange.Then we went outside and play on his platform around the tree. Then we went in the tree house. Next I went to play hoops. Then we play a game with the basketball then we went inside and played on his remote control car but then the car didn't work. We went in the living room and played on the Wii for 20 min.
By George

The Wave Pool

On Friday we went to the pools with my  brothers Tama,Toru. It was a wave pool. After an hour the waves came on and it went really fast so we had to go on to a tub. A tub is like a donut that you can go down a slide it go really fast. One time I went down with the tub I fell off the tub and then my brother came down and kicked me. It was sore. When I got to the top of the slide, the diving board was open and I was the first one there. On my first jump I did a front flip into the pool and it was SORE! and my back was all red and we had to go up a really hard step it was all blue. My next bomb as big but my big brother went higher then mine, but the next bomb that I did it went high like my brothers. Then my brother went to the spa. When he got there I went to the spa too an I made a friend. He came from Rotorua and he is really good at doing bombs that go really high that the splash touches the roof. We had pizza then we had to go back into the pool and then the bombing was closed but the waves came on. I felt  happy because we had a great time at the pools.    

By Ina

                

Italian pizza.

On Friday  me and my family went to an Italian restaurant. My dad opened the door. I heard the rush of the noisiest sound I had heard in my day .Then I smelt pizza and pasta all together. Soon we were at a table ordering drinks.This is what I had for drink: one orange juice. My sister had an apple juice. For starters we had cheese on bread. We always have that.A few minutes later I had finished my juice and popped the last bread crust into my mouth. For mains I ordered a pizza. It was called Forest. While we were waiting I bit something and my wiggly tooth started to bleed. I said, "excuse me for a sec..." I rushed to the bathroom.I looked in the mirror. One two ...three!I had pulled my tooth nearly free.I tried again. One two three .It did not come out so I pulled a little bit harder and it came out.For a few seconds I just stood there doing nothing.Then I rushed out the door back to the table where  were I was siting.I told my mum and my dad and my sister my tooth came out.They said awesome!Soon we were going home.It was about 9 o clock.When we got home I was sooooo tired because I had a long day.

Anouska

Nicktoons, Attack of the Toybots.

 Nicktoons characters.
Spongebob, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, Patrick Star, Timmy Turner, Cosmo, Wonder, SJ9 and Tak.

1st nicktoons story, Calamities's plan.
Calamitous planned to make toy bots to rule the world.
2nd Nicktoons story: Team Nicktoons,part1.
Toy bots take the Burgers from Spongebob and Patrick. Then the toybots suck Patrick in to the Base...


Phoenix

On Anzac day

On  Anzac day I went to the park with my parents.  I found some friends and I played hide and seek. 


By Felipe

The Evil Rabbit.

My rabbit is really evil,

A week ago she dug a hole in the garden and ran FREE!

At first my mum called my grandma and said:"Come over! The rabbit's gone!" This all happened when I was at school so my mum told me in the evening all about it.

When I saw her shopping list it said: crackers, milk,cheese and RABBITS!?

That really made me freak out and worried. In the end, she was herded back into her cage and had a quite severe punishing. I think she is the most cheeky rabbit in the world.

By:Violet.

Harry's Holiday

 On the Easter Holidays me, Mum, and my two sisters went to my cousins for Easter. It was a long drive      
there and I felt sick from eating so much chocolate. Finally we got there and I was feeling so tired. I don"t know that my sisters are tired but I was.
The first thing we did was sprinting into the Bush. When we got to the water fall we drank flowing
water.  Then we saw fresh water Crayfish we planned tomorrow that we'd catch them. 2 hours later after
our big adventure we went back to their House and had dinner.


Harrison

            

Challenge Number 5

Hi Class ! Last challenge of the week. Since we will be exploring digital photography this term I though today's quiz could be a digital picture teaser.


You have to guess what this picture is. Have fun ! You will have to have good eyesight to guess ! 

Challenge Number 4

Hi all ! It was really awesome seeing most of you today. I especially liked the hugs. Some of you had haircuts, lost teeth, and grew ! I am looking forward to Monday when I am back and we can be a class again ! 


Today's challenge is a question about me. How well do you know your teacher?


Question: What special holiday is coming up soon that holds very special meaning for me? I will give you a hint. There is a "J" in the name of the month.


Have fun !


Bye for now, Andrea

Challenge #3

It may be a day off school, but the challenges live on ! Thanks to the students who have taken up the previous challenges.

Today's are rebus riddles. I know how much you love them !

Try to get all three and test your parents !

Number One:

What does this say? 
H DINNER
S DINNER
A DINNER
W DINNER


Number 2:


What does this say?
Man
Board


Number 3:

What does this say?

Vision
Vision

Good luck and have a lovely day and enjoy the sunshine !

Andrea