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

Scaly beast

Scaly quiet beast.

Swimming fast with a fat tail.

Big fat chomping teeth.

By Sam

Please leave a comment if you know what it is.

Clever things

They are very quiet.
They creep when you are sleeping.
They are quite scary.
By Alexandra

The Wild

Dangerous wild, fast 
Seeing its prey, starts to sneak.
Black as the night sky.

by Ethan

Can you guess

Leave a comment if you now what the animal is.

Stomping haiku

Scary boney meat.

Herbivore,  carnivore. Raa! 

Now extinct,  goodbye.

By Geoffrey

Leave a comment if you know what it is please! 

The Wild Haiku

Looks through the dry grass.
Paws ready to pounce and pierce.
Camouflaged hunter.

By Noah

Leave a comment if you know what this is please.

Sharks haiku

Lives in the water 

It has sharp teeth to attack

It hunts for its food.   

by Elizabeth                                                                    

Leave a comment  please!

How many tens?

In maths we have been learning how many tens are in a number. We used rods so we could see how many tens make up a number. Then we drew it on our whiteboards. After we took a picture with the ipad. Andrea will print the pictures to keep in our modelling books so we can go back and see it if we need to remember. Then we drew it using kid pix on our own to show that we understand it.

Weston and Elizabeth

We drew this using Kid Pix

Poetry in Nature

WALT write to entertain. We are learning all about different types of poetry. 

This week we are focussing on Haiku. 

Enjoy the first video of our haiku poetry written during guided writing time.

Cherry, Weston, Jonty, Ellie and Red

Haiku from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Funky Feet Friday

Today we had Funky Feet Friday to support Travelwise. We are trying to walk to school and use our cars less.

We got to wear funky shoes and two people get to win a certificate.

Enjoy our iphoto slideshow of our funky feet!

Funky Feet Friday -Medium from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Fitness Freaks and iMovie

We have been learning to keep fit by moving our bodies for 10 minutes everyday. When it's raining outside, we do aerobics videos. 

We are also learning how to make iMovie trailers. Trailers are the little snippets of up and coming movies. You usually see them before you watch a movie in the cinema. We made one together today. We are going to be making our own this term. We are so excited!

Enjoy the fitness and the movie trailer.

Room 16

Fitness Freaks from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Before we take off into Space...

...Let's find out what we already know!

We did a KWL chart and recorded all the things we know or thought we knew about Space. 

A KWL chart help sort your thinking so you know what direction your learning will take.

K - What we KNOW
W - What we WANT to know/learn.
L - What we have LEARNED.

Then we recorded them using PhotoBooth and then dropped them into iMovie. 

Next we filled in the W - What we want to learn about Space. Our next step is to figure out how we will find the answers to our questions. 

When we have answered our questions then we will record our new knowledge in the L part - what we have learned. 

Please leave us a comment and share your facts about Space.

Room 16

What we Know about Space from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Mum's are fabulous because...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

My Mum helps me when I need help. by Jolie

My mum is takes me to lots of places. by Lucian

My mum is funny and helpful. by Ethan

My Mummy does lots of really kind things.  by Isabelle

My mum loves me I love her too and my mum helps me when I need help.  by Geoffrey

My Mum is really nice because she always lets

Jack and I play on her phone. by Red

My mum does lots of  nice things for me. by Walter                                                                                           

Our Mum's are Special Because...

Happy Mother's Day

My Mum is helpful by Elizabeth.

My Mum is very fun. by Rio 

To Mum, You are playful. From Weston

My mum is funny and nice. by Zylah.

Dear Mum, I  liked  the time when  we  got  lollies.  by Elliot                                                                                      

My mum is really nice because she always makes me and Emily laugh. by Sam                                                                                                                                                          

My mum is very helpful to me and my sister. by Jonty 

My mum does  lots of  nice  things for  me.   by    Hollie.

My mum is...

My mum is handy. by Rossana

My Mum is funny and really kind. She's helpful and kind By Zania

My Mum is funny, fantastic, fabulous and kind. By Kassidy

My mum is very kind. by Aiko 

My mum is very nice. By Noah

My mum is alway happy. by Alexandra

My mum is joyful and a great helper.by Ruth

 My mum is respectful.  by Ellie      

My mum is very friendly and kind.  By Benjamin

My  mum  is   helpful.  By  Cherry

Happy Mother's Day to our fabulous MUMS! 

Welcome Back to Term 2

Term 2 has started off to be a wet and dreary day but all of Room 16 showed up, ready to learn! 

Aren't they a smart looking bunch of kiddies?

Keep posted for some exciting updates!

Room 16