This is a picture of Harrison
and Ryan  and Mekka written
by Cassie

 this is Yazmin my BFF! and Nikaya my BFF! also
I play with them sometimes. The person at the
back is called Tony, he is a hockey teacher. He told us
how to hold the hockey stick and taight us how to play.
written by Kuku

This is Rawiri my team mate.

This is a picture of Harrison showing his skills with hockey. Written by Lily D :)

  

We wrote some acrostic poems about athletics

As amazing as a chocolate city.
Tall people are good runners.
Hot like the core.
Losing is not great.
Ethan likes athletics.
Talking slows you down.
I.M.S is the best at athletics.
Crighton my friend came second.
So cool winning the 60m race.
By Ethan


As awesome as a party.
Train very very hard.
Hot as the sun.
Long jump is tiring.
Excellence is exhausting.
Tiring running 100m.
I am awesome at running.
Catching up with people.
Sitting down nicely afterwards.
By Ryan C

Awesome as an iceberg.
Training is hard.
Hot as fire.
Lots of people.
Easy as maths.
Throwing.
Incredible as a motorbike.
Cool as  a super hero.
Shotput is awesome.
By Rawiri

Athletics Day

On Thursday we had our athletics day. We did all the field events in the morning. We did long jump, high jump, shot put and discus. We had to wait to do our running on Friday because we can't do it at our school. We did our running at Windsor North School. Thanks to everyone who supported us.

If anyone has any good photos of us at athletics please share them with us. Our photographers were a wee bit shaky and we have lots of 'moving' shots.

Dictionaries

This week all the Year 4 children received a dictionary from the local Rotary Club. They are beautiful dictionaries that will help us with learning. We really enjoyed looking at all the pictures in them.

Thompsons Bush Trip

Check out our tellagamis

We wrote a script to introduce ourselves then created a tellagami to share it with you.

Blog editors

We have 5 new blog editors. They are Lily M, Lily D, Cassie, Ryan P and Kuku.
Here they are.

I Song

Our sound of the week this week is Short i. How many words can you think of with the short i sound in them? Can anyone tell me why ice-cream would not be on our list?

We are learning to write using strong adjectives and similes. Here we are concentrating hard on our writing. 

 Here is a video from 2011. Lots of these people are in our class this year. Does anyone recognise what we are doing?


Untitled from Miss Nielsen on Vimeo.

Our respect rap

We have worked hard to write and edit our own raps about respect. Here is a compilation of some of our best bits. 

Check back another time for a link to watch the original unedited raps.

RESPECT

This week in Room 7 we have been writing raps about respect. We watched a very cool video on Youtube. 

Here is Blakes rap.

Respect is important, I want you to know

It's called respect, 

If you don't use it,

Your friends might lose it. 

R.E.S.P.E.S.C.T.

It's called respect.

Respect means no touching, no pushing, not even any fighting.

Respect my personal space.

It's called respect. 

I'll give it to you if you give it to me.

Respect can hurt like the strength of a fist.

But instead show the flick of a wrist.

If you want to be treated the way of wonder,

Then treat them how you want to be treated.

Now if you want to learn, go to rap of wonder.com

Word!

We want you!

Room 7 are interviewing current and former students of Middle School about their memories of their time at our school. If you or anyone you know can help us out by giving us 30 minutes of their time to be interviewed we would really appreciate your help. We are going to video the interviews and create an oral history of our school.

Our sound of the week this week is ch. Check out this clip.

Memories

We have been writing wonderful poems about memories. We are learning to use rhymes.

Memories are very special to me

They are as cool as a bee.

I am as bad as a key

A key is as shiny as a bee.

My treasures are very shiny

And some are very tiny.

A fish is very shiny

It looks so tiny.

I have memories in my head

It is like I’m cuddling my bed.

I like sharing them with you

It is like you will spew.

I like looking at my photos

When I’m eating my potatoes.

By Sid

Memories are very important to me,

Like a yellow buzzy bee.

I like looking at my photo,

Its as big as a red tomato.

I remember putting a smile,

On my Mum’s dial.

By Dontae

Memories are important to me,

Some of them have a key.

My treasures are very old,

Some of them turn cold.

The remind me of Bessy,

And she was very messy.

It reminds me to stop

But I just drop.

I have memories in my head,

And they have to go to bed.

I have memories as small as a mouse,

But some of them are as big as a house.

I have a friend called Brian

And he teased a lion.

By Erica

Memories are important to me,

Like a golden key.

I like looking at my photo,

It’s like Pluto

My treasures are very shiny,

They are all miney.

By Ngakau.