News Items

Room 10 have been researching particular News topics. We discovered many things that have happened in the World, N.Z., Sports, Music etc.

Take a look and see what we discovered. Which items interest you the most?

We found most of our information on this great website:  http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/

Art in Room 10

We started making our daffodils a while ago now! We wanted to do something different with our sketches so we decided to make papier mache daffodils from them.

It took a long time as we had to wait for each coat of paper to dry before we applied another layer.

It was really tricky getting the paper to stick to the wire too.

After we made them and painted them, we added two coats of P.V.A. glue to make them shiny.

We love our daffodils, we hope you do too!

The Class of 53

We had some very important visitors who came to our school.
They were the class of 53! They went to this school in 1953 and they wanted to see what it is like now.
We had a powhiri to welcome them to our school.
Here are some photos for you to see.

 This woman won the Speights Shield way back then!

 This is our Speights Shield winner from last year. Do you recognise him?

 This lady is giving out the ToolKit Awards.

By Emily

Oral Language

This week we have been discussing 'what if's' in our Oral Language groups. The purpose of these discussions is to think critically about what we would do if ....?

Here is one of our examples:

What would you do?

Cars

Toys - The Crane

Toys - Crane on PhotoPeach

Personal Narratives

Personal Narratives on PhotoPeach These pieces of writing are based around activities we do on weekends or in the holidays. We have worked on making each sentence exciting to read by using adjectives and verbs. We also tried to describe events without specifically saying what they were. I wonder if you can guess what Room 10 children have experienced?

Spelling Wizard

We love using the Spelling Wizard app to learn our spelling words. This person is a whizz at this game. Now he needs the next level up!!

What great learning!

School Cross Country

It is nearly time for us to hold our school cross country for 2013. We have been working hard to train so we can run up and down hills, round the field and out onto the road with enthusiasm and stamina.

We are really hoping to achieve our goals. We hope parents and whanau can come and see us run.

Skyping with Room 5

We have been working on 'questioning' during oral language. Our goal is to know when to ask closed questions and when it is more relevent to ask open questions.

We decided to share our learning with room 5 and then reflect on what we found out from them about themselves and their learning.

Flight

Ships and their simple machines

History of the Television

Tools by Christopher, Jayden and Orlando

Pukete Mountain Bike Park

Today Ms O'Neil and 14 students, who had taken part in Term 1's cycle training, took their skills to the bike park.

We had so much fun, riding down steep hills and up the other side, riding through streams and puddles and doing some cool jumps.

Thanks Amy our KiwiSport Bike Officer, Renae and Emmy her helpers. Dugan our caretaker/bus driver and bike fixer, Ms O'Neil for organising the event and Lilybean for helping the bikers ride faster by her encouraging barking.

Lets go again next year!

The Catapult

Cars of the Past and Present

Cars on PhotoPeach

The Telephone by Hamish, Ethan and Ruia

The Telephone on PhotoPeach

Our quadblogging research

We were wondering where our quadblogging schools were. So Emily, Joshua and Nehaal did some
research and figured out where in New Zealand they are.

This is what they found .....

We are looking forward to reading and commenting on your blog!

Quadblogging

Room 10 are now part of a quadblogging group. This is where we connect with 3 other classes by leaving comments on their blogs and they read and leave comments on ours!

Each class of quadbloggers has a week of doing the posting. Which is our week?

Week 1:  http://room12sawesomelearningjourney.blogspot.co.nz/ - Vardon School, Hamilton
Week 2:  http://room6ateps2013.weebly.com - Edgecumbe Primary
Week 3:  http://room10hes.blogspot.co.nz/ - Hamilton East
Week 4:  http://www.tangowahineschool.blogspot.co.nz/ - Tangowahine School, Dargavill

The students from these classes can read and comment on your stories in your kidblogs too.

I wonder where these schools are? Can you find them on a map and share with us?

End of Term 2, Jump Off!

The last day of Term 2 saw Room 10 running a Jump Off for classes in the school. We had such a fun day!
 Jump Off! on PhotoPeach

What fantastic skippers we have at Hamilton East School!

Can you see yourself skipping?

Thanks for taking such awesome photos Levi

Light by Tarn, Chloe and Alisa-Mei

Our Inquiry Unit this term has been about simple machines. Our group's topic is about light and how it works. Please leave a comment or ask us a question after you have watched our movie.

Kauri Assembly 3rd July

Last Wednesday was another fun Kauri Assembly. We do so much singing and dancing and sharing.

Some of the children in Room 10 wish it could go on for longer!

Here is the photo of our wonderful certificate winners for the week. There were a few invisible ones that needed fairy dust sprinkled on them!

Well done to you.