Earth Hour 2013

This Saturday, 23rd March at 8.30pm, is Earth hour. 

Watch this video and see what you can find out about Earth Hour.

What does this mean for our planet? How can you help?
Add your ideas in the comments box below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2UywrjnOaUE

This website below gives you information about how many days, hours and minutes there are left till earth hour. It enables you to add your email address and be counted on the day. Ask your parents first though!

http://www.earthhour.org/

There is more interesting information on this website too. I wonder if you can find some of the places in the world that are mentioned in this article?

http://www.earthday.org/2013/about.html

Kauri Team Swimming Sports

What a fantastic day we had! Thank you Matangi School for giving us the opportunity to enjoy our Kauri Team Swimming Sports at your pool. We had so much fun and all of us achieved our goals.

Parents, there will be certificates presented at Positive Assembly this Friday morning to all the children who came first, second or third in their races. We hope you can make it.

Mihimihi

We are learning to introduce ourselves in Maori by saying and sharing our mihi.

Here we are practising with our learning buddies.

Please leave a comment or a suggestion to help us with our learning.

Swimming in Room 10

We love swimming! This term, nearly all Room 10 children have been swimming
every day. Ms O'Neil is so proud of your enthusiasm for swimming and your achievements.

We are looking forward to swimming sports on Thursday 14th March!

Week 6 Reflections

This week .......

We’ve been working hard to build the chickens their coop.

We’ve been up and down with the wheelbarrow getting woodchips for the floor – Jayden

We had to redesign and remake the door because the first one wasn’t straight and it didn’t fit the gap – Christopher

We’ve been putting the roof on the house. We used bamboo to hold the rubber tiles and punga leaves were put on at the end to make the house look glamourous – Lacey

We put shade cloth on the side and at the back. We did this by sewing it onto the frame – Emily

We also had to make one big wall for the coop, which we made out of bamboo and shade cloth – Chloe

We are focusing on swimming sports by fine tuning our swimming techniques. We have chosen our races and we’re ready to race – Oliver, Lacey, Jayden

We are still working on our self portraits and yesterday we sketched the giant sunflowers outside our classroom. – Namrata and Emerald

We visited our garden. We discovered lots of  vegetables growing in the garden. We harvested some more beans – look how many we have now! Jayden

We’ve been learning about place value and how to count our numbers – Elvis 

Our reading topic has been based on ‘swimming’. We have learnt how to summarise and add illustrations to our work – Lackhlan, Hamish and Lacey

Cricket – we have been learning new skills…like using 3 fingers to hold the ball – Ruia and Oliver.

Room 10's reflections

At the end of our first week, we spent some time reflecting on our learning. We are all happy to be back at school with our friends.

Room 10, Term 1, 2013

We have been swimming and we met Wendy from Swim Safe who has helped us swim - Oliver and Hamish

We made holiday maps – we drew ourselves and around us we drew and wrote all about our holidays – Nehaal, Tarn and Joshua

We have a new powhiri so we know what to do when new people come – Ruia, Lacey

We have lots of new ideas for our Class Treaty – Makki and Alisa

Koru the Kiwi came to visit! – Ezekiel

We have made graphs we know about ‘tally’ graphs and ‘bar graphs’ – Alice,

We went down to our garden, we discussed what is growing and came up with some new ideas – Oliver, Aleah

We learnt about companion planting – Pengshen

We know about being ready to learn – Alisa

We learnt how to move around our school - Lackhlan

We read about Tree Hut Treaty, which helped us make our own Treaty for Room 10 - Christopher and Emily

Favourite places at Hamilton East School

The first day of a new year at Hamilton East School. Room 10 went on a tour of the school and found a few places that we really love to learn and play in our school.

Here is what we had to say.........

Putikitiki

We play soccer, rugby, touch and t-ball here.
We talk in the shade.
We play on the tyre swing.
We play master tag.
We learn how to do handstands and cartwheels.
We have whanau sports together.
We lie on the grass and look at the sky.

We wear our hats!
We get better at kicking over the goal.
We chat to teachers.
We make up our own games using our imaginations.
We sit at the picnic tables and share ideas.We take our shoes off and feel the grass beneath our feet.
We make new friends.
We sit on the steps.
We play tiggy on the playground.
We learn new games.



The Swimming Pool

We like getting into the cold water on a hot day.
We learn to float on our front and back.
We learn to get into the water safely.
We learn to use noodles and flutterboards to help us float.
We love swimming at lunchtime because we can just play.

We love blowing big bubbles under the water.
We like swimming with our friends.
We like racing against each other.
We like learning new swimming games.
We learn how to breath properly.
We know we have to look at the sky when we are on our backs.
We listen to the teacher when she blows the whistle.
We like dolphin diving.
We make whirl pools then float around on them.
We know the pool rules are for our safety.
We love swimming when we're at After School Care.

The Big Slide

We can go down fast!
We take turns.
We can play with our friends.
We can play on our own.
We fly off the bottom.
We sit on our hats!
We make trains.
We get to middle flat quicker.
We go down the slide and up the stairs.
We make up games.
The slide is great fun!