Our Class Treaty promises

We have explored the meaning of 'Getting Along With Everyone' in the HES toolkit,

 talked about the importance of Waitangi Day and the Treaty of Waitangi 

and read the 'Tree Hut Treaty'.

We think a treaty is a list of promises that you make so that both sides are 

happy living together. Without a treaty and a set of rules we thought there 

might be chaos and mayhem in our class!!

Below are some of the ideas we brainstormed (in small groups) as being the most important promises to make to each other.

We found that quite a few ideas came up in each others 'Top 5' - respect, 

manners, including everyone, kindness, ask for help, think before you do, 

show you are responsible, be positive, share, tell the truth and 

make sure everyone's happy!

Watch this space for the next stage of our Class Treaty - the tea staining and flame grilled edges to make our treaty look like the Treaty of Waitangi treaty.

Turangawaewae - Our Place and Getting to know each other

Here we are playing a cool, co-operative game. 

The aim of the game is to get the whole team to safety across the shark infested waters.....only using 3 hoops to get us across. 

Before we started we talked about how we could do it.

It was difficult getting some people to listen to other's ideas.

We had to make sure not to leave anyone behind.

Each time we play this game we make changes to our 

technique of getting to safety.

We came up with a rule that only 7 people at a time could be in the hoop.

If you touch the shark infested water outside the hoop you have to go back to the start.

The score so far is Boys 1 - Girls 2

Next challenge is mixed teams!

Kia Ora & welcome back to Room 10

Our HES gardens have flourished.

The vegetables are nearly ready to harvest.

We love swimming in the school pool.

We are learning to be swim safe.

We are recreating the gateway to the school for our room.

We look, draw, look at the photo and work in
small groups to sketch.

We are learning about the animals carved in the gateway.
The Fantail, the Lizard and the Taniwha.

The gateway is 15 years old and represents the
past, present and future students, teachers
and families at Hamilton East.

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?