Assembly for our show

This afternoon we got all dressed up in our gold mining outfits and paraded around the hall showing the rest of the school our awesome costumes.  

Don't we look great? 

Reading Caterpillar

Meet our Reading Caterpillar, he shows us where we are in reading and what our goal is for the end of the term. Come on in and have a look at what our goals are in reading for the end of this term. Everyone is aiming to read Gold by the end of this year, which is the National Standard. 

Happy reading room 13! Lets get to the top of the Reading Caterpillar!!  

Gold Mining Dress Up Day

Room 13 and Room 24 are buddy classes this year! Together, we are studying New Zealand gold mining. We will be incorporating our research on gold mining into a timeline of New Zealand’s history with other buddy classes. This will be an exciting term where the children will see each class’ contribution to a different part of our history. We will be learning:

• simple research techniques of how to pose a question
• how to access information
• how to read information 
• how to present our discoveries e.g. as a mock interview, play or poster.

We are looking for family members who can give a talk to the children about mining in general, gold mining or a simple history of life in the late 1800s. Could you or do you know anyone who could talk about one of these subjects? If so, please let us know:). 

On Friday, May 17^th the school is having a dress up day. Each buddy class will dress according to their chosen subject and parade their costumes at assembly. For this day could you please send your child to school in gold mining clothes.

You may want to dress your child in:

 an old white shirt with buttons

·         long dress/buttoned shirt and skirt with bonnet or straw hat

·         jeans

·         black pants

·         boots or black or brown closed-toe shoes

·         overalls/waistcoat

·         men’s suspenders that go over the shoulders

·         country/old/farmers hat

·         Chinese farmer hat

·        Your own clothes, borrowed clothes or second hand clothes will be just perfect! We will be needing your outfit later in the year for filming a gold mining skit so please keep the outfit handy in a tied up bag at home 

      Thanks for your support 

Cross Country Practice

Cross country is coming up in week 3 we have practice on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Please come to school with running shoes on these days. 

Happy Mothers Day

To all our wonderful Mums, Happy Mothers Day. We hope you're having the best day! 

Haiku

Today we learnt about a new type of poem. A Haiki. 

These are 3 line poems written with 17 syllables. We wrote one together as a class and then we wrote one with our table group. Have a read of our fantastic Haiku's our teacher was very impressed!!

Dragons - 

Electric eels 

Always sparking at something 

Spark electrocutes

Eagles - 

Orange Goldfish swim 

Goldfish swim everywhere nice 

Splash! the Shark ate it

Kiwi Kids - 

Goldfish are golden 

Goldfish swim in the water

Boom! they get eaten 

The Cool Group - 

Birds flying in the sky 

Birds flying high in the rain 

Lightning strikes the bird 

The Glitter Gold Group- 

Swans white and orange 

Swans Swimming in a huge lake 

then it has babies 

Cinquain Poem

Today in class we were learning how to write a poem called a Cinquain. Since Mothers day is coming up we decided to write a poem about Mums have a read of it below:

Have a go of writing your own Cinquain at home, remember:

Line 1 - Title 

Line 2 - 2 words describing the title 

Line 3 - 3 words expressing action 

Line 4 - 4 words expressing feeling 

Line 5 - a synonym for the title