Value of the Week: Cooperation

Value of the Week: Responsibility

Making the best of a wet EOTC Day...

Today the Awatea Team had a trip to the Gorge and the Ashhurst Domain planned but unfortunately the weather wasn't good and we had to cancel it.  We still made the best of the day with lots of different activities at school.  Take a look...

Respect in Literacy

In our literacy rotations this afternoon, the Awatea team were creating acrostic poems to share ways to show respect.  Take a look at some of our work...

Value of the Week: Respect

Oktapodi Haiku Poems

We watched this video then wrote Haiku poems about it. Check it out!

Haiku

We have been learning about Haiku poems. We wrote a poem together about the Turbos.
Tune in for more Haiku next week.

EMPATHY

Our value of the week is Empathy.

                

Statistics

We are learning about different ways to find and present information. We have been doing our own investigations.

Ag Day 2014

Even though Ag Day was partially cancelled, it was still a great day. Check out the video to see the wonderful lambs, calves, home tasks and school tasks students completed.

Value of the Week - Courage

Report Writing with Ms Matangi

Describing Objects

On Friday, for team literacy rotations, one thing everyone had to do was focus on a leaf.  Then in pairs, everyone had to come up with four or five descriptive sentences to help you get a good picture in your head of the leaf.  Here are some of the stand out sentences...

Commonwealth Literacy

Over the past few days we have been investigating the Commonwealth Games.  As part of our literacy today, we created shared acrostics to share some of what we have learnt...

More Cooperation Posters...

We made it the Sensational 16 homework project this week and here are some more great examples...

Value of the Week - Cooperation

Supreme 15 made up some raps/songs about cooperation. Here are some to enjoy...

Value of the Week: Cooperation

Here's a fantastic poster from Indi...

Discovery Design

Another option for our discovery modules, has been to design a new product.  Thomas, Natasha, Alyssa & Kate all thought that the standard umbrella wasn't good enough for protecting you from the wind and rain in Palmerston North.  Here's their solution...

Discovery Portrait Art

This term, one of the options for our discovery modules has been focusing on creating portraits using different famous artists for inspiration.  This is a portrait of Erin, completed by Alice in Ropu Awatea.  It looks fantastic!

Let's Get Inventin' - Wipe Out Course Inventions

As part of our inquiry learning, we all worked in groups to design and create a model wipe out course.  Take a look...

Cowley & Eggleton Group Writing

Awatea Team Literacy

He aha tenei? Taku Akomanga...

This term, Ropu Awatea have been learning te reo Maori for Taku Akomanga (My Classroom).  Take a look at the slideshow booklets we have created to put up around the class...

Value of the Week: Respect

FIFA World Cup Fever hits Ropu Awatea

We've been exploring some of the countries involved in the world cup - the kids all helped put together a slideshow...

The Shining Sun

As part of our focus on learning to describe and sentence structure, we used a mentor text about the moon to base our ideas on.

The Koru Painting

Ruby and Sapphire groups have been learning to describe using more specific words and similes/metaphors to create imagery in their writing.  Ms Matangi brought in a painting for everyone to use as inspiration.  Here are some of their fantastic pieces... it is still being added to so stay tuned for more.

Our Let's Get Inventin' Design Process

We are beginning to start our independent inquiries. We are going to be using this process to help us... We look forward to sharing our journeys with you soon!

Descriptive Writing with Miss Marlow

The Ruby and Sapphire groups have been working on two main things this term: using different sentence structures and describing.

This week we've all been working on describing a painting by Ms Matangi.  We had to think about what it looks like, what it reminds us of, the colours, textures and symbolism.  We've had some fantastic pieces of writing created... take a look!

Follow up on Literacy Superstars!

Following the great treasure hunt that some of the kids went on with Miss Beauchamp, Mr Radford 1 and Whaea Awhina, here's some recount writing that was created...

Value of the Week: Empathy

This is an interesting take on empathy in a poster created by Ethan & Casey...