"I..." a poem by Jasmine

I am awesome and friendly

I wonder what I’ll be in the future

I see everyone thats's around me

I want a new phone

I hear people talking

I am strong and confident

I pretend that I'm a vampire at home

I feel happy

I touch my hair

I worry that I will never see my friends and family again

I cry when I’m sad

I am happy and excited

I understand my friends

I say that my brother is annoying  

I dream that I’ll be the very best that I can be  

I try to make the best of life

I hope that I make awesome friend when I grow up

I wait for nothing

I am courageous and weird      

Using NZSL to communicate

NZ Sign Language is NZ's third official language. Latham and Saruja have created this DLO to show us how to sign the names of family using NZSL. 

"I..." a poem by Evelyn

I am confident and honest

I wonder if  aliens and dragons are real

I see the people speaking positively everyday

I want to be able to conquer my fear

I hear my family and friends having a good time

I am positive and smart

I pretend to be a millionaire and an artist

I feel my feeling growing in my life and happiness around me.

I touch my feeling exploring

I worry about if I could be a new person I might change

I cry my until my tear run out with no love

I am a powerful person and a challenging person

I understand that somethings are difficult in people’s life

I say that one day my wish will come true, one day

I dream all my dreams are real

I try to forget the hard and painful moments

I hope that I can become a brave girl and have a perfect job. Also I hope that I have the right attitude

I wait for all this moments that I have spent with my friends with last forever

I am a mysterious person full of wonder.

Exploring the Finger Spelling alphabet with Room 8 and 9

Today some of the Room 8 and Room 9 students created DLO's using google draw. For some of them taking a photo and inserting it in a google drawing is very new. We think they did a great job at showing their new learning.

NZ Sign Language Week

Today we explored the challenges on Sign Ninja to help us make connections to sign language, New Zealand's third official language. You can explore it too by clicking on this link.

Letter from the Trenches

Fine, Yvette, Samantha and Sajiha used a writing plan to help them collaboratively construct this letter from the trenches. You will see that the detail in the letter paints a clear picture in the reader's mind.

Remembering Private La Tour Mollet (Ted) d’Auvergne

As the train whistle blew at 7.20am, Ted told the publican to not touch his drink as he will return. Killed in action in WW2, he never came back. Today the unopened bottle of Ballins 4x remains behind the counter in a glass case. The 76 poppies laid around it, one for every ANZAC day since Private La Tour Mollet (Ted) d’Auvergne left it behind. The bottle in the Waihao Forkes bar in Waimate is now recognised as an official NZ war memorial.

Our Field of Remembrance

Today Panmure Bridge School held a special ANZAC ceremony to honour the our fallen local heroes. Sgt Stacy from the NZAF came and spoke to us about the job of a soldier and how war 

affects them. This was a truly moving ceremony and our students displayed a huge amount of respect.

2x Table infographic

Saruja created this great DLO to show her understanding of the 2x table. 

Biased Perspectives

This week we have been looking at how biased perspectives can influence a reader's opinion. We found out that an objective opinion is balanced and shows two perspectives and a subjective opinion is very one sided. These are some of the examples of how we used our new knowledge of bias to change a balanced article into a biased article.

Bulford Kiwi

This week we read 'Harry's War' as a shared text. After having our learning discussions we used our smart searching and collaboration skills to create these information posters that tell the story behind the creation of the Bulford Kiwi in 1919. 

Famous Faces we connect with

Fine

 

Taikehu

   

Zahn

   

John

 

Latham

Ducati

Easter Egg Hunt by Saruja

Room 4/5 Easter Egg Hunt!

We had lots of fun this morning helping our Tuakana Teina class find the easter eggs that had been hidden for them by Room 5.

Learn Create Share: Te Reo

Mengchun and Tim

Fine and Jhard'ae

    

Here are a few of our collaborative presentations that we hope will help students/teachers have a better understanding of Te Reo Maori.