gabis christmas card

Dear Mummy And Daddy
 I hope you have a brilliant Christmas.
Also remember Jesus is the reason for the season.
GOD BLESS YOU
from Gabriella

love passage for kids

If I can speak beautifully and sing like an angel, But don't love others, I sound like a child banging on a piano or a screeching radio. If im very smart--almost a genius--but dont love others, I am nothing.

love will stand in line and wait its turn.

love looks for the good in others.

love doesn't always want what others have and it doesn't brag about what  it does have

love is polite, even when the other person is rude.

love doesn't have to be first.

love doesn't get angrey over small things,and it doesnt's remember one reason after another to be hurt.

love isn't happy when someone else fails but is happy with the truth.

love will always protect others,especially those who are often picked on or teased.

love always belives the best about others and is steady and true.

love never gives up.

The three most important things to have
are faith, hope and love
but the greatest of these is love

By Taye

Eclipse

solar eclipse


Today their was a solar eclipse it was crashing on my eyes. It felt like my eyes were on fire and it felt like my body was smoking to death. I felt like I was going to die only me. the moon and sun reflects the earth to burn peoples eyes and to kill people too. At 11:49 when we were walking over to the hall. when we got back it moved.     
by Joshua Studholme.

The eclipse

Today a fantastic eclipse was upon us. There was a glimpse of sun light always gleaming on me.It was the first eclipse I have seen. I personaly think that it is amazing how the sun the moon and the eath line up.The eclipse felt like when ever I saw it blinded my eyes as if I was on the sun.

by Keiana

Solar eclipse

A eclipse happens when the moon covers the sun. The eclipes starts when the moom blocks the sun light. Soon the earth grows colder and colder. It is like it is the middle of the night!!                                                            

   Tips            

• Never look at an eclipse with a telescope or binoculars   
•  Never look at a eclipse with outprotection
• by Jordan

                                                                                                                                                                        

THE FIRST SOLAR ECLIPSE I SAW IN MY LIFE

It was day then suddenly a solar eclipse appeared out of no where covering the suns hotness and covering the day. It was getting darker and cold shivering  in the inside of me.Then it stopped. Then two more appeared.I was looking at it and burned my eyes like roast turkey. This could be the first solar eclipse  I ever saw. Or it could get much worse because it might happen again in the next 18 years! by  By Fletcher

Gabi's fantastic day

Today something spectacular happened. I looked up into the sky. Suddenly I felt like my eyes disintegrated. A flash of light hit my eyes. When I looked away I could not see anything but yellow? 
I wondered what had happened.  

SOLAR ECLIPSE :}

Today there was a solar eclipse and it ripped my eyes out.[I could hardly see]

It was beaming down on me sizzling my eyes as if they were on a barbecue.

It was amazing.

                                                                                       By Joshua Evans

SOALR ECLIPSE !! !!

Every 18 years there is a solar eclipse. Today it was getting darker and cold like night time. The moon was shimering over the earth and it was moving so so slowly as if it was a sloth. And as it was rising upon us everyone outside was going crazier than ever.


By Emily gunn

THE ECLIPSE!!!

THE ECLIPSE 

It had come.The first solar eclipse I had ever seen.The sun was shining and then randomly out of nowhere the moon came!The surface of the sun reflected on the moon.The sun ray beamed on the outer side of the moon and shone on us.
                                                                                BY LEWIS!                                                             
                                                                              

Solar Eclipse

                                          
Today there was an amazing solar eclipse.  It's like it's baking my eyes.   
The moon is making it better and cooler by making a shield of light.If you look at it for a while you can become blind but this only happens every 18 years.
by Alex.C

WALT record our first thinking about the Marae

by room 1

I am learning to write a book review

My name is Lewis and at the moment I'm reading a book about Mrs Gillbanks nephew and the book is called called See Ya Simon. This book was recommended  to me by Mrs Gillbanks and it was a memory of her nephew nick who died. Not because he was growing old and not because he was murded, but because he has muscular dystrophy.

Wednesday 17 October: Simon had a wheel chair that was manual but over the holidays his bones got allot weaker so now he has an electrical wheel chair. Today I read that Simon's class had their photo and you could see the change in Simon's development.From strong and healthy like us to weak and tired.


Friday 19 October: On the way home from school simon's wheel chair battery ran out and so his friend had to push the chair. The downside for his friend is that now simon has an automatic wheel chair it's a lot heavier than his manual chair.


Wednsday 24 October: At the moment the auther is going through simons child hood and how kids parents did'nt feel  comtible with their kids near simon. Because some kid started a rumar that simon had aids and that was why he's sick.

WALT use position and orientation

 During our maths study about poistion and orientaiton, we went outside to practise giving directions using the language of position and direction.  some of the vocabulary we used was; half and quarter turns, clockwise and anti clockwise, north, south east and west.

By Room 1

Clouds

WALT use information from our reading to write a poem.

Clouds

Rain goes in a water cycle when rain and water make puddles 

then it start’s to evaporate into the clouds and comes back down, 

that’s when it rains,

then keeps going round and round.

By Taye 

WALT use information from our reading to write a poem.

Clouds

Clouds float low and high

in the glimmering blue sky. 

They help our plants grow tall and strong.

Clouds give the rivers water to flow.

They also give the sea some water so we can

jump in with a one, two, three.

By Kurtis 

WALT use information from our reading to write a poem.

Clouds

Clouds help our plants grow.

They travel through the sky.

They make me happy-they make me sad.

They bring me joy- they make me mad.

Clouds are wonderful every season of the year.

By Elizabeth 

                                                    

Clouds

WALT use information from our reading to write a poem.


CLOUDS

Clouds fly in the sky.

They look beautiful when they are high. 

You wish you were tall enough to see that every cloud is different.

 By Alyssa 

WALT use our new knowledge about clouds to write a poem.

CLOUDS

Clouds floating in the sky

sometimes low sometimes high.

Some clouds are black

and some clouds are white

and when it rains and it has finished

the clouds evaporate the left over

drops of rain.

By Joshua 

Room 1s information posters





We have been learning to design an  information poster using the information we collected about dinosaurs during our inquiry. 

Some of the success criteria were to have a message, colour, title and use an image through creative commons.

Thomas' story about the death of his dog Tui.

Read Thomas' sad story about the death of his dog Tui. What powerful personal voice he has put in his writing.

It was a normal night and Tui was sitting on her mat.  Mum thought she was having a hard time breathing.  The next morning we took her to the vet.  We had to wait until it was our turn. First they weighed her and then we went into a room.  They said they would have to do an operation.  I felt scared.  The next day Dad took us back to the vet.  We went into a room and they showed us some x-rays which showed the fluid that they had drained out of her.  We took her home and they said to keep an eye on her.  

A week later she was having trouble breathing so Mum took a video on her ipad and we had to put her down.  

I was so sad.  We walked into the room and the vet came in and had an injection for Tui. They put a little bit in then more and more until it was all gone.  

Tui had lost the fight.  There was silence.  Then we wrapped her up and put her in the ute.  We drove home and Dad started to dig a hole.  Once it was finshed he put her into the hole and left her in peace.

by Thomas 

The Lido

WALT use describing words in our writing.

                    At the Lido

When I waited for Karen, me and Emily got tickets to the hydroslide.  I was really nervous because I have never been on a hydroslide before.

I followed Emily carefully up the stairs. My tummy felt like I was going to be sick. I was about to tell Emily I don’t want to do this! But then I had to shake of all my nervous bits. I felt a bit better after that.

Finally the time came. I went up anther bunch of stairs. It made me tired already. Then Emily told me what to do, she said the light was green but it didn’t look green. Emily had all ready gone. It looked like it was going so fast I quickly put my feet in and closed my eyes.

Just then I opened my eyes it was pitch black with red lines all around. 

By Natalie 

A Tui in Our Playground

This morning we went for a walk to inquire about the native birds in our playground.

We talked to this beautiful tui who sang to us.

We're wondering how to attract more native birds to our school and we are going to think some questions to guide our wonderings.

posted by Room 1

Managing Self

 WALT use our SUPER Gospel values.
Last week Mrs Tamatea came in and helped us make up some senarios where we had to make good choices when someone upset us.
She presented each group with an Oscar for our acting.

Keiana and Nicole won the Oscar for best performance.

The Feast of the Assumption

WALA the Feast of the Assumption:

Join these pieces together to see what they recreate.

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The St James' Gala

WALT apply our maths knowledge in real life contexts.


We had a great discussion about our class collection for the Gala.  One student thought we would win the class competition for donating the most goods as we have the biggest class.(28)  However the donations are based on a percentage because we have to be fair to students in small classes.
We then explored the idea of percentages and how many bags of sugar we would need this week to get 50%? (14)
Next we decided to find out our daily percentage of sugar donations for this week.  Today (Thursday) we had 15 bags and that came to 53.57%.  Anthony rounded this up to 54%.
A wondering though.......since Tim brought a 5kg bag, does that equal 3 bags?


Posted by Room 1

Dinosaur drawing which connected maths, reading, and our inquiry.

Miss Pedersen gave us each a copy of a tyrannosaurus rex

with a grid drawn on it. We talked about this grid and the

letters and numbers written down the side. We soon

discovered that this grid and these coordinates would

help us draw our dinosaur accurately.

The first job was to draw a grid, like the one on our

piece of paper, on the concrete with chalk. Our grid was

6 metres long and 6 metres wide. Each square in our

grid measured 3 metres by 3 metres.

We drew a dinosaur…

For reading last week, the kakariki group and Miss Pedersen read a story about a class of children who drew a giant dinosaur outside on the concrete. We enjoyed the story so much that we decided to draw a dinosaur of our own!

Here’s what we did:

We were then buddied up with someone else in our

group and Miss Pedersen gave us a part of the

dinosaurs body for us to focus on. This was important

because even though it was a group activity, it would

have been hard to have 9 people trying to draw the same

thing!

Then, we got to work!

Sometimes, we worked together…

And other times, we worked independently.

Miss Pedersen even got stuck in!

We used a lot of chalk and got quite dirty!

Our dinosaur finally started to take shape!

It even tried to eat us!

After  lots of colouring, our dinosaur was finally finished

We were really happy and proud of our creation.                                      

So was Miss Pedersen!

ANZAC Day

97 years ago in 1915 we said farewell to the great war heroes in history. 

Tomorrow is ANZAC day. The day where great grandfathers, fathers, uncles, aunties, mothers and fathers all died. 

We wear poppies on ANZAC day because they grow in the battle fields.

By Elizabeth Tichbon



My Story about the Weetbix Tryathlon

 

I parked and I got some breakfast from the breakfast bar. Then I had to put my bike away in the transport area and had the race briefing. I got to meet one of the Australian basketball players. Then we got started to do the Tryathlon. I warmed up and then swam for fifty metres! And I finished the swimming and then I had to do the biking. I got my bike from the transport area and then I biked from the Lido and I went around the houses. Then into the forest.  Then around the corner. Then back into the transport area. I put my bike away and I started to run all around Ongley Park and I finished the Weetbix Trythlon Series and I got a golden medal. I got my time and I came first place and I got a picture taken and got a Weetbix drink bottle.

 by Sean Faulkner

Ceasar the ANZAC Dog

CAESAR

THE ANZAC DOG

There was a dog named Caesar who was a red cross dog in the army. He went hunting for wounded and dead solders  when Tom and the stretcher bearers  were out  in no mans land.

One day Tom sent Caesar out to hunt for dead and wounded men at night. Caesar did not come back. Tom knew he had to wait till day light before he went hunting for him.

The next morning Tom and the stretcher bearers went hunting for Caesar. One of the stretcher bearers yelled he’s over here. Caesar was dead. He was shot in the chest while lying  by a dead New Zealand solder.

posted and written By Joshua Evans

WALA soccer skills.

Shane Rufer came to teach us soccer skills today.  We learnt a lot about dribbling and controlling the ball.  However the biggest lesson we learnt was about our Key Competency -Participating and contributing.  After a while we found that some of us got very impatient with others and didn't play well in our team.  We discussed what our school Gospel value UNITY looks like and decided to use this more.  Mrs Cosgrove showed us how there is no I in TEAM.  We are going to call our class Team1s and try to apply this Gospel value.
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Team1s wow assembly!

WALT create music using an instrument.
Today Team1s played the ukelele at the Middle Team Assembly. They remembered the key points from the lesson which were to hold the ukelele correctly, strum in time and play C7.  They produced a beautiful sound and played an encore.
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WALT be safe and confident in the water

Anthony took these photos of Team1s lesson at the swimming pool.  His photos show students gliding, learning to float on their backs, and using arms for backstroke.
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WALT interview our Talking Partner

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WALT use the Key Competencies

In Room 1 we have been learning to work co operatively using the Relating to Others Key Competency. These photos show us exploring our island senario.  To do this we had to listen to others ideas and accept those even if they were different to ours. We also had to encourage each person in our group to particpate.


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Hi from Mrs Cosgrove

Hi Room 1. 

Have you had a look at studyladder yet?  Remember these simple steps and you can go in and have fun with the maths we're learning.

1. Click on the group you are in.  e.g. studyladder orange.
2. If your name is there, you are in the right group.
3. Click on the part where it says password and enter your password.
4. Scroll down and click on maths set tasks.  Those are the ones I have bookmarked for you about what we are studying in maths.

Love from Mrs Cosgrove