Student Spotlight - Meia

 This week has been a BIG and BUSY week! 

We have written some term 3 reflections. 

We got three new people in our class. It was Natalie, Max and Caleb. 

We had three birthdays. Caden turned 7 on Tuesday and Natalie and Max are 6 today! 

We received a new letter from the Little Garden League and Natalie got into the club. 

And we have a big assembly today for the last assembly of the term. 

Student Spotlight - Luke

 Last week I was the star of the week and it was really fun because it was Māori language week. We learnt the colours in te reo and sung a song about it. On Friday we had hapu sports which is where we break up into our 4 school hapu's and then we took turns playing different games. I am in the orange hapu which is called Rimu. 

Student Spotlight - Ava

 This week we did an experiment were we put sharp pencils into a little bag of water and a big bag of water. I thought the bag was going to explode but it didn't because it just got a wee hole and the water came out like a waterfall. We thought Miss Pugh was magic. 

Student Spotlight - Evie

Last week we brought in a box and we wrote about what we thought was in it.
When we opened it the parts to set up a little garden league clubhouse was inside. It came with a mailbox. We had to write letters and fill out an application to be in the club and post it in the box. 

Student Spotlight - Sophie

This week we had Kris from the library come and read us the story Abigail and the Birth of the Sun. After that, we did some sun art and it was fun because we got to put yellow strings hanging off the bottom.

For writing this week we watched a video about a bridge, a bear, a moose, a rabbit and a racoon. They were fighting about who got to go to the other side. We made an animation on explain everything retelling the story and then wrote about what we thought the ending would be. I said that maybe the racoon and the rabbit will fight because they wanted to get to the other side like the bear and the moose.

Here is my animation

Student Spotlight - Logan

Last week for writing we got to write about anything we wanted. I wished that I had a PlayStation 4 so that I could play games with my brother. I enjoyed this writing because I got to write about what I like.

Next time I do writing I want to write about what I do with my family after school.

Here is my writing.

Student Spotlight - Tara

Matariki art

This week in Ruma Weka we did matariki art.
First, we painted the stars onto the black paper for the background. Then we ripped the paper to create the mountains. Then we used the soft pastels to colour the tops of the mountains. Then we rubbed the pastel up on to the black paper to make the southern lights. We printed out the Matariki stars and glue them on in the right formation onto the black paper.

It was really fun! The hardest part was ripping the paper to make the mountains. The most fun part was rubbing the pastels up.

They are going to look really cool on the wall!

This is my finished artwork!

Written by Tara.

Student Spotlight - Finnian

My Holiday - By Finnian

At  the weekend my family went tramping to a hut.  We slept at the hut and the next day we walked back to the car.  We saw a robin on the way back and on the way there is a  small bird I liked it.  I carried a backpack with my clothes in it.  When we got back we kept on driving to Hammer.   When we got there we had electric blankets on our beds they were warm.  Mum and Dad had electric blankets too. We went to the hot pools and I was tall enough to go on the hydroslides and I went on the new one and the Super Bowl.  My favourite one was the green hydroslide because it had lights which were shaped like arrows inside.  It was a great holiday.