Hiwi Kiwi

He is playing the guitar and singing. Maria

He is paying his guitar on the stage. Mark

He is playing his guitar. Felk

He is playing his guitar.  He is going to go on a boat.  Darcy

He is talking about the boat when the boat crashed into the log and the people got thrown out and they tipped over and they drowned. Mark

The boat crashed, and they got eaten by a shark and the octopus came and the fish came and they got drowned in the water. Felk

The people were drowing and you have to wear a life jacket, so you can swim back to safety. Mon.E

They are signing a song about kai monana. Mark

He was on the stage, he was singing songs to everyone.  He could stick his guitar on something and he has a microphone holder.  James

The people drowned on the boat.  Maria

He pulled out a hat and a fishing rod. Vaughan

We were making speeches. Casey

He has got a cool guitar. Felk

They rock at the guitar. Breeze

We saw Hiwi the Kiwi. Jahneequa

They were talking.  Breeze

They are singing.  Tamatea

He was singing the song on the microphone and he was choosing someone to pretend to wear the lifejacket.  Drift

Videos of Hiwi the Kiwi playing the different parts of the song Kai Moana

Creating number towers

I am making the numbers with the blocks. Joshua

I am building with the blocks. Benjamin

I am playing with Mrs Henwood. Darcy

I put the blocks together biggest to smallest. Maria

I was building a tower. Casey

Term 3 Celebration/Farewell

I like the party. Aleana

I like the fun. Felk

The party was cool because I was going to eat my cake. Mon.E

I like my cupcakes because they were blue. Casey

I had some donuts. Darcy

I had chips and cake. Joshua

I liked the donuts. Egypt

I had popcorn and chips. Maria

It was fun when I was eating cake. Tamatea

My mum came to shared lunch. Vaughan

I had popcorn. Benjamin

I like the shared lunch that everyone made. Alaeana

Writing Numbers

Writing Numbers to 10

Darcy writing numbers to 10
We were writing the words.

Vaughan writing numbers to 10

Janeequa writing numbers to 10

Making Guitars

Today we tried to make guitars from old tissue boxes, using rubber bands and pencils.

Breeze putting the rubber bands on

Wakaroa and Aleana putting the rubber bands on.

Wakaroa and Drift putting the rubber bands on.

Vaughan, Aleana and Wakaroa adjusting their rubber bands.

Jahneequa and Vaughan adjusting the rubber bands.

Wakaroa and Drift putting the pencil at the top of the box to change the sound the rubber bands make.

Aleana, Wakaroa and Drift putting the pencils under the rubber bands.

Vaughan, Aleana and Wakaroa putting the pencil under the rubber bands.

Breeze and Jahneequa putting the pencil under the rubber bands.

James and Breeze putting the pencil under the rubber bands.

The rubber bands made the box collapse.

When the rubber bands were spread out properly the box did not collapse

We are all making guitar sounds from our tissue box's.

Vaughan, Aleana, Drift, Breeze, Wakaroa, James, Jahneequa making sounds.

Can you hear our sounds?

Weekly Focus Talking Respectfully

Room 9 came up with some respectful things to say to other people.

Explain Everything pictures

Some of the students have been learning how to use Exlain Everything.  Here is what they created when they had to write about an animal using desribing words.

Puzzle

Wakaroa is proud of the puzzle he has put together.

Aleana, Karamia and Casey helped

Tamatea as well.

Learning the Beat

Whaea Desiree came into our class and taught us about the beat in music.

Vaughan, Breeze, Aleana, Maria, Karamia, Casey, Wakaroa, Mark, Tamatea with all the different instruments.

Triangle, drums, tamborine, shakers are some of the instruments.

Karamia, Casey, Wakaroa and Mark using their instrumets to keep the beat.

Karamia on the bells, Casey on the drum, Wakaroa on the tamborine, Mark on the tone block.

Here are some of our sounds.

Puzzle collaboration

We made a castle. Wakaroa

The castle is so big. Mark

I was so cool because it was big. Drift

It was so cool that we made it. Tamatea

It is not a boat. James

The castle is cool. Mon.E

It was fun. Tamatea

It was fun making it with all of the boys. Drift

It was cool. Felk

It was easy to make. Felk

We made a big castle for the boys.  We let them play with the castle. Tamatea

It was so big I liked it because it was the biggest castle ever and it looked like a boat. Drift

It sort of looked like a boat or a castle. Felk

It was trouble when we made it bacuase we made it tall and all the boys were helping. We let them help.  Then we made a rainbow and then Mark and James came to help. Then Drift came to help. We played ninjas and it was fun. Tamatea

And we made a ramp. Mark

I like the castle. Drift

We made the castle. Mark

It was fun making the castle. Tamatea

It rocks. Mark

The boys rock. Wakaroa

We like the castle because it was so big and we liked it. Drift

It was fun because we used all of the blocks. Tamatea

The castle is cool as and we did a great job. Mon.E

It is a boat. James

It is so big and I liked it because it is so big. It was cool. Drift