On Wednesday Team One had a great day at the Auckland Zoo.
Blessing said "the sun is shining and the birds are chirping, it's a good day to go to the zoo". He was right it was an awesome day to go to the zoo.
We saw lots of amazing animals and had alot of fun.
We have learnt about some of the worlds most famous artists and we have made our own art based on the paintings they did along time ago.
We hope you enjoy our movie.
Today we sadly had our last Taekwondo lesson for the term.
We have had a lot of fun learning from Coach Brendon.
Today we learnt how to break some boards with our feet. We had to raise our knee up really high. It was a bit scary at first but then we all had a go and it was awesome.
Today our senior Kapa Haka group gave a performance at school assembly.
They were really amazing and we loved watching them. When they had finished we all cheered. They made us really proud.
We wrote stories about what we had seen.
This is McKayla's story.
"I like Kapa Haka because they dance on the stage".
Today we got to share our Team 1 movie with Pt England school and lots of other schools as well.
We went on the bus to Sylvia Park. We were so proud to see ourselves on the big screen.
Watch it here and leave us a comment.
We have been reading and listening to some very special books in our classroom over the last few weeks.
These books have two languages in them. Mrs Shirley reads to us in English and then we listen to the languages we hear at home and with our fanau.
Blessing liked listening to the stories in Samoan. His Mum read the story The Race to him too.
Marriane told the class about the doughnuts her Nany makes - just like the ones in the story - No Ducks.
On Friday we had a very exciting day. It was Athletics Day!
We had lots of fun playing games and running races. We have made a slide show - Ebook of our stories of the day. We hope you like reading it.
We have been looking after our garden. We water it and make sure no weeds are growing.
We have lots of pretty flowers now and our strawberries are growing and some are even ready to eat.
"They are yummy!" said McKayla.
Happy Niue Language week everyone - Today we had a special assembly to celebrate the island, people and language of Niue.
Our Niue group danced and sang for us.
Today we learnt how to take photos on the ipad and draw on our photos in explain everything.
This is what we made.
Today we were able to join together with the other Year One classes for Team Assembly.
It was great to be able to share our weekly team certificates again.
Congratulations this week to Ezekiel and Marriane who received certificates for being great learners.
Ka Pai te Mahi!!
We used photography to take pictures and then we cut them out.
We sculpted 3 dimensional flowers with coloured paper.
We drew leaf designs with crayon and then painted them with watercolours.
Mrs Shirley was very proud of the amazing art works we created.
Today we finished our paintings inspired by the legend of Maui and the sun.
We used red, orange and yellow crayons and water colours. We are really proud of our work.
In spring time we see lots of flowers growing.
Today we planted flowers and strawberries in the garden outside our classroom.
Marriane told us about how she gardens with her Grandma. Te Awhina thinks that our classroom is going to look beautiful when the flowers come out. Paula loves strawberries and is excited to try the ones that we grow.
We have been learning about the seasons of the year. We wrote stories about springtime.
Steven drew this picture of red flowers on the ipad. Great work Steven.
McKenna recorded this awesome story about Springtime. Well done McKenna.
Kyra-Lee did this work on the ipad - Awesome job!
Today we listened to the legend of Maui and how he slowed it down.
We made these pictures on the ipads.
Paula made this cool picture listen to him tell you about Maui.
Ruth made this.
In room 13 we have been learning lots of fun maths. We made this movie to share with the school so that they can see what we have been doing.
We hope you like it.
Friday was cross country day and the whole school came out to cheer each other on.
We were lucky that the sun was shining and we got to race against all of the other Year 1 classes.
It was cool to see all the children and teachers dressed up in their house colours.
Here are all the boys lined up ready to race.
Then the girls got to race.
After the race Mr J played cool music for us to dance to!
We have had heaps of fun this week learning some Tongan words, listening to Tongan stories and music.
Marcus's sister came into class to show us her beautiful traditional Tongan clothes.
Friday was a fantastic day for everyone at Pt England School.
We celebrated coming back to school with a Wacky hair, Wheels day.
We wore mufti and rode our bikes, scooters and skateboards at lunchtime.
Thanks Mr Burt.
"Come on back to school!" says Jay.
We are having lots of fun. Here is Jay using some colourful paints.
Ruth made a delicious pizza for lunch just like she saw on our learning slides.
Well done Ruth it looks amazing! Yummy!!
We are so lucky in Room 13 to have Miss Shaniah supporting us with our learning.
She made this cool movie last term.
Thanks for sharing it with us so we can remember all the fun we have at school.
Thank you to Ashleigh's Mum for sending these great photos of some of the learning they have been doing at home.
Ka pai te mahi Ashleigh!
Its great to see you have been getting some exercise and fun in as well.
Hi everyone,
It has been awesome seeing each other online during our time at home.
We have been singing waiata, and sharing our work.
Click on the link in our learning slide to join us each school day at 9.30am.
Serena has been learning at home and her Mum shared an awesome slideshow of all her work.
Great effort Serena!
Peyton is learning how to write numbers on the ipad. She learnt to take photos as well.
Awesome work Peyton.
Today we read the story about Kakariki the Taniwha. He went to the Marae and ate all the hangi.
Ashleigh made this animation all about it.
Marcus drew this Taniwha.
Ashleigh's Taniwha
We have been thinking about what children around the world eat for lunch.
We started by looking at the things that Room 13 have in their lunch.
Serena made a movie about her lunch.
Ema made this movie about her lunch.
Kia ora e te whanau, Friday is assembly day at Pt England and we are continuing to celebrate our school and our community with online asse...
