Koru Art

This week we created some awesome artwork.  We used pastels and sharpies to create these amazing Koru's.  These Koru patterns represent our families and Whanau, with each frond shape being a member of our family.  We felt amazed and surprised at just how good these Korus look.  Please come into our class and see them.

By Oliver, Ian, Levi, Scarlett and Room 16

Week 2: Eels, ducks and more!

This week we went on a small walk to the duck pond close to school.  We came back and wrote about what we saw.  Then a few days later we added adjectives to make our writing more interesting.  A sentence such as "we saw some eels" magically became "we saw some grey, slimey, slippery eels swimming through the dirty muddy water".

Great adjectives Room 16!

By Mr Clark

We are Room 16!

Here is Room 16 on our awesome first day at school.  Today we got lots of cool stationery, met new friends and played some games.  It was a great first day, but it was really really hot!

From Finnegan, Ji you, Ian, Lily and Room 16.

Welcome to Room 16 in 2015!

Hi friends and whanau (family) of Room 16!

I hope you all had a great Christmas and enjoyed the sunny holidays.  We are looking forward to sharing our learning with you through our awesome Blog.  Check in every week to see what amazing school experiences we have been having and please leave a friendly message as we check these every week.

Here is a little clue of what I got up to over two incredible days in January.  Can you guess where I rode my bike?

See you soon!

Mr Clark

Captain Blood and the Pirate Olympics

Captain Blood needs a new ship.....Arrrghhhh

Arrgh me hearties.  We been learnin bout measurement tis week.  Cap'n blood needed a new vessel so he got his pirate crew to design a new ship.  The new ship had to be 10m long, 5m high front mast, 4m long rear mast, 1m plank, and 2m flag.  After that we were allowed to draw other features of me ship.  Captain Blood then choose the best ship, but they were all great!

Pirates Hannah, Grace, Benjamin, Mia and Ryan

Me hearties Jonathan, Michelle, Angelina and William

Scurvy dogs Eva, Cynthia, Hannah C, Kaelyn and Deacon

Me crew Amber, Nishil, Michael, Jhanvi, Fifi and Isabelle

The deck scrubbers Zahra, Zeph, Ayla and Jessica

Maze Madness!

This week in maths we have been learning about directions such as forward, back, left, right, north, south, east, west.  First we looked at minecraft mazes.  Then, we gave instructions to a buddy to solve a simple maze.  They couldnt see the maze, so we had to say "forward two blocks, right three blocks" and so on.  

Finally we went outside with a buddy and we got to go through a real maze!  One person was blindfolded while the other had to give instructions to solve the maze.  If we touched the sides or peeked we had to go back to the beginning!

It was awesome fun!

By Mia, William, Grace, Jessica, Cynthia, Nishil and room 16.