Rotary Dictionary Presentations to the Year 4's.

Last Tuesday the Year 4 students received their free dictionaries from the lovely people at Rotary. Bruce and Elizabeth Killen came to school to present the dictionaries to the children.

Here are some photos of the children receiving the dictionaries. We also received new guitar strings and a new book for our library.

Koru Art Work - Term 2

We have been learning about koru and Maori patterns this term. As part of our Matariki focus we completed these artworks. We had to draw the koru, shade and blend with pastel using warm and cool colours, then weave skewers through to finish it off.

Golf coaching

This term we have Paul aka Mr Golf come to our school and teach us golf skills. We have absolutely loved it and have had so much fun. Here are some photos from our last session where we learnt to 'launch' the ball towards targets.

Animal Town writing

This week we have used another Pobble 365 picture as motivation for our writing. We had a story
starter and then we had to carry on the story.

Here is some of our writing about Animal Town.

I am the greatest sheriff. I am sheriff Lion. Only once a year someone breaks the law, only once a year!
So I usually lie in the sun for a year, but this year everything changed. When a gang of animals came.
They call themselves poor humans. They have machines called cameras they were trying to blind us.
And when they were finished they just walked away.

I needed a group of animals, the strongest on earth, to fight those puny little humans. They were Mr
Stripes the zebra, the plan animal. Mr Bear, the great scientist. Mr and Mrs Meerkat, the speedy
tricksters. Mr Dotty, the giraffe adventurer and he is Mr Stripes brother. And lastly me, Sheriff Lion.
Together we are the Animal Force 5.

I sent Mr and Mrs Meerkat to spy on the humans. When they came back they had bad news.
They reported that if you are captured you will get burned and eaten. A few days later they came
back to animal town with more machines called shotguns. They sent their first troops. But they didn’t
know that we set up booby traps. The first troop fell for a booby trap. The first trap had something to do
with sleeping darts. While the troop set off the booby trap Mr and Mrs MeerKat were kidnapping the
leader quietly. Once all the troops were knocked out, the leader woke up we threw him into the cage.

He told us every deepest darkest secret he knew, but we did not let him go because he might tell
everyone our hiding spot. So we learnt how to build force fields and lots of things that involves
technology. So from this day forward no human can come into Animal Town.      
By Shiah

I was so bored sitting on that hard bumpy seat until finally Mr Stripes walked over and said, “that giraffe is speeding with a couple of gangsters in that yellow van over there!”

I said, “right where are these people I have been hearing about?” "Just across the road there, replied Mr Stripes. I put my glasses on to see where the yellow van was. I gave them a ticket and they drove off to New York City. I turned around with a big smile on my face and went home to make banana on toast. Once I got there I looked in my fruit bowl but there were no bananas left so I got in my car. Once I got out of my driveway a tree fell over so I hopped out of my car and walked to the shop.
By Sam

I’m a koala I like hanging on the tree I go upside down. I like staying on my tree. We live in Animal Town. I sat and watched the animals. The lion sat on top of the van, the bear sat in the van, the giraffe stuck his head out of the van, he looked at the blue and white sky. He likes mostly likes looking at the sunset, red, yellow and orange . The lazy zebra crossed the road, after he crossed the road he sat in the warm sun and he lazily fell to sleep. The meerkats were thinking, what are those other animals doing?
By Sydney-Rose

The hot air balloon race

This week we have used a picture as motivation for our writing. We had a story starter and then we had to carry on the story. We also made a google draw showing the things that we would take with us in on the balloon. Here are a few of their stories.

The balloon

The balloon was getting ready. We are getting all the stuff for the balloon. The rest of  the balloons took off. We went up drifting in the air slowly. We are going to Australia and my mate Joe is coming with me. It felt like I nearly fell off the balloon.

I landed it in Australia putting the fire out. I landed on the ground. It was foggy and scary.  I nearly fell over. I had landed safe.

By Jack

Hot air balloon race

The racing  is about to start I can't wait to try out on my new
amazing hot air balloon. Kaira and I are going to have so much
fun .I feel so scared. Away we go! I see fluffy clouds in the sky.

I bought too big packs of water, two big packs of marshmallows,
two packs of pizza and one pack of carrots. I brought a gas fire,
a little mattress and two big blankets. A warm jacket if the hot
air balloon stops. I'll bring a kite too. Oh  I'm on  the night shift.
Away we go! I hear birds chirping by my amazing hot air balloon.
I hear people cheering for us.

By Cruz

Hot air balloon writing

This week we have used a picture as motivation for our writing. We had a story starter and then we had to carry on the story. What I like about my writing is I have really good adjectives. I need to improve on capital letters for names. We also made a google draw showing the things that we would take with us in our hot air balloon.

“Here comes the big journey crew” I said. We slowly lifted off into the air in the dark blue sky of the beautiful night I said I would take first watch on night shift incase another balloon tries to get in front of us. “While there is blood in my veins we will win this race" I shouted.

My crew was already fast asleep in their sleeping bags with the flame of the balloon roaring above them. I had the most experience with flying cause I was the first to go to the moon. One balloon thought they were faster than us they were close to it to by the way. The fire in the balloon roared above us like a campfire when you’re hunting in viking ages. Before they could overtake us we had a secret up our sleeve we had a lighter to make the flame even bigger than before and make more air hotter than before so we could race ahead.

A flock of beautiful kingfishers flew by and started pecking at our balloon! "Oh no" I shouted as my crew woke up when the balloon was almost finished off by the killer birds. But we had a hawk sound on our phones that scared those crazy birds away. “Whew” I shouted but sadly other balloons had caught up to us but we still had our trick (aka the lighter.) but it wasn’t enough we were almost at the United States of America (aka the finish line.) we crossed the finish line after a hard fight with all the balloons that caught up to us we were in first place. We had won.

By Jaxon