Azonto, Azonto

Skipping, stepping, slapping, clapping ... we danced our way very quickly around the Commonwealth showing our moves and skills to family and whanau visitors this afternoon. If you'd like to see the video, please come and watch in our classroom ... Now watch me do my Azonto, Azonto, Azonto ...

Waving the Commonwealth flags ...

Building on the skills we learnt yesterday, we each created the flag of a Commonwealth country in a Google drawing by inserting shapes and changing the colours.  Which countries are represented here?

Manaiakalani training

And the certificate goes to ...

Congratulations to our outstanding Room 10 runners as they were presented with their school cross-country certificates by Mr Reid today.  They will all be picking up the pace again at an inter-schools competition on Wednesday. Run, run ...

Cross-country 2014

Thank you, Nelly, for creating our audio.

Cross-country 2014

We watched the juniors run around the school field with so much energy ... and 

then it was our turn to show our speed as we ran around the road course.

Sione and Sebastian showed their amazing pace from start to finish.

Running shoulder to shoulder, Sione was the first Year 5 boy,

while Sebastian was the first Year 6 boy home.

Check out our video tomorrow ...

More photographs

Today some more students took photographs while they listened to each other read.  Mrs Buchanan has learnt how to share this from the class tablet straight to our blog!