H is for homework!

Congratulations to those hard-working students who received

A-grade homework certificates for Term 4:

Timote Junior, Suliasi, Athens, Alicia, Meana, Sione and Jack Daniel (not pictured).

Prize-giving 2014

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this year!   Year 5 Academic Excellence: Athens
Year 4-6 Principal's Trophy: Meana
Year 4-6 Most Helpful Student: Suliasi
Year 4-6 Sports Award (1): Sione
Room 10 Best All Round Student: Athens
Room 10 Most Improved Student: Jack Daniel
Room 10 Best Work Presentation: Athens

Out of this world!

These are some of the places we would like to visit, or some of the sports stars we think we shall be ...

A festival of film

Such excitement attending our first ever Manaiakalani Film Festival at Sylvia Park this morning!  Sitting in our luxurious "Extreme" seats, we watched films about the last apple, learning at school, a lonely dragon, battling penguins and GoPro sporting action.  Check out all of the movies at: https://sites.google.com/a/ptengland.school.nz/film-festival-2011/view-films/2014.

Today's free-choice writing from Jack Daniel

Our Pasifika Images

Check out our slideshow of Pixlr images about Pasifika culture.  We have learnt about the different drawing tools in Pixlr and how to save and share our images.

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?

Cross-country 2014

Thank you, Nelly, for creating our audio.

Reading about photographs

The blue reading group experimented taking photographs and filming with our tablet after they had discussed a School Journal article about Kiwi photographer, Adrian Heke. Adrian taught himself how to use his first camera and has since taken photographs in war zones, as well as capturing sporting action shots for some School Journal articles.  There must have been a lot of photographers at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to capture all of that sporting action.   

Our class photographers

Such excitement!  Room 10 now has its own tablet.  Saane and Meana did a fabulous job testing out the tablet's camera while we finished off our writing.

Aloha!

Orana! Aloha! Talofa lava!  Kia orana!  Kia ora!

The Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre visited Ruapotaka this afternoon.  The performers sang and danced their way from Tahiti to Aotearoa via Hawaii, Samoa and Rarotonga, sharing something of these cultures with us.  

Who doesn't like homework?

Meana, Maia, Suliasi, Sylvia, Timote Junior
(absent: Jack Daniel, Saane)

Congratulations on receiving your A-grade homework certificates for Term 2. You presented work to a high standard every week.  What a tremendous effort!

A picture paints a thousand words

This is how we used the writing and note-taking strategy of picture dictation.

The Wheel Deal