Secret Santa's

Greytown Xmas Parade

Goal Post Opening

Greytown Soccer/Rugby Goal Post Opening on PhotoPeach

Pet Day 2010

Staff Vs Year 8 Students

Friday Funday

PE with Buddy Class


Shared Lunch

Ratu o 31 Here-turi-koka

Google Search Tricks on Prezi

Karaka Technology Challenge on PhotoPeach

Term 2 Week 3

We haven't disappeared, we've just been a little unwell. I hope all students at home are feeling better soon. We look forward to your return to school. Keep an eye out for our Technology Challenge and Cobblestones slideshows.

We liked this :o)

Ratu 19 o Hongoingoi

Welcome back to Room 11's blog for Term 3! We started our term with a team building exercise. We were asked to stand and make a circle, but we didn't know why? We had to think about 'why' we were doing this and what 'our' (individual) role was. Then we were asked to hold hands with the person beside us.

As a class we had to move a hoop around the circle while our hands were linked. I took only a few seconds for some members of our class to show 'leadership' and 'initiative.' Quickly, we had the hoop on the move, it was so funny, we were laughing while also being 'supportive!' We had to 'co-operate and be observant as the hoop traveled around the group.

We agreed that to be successful in this task and all classroom tasks we need to work as a team! We need to think about our individual roles that we play, and the roles of others. It was great to be successful! Next time we are going to time ourselves and see if we can move the hoop round the circle faster. We will let you know how we get on...next time!! Rm11.

Anna's 2nd Email

Hi everyone I hope that you all had a great holiday. I sure did!!!

Sorry but I can't make it to school on Monday because in London we got delayed for 3 hours (there was an oil leak) and that ment after 12 hours in the air when I reached Singapore I had missed my 2nd flight. I had to stay in a very very posh hotel for the night and catch the next plane to Cristchurch at 11:40pm New Zealand time. At Cristchurch I will be there by 9:30 New Zealane time and will meet dad and fly back to Wellington with him.

Hopefully I will be at school on Tuesday.

Sorry Rachael I wont be there for your 11th birthday. But happy birthday.

From Anna

Last Day of term 2

This morning Karaka and Totara Syndicates met in the hall to showcase when we had been doing in our "Option's" classes over the last 6 weeks. We saw some plays from the Drama group, Students talked about the sewing and cooking options. Cooking didn't have anything to show...it was all in their tummies. Ms Craddock showed a keynote slideshow of Ephemeral Art, the mosaic group showed their mosaic that will go up in our new hall later this year.


This afternoon we had the big North Creek Opening. We had really important people here, like the mayor of South Wairarapa, Representatives from Meridian Energy and Wellington Regional Council. After the Maori welcome we ALL go to plant one of the hundreds of trees, needing to be planted. It was a wonderful occasion for everyone, especially all the current and past students and teachers who have worked extremely hard on the North Creek project.

Anna's Email

Hi room11,

Yesterday Granny and I got on the plane to London at 21:30 from Valencia (a city in Spain.) But didn't land until 23:35 and we had to get the bags of the plane as well as having 40 minute drive ahead of us. So we got back to Granny's house at 1:20 in the morning.
However Granny and I had so much fun in Spain and sometimes it's great just to relax and chill out. In Spain we were swimming and swimming and swimming and we did a little bit of shopping as well.
I have some great new clothes and love all of the British shops.
Mum, Dad and Tayla have all told me how bad and rainy the weather is I hope that it gets a little better. Great little movie by the way.

Anna

Ratu 21 Pipiri

PE with Kuranui Students on PhotoPeach

Rapare 17 Pipiri

This morning, for many, started very early. This morning we celebrated MATARIKI. Matariki celebrates the Maori new year. The Greytown School kapa haka welcomed the Year 8's students and new staff. Mr Andrews lit a bon fire. The new Greytown staff and some year 8 students planted a tree each. Matariki is a good time of the year for planting. We know that it is Matariki when we can see the 7 stars of matariki (the 7 sisters) in the night sky.

Raapa 16 Pipiri

Raapa - Wednesday Pipiri - June
Today as part of the Languages rotation Room 11 went to Room 12 to learn Maori. WALT about colours and numbers. For example whero means red, kakariki means green...We played Maori bingo with Maori numbers eg. tahi means one, rua two, toru three...

The the sun was shining for the first time in weeks so we went outside to play seaweed.

Ratu 15 Pipiri

In room 11 we do reading everyday but we do something different on Friday's. Every week we read a new journal. On Monday's we complete the Knowledge and Comprehension questions from the Bloom's taxonomy activity cards. Tuesdays are the Application activity, Wednesday, we complete synthesis or analysis activity and we go to our school library to change our books. On Thursday we evaluate the journal that we have been reading during the week.

Rippa Rugby

Rippa Rugby on PhotoPeach

Web 2.0 in the classroom on Prezi

Rahina 3 o Haratua

Hi Everyone, thanks for checking out our blog!! Today we used 'writing fun' Website (http://www.writingfun.com/) to learn about writing reports. Then we used the Kiwi conservation Club site (http://www.kcc.org.nz/) to research New Zealand native endemic animals. We will use this information to help us write our reports.
In topic we used keys to help us show fun areas, unused, neglected, interesting, noisy, joyful, quiet and fearful areas on our map.

Rapare 29 o Paenga-whawha

Today we started our Arts rotation. Every Thursday, the Karaka Syndicate students will be taking classes in Te Reo maori, Spanish and New Zealand Sign Language. Room 11 enjoyed signing the alphabet in New Zealand Sign language, saying hello and finger spelling our names.
We all ran 2 times around the school, training for the x-country next Friday. Most of us are getting faster!
Our buddy class came to visit. We read our reading books to each other. Watch our short video!
For topic we drew maps of our school and labeled areas that are fun, nice, quiet, etc.

Ratu 27 Paenga-whawha

Today we hosted our school assembly. Many of us were nervous about having to speak in front of the whole school. We introduced the new students to Greytown School. We saw a great dance act from 2 students. Unfortunately, there were a lot of technical difficulties with the microphone and sound system. At Greytown School we have a Caring Kiwi. Caring Kiwi is a soft toy awarded to a student who displays caring in the playground. They get to look after the kiwi for 2 weeks. This week a student from Room 11 won the kiwi.

Rapare 22 o Paenga-whawha

It was a great day for doing fitness and stretches out on the field. We made sound poppers with our buddy class and learned about how our ears work. Our buddy class are 5 year olds in Room 1. We read our holiday recounts to our buddies. We played a new maths game - It really had to make us think!

Raapa 21 Paenga-whawha

Today we discussed ANZAC day and we read The Donkey Man. Miss showed us some stretches when warming up before a run in PE. We used our recount checklist to assess our recount writing so far. We are learning to add doubles to help us add more than two digits. We used see-saw dialogue to talk about what we know about ANZAC day this Sunday.

Ratu 20 Paenga-whawha

Today we started the daily photographer and we learned how to load the photos of us learning, onto the computer. We have included one in today's blog entry. We did stretches before we went for a run for PE. We are training for Cross country on Friday the 14th of May. We had to run as many times around the North field in 5 minutes. We enjoyed reading and writing times where we learned about pronouns. A pronoun is used instead of a noun and you can't use a pronoun at the start of a story, you have to use the noun before you use a pronoun.

Rahina 19 o Paenga-whawha

Today was fun. It was a great first day of term 2. We met and caught up with our friends again. We started our topic "Me and my environment." We will be collecting "pools of knowledge" to create a "Vision Map" to create a sustainable environment. We are going to be training for cross country, so remember your running shoes.