The Steep Hill By Nina

Congratulations Cole!

We were thrilled last week when Cole was chosen to pick an iWay prize for 'Moving it'. He looks pretty flash in his fluoro vest too! Why is it this colour I wonder? Have you 'moved it' today??? Some 'exercisive' (thanks for the word Shekinah)  kids are already onto their 3rd iWay card. Wow!
The photographer was Nina.

Back View

Front view

Cape Kidnappers by Nina

I went to Cape Kidnappers 4 years ago when my big sister Amber was here from Australia.  Here are some pictures.  Every year we camp at Clifton and we can always see the Cape from our camp.  I can't wait to see the gannets again! Check out the cuties in the pink and blue t-shirts - it's Nina and Georgia!

Pic Collage by Nina

Ahoy there me hearties! Arrhh!

September 19th was International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Room 10 had some pirate fun and there were a few rogue characters loose in the classroom as well. Read about some of the highlights...

On Friday I was One-eyed Eddie the Talkative. We had a teacher called Captain Mean Matthews. We played Pirates and the Gold, which is like Dog and the Bone but with pirates and gold. Instead of having Jelly Bean Moments, we had Skull and Crossbone Moments. By Mathias

On Friday I was Scrawny Gertrude the Dangerous. I really enjoyed making the pirate hats and the pirate treasure maps. By Nina

I was Sneaky Thomas the Dangerous on pirate day. We did an activity called Pirate and the Gold. By Rama

I was Marooned Tabitha the Smelly. We did a work sheet and we had to write it using four pirate names. We had to say what jobs they did that they were useless at. I wrote...

There's Pirate Koo-koo, who steers the ship's wheel with his leg and Pirate Lucy who digs for Juicies. 

By Sharnika

Arrhh! my hearties!  My pirate name was Pirate Death Danger. We made a pirate hat. Mine was the best! By Reicoe

Just as well Scrawny Tabitha added her commas, she won't be walking the plank this time!

I be off to find the treasure!

Remember Production Clothing for Tomorrow!

 You need your production clothing for tomorrow - black pants and black t-shirt please. Bring your clothing in a named, plastic bag. Girls - have a go at the Princess Leia hair buns too. I can't wait to see how fabulous you all look!

Recent Runners of the Day...

:) Spectacular Miss Spurrier

We have been so lucky to have had Miss Spurrier, our EIT teacher with us every day for the last 3 weeks. It was sad to say goodbye to her on Friday but guess what? She'll be back in our school soon! Thanks for bringing all the goodies to make fruit kebabs - they were scrumdidleumptious.

Ka mau te wehi - we think you're awesome!

Graduation Certificate & Buzz Bars!

Thanks from all of us :)

Funny Faces!

Responsibility 'Buzz'...

Who has been responsible returning sports gear to the trolley last week?
These three lucky people had their names chosen for a Buzz Bar at Monday Meet-Up this morning. Wow! Top stuff!

Responsible Students - Jahrel, Sharnika and Nina

Sharing our eLearning

Having a super time sharing in Room 11. Thanks so much to Nina, Aradia, Ezrah, Mathias and Jack for coming out on such a wet night to be part of our special information sharing evening. It was awesome to have a great turn out of parents to share our eLearning journey with. Thanks everyone!

Awesome Bicycle Art

Today we worked on creating several bicycled themed art projects. The details in these pieces created by Cairo & Ezrah, Sharnika & Nina, Reicoe & Divaan and  Mathias & Aradia is absolutely amazing. Tomorrow these and other art pieces will be presented to our sponsors to thank them for donating funds for our track, bikes and helmets. We watched a you tube clip and followed the directions for drawing the bikes. Adding the shapes and colouring them took quite a long time! Other students worked on creating 'pop art' styled crayon and dye pictures. Well done everyone, these results are stunning!

Cairo & Ezrah

Sharnika & Nina

Reicoe & Divaan

Mathias & Aradia

Nicholas & Bona

Room 10 Artists at Work

WOW!

WOW!

Monday Meet-Up was extra exciting this morning! When we entered the hall we all saw the most amazing sight. This afternoon everyone wrote about what they saw and thought...

Bianca...
"When I walked into the hall I couldn't believe my eyes... there were bikes everywhere! I thought that the best sitter upper will get to ride them. They were brand spanking new."

Ezrah...
" I couldn't believe my eyes, the new bikes were here! I wondered what order the helmets were in. Then suddenly I saw they spelled the word WOW with a line under it. Mr Pearse talked to us about the bikes. Then Mr Pearse said "Should Miss Smith and I have a race?" Mr Pearse won. This week on Friday there will be an opening for our bike track. Fingers crossed for a sunny day on Friday!"

Sharnika...
"The new bikes are very shiny. I was so surprised when I walked into the hall because there were loads of helmets and bikes. Some people had stacked the helmets on top of each one to make the word WOW! My class got chosen to have a special photo. There is a ceremony opening for the bike track and Mr Pearse is looking for 35 kids to ride a bike for the opening but you have to be good."

Jordan... 
"The helmets were stacked up and made the word WOW. The bikes were in order. The bikes order was short to tall. The 4th one was the teacher's bike."

Nina...
"Wow! Amazing! I couldn't believe my eyes! The new bikes have arrived! The helmets were lots of different colours. I want a blue one. There were different sizes of the bikes. There was a teachers bike, there were little bikes, there were medium bikes and there were big bikes. We were really lucky we got to have a picture with the bikes with some other classes. I am so excited we are going to have an opening ceremony on Friday!"

We are fabulous!

We enjoyed a class treat on Friday because we did such a super job with interviews this week. Mrs Perry was so proud of the way we booked interviews, introduced our parents to her and shared our learning AND our next learning steps. She thinks we are the best class ever. WOW! How cool is that?
We loved our hokey pokey ice creams in a cone. Thanks for being such a clever photographer Nina!

Photographed by Nina

Sharing Learning with Popplet

We are learning to…
Work with a buddy and use an iPad app called Popplet to share what we learned at RJ Flowers this week. Popplet is a great app for brainstorming and sharing ideas. These are fabulous Popplets Room 10. I know you worked really hard on editing and completing them today! Tino pai :)

Ana & Aradia

Ezrah & Jordan

Mathias & Paige

Grace & Sharnika

Nina & Evangelina

Cairo & Tyler