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Welcome to our blog. We hope you will become a follower and comment wherever you like on the blog. Some posts will be written by the students and therefore may have some mistakes. The purpose of this blog is to keep you up to date with the learning that is going on in our classroom. It is a great way to see how your child is doing and all the exciting things that go on in Room 9. Please have a look around and let us know what you think!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Making facts to 5!

In Room 9 we are trying to get really speedy with our basic facts to five. In maths today the porowhita group founds lots of different objects around the room and sorted them into ways to make 5. Take a look at some of the photos.





Song for assembly item

Hey Clever Kiwis here is the proper Hakuna Matata song if you would like to practice at home!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Miss K's Shop!

Hey Clever Kiwi's! Hope you have been working hard to earn your Miss K dollars because Miss K's shop is arriving on FRIDAY 26 AUGUST!!!

Discovery Learning Week 3

This week in discovery learning we started to make our instruments for our assembly item. We have guitars, drums, shakers and flutes! Thank you to Kirsty for helping us :)




Bianca's shaker!

WOW Bianca! We love your shaker that you made at home, it is so creative and funky!! Well done for using the habit of mind 'creating, innovating and imagining.' We can't wait to try and make our own. :)

Being creative with bananas!


Sunday, August 7, 2011

Our blog posts

In Room 9 we are learning to post stories onto our blog and then attach a photo about our writing. Some of us have already had a go and have been fantastic! Check out our stories so far by just looking below and feel free to leave a postive comment about their writing :)

Thursday, August 4, 2011

The library

We go to the school library every Tuesday. We can get one book out. There are heaps of books to choose from.
From Bradley.

cutting trees

Our school trees got cut down by the digger. A man used a chainsaw. I feit a bit scared. It was fun to watch.
From Georgia.

Adjective painting.

We have been painting. We chose a buddy and painted them. Then we use adjectives to describe ore buddies. It we fantastic and exciting.
By Styla

The raffle box.

When we are being independent we get a raffle. The raffle goes into the raffle box and Miss K pulls a raffle out on fridays. Whoever wins gets to take clever wiki home for the weekend.

By Purere.

Maori Legends

We read lots of Maori Legend books. We coloured some Maori Legend characters in with pastels.Mine was Tawhirimatea God of the wind.
From Keighley.

Humpty Dumpty

Old McDonald had a farm

Monday, August 1, 2011

Our newest Clever Kiwis!

Welcome back to term 3!
I hope you clever kiwis had a fantastic holiday and are ready for a busy exciting new term. We have a lot on this term including two trips to the life education bus, a trip to the art gallery and a lot of fun activities based around the world cup.
This term we are very lucky to have THREE new class members Tahlia, Maia and Jahvay. If you see these new faces around the school please introduce yourself and make them feel welcome:)