Damani's Birthday Surprise

It was Damani's birthday and she got a special surprise from her dad - a whale's tooth. She feels really happy about it. She will keep it as a treasure for whole of her life.

Tug of War

Tug of War was fun!

Firstly Mrs Kumar asked Christian to take the bag of rope up the field with someone but Christian said “can it be llase and Alefaio” and so llase took the bag with Alefaio and they settled it up for us to play with for Tug of War.

Next we got in two lines and the lines were boys line and girls line. Mrs Kumar mixed us up and my team won because the other side was rocky so they had no grip on the ground with their feet.

Then Mrs Goundar’s class came and we versed Room 9 and when we versed them we never lost against them and when it was teacher versus teacher Mrs Kumar won because the centre tape went on Mrs Kumar’s side before Mrs Goundar  side so Mrs Kumar won.

After that when we versed room 9 Mrs Kumar said the trick is that we stand zig zag of the rope which meant one person to stand on the left the other on the right side and that was right - we won because that trick was the one that made us win.

Later we were going to leave but Mrs Goundar said “wait” because we were going to do more versing so we did - boys vs boys, girls vs girls and teacher vs teacher and we never lost, that was cool for me because I didn’t know that we were going to win all the rounds against Room 9.

Finally we took the rope and put it in the white bag and we left the field. I felt really happy and surprised because we won and were proud because I wanted to vs against Room 9 and I didn’t know that we will win all of the rounds against Room 9.

By: Tavita

Room 8.

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Tug of War

Tug of War was fun to play.

First we stood in a line on the field while ‘Ilaise and Alefaio carried the bag of little medium light poles, 2 gumboots and the big rope to play Tug of War.

How many minutes/hours did it take.

It took for 60 minutes/one hour to play Tug Of War.

Next we were on the field and we started to play Tug of War but first Mrs Kumar divided us equally into two groups to make it fair for the teams and then we started to play Tug of War.

Then when we were having our last play we saw Rm 9 coming out of their classroom. Mrs Kumar and Mrs Goundar made a plan that we are going to verse Room 9. We stayed on the field to play Tug of War with Room 9.

After that Ms Kumar told us if Rm 9 and us could vs on Tug of War and then after it was Room 9 boys versus Rm 8 boys and Rm 8 boys won but it was like a real one and next it was Room 8 girls versus Room 9 girls and still the Room 8 girls won.

Later it was Teacher/Mrs Kumar versus Teacher/Mrs Goundar on the Tug of War Game and there were some students helping one of them.

Finally the Tug of War Game was finished and we all came back to class.

Conclusion - my favourite part was that Teacher/Mrs Kumar versed Teacher/Mrs Goundar and Mrs Kumar won but it was a fun game.

By: Te-Wai

Room 8

Jelly Bean Music

Today we had Jelly Bean Music Lesson.

Once we said Good Morning to Mrs White and Ms Ruth we sang:

Twinkle, Twinkle Vegemite,On the sandwich brown and white.

If you turn it upside down,
It will make the carpet brown.
Twinkle, Twinkle Vegemite.
I’m o.k and you’re alright! .........

(there is more to this song)

The main note we were learning was "B".

We also played the triangle, castanets, drums and tambourine on the song Overtune from "Carmen".

At end of the session we played our air guitar where we pretended we were playing with our guitar on the song - To the Air Guitar.

Jelly Bean Music

It was exciting to use castanets, triangles, tambourine and drums with the plastic stick
today for our music lesson.

Let's see if you can guess what's the name of these 4 instruments:

How did you go?

Happy Mother's Day

Room 8 learners used Google Drawing and made of Mother's Day Cards for their mum's. They were really excited as after finishing off their cards, they were being printed off for them to take home. Below are the cards Andy and Finau made for their mums.

Django's Birthday

Once a week Andy spends some time with Heather Summers (from BARK NZ) and Django building healthy relationship. This week while spending time with Django Heather shared that it was Django's birthday. It clicked to Andy that Room 8 learners should all get to sing Django a Happy Birthday song.

Everybody were so excited singing Happy Birthday to Django as you can see below.

Happy Birthday Pippa!

It was Pippa's birthday and we were very lucky to have a piece or two of her birthday cake. Pippa cut the cake in class and she was super excited as well. Her mum bought her a chocolate cake from Pak & Save. Room 8 children sang her a Happy Birthday song and Mrs Kumar gave her a birthday card.

Once again Happy Birthday Pippa.

Jelly Bean Music

Mrs White came to teach us some music today. She taught us some of the main keys on the xylophone such as A,B,C,D etc and gave us the feel of how it sounds like when played with a plastic stick. It was really pleasing. We had fun.

Term Inquiry Presentation

On the 12th of April we had our Inquiry presentation day. On this day lots of parents came to see what all we have learnt in Term 1 of 2019. We were learning about All About Me and then moved further on to how we relate to Glen Innes Community by listing and learning about some of our  landmarks.

As a class we brainstormed our individual landmarks. We looked at what, where, why, who, when, how and few other related questions when we were researching about our individual landmarks. Then the teacher collated all our research and figured out that there are 6 common landmarks Room 8 children were very keen to learn and research about.

The 6 common landmarks included Pak & Save, McDonalds, KFC, Glen Innes Police Station, Te Oro and Pizza Hut.

Our presentation was about - All About Me... where we had to learn to introduce ourselves in Maori "Our Mihi". We also did a booklet for our Mihi. Our teacher recorded us saying our Mihi too. It was bit challenging saying our Mihi in Maori but at the same time we had fun too.

As for our landmark we made little videos and collated all our research to display what all we have learnt. Apart from research we either painted or made a model of our 6 landmarks. It was up to the group what they wanted to do. We also did Unity in Diversity model since in Glen Innes there are lots of different cultures of people living in harmony.

Below is a video to show how our presentation day went.

Ilaise's Heena

Sunita's Unicorn Watch

Our Rainbow Bracelets - Writing

It was one of the best days in my writing lesson.

Last last week my class and my teacher made bracelets we made it at school on Thursday.

We used elastics bands and took it to our table to make it. We had colorful beads. We had 20 small size beads, 10 medium size beads and one big size bead.

We put on our elastic bands and Miss Kumar took photos of us wearing our bracelets. We displayed our bracelets on the class wall. It looks very attractive. We also made a video and uploaded it on our class blog so people who go on our blog get to see what we are doing in class.

We felt excited, proud and happy because Miss Kumar showed us what to do so we can copy her. She also said that we will be taking the bracelets home to show it to our parents.  

By: Nevaya, Cassia & Tavita
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Our Rainbow Bracelets

On Thursday we made some rainbow bracelets. Mrs Kumar called us one by one and measured our wrist. After Mrs Kumar measured our wrist she told us to take 20 small colourful beads and 15 medium size colourful beads. Then Mrs Kumar told us to take it to our table

We asked for help to start our bracelets because when we put on our beads on it kept on coming off. So we asked three people to help so we can finish our bracelets.

First, we made a knot at the end of the bracelet elastic band. Next we put the beads on the bracelet but first we had to think how to thread our bracelets. When we thought how to thread our bracelets we all made different kinds of them. It was fun making a pattern.

Lastly we had to tie a knot at the end of the string and then we put it on our wrist and Mrs Kumar took photos of us with our bracelets. We felt very happy that we made the bracelets because we have not made a rainbow bracelets in school before.

By: Damani, Mokoia, Ahou, ELoida

Our Rainbow Bracelets

This week Room 8 learners made bracelets using different colours of beads, which the teacher bought from Look Sharp store. After making the bracelets the learners were to write a recount how they made it by giving lots of details. It was challenging for some as they found putting the elastic cord in the holes quite difficult. Some even had their beads falling off from the other end of the chord. However it was nice to see learners assisting each other and coming up with a vibrant colours of bracelets which look like rainbow. Above is a little video to show how their bracelets look like.

Remembering Christchurch

15th of March is certainly the darkest days according to our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for all the New Zealanders. This is because our Muslim Community lost 50 of their loved ones as they gathered to pray on Friday (Jumma Day). 

Whole of New Zealand mourned with the Christchurch Community by providing necessities to the needy, showing their love and compassion in so many different ways as possible. 

On 22nd of March at 1.32pm the nation in unity prayed for the lost souls. Most of the ladies in solidarity wore scarf to support the Muslim Community. Below is a picture of how our school got together and prayed for the lost souls. May those beautiful souls rest in peace. 

Swimming Sports

"It was just awesome" This morning we as a junior syndicate took part in the Swimming Sport Competition. It was more of having fun and kind of celebrating the last day of swimming. Year 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 got to display what they have learnt so far in their swimming lessons. Mainly the skills were displayed and we were so proud as most of our parents also came to see our swimming. The 3 main categories were 1. Swimming the whole length without touching the floor of the swimming pool. 2. Swimming from one end to the other with and in this race learners were allowed to touch the floor of the swimming pool. 3. Freestyle swimming and learners were allowed to use the swimming board. It was a great experience for most of the learners as they gave their 100 percent to make the class and themselves proud.

Chinese Lantern for Chinese Festival

On Friday I made a Chinese Lantern.

So how we made it we used Glue, Scissors, A4 color paper and lastly sellotape.

So we started by using the A4 color paper and folded it in a hot dog and use the scissors to cut straps but not fully. Then you unfold the color paper. Then you roll the paper and glue the end and stick it together. Next we used white A4 paper and cut a strap and glue the ends and stick it on the lantern. Also we then used sellotape and hung it in our teacher's space.

By Ahou

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On Friday we made chinese lantern. We used scissors, colorful paper, sellotape and glue sticks. We made it perfectly. We had fun and it was easy. The whole class were sad because we had to finish it on Monday but they were happy again. I felt happy and excited when we learnt how to make a chinese lantern. We didn't know how to do it, Miss kumar showed us so we followed her instructions. Then we hung it on one of the frames so we could see. We wrote our names on it so that people know, which one their son or daughter made it for the chinese lantern festival. Also what we are learning all about. When we were making our lanterns we liked and when we made, it felt easy.

By Tavita
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We made colourful paper lantern. I liked how we sticked it up. It was so beautiful we made these on Friday. I liked this because it was my first time making chinese lantern. We used glue, A4 coloured paper, scissors and sellotape. We didn't finish making it so the next day we made it in the morning. It looked like a real lantern but it is made out of paper. You can make it with any coloured paper. Lots of people knew how to make it after Mrs Kumar showed us. We were so happy once it was finished and hung in the class. Some people learnt it from Skids. Some people made it for the first time. Once it was done I saw everyone were so excited even I felt happy.

By Sunita
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To make a Chinese Lantern you need some colourful A4 paper. Then you put it in landscape and fold the top. After that you cut the folded part so it is almost at the end and do that all the way along the piece of paper until it is finished  then unfolded it and put the ends together and glue it. Then to make the handle you cut a strip of paper and glue it on the top of it.

By Pippa

Maths - Place Value

    For our Maths we have been revising ones and tens. Room 8 can also successfully split double digit numbers as well. Some learners can also split 3 digit numbers too. But for our Number Work today we used materials to find our how many 5's are there in number 49 and then how many 10's are there in 49 and so on.

Stretching, Splits, Planks and Butterflies!

For Gymnastics we were divided into two teams. One team were suppose to put the bottom up of the cones and the other to put the bottom down of the cones. we played few rounds of this game. It was fun playing this game as we were challenged as a team.

We then did some stretching, splits, planks, butterflies and so on.

To the whole class our instructor showed what we had to do at each stations and then we as a class gave a good go. We pushed our boundaries and gave our hundred percent as you can see in the presentation..

Right Place Right Time by Pippa

I learnt how to take a screenshot on my Chromebook and insert the picture on my slide. I also learnt how to bookmark. Bookmarking helps me find my learning sites quickly.

Introducing Room 8 Learners

We are an energetic and enthusiastic bunch of Year 3/4 learners from Room 8 in Glen Innes School. Our class consists of 26 learners. There are 16 learners from Year 4 (12 girls, 4 boys) and 9 learners from Year 2 (3 girls, 6 boys) and 1 boy who is in Year 2.

We inserted 2 photos here because in the first photo we have got our 25 learners and in our second photo we have our new learner who just started today. We never wanted to miss her and wanted her to feel part of our Room 8 family.

New Learner in our Class.

Today Loise  from Te Mataraunga School, Manurewa enrolled in our school. She is a Year 3 learner. Her family has moved to Glen Innes and they live very close to our school. Her hobbies are playing with friends, writing and reading. Louise has got three sisters and two brothers. She is the youngest sister.

Happy 63rd Birthday Terry!

Today Mrs Kumar invited Terry to our 

class so we can wish her Happy Birthday. 

Terry is one of our caretakers in school. 

Mrs Kumar made her a birthday 
card since only at morning tea it was told in the staffroom 

that it’s her birthday.

When Terry came to our class she answered lots of burning questions us learners in Room 8 had. 

We were surprised to learn that Terry has got 17 siblings. 

Once the question session was over we played her a YouTube clip 
wishing her Happy Birthday followed 

by Illaise who presented her a birthday card on behalf of Room 8. 

Below are few photos we would like to share. 
Hope this small celebration will bring loads of good memories for Terry.

                                                     

The Corvettes

For a change we as a school had our special assembly on the astroturf. At first Mr Hendricks congratulated and said Thank You to all the runners who ran along the Glen Innes police. All the participants received a special gift bag containing Active brand towel. They all felt really excited.

After that Eloida from our class and one of the other girls from our school received a Happy Birthday card with a candy. We all sang happy birthday to them.

Something special was yet to come when Mr Hendricks announced that the 2 best writers from the seniors will be getting a special ride to their home in a vintage car. Everybody cheered for two writers when the names were announced. They were Eden Ngakiau and Jasmine April Sonny Tiame. It was such a proud moment for the 2 girls and Glen Innes School as well.

BARK NZ - Djando was Back

Djando came back to our school today. While Andy was taking him for a walk, the funniest thing Djando did was - within a split of a second he ran  and jumped into the pool. Cheeky Djando! 

It was a warm day too. Heather reacted quickly and took him out of the pool. 

Andy's reaction was caught as well on Heather's iphone. 

Ripper Rugby - Fun in the Sun

On Thursday the 28th of February Room 8 went to the astroturf and met Fraser and Sinclaire. We played a game called rip a rip it had to have 10 rip’s. I only got 4 rip’s. Christian got the most rip’s out of all of us. He got more then five rip’s. We all got ripped by Christian and also Jeminye. At the end we played tag and Legin won the game. 

By: Estalina (Year 4)

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At 10.45am we were at the astroturf with the ripper rugby coaches. We went to play Ripper Rugby on Thursday 28th of February 2019 as a class. 

First Fraser and Sinclair gave us a belt then they gave us colorful rippers. Then we played a game - how you play? You run around and try to get the coloured strap off other kids waist. Then we played another game called ripper runner. It was a fun game but then we also played another game. The game was like octopus. It was really fun, the winner was Legin. He was the fastest boy in the class. 

Then we finished the game and room 9 came for their turn with the coaches. I like both games because it reminds me about rugby. We finished our lesson at 11.20am.

By Sunita (Year 4)
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 Ripper Rugby

When we played Ripper Rugby we played on the astroturf on the senior side where the senior kids do sports like basketball and soccer and also football. I felt so excited and nervous when I first got there. The person that showed us how to play the game there names was Sinclaire and Fraser. We started at 10:45am and we finished at 11;20pm.

    Our training towards - How to play Ripper Rugby.

To play Ripper Rugby you had to find a those velcro belts and a sticky tag to stick on you and your friends or cousins or your older siblings. The student in Room 8 who won the game was Legin because he had one more life and that’s how Legin won the game called Ripper Rugby. When I first played the game it looked kind of hard at the last game but the first game was easy.

By: Te-Wai (Year 4)
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On Thursday we lined up and we went to the turf to play a game. There were two mans standing there and taught us how to play the game. We had to put a black belts on and put two different colours of tags on each side. 

Then we had to run around the turf and you had to try to take the tags off the belt. We kept on going into the whistle rings and it was so fun. 

Then the second game is ripper tag. There had to be three people who were taggers. They were Eloida, Finau, and Snowlee. We also had to run on the other side to win. I won the first round and second round and up to fourth then I was chosen to be a tager. There was 18 more people to tag and all of them got tagged but Legin was still running and he won the whole game. He was happy.

By : Mokoia

Djando from BARK NZ

Today, Andy from our class was lucky to spend some quality time with Djando, a Labrador Retriever from BARK NZ.

Andy took the dog for a walk with Heather Summers who brought the Djando to our school.

They had great time talking about Djando such as what he likes, dislikes and Andy was allowed to share (talk) anything he wants to with Djando but Heather was there to listen as well. Heather will be back next Friday. Till then bye Djando.

 

Yummy Lunch! Thank You Blackmores

Dear Blackmores

Thank you for giving us some lunch and it was very tasty and I enjoyed it so much.
My favourite snack was the pretzels because it tasted very delicious and sweet.
Also thank you for the plaque it is very amazing and what it say on it keeps me motivated. Lastly thank you for the ice-cream and it tasted so good that I wanted another one.
By Ahou.

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On Thursday Blackmores came to give us lunch. They set everything in the hall.

There were about 20 of them. When all of us got our lunch we all sat on the juniors

deck and ate our lunch.

Thank you blackmores for painting a part of every class wall and putting a plaque. We all appreciate your taco, pretzels, cookie and apples. I loved the different flavours of the ice cream that you gave us too.

By Christian

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Thank You Blackmores for bringing lunch for us.I really appreciate it. Also
Thank you for the yummy lunch that you put in the box.
Thank also for giving some Ice-cream and my flavour was salted caramel .
Thank you for also taking photos of all of us.
Also thank you for putting a plaque on our classroom walls.

By Damani

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Blackmores at Glen Innes School

Dear Blackmores

Thank you for giving us lunch packs and for giving us different kinds of food.
It was very delicious.Thank you for giving us a really nice plaque it looks so nice
and it’s very beautiful, I love it. The plaque says “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail”
By Benjamin Franklin.

Thank you also for giving us ice-cream, I really appreciate it.I love that you took a lot of photos at the hall. Also thank you for everything you have done for us.

Blackmores Company - you are the best.

Eloida Room 8.

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Blackmores at Glen Innes School.

On Thursday the whole school got their lunch from Blackmore Company.
We all sat on the deck after that it was play time. What we had for lunch was an apple, tacos,
cookies and pretzels. All of the food came in a lunch pack. Some people who work for
Blackmores Company took photos of us too.
After playtime they came to Room 8 and gave us a small tub of ice-cream each.
They also put a plaque and it says “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail”
-Benjamin Franklin.

 

From Estalina

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On Thursday the school got free lunch and and in the
free lunch there was a taco, cookie pretzel and an apple.
There was free ice-cream too. We had different flavours.

Thank you so much Blackmores for the free lunch and ice-cream.

By Eva

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Blackmores at Glen Innes school

Thank you Blackmores for the taco, apple, cookie, pretzels, and ice-cream. Thank you for putting the plaque on our wall. We went to the hall to collect our food. We all appreciate the food and ice-cream you gave us. The Blackmores company painted a small part of our wall colour green and placed a plaque. The plaque said “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail”.When we finished lunch one of the Blackmores worker named Robin came and played basketball inside the astroturf. Thank you for your time at Glen innes school.  

By Ilaise

  

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Thank you Blackmores for the lunch pack fruit and pretzels.

The free lunch pack that the Blackmores gave us was very good and nice. My favourite food in

the lunch pack was the bruto and the cookie.The cookie was one of my favourites and the bruto

was too.  When we got our free lunch pack the teachers said the class needs to sit down on the

deck at the juniors and then enjoy the food. Thank you Blackmores once again.

By Jeminye