Assembly

This week The Pukeko Team are running the Family Time Assembly. Each assembly we have a lady who works at our school, come in and sign for us.  Right now we are all singing Counting The Beat. If you want to sing it at home you can go to this website: intranet.elmgrove.school.nz and go onto Elmgrove Sing Together.  HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!!!

Room 12's PAL'S Game

Today we played our first PAL's game for Term 4.  Our PALs are Logan M and Kaleb D.  The games that we played are Musical Statues and Silent Ball.    Kaeyla was in for Musical Statues. Then for Silent Ball, I was the Judge, that means that I was judging whether it was a good or bad throw or a good or bad catch whenever someone dropped the ball.

Our Book, Wonder.

At the moment, we are reading the Julian Chapter from Wonder by RJ Palacio.   Julian has been writing mean notes like: YO, DARTH HIDEOUS. YOU'RE SO UGLY YOU SHOULD WEAR A MASK EVERY DAY! and: I H8 YOU FREAK! and the last one: I BET YOUR MOTHER WISHES YOU' D NEVER BEEN BORN. YOU SHOULD DO EVERYBODY A FAVOR— AND DIE. .

Mr Tushman (the Dean) found out about those notes and Dr Janson (the Headmaster) ends up calling a meeting with Julian's Mum, his Dad, Mr Tushman, Dr Janson himself and, of course, Julian.

During the meeting, there was a lot of yelling, fighting, shouting and arguments.  In the end, Julian gets suspended from Beecher Prep for THREE Weeks!!! Which means Julian misses the Nature Retreat that he'd been really looking forward to.

Cross Country

Today we are doing our last Cross Country training session.  We had to run around the block twice. Some of us didn't enjoy the running part, but some of us did.  We have been doing it for at least two or three weeks now and most of us have started beating our times.

Game

Today after lunch we had Mrs Bisset. After we cleaned up the classroom and stacked the chairs, we got to play a game of 21. It is a quick, fun game and it is a good listening game, as well.

Hui Whanau me Te Reo.

Every single morning, we have Hui Whanau me Te Reo (Class meeting and Maori Language).

First, we read the date, first in Maori then in English.  Next, on Mondays, we read out who won the Dojo points, who is Blogger for that day and the other whiteboard stickies (notices for the day).

On Mondays Mr P puts out self-directed checklists, directed checklists and Spelling ( Level 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7) for us to collect before school starts.  Then, we say a karakia.   These are some of them: Ma te Atua and Homai te kaha.   Sometimes, Mr Peacock plays his guitar to this song : E Hara I Te Mea, and we sing along to it. Next we record the roll and read the daily notices.

Silent Reading

Almost every day we have silent reading. While we silent read, it is almost completely silent, but sometimes some people talk. When we have silent reading, it is usually just after lunch time. Sometimes it is ten minutes and sometimes it is five minutes.

Flexi Time

At Flexi time we have eight jobs. Seven of them are Must do's and one of them is a Can do. The Can do is Atlas work and you can only do it after you've done all of your Must do's.

The Must do's are: Xtra math, handwriting, your reading group,your library book exchange (only on Wednesday), word work, spelling and your reading activity.

Quick 10 And Handwriting

Each day we have to write as much as we can for ten minutes and each day there is different picture. Today for our picture we are using a Minion picture.  Here is a photo of our picture.  We have to write our ideas about having a set of minions for a week:

• What would we use them for?
• Where would they live and where would they sleep?

Here is a video of Ashleigh's writing and handwriting.

3D Printing

Room 12 have been doing 3D printing with MakerBot.   Room 12 maths class have been making Pentominoes with the 3D printer, which join together into a rectangle - If you arrange all the pieces correctly.  Today Cole made a scooter button for the whole at the end of the your scooter handle-bars. This video will show the button Cole made.

Room 10's Play

Room 10 are doing a play for assembly. It is called "Any Old Sea Will Do". The characters are Captain, played by Ethan P, First mate, played by Charlotte H, Sailor one, played by Amelia C, Sailor two is played by Heidi, Cook is Caleb and our Harbour manager Jackson R.

Ukulele Practise For Assembly

Room 9 are doing drama 'spoken thoughts ' for assembly.  It is based on when the children in the World War 2 in England and that the were not safe while the cities like London were getting bombed so, they got sent into the country by train to different families so they could look after them.

Our Story

Almost every after afternoon we have a story. The story were reading at the moment is called 'JUNGLE BOOK' by Rudyard Kipling.  Mr Peacock reads it and we read along on the projector.