Kaya's fabulous Christmas story

It was a cold and windy night. Santa was flying and dancing in his sleigh.  Jumping through the dark, dusty sky.  He came sliding and slipping down the dark, dusty chimney.  The snow on the mountains is slippery, cold and wet.  Santa and his reindeer fly over.  Santa gives me presents to open and see the surprise that we get.  The tinsel on the green spiky Christmas tree.  Christmas time is a time to share and spend with your family.  Dancing and prancing in the wind go the reindeer.  The hooves clip and clop on the rooftops.  The wind is pushing the reindeer to go faster and pulling the sleigh.

Written by herself at home - Kaya Knights-Johnston

Maths Investigations

We have been working hard on comparing heavy and light objects. We can order, compare and use mathematical language.

Impromptu Play - The Three Little Pigs

A super duper group of learners put together a play of the three little pigs with no props or script. They were very clever in how they put the play together and organised themselves to perform so well to an audience. We are very proud of you all.

No wolves (or children) were harmed in the making of this video. 

Daphne Flowers

Louie kindly brought in some stunning daphne flowers. The whole pod smells amazing. We used the flowers to help us with our writing. Here are a few examples I thought you should see.

The white creamy flowers have thin light pink outlines. They smell like perfume. Green branches tangle out the brown stripes winding around them like snakes. Lola

The silky leaves are very delicate. They are beautiful if you look at them. Kiana

The white edge petals are small. The petals are falling on the table. They have four petals. They have hot pink edges. Ella

The buds are hot pink. The edges are dark pink. There is four little stamens in the middle. Kaya

The flower has light green leaves. It has uncomfortable stamens in the middle of the petals. Sebbie

The flower smells like perfume. There are dark pink around the petal. There are four petals. The petals are delicate. Midori

Our own Placemats

Kaya and Ella are so excited about their learning goal they made their own placemats to use at writing time to help them achieve them. Look at all of the learning they will be doing with their new place mats. Well done girls!

Reflections of Sir Edmund Hillary

This person is special – can you guess? He is Sir Edmund Hilary. He didn’t die climbing Mt Everest. He had a person from Nepal with him. Other people have died climbing Mt Everest. 

Abby

www.achievement.org 

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to climb Mt Everest. He is named Sir Edmund Hillary because he is special. You can’t climb Mt Everest without anything. You have to eat food, breathe and survive. Every breath is like burning fire. You must go with someone. At the top it is dangerous and cold. You have to be brave and sensible. Mt Everest is in Nepal. People live in the mountains but they do not live on Mt Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary put a flag on the top of Mt Everest to show that he was the first person to climb Mt Everest. You have to be a good climber to do that.

Lola

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Mount Everest is the biggest Mountain in the world. Sir Edmund Hillary was so proud of himself when he got to the top of the mountain and they celebrated. Sir Edmund Hillary was very brave. It took a long time and the mountain was very cold.

Taja.

www.opc.org.nz -

Sir Edmund Hillary is a climbing master. The Queen calls him Sir Edmund Hillary. He climbed Mount Everest. He’s dead now. He was the first one to climb Mount Everest. It is very cold up there. Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt Everest before I was born. 

Sebbie.

Mount Everest is the biggest mountain in the whole wide world. Sir Edmund Hilary had the right gear on to climb the mountain. But he died when he got old.

Kaya

Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt Everest because he wanted to be proud of himself. He was the first person to climb Mt Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary put a flag on top of the mountain. Nepal is a beautiful place. 

Louie

Exploring Learning in Pod 2

Arliya and Lili are exploring learning and writing in their investigating books

Summer has been exploring the correct way to write numbers on the whiteboard.
Then she wrote it in a new language. for fun. 

Sam is exploring basic facts to 5 using multi-link cubes and a whiteboard. 

Anu and Ania-Kanu are making shapes from the Big Book

Ryan exploring shapes 

Ella and Kaya exploring shapes together

Celeste is exploring new words on the whiteboard

Marley is exploring repeating patterns with shapes from the Big Book

Kiana is exploring how to write a sentence correctly in her book. 

Waiata with Sebbie

Bird Collage

Using what we found in our gardens the children have been creating birds collages as part of our bird inquiry this term.  Ania Kanu, Ella and Kaya worked very co-operatively to help finish one of them.

Certificates

Look at all of these hard workers. They have been awarded a certificate for their focus on learning, respect for their own work as well as others and for outstanding achievements. Well done.

Drama of 'The Three Little Pigs'

We have been having a lot of fun learning drama techniques to retell traditional tales.  We have discussed body position when on stage, using our voice to sound scary, facial expressions and body movements.

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Working hard in the Maths Room

 We have been working really hard in the Maths Room.  Counting forwards, backward and ,number patterns.  Look at all the different ways we can reinforce our Maths concepts.

Super Duper Duathlon Stories

I didn't want to cry but I didn't but Kiana won and I wanted to win but I didn't.

Chantel

(Chantel came a very close second)

I was very hot when I finished my race. I had a drink of my water.

Kaya

I saw all the people running in the race. I was running really fast. I was really hot and I went across the finish line.

George

I was a fast biking person. I was a thirsty boy. I was a hot boy. 

Sebbie

I ran fast in the goathlon and I biked fast too at the end. I felt tired. 

Taja

I was in the race. It was hot but I kept on going. I know I won't win the race. Midori

When I runned up a hill I go slow and I found my bike and I got off my bike and I runned again. 

Abby

It was hot but I enjoyed it very much. It wasn't hard to find my bike because it is blue and big. Thank you for everyone who came to meet us at the end.

Lola

Today the best part was winning and I was proud of myself. 

Kiana

Flashmob Dance

This weekend at the Wanaka A&P show there is a massive dance coordinated for all children of all ages. 

Erica from Dance Wanaka has choreographed an amazing fete for all children to be involved. The pictures below show the whole school rehearsing before the big day. 

Learning Numbers in the Question Room

Look at the amazing learning that is happening in the "Question' Room.  The children are learning to count up to 100, skip count in 2's, counting using pegs.

Measuring on our own

Our investigation into understanding measurement continues. Check out the different ways we have helped each other with measurement using different things in different ways. This type of learning alongside intensive teaching has lifted our test scores really high in a very short amount of time. Well done Pod 2. Great independent learning.