Friday, 2 June 2017

Ka pai!

Mia, Iris and Sunyu read a Ready to Ready book titled "Getting Ready for the Visitors" by Kiwa Hammond. The book was about visitors coming onto a Marae. We learned about the words Kapai and Kia ora. Here are Mia, Iris and Sunyu to tell you what they mean.
Music is 'Tena Koe - Hello to one' sung by William Poutu.

Ka pai from andrea des forges on Vimeo.

Saturday, 20 May 2017

The Polar Bear on the Cold Ice

We looked at a photo of a polar bear on an iceberg that looked too small. We thought about what we thought was happening in the photo and wondered what would happen next.

This is Austin's story


The Polar Bear on the Cold Ice
by Austin

This is my house and the polar bear is on the cold ice at my house. He is my friend.

Ormie the Pig

Room 7 watched a short animated film called Ormie the Pig. It told the story of a pig who desperately wanted some cookies from the jar on top of the fridge. We talked about how there were no words but the animators used physical comedy to tell the story.  It is a funny movie and some of the children wrote about it.

Ormie the Pig Stories

This is a pig getting cookies.
Sophia

Ormie the pig climbed the fridge to get the cookies.
Hoshika

The dinosaur is trying to get the leaves off the fridge but he is too small and a rock fell and cut his tail.
Keiran

The pig wants come cookies on top of the fridge but he is too small.
Hanzalah

Ormie the pig went to the shop.  He went looking up the fridge for the cookies.  The cookies were too high up and the people took all of the cookies and there was none left.
Poor Ormie!
Rachel


Sunyu's story

Sunyu wrote a story this week about picking a flower. She used some great words to describe things in her story.


Picking a Flower by Sunyu

I am picking a flower outside.  It was windy and I wore my black jacket with my lacey dress.

Thursday, 11 May 2017

Dance Stories


 

Ballet
By Taya

I go to ballet and I like ballet because I can do Saute.


My Mum Can Dance
by Martin

I am watching my mum dance at home. She is a good dancer.

The Dancers
by Mia

I like the girls move. It looks cool. I also like the music and I think they are tired. I think I should help the girls finish their dance.

Dance Words

Here are some Dance Words that we came up with after watching the fabulous Royal Family dancers.

Dancing Words from andrea des forges on Vimeo.

Dance, Dance, Dance!

Members of the Royal Family Hip Hop Dance Crew came to Newmarket School and put on a wonderful performance for us. These fabulous dancers will be heading off to the World Hip Hop Championships in the USA and we wish them all the best.


Dance dance dance from andrea des forges on Vimeo.