Bella's Home Learning

Bella shared her fabulous mask with us today.  She told us that her mask is a kea.

"Wheelie" Good Day

The weather didn't look great but we decided to get out on our bikes, scooters, skates and skateboards at 9:00.  What a fortuous decision it turned out to be as the thunderstorms rolled in after 10:30.  The bikers left for their expedition to Hillwell Park, something we couldn't have done without Mrs Campbell's enthusiasm and the wonderful parent helpers.  The other 'wheelie riders' were able to zoom on the courts, around the playground, through Huia pod and down the paths into Muriwai.  Everyone had fun, even if there were a few crashes.  After morning tea we created vegetable vehicles with our pod buddies and then had a hot chip lunch.  In the afternoon we went to the hall to play with our remote controlled cars, dols and prams, barbie cars or matchbox sized cars with hot wheel ramps.

Muriwai Murals

At the beginning of the year Mrs Cuttriss had a great idea to brighten the Muriwai Pod – murals.  We all thought it would be a wonderful Pod buddy project and the planning began.  We decided that we should think about the things that can be found at our pod beach, Muriwai and include them in our designs.  After lots of thinking, talking, sketching and amazing help from Mrs Shepherd our designs were completed.  They were entered into the Resene Mural Masterpieces competition and we won 2nd prize.  Here we are with the six murals.

You can see other winners at this website – click here

December

Poison Dart Frogs

We went to Room 1 and 2 and made poison dart frogs with pettinice and sat them on iced biscuit leaves.

Poison Dart frogs from SPS Superstars on Vimeo.

Cats

We created these artworks in the style of American artist Dan Morris using coloured pencil. 

Cats2 from SPS Superstars on Vimeo.

PlayBall Term 4

James came with his wonderful coaches and gave us a free PlayBall session.

PlayBall T4 2012 from SPS Superstars on Vimeo.

November

Sporting Excellence

On Saturday the 29th of September I went to Pukekohe to a Karate tournament.  I performed my kata and won this trophy.

This netball season I played for the mini Mystics.  We only lost one game.  I like to play GD, GK and GS.  My favourite Silver Fern is Irene Van Dyke.

TES iBoard

I have subscribed to TES iBoard.  Click on the link to find our folders.  I have changed the contents of our folders to include addition and subtraction games.  You can practise  with single digit, two-digit and decimal numbers.  Remember to keep your practise within your "just right for me" learning zone.

Have fun with your learning!

Lizard Art

Lizard Art from SPS Superstars on Vimeo.

We created these Lizard Art Works using dye and black vivid.  We discussed warm and cool colours and looked at art works that included patterns. 

Click here for a link to our school website where you can open each art work individually for viewing and printing. 

We will be selling 2013 calendars at the gala that feature these art works.

Pirates

Room 21 had an exciting day on September the 19th when we celebrated international 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'.  Some of us dressed up as pirates and had heaps of fun!

Talk Like a Pirate Day 2012 from SPS Superstars on Vimeo.

You can find, view and print these photos from our website - click here.

Jack and the Beanstalk

This "Jack and the Beanstalk" Toontastic animation was created by Brendan and Bella.

Click on the link to ToonTube here.

Toontastic

We have been using the Toontastic app on the iPads to create animations that retell some well known fairytales.  Some of them have some interesting adaptations.  

You can find all our 'toons' on ToonTube by clicking on this link.

Rapunzel

Brendan and Bella created this Toontastic animation about "Rapunzel".

Click on the link to ToonTube here.

Jack and the Beanstalk

This "Jack and the Beanstalk" Toontastic animation has been created by Ryan M and Courtney.

Click on the link to ToonTube here.

Penguin Posters Updated

Here are the latest batch of completed penguin posters.

The Three Little Pigs

Moe, Aliana and Taonga created this Toontastic animation about 'The Three Little Pigs'.

Click here for the link to ToonTube.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Here is a Toontastic animation of the 'Jack and the Beanstalk' story by Al and Cooper.

Click here for the link to ToonTube.

Jack and the Beanstalk

This Toontastic animation about Jack and the Beanstalk was created by Sumin, Zaafirah and Taylor

Click here for the link to ToonTube.

The Gingerbread Man

This 'Gingerbread Man' Toontastic animation was created by GraceC and RyanV with some voices by Olivia.
Click on the link to ToonTube.

Rapunzel

This Rapunzel Toontastic animation was created by Serena and Nevin.

Click here for the link to ToonTube.

The Gingerbread Man

Here is a new Toontastic animation by Nicholas, Keyjah and Franky. They chose to retell 'The Gingerbread Man'.
Click here for the link to ToonTube.

Ryan's Blackbird Babies

These are my baby black birds.  Thursday 20th September was the only day I could bring these baby black birds to school.  When my family was looking after the baby blackbirds they hopped out of their box and explored the house.  Then my family thought to put them in a cage.  We had to give them to a person that looks after birds.

Ryan V

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Muriwai Pod had an exciting day on September the 19th when we celebrated international 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'.  We worked with our buddies to create treasure maps, a pirate description and a dagger box.
You can view photos and print them from the school website - click here for link.

Production Photo

Here we are after our dress rehearsal.  There are others on the website – link here.

The Gingerbread Man

Olivia and Dorian have created a Toontastic animation on an iPad about the Gingerbread Man.
Click here for the link to ToonTube.

September Calendar

The Three Little Pigs

We have been using Toontastic to retell some of our favourite stories on the iPads.  Here is Zaine, Samantha and GraceS's 'Three Little Pigs'.
Click here for the link to ToonTube.

This toon was selected to be showcased in the weekly Classic Tales spotlight – high-five from the crew at Launchpad Toys.

Jessie's Pizza

Brendan's Karate

Cricket

On Friday the 17th of August we had a cricket session on the courts.  We learnt how to catch a ball correctly, balance while catching a ball with one hand and a great game we can play again.

You can find more individual photos on our school website page that are suitable for saving or printing.  Click here.

Snowy

This is Snowy.  It's a girl.  She is 18 months old.  She has three very cute outfits.  She is a type of bichon.  She has two toys.  Her toys are: a tennis ball and a little dog.

Brendan's Swimming

I go to West Wave in Henderson.  I started as a Guppie.  The pool was a bit too deep for me, but I did not give up.  I tried my best to swim well and I jumped heaps of levels to Olly Otters.  I practised every Saturday and I have moved up to Tuna.  Now I am training to get to Dolphins.

Penguin Posters

We created these penguin posters using ComicLife on the iPads.  We learnt lots of new skills as we found things quite different from using ComicLife on our desktops and laptops.  We are now pretty good at problem solving on iPads to find solutions to the difficulties we had.  Lots of the solutions we found will help us in other iPad, iTouch or iPhone apps.