Peacocks

The Moas literacy group have been reading about a family that have peacocks as pets.
They have made a quiz about what they have learnt.

How many of these questions could you answer?

Dinosaur Mix

Rita has been learning about different types of dinosaurs and has mixed them all up to create her own invented dinosaur. She has described each dinosaur to tell us about what is special about them.

In her writing Rita has been thinking carefully about the words in sentences to make them clearer for the audience. Can you hear which ones have 1 clause, and which sentences have 2?

We know all about the 'ound' word family. Knowing this sound helps us to spell other words in the word family.
We also learnt some new words - did you know a 'hound' was another name for a dog?

Carnivorous Dinosaurs

The Moas group have been reading about the scariest dinosaurs .... the carnivors!

Where have all the dinosaurs gone?

The Hawks literacy group have been reading about prehistoric mammals.
They were very different to the dinosaurs.
We think we know why the mammals are still around and all the dinosaurs have gone.

Giant Dinosaurs

The Penguins literacy group have been reading about the biggest dinosaurs.

Here are some of the things we've learnt.

Life Sized Dinosaur

How big is a real dinosaur?
Room 12 wanted to find out what a 20 metre long Apatosaurus looked like, so we drew it to scale on the court. Take a look at how we did it.

I Know A Lot About Cats

Ahsin has been learning about cats and knows lots of new words.


The big hairs on the cat's face are whiskers.
It's claws are nails.
The paws are feet.
A coat is the cat's hair
Ahsin

Kiwis

Our Literacy group has been finding information from the text and writing our own reports.


Kiwis are very special to New Zealand because it is our native bird. The kiwi is on lots of things in New Zealand like coins.
The kiwi cannot fly because their feathers are stiff like dog hair. Its wings are about the size of our pinky. Kiwis dig with their beaks. Because they have got nostrils at the end of their beaks, they can smell when their beaks. They can dig in the ground which makes it easier for them to find food.
Kiwis live in burrows under the ground. They stay in their burrows during the day.
The kiwi is nocturnal that means that kiwis sleep during the day and come out at night. Kiwi eggs are huge. They are about the size of six hen eggs. That is a big egg. When the mother kiwi is close to having her baby her stomach will start sagging.
Kiwis eat berries,insects , huhu grubs and earth worms. They are so good at hearing that they can hear the worms in the soil .It probably finds food very fast if it can do that.
Dogs are very bad to kiwis. Because a dog a could easily kill a kiwi by picking it up. In 1981 a wild german shepard killed around 500 kiwis. That is a lot of kiwis killed.

By Litia

Why The Crocodile Has No Tongue

Have you ever wondered why crocodiles have no tongue?


Turuhira has made a movie showing you the beginning, middle and end of this legend.

Why The Crocodile Has No Tongue

Kingston's Group has been looking at the plot in Legends and Folk Tales.
In his movie he had to show the beginning, middle and end of this story.


Do you think crocodiles and foxes are still friendly today?

My name is Thomas and I am 7.
I am learning to write in sentences.
I wrote about my weekend, and made my first movie.

The Spider Who Wanted Spots

The Hawks Literacy group read a story about a spider who wanted spots so he could look beautiful like the ladybird.
He learnt that he should be grateful for what he already has.




What things are you grateful for?

Should animals be kept in zoos?

The Seagulls Literacy group have been learning about zoos and zoo animals. They have found different opinions about zoos.


What do you think?

Pukeko

The Pukeko Literacy group have been reading to find out about the native New Zealand bird that their group is named after. They have made their first animations of the year to illustrate what pukekos look like and the habitat they like to live in.

Summer Holidays

What did you do over the summer holidays?
The Hawks Literacy group have made a movie to show you their summer highlights.

Don't Cha

We think fruit is a cool snack.

The extension group rewrote words to a song for us to sing, and made this music video to show you what we think about fruit.
We showed our movie at our EHSAS Cluster's Manaiakalani Film Festival today along with other schools in our community.

Recycling Rubbish

The Seagulls group have been looking at what different sorts of rubbish we can recycle.

We have been reading about which rubbish can be remade into something else and have drawn some animations to share our learning with you.

Treasure Island Instructions

1. Land your ship at the west ocean and get a rope.
2. Pick up an axe from the ground and kill the dreadful villagers.

3. Walk to the haunted mountains. Remember you have a rope. Use it to climb the mountain

4. You found a bucket now go round the deathly,hallowed cave quickly and if you don’t they will kill you.

5. Fill your bucket with clean water and have a bath.

6. Sneak around the jungle and find the ape and kill him with your axe.

7.Go to the burning volcano where the treasure is burried but the lava monster will burrie you alive.

8.Defeat the lava monster with your bucket.

9.You found the treasure there is a portal that will lead you back to your ship.

Matthew

Worms

The Penguins Literacy group have been reading all about worms. They have written a quiz for you so you can test what you know.