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.

The Olympics is about countries from all over the world that participate in different kinds of sports.

When the Evers-Swindell twins were having their final rowing match I got all excited. The Evers-Swindell twins have a special boat called a 2 sculled boat. Wee the Evers-Swindell twins were nearly at the finish and they had a photo finish with Germany.

When running was on I watched Nick willis get a bronze medal for running 1500 meters. Then I watched the mens 1000 meters. A Jamaican man called Usain Bolt broke a record. His record was 19.58 seconds.

Just last week I watched the shot put final for the women. Valerie Vili represented New Zealand for the women’s shot put. When she threw the shot put she got 22.10 metres and won gold.

Hayden Roulston is a cyclist. He used a special bike called a super bike. After his cycling match he got a silver medal in the velodrome.

I think new Zealand should be proud of their gold, silver and bronze medals.

Ala

Snails

The Hawks have been reading and writing about snails. Did you know that our native New Zealand snail is a carnivore and does't eat plants?
We have found out a lot about the snail's habitat, diet and enemies.


What else do you know about snails?

Missing by A. A Milne

The Pukekos Literacy group liked this poem because it was about a mouse, and we have some pet mice in our classroom. Our teacher doesn't want our mice to escape and go missing though!


Can you spot the little change we made to A. A Milne's poem to make it relevant to Glen Innes?