Kahurangi Dance Group

When I got to school on Tuesday I wondered what we were doing. Then I remembered that my class and I were going to a show! I was so excited I could hardly wait!

 

Luckily the show was only at 9: 00am. It was not long until Miss Williams said  “Everyone line up outside, please. We are going to Kahurangi Dance Group in the hall. ”

 

At the start of the show they introduce themselves. The first story that they told was “Hatupatu and the Bird Woman”. At the end of the story I felt amazing because they did things that I could not do.

 

They also did amazing poi. I was amazed at how thy had two poi in each hand. I loved it!

 

By Neela

Ronald McDonald visits Sunnyhills School!

On Monday morning my class (Room 21) went to the hall to meet a famous person! I felt super excited. When we arrived at the hall, we first sang some songs .Then came the famous person!

It  was Ronald McDonald!  

He came to teach us about road wise. Ronald McDonald told an interesting story. It was about Ronald McDonald finding his red and white sock. In the story, he first went outside and hung the washed pair of red and white socks on the line. Mrs Yates read the story to the junior classes. He could even hang the sock on a soft blanket! I was very surprised! It was such a windy day that one of the socks blew away.

Ronald decided to go to Sunnyhills School to find his red and white sock. He wanted to drive or ride on a bicycle to school. Instead, Ronald McDonald decided to walk to school. He said “footpaths are for walking, not for playing.” Then he walked to a road that he needed to cross. He came to a zebra crossing. He was a bit silly, so he said “ you stay over here while I run across the road.” We all shouted “NO!!!” Ronald McDonald said “then what shall I do? Hmmmm?” Then Ronald McDonald said “when you cross the road you have to step back, and then stop, look and listen before you cross the road.”

At last, Ronald McDonald got to school and hoped he could find his sock there. He couldn’t find his sock anywhere. He said “where can we find things that we have lost?” We all said “the lost property box!” So Ronald McDonald walked to the lost property box. Every class then saw that the lost sock had been on his back the whole time! Then he chose a little girl to reach for the red and white sock on his back. 

Ronald McDonald then said “I have a present for you.” A person was holding a netball and a football!

Finally all the junior classes went back to their own classes. I was glad to have seen Ronald McDonald.

By Leticia

Puppet Pals

At Sunnyhills this term, we have all been learning about the Olympic Games. We had our first try at using the Inquiry Process (a research model) to learn about a country that was competing in the Olympics.

We each chose our own country to study (you can see our flags a few posts down) and we did all the research ourselves - we felt like University students!

First, we had to write questions that we wanted to know about our country. Then we used Google and books to find the answer to our questions. That part was very hard because some of the sites had different information, so we weren't sure which information was true! Next, we had to highlight the most important part of our research and then write it in our own words. Finally we presented our information on stars around our beautiful flags.

Today in ICT, we learnt to use an app on the Ipads called Puppet Pals. We used this app to share our information about our countries. You can watch our creations on Youtube! Some of us only had time to share a few of our facts. We have a lot more, so next time you're in the school, pop in and see them - you will be so impressed!

Here are the videos:

More Puppet Pals

Here are the rest of the videos!

Maori

In Maori, we are learning to name the parts of our body.



With our buddy class (Room 6) we went outside and our big buddy traced around our body in chalk.



Then we worked together to label all the parts of our body that we knew using English and Maori.

We ended up being able to lable 14 different body parts in Maori! How many could you name?

Mainly Maths

Life in Room 21 took an exciting turn last week, when we used the iPads to help us with our learning for the first time. The iPads have some amazing apps to help us with Reading, Writing and Maths and also help us to think about, and share our learning.

The first thing we did on the iPads was use the app Educreations. It is a program that lets us write down, photograph and talk about our learning. It is a fun way to be able to share our thinking with you.

In Maths, we are learning to skip count in 3s. We used the Macarena movements while we said the numbers to help us to remember the pattern. (Ask us to show you the Macarena using Skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s - it is great for our learning, we are really good at it and we love doing it!)We took photos of ourselves doing the Macarena, photos of the right number of counters and wrote the number in numerals, English words and Maori words to help us to remember the pattern. It was our first time using educreations and we had a lot of fun while learning!

http://www.educreations.com/profile/1169611/

We hope you enjoy watching our Educreations as much as we enjoyed making them!

Body Alphabet!

Well done to Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan - our wonderful rowers who won the first Gold medal for New Zealand yesterday! We are so proud of you boys :).

To celebrate the win in Room 21, we worked in pairs or threes to create different letters and numbers with our bodies. We spelt out 'London 2012'. We had lots of fun! Do you like our spelling?