Hi Faith

Hi there Faith
Thanks for your message. I am missing everyone a bit too but I have lots to do this week to get ready for Christmas, like putting up my Christamas tree!!! Sooty is really happy because he can follow me around ALL day! Isn't it great to see some sunshine after all the rain. I think I might weed my messy garden today too. I hope you and your family are all well and I bet you can't wait until Santa comes! Have a wonderful Christmas.
Love from Mrs K

Happy Christmas!

Hi everyone!  I want to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a wonderful holiday. Thankyou for all the good times we had this year. I will miss you and hope you come in to Room 18 to see me and let me know how you are going at school next year.
Love from Mrs K

GRASSHOPPER FUN AND GAMES

CHECK OUT OUR VERY OWN CHAMPION!!!

Congratulations on your EXCELLENCE Mike! Your BMX trophy is nearly as big as you! Go MIKE!!!

CREATIVITY!!

More Water Safety!!

Water Safety Fun on PhotoPeach

WATER SAFETY at AC BATHS on PhotoPeach

GO THE MIGHTY ALL BLACKS!!!!

DAZZLING DIAMONDS!!

Check out these superstars! These people achieved 10 weeks of GREEN DAY behaviour (the best!!) and here they are enjoying their reward - a lunchtime disco!! Yay!! Well done to you all. Thankyou for using your virtues to achieve outstanding behaviour!

READING RACE TERM 3

Congratulations to Hannah, Connor and Mia who all achieved 1st = places in this term's reading race. Here is Harry who placed 2nd. Well done all of you. No wonder you are all such clever readers!!!!

SKIING!! on PhotoPeach

Hi Everyone
I am a bit sick so won't be back to school until Friday. Remember

• Dress up day for the rugby
• Green day treats
• Green Home readers so we can see who are the winners this term
• DVD for the afternoon

See you all on Friday
From Mrs Kerr

INFORMATION REPORTS

We have been learning about how to write an information report of a living thing.
 Brianna has ticked all the boxes for success!
TITLE/OPENING STATEMENT/PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION/EVALUATION

SHEEP

A sheep is an animal. A sheep is a mammal that lives on a farm and is a hebivore.

A sheep is white and has a thick coat of wool. Sometimes they are grey or brown. They are not large , not small but medium. Sheep eat grass clovers and vegetables. In winter they eat hay. Sheep live in grassy places and on farms. Wild sheep are afraid of wolves and dogs. A sheep moves slowly. Farmers keep sheep for meat and wool. They call the female a ewe and a male a ram.

I think sheep are friendly because they share their wool and meat.

GREAT JOB ROOM 18! YOU WERE FABULOUS!!

Courage Stories!

I remember the time I had to use my courage when...
 I walked under a board with nails sticking out. They looked vicious. I had butterflies in my tummy and it tingled and went flip flop. I was very nervous. My mind said "Don't do it, don't do it" but I did it. I walked under the board and screamed.
By Dillon

 I was up on the stage. My legs shaking and shivering. My tummy was wishing and I was feeling sick. Then the light beamed at me and the song went on. Then I knew what I had to do.
By Ashton

I had got lost in Disney Land. My feet felt wobbly like I was going to faint. My tummy was feeling funny at first. Then I got the shivers, I wanted to scream then I started itching. Then minutes later I walked up to a shop. It was a toy shop. Luckily there was a lady in the shop. She called my mum and when my mum came in I was crying hard out. I was soooo happy to see my mum. And that was when I used courage.
By Mia

I was sitting waiting for my turn. Ranger was trying to calm me down. My tummy was going flip flop. I was so sweaty I felt like I was a sausage on a double fuelled barbecue! I felt like I was in a wetsuit that was size 000 (pretty tight!) Finally it was our turn. I was SHIVERING my heart out!!!! I was panting and butterflies were fluttering in my tummy. But when I got on stage all the badness floated away. That was courage.
By Brianna

Check out these cool Dogs!!

Happy Birthday to Chihuahua Ranger!!

Production Costumes

Hi everyone. Here's what our production costumes will look like. Mums and Dads this gives you some idea of makeup and hair. Don't our models Harry, Kayla and Katie look great!!

PRODUCTION

Hi everyone. The production is getting closer!! Next Monday is the dress rehearsal and then we are in to it!!
I hope you are practising your dance moves and the words to the Chihuahua song. Remember to get your costume organised and have it here at school by Friday the 9th.

CROSS COUNTRY EXCELLENCE!!

Congratulations to Mia, Abi, Mike, Heath and Ranger  who ran so well today.

Year 3 Girls: Mia 1st, Abi 2nd, Ranger 4th

Year 3 Boys: Mike 3rd, Heath 5th

BAD NEWS and GOOD NEWS

BAD NEWS: Room 18's ski trip on the 2nd September has been cancelled. Oh dear!!
GOOD NEWS: We will have our Cross Country instead, if the weather is ok! Yippee!!

INFORMATION REPORTS

We have been learning how to write Information Reports. Thanks Heath and Mia for some examples!

HEDGEHOGS
A hedgehog is a mammal that hibernates.
A hedgehog looks like a furry ball with spikes and  a fluffy tummy and they’re brown. They like eating worms slugs caterpillars and bugs. They live in burrows and nests under leaves bushes trees and buildings. They move on four feet. They can get fleas and disease in their spikes and they eat grass and bugs.
I think hedgehogs are cute little things that carry disease around.
By Heath

Hedgehogs are mammals.
Hedgehogs are spikey and they are small. At the end of the spikes there are white bits. Hedgehogs eat earth worms beetles slugs snails and food scraps. Hedgehogs live under hedges under piles of leaves and compost. Hedgehogs are fat and slow. If they go in water they just drown.
I think hedgehogs are cute and endangered.
By Mia

More Rugby World Cup teeshirt designs!! on PhotoPeach

OUR RUGBY WORLD CUP TEE SHIRT DESIGNS on PhotoPeach

Check out more of our art!!!

Even More Turtle Art on PhotoPeach

More Calendar Art on PhotoPeach

Check out some of our calender art! More to come...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ABI.
TURNING 8 TODAY.
HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY!!

SNOW AT SCHOOL!!! READ SOME OF OUR PIECES OF WRITING ABOUT IT.GIVE THE WRITERS SOME FEEDBACK!!

Remember the day of the snow. The snow looks like vanilla icecream, dancing across the air softly, coming down and fading on the cold icey slippery ground as more and more comes down, and this time it is thick. It sparkles like crystals and when it stops the ice on the ground crunches up and then it starts falling again.

By Mia

Remember the day of the snow. White beautiful freezing flakes on the ground. Melting like powder. Frozen pools, slippery stairs, flakey grounds. You can make snowballs and snowmen.

By Rajena

Remember the day of the snow. It was so beautiful I wanted to eat it. The fluffy snow is like icecream. The soft wild snow curls around my head but then it softly touches the hard floor.

By Abi

Week 3

Welcome to Week 3!!
Make this week GREEN!!

Room 18 Authors: Check out these great pieces of writing by Room 18 authors!

The big cows were having a nosey at everybody in the car. Then they were walking. Then the cows were secretly seeing them but the people didn't see the cows. Then they saw them on the kayak. One morning these two cows were looking over the bank and then heaps came and noticed some kayakers and then the cows said "What the!" After a while the other cows came over to see what was happening. Before long a whole army of cows lined up on the bank and they were watching.
By Mai

One night an ugly camel got up to some  mischief by sticking its head through the window of a car. The camel licked the rear vision mirror. The camel catches sight of its beautiful reflection in the mirror. He thinks he is handsome. He could be Prince Caspian's camel.
By Dillon

Week 2

Things to remember this week are:

• Make every day a GREEN DAY in Room 18!!
• Mrs Kerr is away on Wednesday and Mr Sutherland is your teacher that day.
• Mystery Reader starts this week on Friday.
• Bring your Green Home Readers in on Friday
• Learn your Numeracy Challenge this week and make it the week you move up the rocket.
• Think up somne interesting words for the WOW words competition.

See you on Monday!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Congratulations to RANGER!! Yes you guessed the answer. I am on my way to Waiheke Island on the ferry!! So you have a chocolate fish coming your way soon!!!

Fish

Put the mouse on the fish and watch them follow it!
HAVE FUN!

Term 3 Has Started!

Hi everyone
First of all to the people who answered the question.  Some are close. Yes I am on a boat ( a ferry)  and I am at sea. What you need to say is where am I going!
Also, as I told everyone in class, the reading race starts this week on Thursday 4 August so lets get reading!!!
Things coming up are the School Production, Skiing, Rugby World Cup!!
Phew!! Aren't we going to be busy!
Remember to bring in your Learning Portfolio please.

Hi everyone! I hope you have had a wonderful holiday like me!! Who ever can guess the correct answer to this question wins a chocolate fish!

Where am I and where am I going in this photo?

FOOD FOOD AND MORE FOOD!!!

Ed from the SPCA came to school and collected lots of food that we had all brought in. You can see all the cans and packets behind him. He was very thrilled to receive the posters and the mural and the letters we wrote him as well as the food of course!!

Well done Rooms 18 and 15!!

This is just a small amount of the food collected today for the animals at the SPCA! I hope Ed has a big van when he comes to pick it up next week!! Thankyou to all of you for coming up with such a great idea and thanks also to all the kind people at Waipahihi School who donated some food. Won't the animals be pleased!!!

Congratulations to Hannah and other Poster Winners!

Here is Hannah's poster, one of the 7 winners in the SPCA  poster competitition. Congratulations to you all. Your posters will be taken to the Taupo SPCA next week and be displayed there for all the visitors to see. The other posters were all great as well and will be displayed around our school. Well done everyone who took part in the competition. You are all winners in my book!

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY
REMEMBER:

1.  DRESS UP 
2.  BRING A CAN OF FOOD FOR THE SPCA!!!
3.  SPCA POSTERS ARE DUE
4.  TERM 2 READING RACE AND CHALLENGES FINISH

LET'S HELP ALL THOSE ABANDONED PUPPIES AT TAUPO'S SPCA!

I wonder if this lovely little puppy has a home to go to yet? Let's hope so.

 Remember to start thinking about what pet you are going to dress up as on Friday and tell Mum and Dad about our great ideas to help the SPCA!

SPCA VISIT

 Here's Katie giving Ed from the SPCA some food for the abandoned animals.Thanks Katie!
Abi shows ho to pat Jasper. Well done Abi!!
What are a pet's five most important needs?

Remember to get  your SPCA trip permission slips back to school on Monday!  I am looking forward to  next Wednesday. Let's hope it's a sunny day!!

Who will be the leader readers this term??

Last term these hard working girls were our leader readers!! Will it be them again this term or will it be YOU!! Make sure you are remembering to take home those home readers every night and this could be you at the end of this term!! Let's get READING!!!

Words to Think About

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Study these flash cards

Hi

Hi there everyone. We might hear back from the SPCA today and  we can arrange a visit, hopefully next week. I wonder if they have lots of puppies like in Mangere's shelter. I hope not.

Also remember we have class photos on ths Friday.

MYSTERY SWIMMER??

Can you guess who our mystery swimmer is?

The Wheels on the Bus go round and round allt he way to the AC Baths!

Class Photos postponed until another time everyone!! Even photographers get sick!! And you all looked so cool today!!

TOLERANCE

Remember what Mr Stanley says about TOLERANCE??
Accept everyone the way they are!! Are you using yours?

SCHOOL PHOTOS

Highlights for week 7

• Monday- powerpoints in the computer suite
•  Wednesday -  school photos
• Thursday - shared lunch for William
• Friday - Mystery Reader and Challenges!

STARS of MATARIKI WEEK

Look at all these STARS!! Great effort all those children who dressed up as stars for the end of Matariki week!!

SWIMMING CONTINUES....

Remember everyone we are swimming again this week as well! Make sure you get an early night because your brain needs to be fresh for all you new learning tomorrow!!!

BLACKIE THE HEN'S PRESENT!

Thanks to Blackie, Sophie's hen, I have had a delicious lunch today! Thanks Blackie, my poached egg was scrumptious!!! Yumm!!

We finally got to meet Rollie!

Mike's Rollie came out of hiding for us yesterday!! What beautiful amber coloured eyes she has.

Who had a great time swimming? I saw some very good swimmers today!!

SURPRISE VISITOR!!

We had a lovely surprise today. Mike was supposed to bring in his cat Rollie but Rollie was hiding and couldn't be found! So Mike brought his friend's dog instead.

Toby is a Jack Russell who is very good at catching rabbits!

Kayla's guinea pig Mischief reminded us of a miniature lawn mower because she nibbled through a piece of carrot in less than 3 minutes!!

Heath's lovely little dog Maddi is a tea cup poodle. I wonder why??!! Isn't she so cute!!

SWIMMING SWIMMING SWIMMING SWIMMING SWIMMING SWIMMING SWIMMING starts NEXT WEEK

TOM DORA AND FRANKLIN ENJOYING THE SUN!!

THOMAS and FRIENDS enjoy a PLAYDATE!!

Today was a beautiful sunny day so Tom had a playdate outside with Dora and Franklin from Room 17. Look at him stretching out in the sun!! Why is the sunlight so important for a turtle?

THANKS MS RYAN!!

Have you noticed Ms Ryan has fixed the clock!!!!

We now have the right time!!

BLONDIE THE CHICKEN

Ranger's Blondie the chicken was an unusual and really interesting pet!
We asked lots of questions about her!

PETS! PETS! and more PETS!

Faith's beautiful Persian cat  Cuddles was very cuddly!!

Harry's Bama was amazing catching her frisbee!!

Game

I think Heath's idea is a great one.Your Friday game sounds like a lot of fun!  I hope to soon get some games on our blog. I'll see if Whaea Tracy can help!

Pictures of pets

Here is Brianna' s Zebedee !

How to post a Comment

CAN YOU POST A COMMENT ALL ON YOUR OWN?

Hi Girls and Guys

I want to write one positive and one negative comment about our blog.

For Example: I think the blog is awesome because I can show mum and dad what we are learning at school.
One thing that is tricky for me at home is that my internet doesn't always work.
From Mrs Kerr :)

How to post a comment:
1. Go to the end of this post
2. Click on comments in blue
3. Write your comment in the box
4. Click on the drop down box. Click on 'Name/URL' and write your name in the top box.
5. Click on 'Post Comment'
6. Your comment will be sent to me to check.

Now you have a go!!!

Hello everyone! lovely to receive some comments!
Mrs K

Hello from Room 18

Hello anyone out there! I am just beginning the journey of blogging so I am seeing if this works
Cheers Pam Kerr

Trout Hatchery Trip

Last week we had a wonderful trip to the Trout Hatchery in Turangi. Here are some photos of our day!