G is for Gingerbread Man

Today we were learning about the letter G!

We did lots of work about the letter g.

We even made Gingerbread Men.

We read the story about the Gingerbread Man.





Then we made our Gingerbread men.
Check out our photos.

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Cupcake Wars!

Today is SPCA cupcake day.

We raised money for the SPCA.  They need help to help look after the dogs and cats that no one wants.

We had to cook and decorate cupcakes to sell.  Ms Kelley took our cupcakes off to be judged and eaten.

Later, we made cupcakes again in our classroom.

Look at our other cupcake post to read about our blue cupcakes!

By Room 18

Corde's Writing

Corde worked really hard today to practice writing words on the whiteboard.

He is trying hard to learn more words to help with his reading and writing.

 Ka pai Corde!

Tai's Maths

Tai worked hard today to write his numbers correctly.
It was tricky but he kept trying.

 Well done Tai.

Blowing up a balloon

Today Room 18 blew up a balloon without using our mouths.

We used vinegar, baking soda and a bottle to blow up our balloon.

We put some vinegar into the bottle and some baking soda into the balloon.

Then we put the balloon on top.

We shook the bottle and the balloon slowly blew up!

We were excited!

The vinegar and the baking soda made lots of little air bubbles. They blew up the balloon for us!

By Room 18.

Room 17 and Room 18 are scientists!

Today we joined with Room 17 to do our first science experiment.

We tried to do a baking soda and vinegar fireworks experiment.

We needed vinegar, oil and baking soda ice cubes.

We thought it would shoot up like fireworks.

In the photos you can see what actually happened.

We think we might try it again with white vinegar and add food colouring to our baking soda ice cubes.

We think our changes might make it more like fireworks.

What is a Scientist?

This term we are looking at Fabrics and Fibres as scientists.

First we need to understand what a scientist is, so we can be scientists.

Here is what Room 18 have decided a scientist does.

We are really looking forward to being scientists.
Keep coming back to see some exciting science experiments.

Then we will then move onto being scientists with fabrics.

Te Wiki o te Reo

Kia ora kotau.

This week is Maori Language week in New Zealand.

We have been learning to greet each other in Maori.

In Kiwi Can we are learning about our emotions, so we learnt some Te Reo Maori words for our emotions too.


We also had James Cook High School come and perform for us. It was really exciting to watch.

Corde's Building

Corde was very proud of his robot today.
He wanted to share it with the class and blog.

Tai's Writing

Tai was very proud of his writing today.
He was excited to share it with everyone.

Sinalee's Writing

Today we read a story called "Look at Me."
It was about a pig getting dressed.

We wrote our own stories about getting dressed.

Here is Sinalee's writing.

Corde's Writing

Today we read a story called "Look at Me."
It was about a pig getting dressed.

We wrote our own stories about getting dressed.

Here is Corde's writing.

Faith's Writing

Today we read a story called "Look at Me."
It was about a pig getting dressed.

We wrote our own stories about getting dressed.

Here is Faith's writing.

Ngahuia's Writing

Today we read a story called "Look at Me."
It was about a pig getting dressed.

We wrote our own stories about getting dressed.

Here is Ngahuia's writing.

Larell's Writing

Today we read a story called "Look at Me."
It was about a pig getting dressed.

We wrote our own stories about getting dressed.

Here is Larell's writing.

Term 3 has started

We are all excited to be back at school today.
We have 3 new children in our room. We are really excited to have Manu, Christian and Ngahuia with us.
We had a great time today in Kiwi Can learning about emotions.

Here is a photo of us doing a happy dance.

By Room 18

Julian's Foam Writing

Today we practiced writing our words and letters in the shaving foam. It was fun.

Corde's Foam Writing

Today we practiced writing our words and letters in the shaving foam. It was fun.

Faith's Foam Writing

Today we practiced writing our words and letters in the shaving foam. It was fun.

James' Foam Writing

Today we practiced writing our words and letters in the shaving foam. It was fun.

Jaxon's Playdough Fun

Today we made some play dough. Jaxon really enjoyed playing with the play dough. His favourite creation was his snowman.

Sinalee's Playdough Fun

Today we made some play dough. Sinalee made a pizza.

Kendra's Handwriting

Emanuel's Handwriting

Corde's Handwriting

James talks about his Maths

Jaxon's Maths

Our Production Stories

Yesterday we had our production.

We had so much fun.

We wrote stories about our show.

Look at our pictures and read our stories.

By Corde and Faasao.

How the Kiwi Lost His Wings Performance

Last night was our Junior School Production of How the Kiwi Lost His Wings.

Room 18 have been working very hard over the term to make costumes, learn songs and words and to practice acting our parts.

It has been very tricky, but we have worked hard.

Faith, Faasao and Corde had to overcome their nerves and perform a speaking part in front of around 350 - 400 people. They did so well.

I am so proud of everyone who came on the night to dress up and perform in front of so many people bravely.

Thank you also to all the parents for their support last night and across the term preparing for this event.

Below is a video of "Act 2 - Tui" which features our class and Room 12.

Olive's Beads

Faith's car

Ladybird's Puzzle

Kumiko's Pirate Boat

Faasao's Plane

Larell's Jet Plane

Fitness Fun

Today it was very wet.
We couldn't do fitness outside. We were sad.

 We did our fitness inside instead. We had heaps of fun and got very puffed!

Sinalee's Video

Tai's Video

Faith's Video

Mele 's Video

Corde's Video of his learning

Mele 's Post

This is my robot.

Building fun

Today we did some building.

We built with lego.

We built with shapes.

We built with blocks.

We had lots of fun building with different equipment.

We want to learn about ....

This week in Room 18, we have been talking about what we would like to learn more about.
Mrs Wiersma is going to try and help us learn about these things too.

You can read our stories and listen to us tell you about what we want to learn about.

By Faith, Corde and Olive.

Our Monsters - Boys

We have been reading "I Need My Monster" by Amanda Noll.

We like this story so much, we have created our own monsters.  You can see and hear about them below.

We hope you like them.

Our Monsters - Girls

We have been reading "I Need My Monster" by Amanda Noll.

We like this story so much, we have created our own monsters.  You can see and hear about them below.

We hope you like them.

I Need My Monster

We have been using one of our favourite stories to give us ideas for writing this week. We really like the story I Need My Monster.

You can listen to it here.




Keep a look out for our amazing monsters coming soon!

Counting fun

Today in Maths, I was counting balloons on the computer.
It was helping me to learn numbers and counting.
It was fun!

By Kahleol

Today in maths, I was matching numbers and dots.
It was helping me learn to read my numbers and help me count carefully.

By Faith

Today in Maths, I was doing puzzles.  

Puzzles help me solve problems.

I like puzzles and hammering.

By Ricky

Word Power!

We have been working really hard in Room 18 to learn to write words correctly by ourselves.  Each week we practice writing them in a list to see how many we know now.

Dream was our winner this week with 12 words!

Some children have just started school and don't know many yet, but they will soon.  Parents can help at home by helping us practice.

Have a look through our photos to see how many we can write this week.

ANZAC Day

We have been learning about ANZAC Day at school.

We have learnt that ANZAC day is an important time to remember the soldiers.



Today we had an ANZAC ceremony at school.

We made poppies to wear at the ceremony.

We sat in the hall with all the parents and grandparents.  We listened to people talk about how war is bad and makes people feel sad.  We sang some songs.







Tomorrow is ANZAC day. Some people will go to a parade to remember the soldiers.