Art Attack - exploring with paint!

After our river trip on Thursday Class 20 created river scenes using paints.  Our finished masterpieces are ready to be displayed on our wall, and we enjoyed exploring this medium.

Our Trip to the River

After postponing a few times due to bad weather, Team 1 had our trip to the river last Thursday.  Class 20 had an amazing time enjoying the sand before lunch - creating some wonderful sandcastles and collecting shells.  After lunch under the trees, we enjoyed the sports gear and the playground before heading back to school.  Check out some of the images from our day and all the fun we had:

Once Upon a Time .... Film Festival Movie!

Most of the learners in Class 20 started school at the beginning of this year and all have made amazing progress on their "learning to read" journey.  We wanted to celebrate and share the importance of reading as part of our Manaiakalani Film Festival movie, while making the story interesting for the audience.

One of our favourite activities in Class 20 is exploring the dress-up box we have, and our movie gave everyone the opportunity to become an actor, and enjoy wearing a costume in front of the camera! All children enjoy a fairy story and we hope you enjoy viewing our movie as much as we enjoyed creating it for you!

Congratulations to ALL the actors and actresses from Class 20 that worked hard on learning lines and getting into character for their big screen debut!  Ms George and Mrs Belt are extremely proud of the enthusiasm and attitude of all our stars!

Fairy Tales may well exist .... Once Upon a Time ....

Welcome Troy

Today we welcomed Troy to Pt England School and Class 20! It will be a great start for Troy as he will join us on the trip to the Film Festival on just his second day at his new school.

 Here is Troy drinking his milk with his new friends from Class 20.

iPad Safety ... our PENN movie for the term!

Class 20 has had the privilege of being an iPad pilot class this year!  We've decided to carry this aviation theme into our PENN movie for the term and have created an iPad safety video to assist learners on their 1:1 device journey in 2015.  We encourage you to sit back, relax, and pay close attention to this message.

Creating River Scenes

As part of our immersion week for Art Attack,this week Class 20 have created River Scenes using crayon and dye.  Our finished masterpieces are on display in our classroom and corridor.  It was great to see the attention to detail that the learners displayed with both the crayon and dye, although it was definitely using the dye that was the highlight!

Check out the learners as they worked their artistic magic in this short video and don't forget to view the finished masterpieces in our classroom.

Football Frenzy

Class 20 and Class 24 are joining together for Football every Tuesday after lunch.  At our first session today, we met our instructor, Ben!

Both classes really enjoyed a game of traffic lights as our warm up.   This game extended, with the use of soccer balls - it was great to practice our ball control.  Our last game, had Class 20 and Class 24 protecting their balls, using only their feet, while Ben, Mrs Moala and Mrs Belt tried to get them off us!

We are all looking forward to our next session with Ben next Tuesday!

Making a healthy snack

As part of our "Game On" integrated unit, today we created a healthy snack.  Last week we brainstormed why we needed to eat healthy foods and what we could make.  Today we made fruit kebabs (and Class 20 got to eat them when they had made them!)

Check out some images from our session today!  We look forward to adding more detail to our Class blog over the next few days as we continue to discuss and write about what we did today!

 

Te Rakau sticks with Whaea Saff

Class 20 had an amazing Maori session with Whaea Saff on Friday, when she came with Te Rakau sticks.  We had been learning the waiata over the previous few sessions and today it was a chance to work with the Te Rakau.

Whaea Saff taught us two different ways to play and the learners were able to choose from these while singing the waiata.  Check out Class 20 having fun with Te Rakau in this video:

Fun at Lloyd Elsmore

As part of our Game On integrated unit, today the whole of Team 1 took a trip to the Lloyd Elsmore track.  All our learners had an amazing experience and enjoyed activities such as:

• Relay races
• Sack races
• Egg and spoon race
• Sprints
• Sock throw

Medals were awarded in some events.  Here are some of the winners from Class 20:

We were extremely lucky with the weather (although it was a little cold) and everyone enjoyed the bus trip and participating in the games.  Over the next few weeks in class we look forward to using these experiences in our classroom discussions and writing.  Check out some of the experiences here:

What Makes a Champion?

This term we are looking at "What Makes a Champion" as we learn about the Commonwealth countries, the Commonwealth Games and how we can all be champions.

Our PENN movie this term focuses on some of the things we have been doing, and the responses Class 20 gave when we asked them "What Makes a Champion?"

Exploring gymnastics

We've started Kiwisport for the term, with our focus on Gymnastics.   Check out some of the action from last weeks session

Cross Country ... the training begins

In preparation for our Cross Country race later this term we have begun our training.  We train with all the classes in Team 1 straight after morning tea.  First we assembled and Ms George told us about the training and which route we would take.  Then we had our first training session.  Everyone in the whole team did really well!

We are looking forward to our next training session tomorrow!

Bon Voyage Ilaisaane

Today was Ilaisaane's last day at Pt England School as her family are moving to Australia.  We are all very sad to see Ilaisaane leave and wish her well at her new school.  Today we farewelled her in class with a little cake party - and there was even enough for two pieces each!!

Sharing our Learning

Check out the stars of Class 20 as we celebrate our learning so far this year on the PENN news

Waffle Magic ....

This term Class 20 are learning to "Work Smarter, Not Harder" and are looking at all the equipment in the kitchen that has been designed to make our lives easier.  Today we made waffles in the classroom.  First we unpacked the equipment that we would use and the learners took photographs of this equipment in Explain Everything.  They used their stylus to write the name of the equipment underneath each photo.

After morning tea we made some waffles.  The learners took turns using the measuring equipment and adding ingredients to the mixing bowls, following the recipe.  Class 20 decided that an electric beater made it easier to mix the batter than a whisk.  Arkar said that it was really hard to mix using the whisk.  All the learners agreed that cooking waffles was a lot of fun, but that eating the waffles was the best part!!

        

After lunch the students took photos of the ingredients, and again added the word underneath each photo.  They then used Explain Everything to create a picture of themselves making the waffles and talked about their pictures.  Here is an example from today's great learning:

Class 20 'Spark' Stars

Spark (formerly Telecom) have put together a video about digital learning featuring some of the learners in Class 20!  The film crew visited our classroom last Tuesday and the video shows us using our iPads, and includes an interview with Ms George.  We really enjoyed watching the video in class and would love to share it with our whanau.

Get Set .... Goooooooo

Class 20 are really enjoying the Get Set Go sessions on a Tuesday afternoon.  For the last few weeks we've been focusing on our catching skills.  This week we practised with throwing and catching a scarf and then larger balls.  We had a relay to see which team could pass quicker.  Check out some of the highlights from our very physical session ....


Get Set Go

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Team 1 has been building their stories into song to help them understand and remember how technology was used at the Zoo. Here are two examples showing their understanding of how a pulley was used in the bird enclosure.

Dressing Up Time

So, what do you do when you have done all your work and want to have some fun... Be like Class 20 and do some 'Dressing Up!' Mrs Belt's lovely Mum has made us all these wonderful costumes! Thank you so much Grandma Carol!!! We all had a fantastic time giving them all a test run!