Wednesday 19 November 2014

New Mat



We are sitting on our old mat.
We are ripping off the plastic.
We pulling off the skin.
We are pulling the black thing off.
We are opening and ripping the white plastic off so Seth and Shaney can take the next thing off.
Seth and Shaney are ripping the white stuff off.
We are unrolling the mat.

Alfonze: I love the mat because it has shapes on it, it is amazing.Tevana: I like the mat because it has shapes and has letters around it and it has colourful shapes.
Shaney: I like the mat it is cool it has the shapes.
Seth: I like it, it has a big star with a circle around it, it has different colours.
Terence: I like it because it has blue stars on it.
Kireesha: Thank you for the mat, for sharing.
Santino: Thank you for giving the mat.
Payton: I like the new mat because it has colours and circles and squares and a big star in a circle and rectangles and circles and triangles.
Jade: I love the mat because it has a awesome circle and it has blue around the star.
James: I like star becuase it has a circle and the blue and the shapes and it has letters.
Tina Rose: I like the shapes.
Shawnee Ann: There are different shapes.
Jordan: The shapes of the star.
Luke: I like the colours of the mat.
Room 14 would like to say thank you to Room 8 for getting us a new mat.









Tuesday 18 November 2014





We tasted our first bean from our garden.

Tevana: It taste like chicken with gravy on.
Jade: It taste like leaves.
James: It taste like juice.
Kireesha: It taste like blueberries.
Eruera: It taste like carrots.
Holden: It taste like chicken and carrots.
Tina Rose: It taste like chicken.
Payton: It taste like gravy and like a bean.
Luke: It taste like seeds.
Alfonze: It taste like salt.
Jahzaay: It taste like potato gravy.

Monday 17 November 2014

Mounted Games


Tevana: I saw a black horse and it was riding.  The man picked up the cone and I liked it.


Jade: I liked the brown horse because it was really speedy and fast.


Shaney: I liked the colours on the horse, black and white.


Lincoln: I liked the black horse, because it was really speedy.


Seth: I liked the black horse because it has got the bottle and put it back on the bucket.


Eruera: I liked the grey horse because the man was grabbing the milk bottle.


Kireesha: I liked the brown horse because it was very fast and it put the sock into the bucket.


Terence: I liked the black horse because it was running fast.


Holden: I liked the black horse how it was running around the white pole.


Luke: I liked the black horse because it picked up the cup and put it in the bin.


Payton: I liked the white horse because it was running fast.


James: I liked the black horse because it was eating.


TineRose: I liked the black horse, when they put the sticks in the cones.


Wednesday 12 November 2014

 I am lying down practising how to float in the water. Euera

We put on the life jackets. It was fun when we put them on.Tevana

We were learaning to float on the ground. Payton

I was lying down. James

We were having a huddle. Terence

I am floating on the water. Eruera

I am holding ontot he bar. Shaney

We are doign a huddle. Seth

I am doing an angel wing. Seth
We are doing a huddle. Payton

We are sitting waiting to get into the pool. Jade

I am hopping into the pool. Seth

I am hopping into the pool safley. Jade

The teacher is giving us a rain shower.

The rain shower felt like water. Luke

We played ring a ring a rosie. Shaney

I was floating. Luke

I am floating in the water. Jade


Friday 31 October 2014

Halloween, SCARE. Happy Halloween day from room 14

Holden - It was fun making the mask and the costume.

Shawnee Ann- It is cool.

Terence - I liked making the mask


Alfonze - I like making the mask.


James - It was fun.

Seth - It was cool making it and fun.

Jahzaay - It was cool making them.

Lincoln - It was cool wearing them.

Jade - I really like them and it was awesome fun.

Eruera - It was cool making the masks.

Tevana - I was cool making the newspaper clothing and the masks and I like it.  It was fun.

Payton - It was really fun making it and I like it when I made the costume.  I made it and Tevana helped me, she was being nice to me.

Thursday 11 September 2014

Room 14's quest to learn to juggle.  
We didn't have very good juggling balls so we came up with some ideas on how to get them.
We wrote a letter to the principal.  Ma TeHira came to visit us.

 We asked some questions.

 We watched her juggle 2 balls.
We liked the juggling balls and we watched Ma TeHira juggle the balls. Santino
It was nice of Ma TeHira to bring the juggling balls. Tevana
Ma TeHira is pretty. Seth

She is very cleaver.

 Doesn't that look fun.

Ma TeHira juggling 2 balls
Ma Te Hira was cool juggling the balls. Tina Roe
Ma TeHira was awesome juggling. Teneal
Ma TeHira was awesome juggling.  Eruera
Ma TeHira was good at juggling, but she dropped one. Seth
It was amazing to watch Ma TeHira. Tevana
Ma TeHira was juggling with 2 balls. Santino
Ma TeHira was juggling with 3 juggling balls. Jordan

 She showed us the new balls she bought.

 There are three in a packet.

Ma TeHira juggling 3 balls

Santino liked the new balls.

We all tried catching 1 ball, a great way to start to learn to juggle.
I like juggling. Tevana
I like Ma TeHira when she was juggling with one hand. Santino


Wednesday 10 September 2014

The Pirate Feast


We have been reading the story 'The Pirate Feast.'  It is a favorite of our teacher aid Whaea Erin.


I liked when we the part with the blue ice cream.  Tevana
I like the part where he was singing about the thunder in the air. Holden
I liked it when we said 'YUCK.'
We liked reading the story, signing and saying arrrh, just like a pirate.


We made invitations to send to our family members (and Whaea Erin) inviting them to a pirate feast on friday.
It was fun making invitations. Tevana

Arrrh go the pirates.
We made eye patches and newspaper hats.
It fun making the pirate hats and eye patches. Tevana

We had a yummy feast of 'blue ice cream' (goody goody gum drops) and hokey pokey ice cream, popcorn and Alfonze's mum made some muffins and joined in our feast.
The feast was cool. Tevana
I liked the finding the treasure. Teneal
I liked the ice cream, it had little squares/oval in it. Santino
I ate 5 muffins. Jahzaay
I liked the popcorn. Eruera
I liked the popcorn and the muffins. Holden
I liked the muffins and the ice cream and the lollies. James

 Payton's mum joined our feast as well.

 Jahzaay found some treasure. (chocolate fish) "I like choclate fish," said Jahzaay.

 Tevana found some treasure. "I liked the chocolate fish," said Tevana

 James found some treasure.

 James enjoyed eating his treasure. "It was YUM," said James

 Whaea Erin came to our feast, she enjoyed finding treasure as well.

 Alfonze found some treasure.

 Whaea Erin bought some lemonade to the feast, yum.

 
Mrs Henwood dressed up as a pirate for the day, doesn't she look mean?
You look like a pirate Mrs Henwood. Tevana
You look like a kid pirate. Teneal