New pages

Up the top of our blog (underneath the main header) are some new pages that you can click on to take you to other 'pages' on the blog. I have added the songs we are going to be singing at the Cultural Festival so that you can practice at home. You could also practice for your part in our performance of 'Giraffes Can't Dance'.


I have also added a Publishing page for any writing that you would like to share with the world!

We will add more pages in the future.

Parent/Teacher Interviews

It was great to have the opportunity to discuss the progress of each student with the parents that came along this evening. As always, please feel free to contact me if you want to chat about your child's learning and we can arrange a time to meet.

Fairy Tales - Fictional, Fantastic, Fabulous!

For Literacy this term, we will be focusing on Fairy Tales. We will be looking at the features of a fairy tale, the vocabulary used, and we will be writing our own fairy tales. We will also look at 'Fractured Fairy Tales', where the traditional tales are changed into humorous versions.

If you have any fairy tales at home that you would like to share with the class, please bring them along to school.

Today we brainstormed a list of fairy tales we already know about:
- Beauty and the Beast
- Sleeping Beauty
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
- Shrek
- Cinderella
- Jack and the Beanstalk

Can you think of others? Check out this site where you can listen to fairy tales and complete activities about them: Fairy Tale Land

Holiday Recipe

During Writing today we wrote a recipe for our holiday!

First, we made a list of 8 things we did during our holiday. These are now the 'ingredients' for our recipe. We then discussed the vocabulary that is used in recipes, for example 'cups', 'teaspoons' and so forth. For each ingredient we wrote down how many 'cups' and 'teaspoons' - for example:
2 cups of late nights
3 teaspoons of movies
1 ounce of friends
Finally, we wrote the instructions on how to make the 'recipe', for example:
Take all the ingredients and mix them together in a bowl. Bake in the oven for 2 weeks.

We will post some of our recipes over the next couple of days.

What do you think about our holiday recipes? Would you like to 'make' the holiday that we had? Please leave us a comment about our recipes.

Lukaz’s Yummy Holiday Biscuits

1. 2 cups movies
2. 1 cup Bike
3. 10 teaspoons School
4. 2 cups memorial park
5. 3 cups the Warehouse
6. 4 cups sore bum
7. 4 cups sore tummy
8. 8 cups lying on the couch

Mix well. Cook for 2 weeks at 200 degrees Celsius.

Corey’s Cool Holiday Recipe

10,000 cups of lego
10 teaspoons of friends
½ cup model trains
1 cup of playground
2 tablespoons of books
7 ounces of sleep overs
A gram of movies
And 2 cups of Wellington

Cook in a giant oven for 2 weeks at 180 degrees Celsius.

Ryan’s Best Holidays Ever

1 cup of swimming
14 cups of internet
1 cup of Te Papa
1 cup of park
1 cup of library
1 cup of shopping
2 cups of cousins
20 cups of fun

Mix 20 cups of fun and 14 cups of internet and bury it in the ground like a hangi. Keep it in the ground for two weeks until cooked.

Bailie’s Holiday Treats

4 cups of friends
1 cup movies
4 cups of shops
3 cups of walking
5 cups of home
4 litres of town
15 grams of TV

Mix together for 2 hours and into the oven for two weeks.

Mason’s Best Holiday

14 cups of friends
1 tsp of park
2 cups of shops
14 cups of home
14 cups of cars
2 cups of town
1 cup of movies
14 tsp of TV

Mix together 1cup of movie and 14 cups of cars. Bake it in the oven for two weeks at 280 degrees celsius.

Meghana’s Recipe for a Good Holiday

6 cups of drawing dinosaurs
1 pound of some pool
1 gram of school
4 teaspoons of Relatives
¼ of a cup of after day care
½ of books
3 teaspoons of times tables
1 pound of a movie

Mix all the ingredients together and bake them for two weeks at 250 degrees Celsius.

Cheymani’s delicious holiday chocolate pudding

5 cups of painting
½ a cup of T.V
1 teaspoon of sleepovers
3 grams of church
9 cups of cousins

Mix all of the ingredients together
and put a ½ cup of beach and mix
them together for 2 weeks.

Ruairi’s Holiday Recipe

1. ½ a cup of Onga Onga
2. 6 table spoons of best friends
3. 2 cups of movies
4. 1 gram of computers

Mix it together well and put it in the oven for 5 to 10 days.

Tyrone’s Holiday Recipe

1. 5 teaspoons motorbike
2. 1 tablespoon beach
3. 1 cup school
4. 2 cups shop
5. 7 cups mum
6. 7 cups dad
7. 1 cup track
8. 1 cup bike

Take 7 cups of mum and 2 cups of shop. Stir it in.
Put it in the microwave for 2 weeks.

Mt Ruapehu and Taumarunui

We were on our way to Taumarunui for a couple of days, so I was lucky to be able to snap a couple of pictures of the gorgeous view of Mt Ruapehu from the car on the way. Taumarunui was in the news lately for having the coldest temperature there since records began in 1947!

I look forward to hearing about what you have all done during your holiday on Monday.

Last Assembly for the Term

Tomorrow we are having our end of term assembly. We will have Pupil of the Term, class awards, welcomes for new students, songs to sing, three dance performances, and birthday celebrations. We look forward to sharing all this with our community!

Keep an eye out on the blog over the next few days for photos and video of the performances.

Check out the video of the Junior Dance Group dancing to 'Rock Your Body':


Cheymani accepts the iMove trophy that we won for having the most students involved in walking, cycling, and scooting to school. This is the second time we have won this award for our super active effort. Thanks to Manawatu Stu for coming along! We look forward to taking part again in Term 4.