The last post for 2011

Well room 14, what an incredible year we have all experienced. Earthquakes, snow, lots of time off school and many of you coming and going all year. You are an amazing resilient group of children and I know you will have learnt so much more than just school work because of this year.
I will probably never forget you children because of everything we have been through.
Kia kaha
Mrs McKendry

Financial literacy and superhero story's

We are learning about financial literacy and we are getting paid to come to school $10 a day if we are good.
And we had a trip to the bank! By jessica

We are also writing super hero story's and my superhero is
supermonkey
By jonah

show not tell

In room 14 we have been doing show not tell when we write descriptions. It is were you have to describe  something instead of telling. The leaves and bushes are bending and swooshing around.  Stewart

rugby world cup 2011

It is really great that we are world champions but who knows if we win in the next 4 years! It was too bad that Dan Carter got injured, so did Aaron Cruden.

31/10/11 Week 2, Term 4

There is lots going on this week in room 14. Year 4's are doing athletics. Year 3's are doing ICT and Art.

Athletics: we are doing athletics and it is quite tiring but fun. We do distance running, long jump, high jump, shotput, sprints, discus. Written by Kate

ICT: year 3s have been doing videoing with ipads. We have to video other people. I did mine about show not tell. Written by Bryn

Back for Term 4

The All Blacks won!!!!!!
Lots  of our class have gone off to the parade in town this afternoon.
This term we are doing lots of athletics. Tamsin hopes we will get in some swimming and Rhys wants to win the long jump.
Mrs McKendry wants the sun to shine lots so we can do the athletics and swimming.

Mrs McKendry, Tamsin and Rhys

Room 14's News Report

Some of the year 3's have been making a news report on the iPads with Miss Dippie.

Room 14's News Report

October 3, 2011 Week 10 Last week of Term 3

The Button Box. We did a song called "Button Your Lip".  It is about just staying quiet. We did lots of dancing. It was fun.

I liked when the girls and boys jumped up and said hey ho but the girls jumped up first then boys.It was awsome fun. Jessica

I  liked it  when we did a leap frog because the seniors put their hands on our backs and we went through their legs. Asher
                

Week 9, September 26, 2010

Last week we made our calendar art using repeating patterns. It can go across or down with warm colors: red, yellow, pink, orange, purple, beige. The cold colors are: green, blue, black, brown. Then Mrs. Mckendry made a background with a dye-wash of a cold colors green and blue. Most people did blue.

It was quite fun because we all sat down got to choose our colors and patterns of circles and love hearts. I used pink and yellow for my warm colors. I used blue and green for cold colors. Bo

It was awsome because we got to do warm colours and cold colours.I chose for my warm colours pink,skin colour,yellow,red.For my cold colours grey,green,brown and blue.I liked it.Rhys

19/09/11 Party Time and Art Time

Party Time! On friday night year 3-4 had a disco in the new hall. The new hall has lots of windows and it stayed pretty light inside. We prefer it darker, but it is good for the littlies so they don't get scared. The music was really cool because it was fast and rocking. The seniors did all the music and picked some great songs.

The Disco was super cool . Kate

It should go for 3 hours. The prices should be lower. The food was yummy. Henry

Art Time! Last week people from the Art Gallery came to talk to us about Michel Tuffery. he is a New Zealander but his family is Samoan and he lives in Samoa. He creates animal illistrutations in black and white. They are aminals of the Pacific Islands and Samoa inparticular. We learned that they eat bats in Samoa, but only on special occasion like your birthday.

Here are some Michel Tuffery  pictures and the prints made of animals.

Monday Sept 12, 2011 Week 7 of Term3

Room 14 is supporting England in the Rugby World Cup.
In the school assembly we had a draw for a teams.  We pulled England's name out of the box. This is our class team. I like england because they have lots of muscles and strength. I think they will win rugby world cup. Cleo

Our production of "The Button Box"
We are singing "Button your lip" with our buddy class room 20.We have practiced  a lot and we are still practicing. It is very exciting. Stewart

week of August 29

This week we are working on plays.

My play is called Island. I am a terra tiger. I hunt Seb and bryn . I jump out of my cave and swallow Seb. He is a killer kiwi. I go up to Bryn ans swallow him. He is a super snack (snake). I spit them out and say " you taste terrible". They run away.  MARCEL

My play is at the playground.  I fall off the monkeybars and I hurt my leg. The rest of the play is going to be continued. Zak

Snow week

This week it snowed. We had 2 days off School! We had so much fun. Most of us made snowmen and igloos. Wednesday we got back to to School there was still snow everywhere. Snow was on the field and on the playground.
Asher and Jessica

Week 2 Term 3- August 11, 2011

We have been working this week on explainations about the body. Like how the ears work. It is hard to explain. The parts  of the ear are: anvel, hammer, stirrup, ear drum, cochlea ( the big yellow thing that takes the vibration) and auditory nerve. So, first the sound waves from the people talking goes like a big message from the ear to the brain.

We got a buildable skeleton. We built it and did not know if it was a boy or a girl, so the teacher called it Sam, but we liked Funny Bones. We handed it off to room 13 and they are building it now. 

We are writing our own explainations of the body. 

Entry by Avery and Cleo

Our Human Body

This term our topic is Growing and Changing. We have had fun making a skeleton. What do you think about our new class member? Next thing we want to do is put the insides in and the skin on. But it is very challenging because things fall off and we are not sure yet where everything goes!
By Sebastian and Hannah

    

Last week of term 2

This week we made bird feeders . First we collected lots of plastic containers to use. Then we designed our feeders. We had lots fun.  We also made   worm farms .   We  needed three icecream containers, some sharp scissors, a hammer and a nail. Now we have worm farms to take home.

Finally we have finished our masks. They look awesome up on our wall! We are all looking forward to our holidays.
Tomorrow we have PJ day. Jordan and Jessica

                                                                                                                           

July 6 this weeks activities

We are getting use to Redcliffs school staying here . We are also making paper mache masks that are really cool . In room14 we are reading a book called Dragon Rider. Jonah

It is quite diferant with 700 kids at school since redcliffs has arived . We are geting used to it though. Next week we will be making worm farms. It will be loads of  of fun. Bryn.

What we are doing this week. June 30, 2011

Tamsin and Henry:  This week we are learning to write a simile. A simile is when you compare something with something else, like " a cat is as thin as a toothpick". Each of us wrote a simile, turned it into a poem and picture. Here is Henry's poem:

My Dog
He is as fast as a jet boat
He is as black like the dark night
He howls like a howler monkey
He is sly as a spy
He is my favorite dog.

Tamsin's poem:
My Brother
My brother seems as mean as a witch
And is as skinny as a stick
He has hair as straight as a horses mane
He is as stinky as sheep poo
His body is as rough as sandpaper
His favorite pet animal is as soft as silk.

This was a fun project. Our favorite part was drawing the picture and coloring. Tamsin hopes her brother does not read this.

24 June. An interesting week

We have been making paper machie. We have done about 4 layers on balloons. We have been up to our elbows in paste and paper. By Kate.

  One of  our beans is a metre high now.

We have Redcliffs School at our school because there school has the big cliffs that are being checkrd out after the earthquake.
It's great having them here. By Rhys

Our Earthquake Diary

As we returned to school after the earthquake, we kept a diary of our experience.....

14 March 2011
20 days after the earthquake....

After 20 days of hearing helicopters thud through the sky, using portaloos, boiling water and shifting houses we are finally back at sschool.  We are enjoing doing normal things.  But what isn't normal is that there are only 8 children and 1 teacher!
Bryn, Zak, Cleo, Seb, Thomas, Jordan, Jessica, Bo and Mrs Mckendry

15 March 2011
21 days after the earthquake...

Yesterday was an unusual day.  Our classroom felt deserted and we had time for exciting activities such as art and sport.  We didn't notice aftershocks and we had a great day. We still have the same numbers of children in Room 14.
Bryn, Zak, Cleo, Seb, Thomas, Jordan, Jessica, Bo and Mrs Mckendry

17 March 2011
23 days after the earthquake...

Christchurch is having a memorial service tomorrow in Hagley Park to remember people who died in the earthquake. Prince William is coming all the way from England.  He must be special because people are making a toilet just for him! (special toilets for special bottoms)
Seb, Thomas, Tamsin, Jordan, Cleo, Bryn, Zak, Jessica and Mrs Mckendry
21 March 2011
27 days after the earthquake...

Prince William flew into Sumner in a police helicopter.  The crowd was excited as he shook hands and chatted to people. He asked Bryn if he was back at school yet.  We didn't see the Royal loo!  Buildings in the city are beginning to be used again!
Bryn, Cleo, Tamsin, Bo, Zak, Seb, Thomas, Jordan, Jessica and Mrs Mckendry

3 months after the earthquake

Finally we have everyone back in our class.  Hannah arrived back from England today and everything at school seems to be quite normal again. We are doing lots of imaginative writing, maths and reading.  Our topic is about plants and we are playing sport every week now.
But.... some things still aren't normal. Four people have left, we are having Tsunami drills, some of us don't live in our normal homes, there are still aftershocks and it takes a really long time to get to some places around town!

What has changed for you?

Another week

Room 14 has had another busy week with bean experiments, poetry writing, sport, drama and running a kilometre for maths. Stay posted as Mrs McKendry learns how to add the photos to go with this news.

Beans Diary

We planted beans because we are learning about measurement for maths. We want to see which bean can grow to a metre high first.



These have been growing for 2 weeks



Persuasive writing

In Room 14 we have been learning to do persuasive writing. Our writing has been about Goldilocks. We have been asking if she should have gone into the three bears house or not. What do you think?