The Manwatu Digi Awards

Last night was the first annual Manwatu Digi Awards. It was an exciting night that was held at the Regent on Broadway. There were 653 entries, and one of our own students in Room 21 was a finalist in the Digital Photo in the Years 1-3 category.
Congratulations to you Atahwai. You took such a great photo, with great line, colour and contrast. We are very proud of you!

Room 21 Hip Hop Jump Jam

We love doing our fitness every morning. It gets our body and brain ready for the day ahead. Room 21 usually does 1 or 2 songs but today we decided to do all six songs. Here is video of some of the Room 21 students moving and grooving to the song Stop, Drop and Roll. We are getting really good at the moves.

Rugby World Cup Winners!

Welcome back to school! We are very excited for the start of Term 4. It will be a busy term with lots of things happening. We are extremely proud to say that the All Blacks won the Rugby World Cup 2011 in a tough game with France. It was very tense but we are so proud of everyone who worked really hard to make it happen.
Room 21 made another wordle using words to show our feelings about it. We think it's amazing and we are very proud to be World Cup Winners.

Rugby World Cup 2011

GO THE ALL BLACKS!
Here is Room 21's wordle of words that describe the Rugby World Cup 2011. We are so excited to have all the excitement and action right here in our country. We watched the opening ceremony on Youtube and loved every minute of it. We can't watch to see the All Blacks win!!!

Ferns and Sparkles Awesome Disco!

During lunch time, some of the Ferns and the Sparkles had a disco. The songs were cool. The disco was awesome because we got to dance, listen to music and win prizes! People won prizes for the best dance moves and being funky!
Brienna liked getting spot prizes for the best freeze and dancer.
Hoani liked doing the chicken dance.
Priya liked dancing to Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Elise liked doing the dance train.
Ben liked when the smoke came out and the lights made the smoke different colours.
Onewhero liked dancing and popping balloons with his shoes.
Aminio liked popping lots of balloons.
Atawhai liked the Hannah Montana song!
Shakira liked the freeze game and getting spot prizes.
Wairua enjoyed popping all the balloons.
Abby liked dancing in a train.
Niraj went to the library instead. He liked reading the books.
Dwayne played on the flying fox.
Alofaretta played tag in the park.
Ripeka liked to playing on the flying fox.

Stop drop and roll was one of our favourite songs at the disco! We were hot and sweaty by the end from all the dancing. We hope we can do it again next term.

The Fern's Cake Stall

Today at Roslyn School we had a cake stall. The Ferns are raising money for our Celebration Day at the end of the year. What did we like best at the cake stall?
Shakira liked buying the colourful cupcakes with icing and sprinkles on top.
Abby liked the raspberry spiders.
Emily liked chocolate cake.
Atawhai liked the chocolate cakes she bought for $0.50.
Hoani like the raspberry spiders.
Alofaretta liked the raspberry spiders.
Brayden liked the cake with white icing on top and two lollies.
Wairua liked the red balloon shaped as a snake.
Onewhero liked his red tiger balloon.
Elise loved the green icing on her cupcake.
Aminio liked the raspberry spiders.
Chanille liked the chocolate cupcakes with the chocolate squiggles on top.
Niraj loved the chocolate and raspberry spiders.
Ben got a huge cake with white icing on top of it.
Brienna liked the purple balloon that was a lollipop hat.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Wow, what a fun Monday! It was great to come to school and talk about all the snowy adventures we had. Most of us went outside on Sunday night to play in the snow and loved having a snowfight! Others made snow angels and snow men and liked feeling the crunchy snow in their fingers. We are doing some writing this week about our experiences in the snow. We hope to share them with you soon.
Here is another wordle we made about the snow!

Wordle fun!

Room 21 had a great time on Friday making wordles. The one below shows which instruments Room 21 would like to learn. The electric guitar proved most popular, with keyboard in a close second!

Fun doing Gymnastics!

Room 21 has been having a lot of fun during Gymnastics. We have been doing rebounds onto mats, balancing on two different leveled beams, one big one and one little one. When we get to the end of the beam we can scoop and turn. We do roly poly's on the mat and use the springboard to jump onto the horse. Gymnastics is so awesome and we are learning heaps!
We will try and take some photos next week to add to this post so you can see us in action!

Welcome back to school!

Welcome back Room 21!
What a busy week we have had. We got stuck into our work from day 1, by doing some amazing reading, writing and maths. At our team assembly we sang a lot of songs, but one song that everyone in the Ferns team loved was Dynamite. Here is a You Tube clip of the person that does all the music for the song with his mouth! We thought that was very cool.
We have also been very busy this week learning how to take macro shots with a digital camera. It is different from taking photos of our friends of landscapes, because we have to focus on one thing extremely up close. Look out for a few examples of macro shots on our blog in the upcoming weeks.

Celebrating Maori Language Week

Room 21 had a great time celebrating Maori Language Week and learned 2 different karakia to say in the classroom. We also did a survey of our favourite maori songs and decided to record one using a flip cam. Here we are clapping (paki paki) dancing (kani kani) turning (huri huri) jumping (e peke) and running (e oma). We had a lot of fun!

Roslyn School's Pyjama Day!

Last week, the boys and girls and teachers at Roslyn, came to school in their pyjamas. We collected food for the Salvation Army. Some families in Palmerston North do not have enough food to eat. It was fun dressing up in our pj's because we never get to wear our pj's to school.
Check out some photos of how much food we collected. We even practised our assembly item in our pj's!

Art with Rei

On Wednesday we had an artist visit Roslyn School. All of the classes went to the hall for an art class. The Ferns got to work with Rei using crayons. We learned how to draw whispering, talking and shouting waves. Before we could use our crayon we used our magic finger. Our magic fingers shows us what to do and how to draw in our minds so we know what our drawing will look like.
Brienna really liked drawing the final piece of art.
Elise liked drawing the bird using crayon.
Abby enjoyed drawing waves.
Onewhero liked drawing the windy waves.
Dwayne liked drawing a bird with a fish in it's mouth.
Alofaretta liked drawing the clouds.
Wairua liked the part when he got to draw a bird using a bloack crayon.
Danielle and Shakira had fun drawing the fish.
Niraj's favourite part was making clouds with a green crayon.

Matariki

Checking out Roslyn School on Google Maps

Wow! Room 21 was really surprised to see Roslyn School on Google Maps. We learned how to get on to Google Maps and then clicked the satellite button to see a bird's eye view of our school. We were able to see the sand pit, the playground, the courts and our classroom!

What a cool feature! What else can we goole map? What other environments do we want to check out?

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The Snake Cake!

Last week Room 21 read the big book, The Snake Cake. We really enjoyed reading the story as a class. On Friday we got to make our own Snake Cake in class and write our own Snake Cake story. We really enjoyed the literacy experience!!! Have a look at some of the photos of our snake cake and stay tuned for an online copy of our story.
Thanks for looking :)

THINKING AND INTERACTING TOGETHER FOR OUR TEAM PRODUCTION!

Take a look at our Inquiry Video- in the EXCITE stage, showing what we can do to to look after our environment.

Our Dinosaur Poems

Our Class Dinosaur Poems

Hi Everybody,

I hope you have enjoyed looking at our dinosaur poems. We have been learning how poems work, using onoematopeia and similies. We have done some amazing art work about dinosaurs using crayon and dye focusiing on magic white as an outline. We drew our dinosaurs on the computer using the 'paint' programme and then wrote our poems into the outlines.

Here we are at Memorial park. take a look.

Memorial park

Recently the Ferns went to Memorial park. We had fun doing lots of activities there.

Check out our photo story and see if you recognise any of us.

Effective Interactors

Welcome to 2011

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to 2011. We have lots of exciting things planned for this year. Come and join us in the classroom to see what we are up to.

This year room 21 has two teachers. Miss J and I are sharing the teaching as I am studying- learning to take Reading Recovery.
Miss J is in the room form 9am-12pm and I am in from 12-3pm.

Hope to see you soon.

Mrs Thompson