We celebrated the great work of our local Surf Lifeguards on Thursday by supporting National Jandal Day.
Since 1910, Surf Lifeguards have been patrolling our beaches in their jandals.
We decorated our jandals creatively and showed them off in a parade. The Teachers made some tough decisions in awarding the Junior School jandal prize to Kayden, and the Senior School's to Max. Well done boys, some excellent creating, innovating and imagining there!
The Rockets and the Junior Syndicate were thoroughly entertained by the participants in the first round of the MKK "X Factor" competition.
In this competition individual or group entries sing or dance. Sometimes, if they are particularly clever, they are able to do both at the same time! There have even been performances by Rock Bands this year in the Senior competition. They are very inspirational to us.
We are so looking forward to the final tomorrow. Watch this space for results! :)
Come in and have a look... our writing wall has been updated to display our published Holiday exploits.
We are learning to entertain our audience. We know that we can do this when we do things like using adjectives to describe things and making our beginnings interesting. We are able to use sequencing words like then, next and after that.
The Rockets are very proud of the Irish Rugby Team, after their momentous win against Australia on Saturday night. We are learning about Ireland while the Rugby World Cup is being played in New Zealand.
We know that their national colour is green, that their flag has orange, white and green stripes and that they have Leprechauns running around in their countryside! We thought it was quite funny when we learned that Ireland is an island.
We love trying to spot Leprechauns on the Leprechaun Watch website.
Marilena brought this picture that she drew over the weekend. Isn't it fabulous!
The Rockets would like to thank Mrs Laburn and our friends in Room 3 at Point View School, for the time that they spent commenting on our blog today. We loved reading out the comments and discussing them afterwards. We hope to get some time tomorrow to reply to some of you!
Have you seen this fantastic poster made by our friends at 2KM and 2KJ at Leopold Primary School in Victoria, Australia? There are some great criteria for comments to follow here. They also have a great post on their class blog on how to comment. Go on, take a responsible risk and make a comment! Just have a go, we would love to hear from you!
MKK was very lucky today to be treated to a performance of "The Enchanted Forest" performed by the amazing team at The Magic Play House.
Their website describes The Enchanted Forest as:
"... essentially a 'Rock concert' for children! It showcases catchy original music, partnered with life like puppets of animals that can be found in the New Zealand bush.
Old Tuatara M.C's the concert in rhyme, and is a part that would be most effectively played by a teacher, with children performing the Kiwi's, Pukeko's, Slippery eels and Bell Frog's."
Wow! What a brilliant show... we loved it! Thanks to everyone at The Magic Playhouse.
Who was your favourite character today?
The Frog, because when he jumped he looked like he was doing a dance. Giulietta
I liked the rat because he was trying to sneak some eggs. Ryan
I liked the kiwi because he was beating up the rat to save its precious babies. Nataliya
I liked the snake because it slithers around and it looks like an "S'. Sam
I liked the rat because those black bands looked like sunglasses. Lorna
The rat is really frustrated with the possum because the possum is to slow to get the eggs. Cora
The green bird was my favourite because it farted on the nasty rat and his eggs. Rieff
My favourite was the Kiwi because it lives in New Zealand and it has a sparkly, shiny hard beak. Marilena
The Kiwi was soft and smooth. At the end of the show the Kiwi was funny when it was fighting the rat and it jumped out of the tree. Max
The frogs are funny when they sing. They sound like little mice squeaking loudly. Ethan
The little tinsy bird was my favourite because when the possum said "I will look after your eggs" the bird knew that he was lying. Ayden
We have had such a fun day today at Maraekakaho School. To celebrate book week, we dressed up as our favourite book character for the day. It was all very exciting, we paraded class by class in the morning. All the classes were judged and prizes awarded. We are continuing our "readathon" for the next two weeks.
We have been busy little beavers today, using many Habits of Mind to create some fantastic art. We have been learning about Henri Matisse, and how he loved colour and shape. We found it hard to believe that he died over 50 years ago - even before Miss Revell was born! (That seemed to draw a great deal of attention) We were inspired to create original work that looked similar to Matisse's collages, and the exemplar that Miss Revell had knocked up.
We focused on four habits in particular - Creating, Imagining and Innovating, Managing Impulsivity, Taking a Responsible Risk and Striving for Accuracy. Do you think that we have been successful in using these Habits? Marvin does.
The Rockets are currently looking into who we are as New Zealanders, and where we come from. Today, we began to explore our family tree. We started by brainstorming the things we know about our Mums and Dads.
We are very excited to show you our new writing wall. We have been learning to write about our favourite Fairytale characters. At the moment, our wall displays the writing that we did in character. We were writing in the first person as Goldilocks. Did you know, she made a surprise visit to our classroom last week? Imagine who could turn up next?!
Patterns from MissRevell on Vimeo.
Rieff is Thinking Inderdependently - "Found the yellow, Nataliya!"
Patterns Update - how to make a free slideshow
The Rockets have been learning to create a sequential pattern, and we are able to talk about what the rules are for the patterns that we have created. We have been very innovative with our designs, each having created something unique. Check them out!
The Rockets had a incredibly exciting day creating and innovating and working interdependently. There were some superb creations including huts with toilets, t.v's and even one with the kitchen sink!
We were so amazing, we even made the pages of Hawkes Bay Today on Saturday 16th of April. Did you see us?
