Warming Up!

Warming Up!
Starting 2011 as a team.
Showing posts with label Rieff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rieff. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2011

National Jandal Day



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.

For more information, have a look at the Surf Lifesaving New Zealand website or the National Jandal Day page on Facebook.

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!

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

What's a blog?

The Rockets were so impressed with Gina from Point View School, and the way that she explained what a blog is. Take a look here.

Here are our thoughts:



Rieff on "What is a blog?" from MissRevell on Vimeo.


Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Leaping Leprechauns...

The Rockets are learning a little bit about Ireland this term, and today we have been writing about Lorcan the Leprechaun.
We have been adding adjectives to enrich our writing, and make it entertaining for our audience. Our friends at 2KM and 2KJ have been using them too, and they have some great examples of how adjectives colour our writing. Take a look at this interactive whiteboard presentation All about Adjectives. It's really clever and helpful.

Lorcan the Leprechaun is very rich and fast. He ran to a pot of gold but it wasn't there. He has a very pointy nose and square glasses and green sparkly eyes.
- Sam

Lorcan the Leprechaun is a cheeky little fella. The little man is a master. He moves as fast as a cheetah. He wears green pyjamas. He wears a really big top hat like a giant. He shoots up to people and says "Hey!"
-Rieff

There was once a greedy leprechaun who lived in the (most) richest place in the land. He was real cheeky and his hair was as silver as a 50 cent coin. His clothes were light green. His shoes were light green and dark brown. His arms were hairy, and his hands are greenish, and his nose is long and pointy. His feet are springs. He bounces, jumps and dances all over the place. His top hat is red velvet. His eyes shine like the stars and all the ladies fall when they see him.
-Chardanae


All the Rockets' Leprechaun writing is posted under the 'Our Writing' page. Please have a look! We would love you to comment :)

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Silly Sentences

The Rockets have had fun this week with an activity called "Mad Libs." These are super fun. Have a listen to some of our silly sentences!

Rieff's Silly Sentence from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Ella's Silly Sentences from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Cora's Silly Sentence from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Emer's Silly Sentences from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

More Marvin...

Marvin has continued his adventures outside the classroom. Here he is at Rieff's house polishing off pikelets, and sharing some of his grease monkey skills.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Buddy Reading

Marvin loves to join in with the Rockets when they are buddy reading. Here he is with Rieff and Ryan.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Sorting Kiwiana


We have been using Tree Maps to help us when thinking about sorting things into groups. Can you tell what we based our decisions on for these groups? We found it interesting that some things could belong to more than one group. We had to think flexibly!

This was probably our favourite activity this week. Sorting the Allsorts! It also served as a real testament to the fact that we can manage our impulsivity when we really want to!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Jake The Peg





This is our most loved song at the moment, and it’s known as “Ryan’s Song” – it’s not hard to see why!

The Big Fat Gorilla (and Mr O' D)











We had a great time last week, when Mr O'D came in to teach us one of his favourite games. It's now our favourite game!
Its all about a bit fat Gorilla, down in the jungle...