Kapahaka

We do kapahaka every Tuesday with Matiu. We're getting really good at our haka and the Michael Jackson song. Today the boys we're practicing showing their "haka faces".

Lots of the boys watch Tamatea. He's a good leader. He knows what to do and he does the actions with pride.

Today Newa and Wai went on stage to help Matiu.

Wonky Donkey Craig Smith on What Now

This week we've been reading The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith and Katz Cowley. We're making our own big book about it. Here's a video of Craig Smith performing his song on What Now.

New Zealand Music Month 2010

Clav Dub by Rhombus
May is New Zealand Music Month. Every day in May our class is listening to a different song recorded by New Zealand musicians. So far we have listened to songs by Rhombus, The Exponents and O.M.C. We listen to the songs two times. The first time through we concentrate on just listening. We record our thoughts about the songs in words and pictures in our NZ Music Month books.

Rhombus are a Wellington band. The video for this song was filmed in Wellington. How many buildings and landmarks can you identify?

Steve Spangler on The Ellen Show April 2010

Aaron saw this video on Steve Spangler's blog (see the link in the list of blogs we're reading). We watched it today. It's amazing! He uses water, rubbing alcohol and a bike pump to simulate how clouds are formed. Keep watching to see what happens to the ping pong balls.

Muffins

On Tuesday Emily, Regan, Jack B. and Jessie helped Mrs Turner bake muffins.

 They picked spinach from our tyre garden and silver-beet from the school garden.

They picked herbs from the school gardens too. When the muffins were cooked they brought them back to class to share with us. They were delicious.

Cinderella

We have been doing lots of narrative writing in our class. This is Jessie's latest story.

Cinderella                                          

Once  there was  a  girl Cinderella. She had beautiful   golden  hair.  Cinderella  had  to  live  with  her  stepmother  and  her  stepsister.   They were ugly.   What   she   did  was  never  good  enough.   The  stepsisters were  going   to  the  ball.  And  soon   the  night   of  the  ball  came.  

THE   END

Golden Time