Friday, 13 December 2013

End of year picnic

We had a great day out at Boyes Beach.


Our thoughts on the Production

We used a PMI chart to record our thinking about the production - The Terrible Taniwha of Timberditch.
P is the for the positives, M is for the minuses or things that were not so good and I is for the interesting things.





Mrs Crockett's island

On Friday the senior school  drove on a bus to Boyes beach.  Shondivo, Grace, Tayla and Nadia built a Sand island for Mrs Crockett because she's leaving. We all pitched in to make this amazing creation. We are so proud of it.



Thursday, 12 December 2013

100% attendance

Congratulations to Jack who had 100% attendance in 2013. He went to a special meeting with the mayor because he had 100% attendance.

School Monitors and HPP Tutors

Congratulations to these Space 14 who were school monitors and HPP tutors in 2013.

Inter school Athletics

Congratulations to Jah who was placed third in the 9 year old 200 metres.



Monday, 9 December 2013

Garden

These are the beans.They used to be mini. Now they're BIG !!!
These are our carrots. They used to be small. Now they're HUGE!!!

Sunday, 8 December 2013

Poems about Spring and Our Garden

Click on the link below to read the amazing poems written by Space 14.
Poems

Saturday, 7 December 2013

The Terrible Taniwha of Timberditch

Our class was "Africa" in the production. We did an item using the drums. The class was divided into 3 groups. Each group had a different rhythm to drum. We had to concentrate to make sure we did our part and keep in time. After the drumming a group of us did an African dance.

A big thank you to Mrs Jans, who helped us with our item.

Check out the photos from our part of the production. 

Speech Finals

Manaaki represented our class in the Year 5 Speech finals. He shared a humorous speech about homework.
Manaaki came first for the Year 5's. Congratulations.
We all enjoyed listening to your speech.

Legends about African animals

Check the legends the children have created about an African animal. Click on the link below to read our legends.

Legends

Friday, 6 December 2013

Athletic prize giving

Aroha came 1st in high jump.
Dallas came 1st in 200m, 100m and 60m sprints.
Jack came 1st in 200m, 3rd in 60m sprints and 1st in long jump.
Gary came 3rd  in 100 and 60 m sprints.
Ashton came 2nd in Vortex.
Bryly came 1st in 100m sprints, 2nd in 200 m sprints, 2nd in vortex, 2nd in long jump, 2nd in high jump and 3rd in 60 m sprint.
Shondivo came 2nd in 60m sprints and 3rd in 100m sprints.
Grace came 3rd in long jump.
Jah came 2nd in  60m sprints, 100m sprints and 200m sprints, 3rd in vortex and 3rd in long jump.

Congratulations to all our athletes in Space 14.



Inter school Athletics

On Tuesday  3 of December Jack, Bryly, Dallas, Aroha, Shondivo and Jah went to inter school athletics.
Jack did long jump,  200m sprint and 100m sprint. Bryly did relay,  200 &100 m sprint. Dallas did 60 &100m sprint and relay. Aroha did high jump. Shondivo did 60 & 100m sprint. Jah did 200 & 60m sprint and relay. All of Kawaha Points relay teams made the finals. Some people made it to the finals as well.


Monday, 25 November 2013

Inferencing

We are learning to use the clues in the story to figure out what the author means. Check out our Haiku Decks we made.
Use the clues to figure out each item.

Aroha, Jack and Gary

Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad


Para, Tayla and Jean-Louis


Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad

Nadia, Manaaki and Roimata



Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Poem about the school garden

Beans twirling around the bamboo

Bamboo holding the bean stalk 

Leaves swaying in the wind

Slug pellets protects the beans so the slugs don't  get to them 




POEM about our garden

PUNGA holds stuff so it doesn't overtake.

ROOTS feed the plants.

BAMBOO help the beans climb.

TYRES hold stuff if there's no more room.










Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Pavement Art

Check out some of our Alien and Space pavement art from Bookweek.

Swimming

We have used Popplet to share some of the new skills we learnt at swimming and how those skills can help keep us safe in the water or help someone else.


Thursday, 19 September 2013

Tyron's Reading

For Reading Tyron read a book called Budgies. He learnt lots of new things about Budgies. He has used an app on the iPad called Popplet to share some of the things he learnt about budgies.


Thursday, 12 September 2013

Survival Skills

This week we learnt lots of skills to help us stay safe in the water and to help other people in the water.


Monday, 9 September 2013

Music with Mrs Jans

Today Mrs Jans took us for music. First we used the rakau sticks to show how we could keep the beat.
After that we learnt about different sounds the drum could make.
Last of all, some of us learnt to play Anti gravity on the marimbas while the rest of us kept the beat on the drums.
Thanks Mrs Jans. We had a great time.

Friday, 6 September 2013

Student of the fortnight

I got the student of the fortnight for being Kia Manawanui. The things I was doing in the class was doing what I was supposed to do immediately, helping people with their work and listening to the teacher.

Log of wood

Today Space 14 won the log of wood because we were sitting up and taking part in the songs.


Saturday, 31 August 2013

Suzie and the Spacenuts Episode 3

The Dragons are reading a series of stories about Suzie and the Spacenuts. Before they read episode 3 they made these predictions.


Wednesday, 28 August 2013

How the moon and sun got on the sky

Chapter  one Circus

Sun! Moon! Get up! It is show time. Geez, I hate being in the circus, climbing up into a cannon and being shot out. I hate it, isn,t that right moon. Boring,

Chapter Two The Accident
Come on get in the cannon 3 2 1 boom!!!!  Ladies and gents off they go higher higher. Wait where have they gone.  Oh no a sad tragedy .  That is how the sun and moon got in the sky.

Friday, 23 August 2013

Space

These are three planets. I made little aliens to go with my picture. Mrs Crockett  told me to put it on the blog because this term we are learning about space.I used pizap to create my little text. I used the app called Space to create my picture. I added aliens planets and space ships. I liked the backround  so I used it. These are the three planets. I used a purple and an orange Jupiter. I used an orange earth.


Thursday, 22 August 2013

Suzie and the space nuts

The dragons reading group read a story called Suzie and the Spacenuts Episode 1 . They had a go at writing a prediction. What is going to happen in Episode 2 .

Here is Jake's prediction. He also drew what he thought the planet of Spungo would look like.

I predict they go find the space ship. When they find the space ship it is locked up in a big giant cage. They go up to it and an alarm goes off and they go to jail for a year. When they get there they think about what happened last time and they run to the space ship and break the cage and fly away. 

Sunday, 18 August 2013

Inferencing

In Reading we have been learning to Inference. What is the author really saying?

Check out our Haiku Deck. Use out our clues to help you work out what we are talking about.

Click here to see out Haiku Deck

Planets

We found out that the word "orbit" means how long it takes a planet to go around  the sun.

The sun keeps the planets in orbit around it.

Some planets orbit is circular (like a circle). Other planets orbit is ellipitical.

The planets take different amounts of time to orbit the sun.

Mercury takes 88 days to orbit the sun.

Venus takes 225 days to orbit the sun.

Earth takes 365 days to orbit the sun.

Mars takes 689 days to orbit the sun.

Jupiter takes nearly 12 years to orbit the sun.

Saturn takes 29 1/2 years to orbit the sun.

Uranus takes 165 years to orbit the sun.

Neptune takes 248 1/2 years to orbit the sun.

Friday, 26 July 2013

Market Day

Market Day was a huge success. All of the businesses in Space 14 made a profit. Thank you to all the people that supported our businesses.


Jack and the Beanstalk

We are learning to retell a traditional tale in sequence and assess our work against a SOLO rubric.

Click on the picture below to read our stories.


Jack and the Beanstalk

Sunday, 30 June 2013

Market Day

Check out the businesses Space 14 are running on Market Day.
Market Day is on the 5th of July from  12 pm to 1.30pm.
Come along and join in the fun.

Monday, 13 May 2013

Bart and Orville

In Reading today we read a story about Bart and Orville. Orville, the cat was turned into a remote controlled helicopter after he died. We had to visualize what that would look like. Then we got to see the You Tube clip about Orville.

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Family Day

Wow! What a lot of visitors we had on Grandparents Day. We enjoyed sharing games, our learning and our classroom with you. Thank you for visiting Space 14.

Saturday, 6 April 2013

Camp Okataina

The Year 5 children in our class went on camp to Okataina. They had a great time. Check out their presentations they made using an app on the ipad called "Book Creator".




Ashton and Tyrese Jah and Gary Manaaki and Para

Sunday, 24 March 2013

Citizenship

Dallas is able to explain what a good citizen does and why a good citizen does those things. 

Prediction

In Reading we are learning how to predict before we read the story and while we are reading.
Prediction is making smart guesses.

Nadia made great predictions while we were working on the story "Little Donkey".


Thursday, 21 March 2013

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Finding out about our classmates

We used Skitch on the ipads to record what we found out about someone we didn't know very well.

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Happy Birthday Dallas


Thanks to Dallas's Nana for bringing a yummy birthday cake for us to share.