My Year In Room1

My favourite thing in 2014 was going to the Redwooods because I liked climbing trees.

Fun Run Photos

Fabulous Dance Festival Writing!

The Dance Night

Wow, I felt nervous when we did our dance at Karamu.  I was smiling at my mum and brother and my mum took some videos.  I was dressed up with a white top with some big dots on it. They were black.  My favourite dance was the Hokey Tokey because we had to turn around. I like Mrs Riley's costume.  It was a bear and Mrs Mueller was a colourful parrot.  I loved watching all of the dances.  It was a fun night.
By Erin

We marched into Karamu High School hall.  I was feeling excited and I dressed up as a Spring lady because I had my Spring dress and jacket.  My favourite dances were the Troika and the Locomotion because as the end of The Locomotion we sang, "Let's make a chain now, c'mon baby," and then we froze.  It was a great night!
By Sienna



For a few weeks Room 1 and Room 3 have been practicing our 4 dances for the dance festival.  We have been practicing The Locomotion and the Troika, the Hokey Tokey and So Long Farewell.  My favourite was the Locomotion because the lady who sings it has a nice voice.  I like the part where it goes like this, "I think you got the knack, oh, oh."
By Marcus

Wow!  I was nervous when we marched inside Karamu School hall.  I was dressed up like the Queen.  My dress was pink and my tiara was silver.  My favourite dance was So Long Farewell because I like that song and I could see my mum.
By Ashanti 




Last exciting night I was excited because I could not wait!  When we walked in we did the Grand March.  We did 4 fantastic dances.  My favourite dance was The Locomotion because we did the triangle.  Mrs Mueller was a very colourful parrot.  Mrs McFadyen was a crocodile.  I was Aladdin.  It was great!
By Benji





When I was getting ready for the dance festival I was nervous because there was going to be 400 people there.  When we got to the hall at Karamu School we marched around the hall and waved.  My favourite dance was...The Locomotion.  We did a little bit of Jump jam moves, like the scissors.  I was dressed as a ballerina.  Everyone looked fantastic.  Mrs Blakesley was an Indian - Pocahontas.  Mrs McFadyen was a crocodile, snap, snap!  For The Locomotion, I was one of the leaders.  So was Niamh and Raiha and Tyler too.  I had so so so much fun because I love dancing all the time.  We danced to the Hokey Tokey.  Mrs Riley was a brown bear and Mr Wright was a black bear.  Mrs Mueller was a colourful parrot.  I had a great night!
By Maia

Vroom, Vroom went the car on the way to the Dance Festival.  In the car I was nervous because there was over 400 mums and dads at Karamu school.  My favouite dance was the Troika.  I liked Mrs Blakesley's costume and I wore my best clothes.
By Isaac

Our Dance Festival was last night.  I really liked The Locomotion because I like pretending to be a train.  My Nanny and Mum watched me.  It was so fun!
By Terrell










Wow.  I felt nervous when I marched inside Karamu school hall.  My sister said to me, "Do your best."  I said, "Of course I will because I know how to do it off by heart."  We did four dances.  My favourite dance was The Locomotion because we grabbed onto each other's shoulders and we counted in our head, "one, two three, kick," and at the end we said, "Come on, Come on, do the locomotion with me!  And then we froze.  Then we waved our arms in the air.  I was pretending to be a movie star!  
By Niamh







Last night there were over 400 people 
watching the dance festival. I was so nervous.  I saw my mum taking photos of the dances.  I loved the Troika and The Locomotion but we did 4 dances. I got a dance programme.  It showed the songs and dances for all the classes.  I loved the book.  It was an awesome night!
By Coby 

Our Fabulous Land of Toys Writing

Today we climbed up the Faraway Tree into the Land of Toys. Here are some of our fabulous adventures...


My head peeked up through the clouds and I saw Elsa looking at me with a smile.  I smiled back at her.
I ran to her and I said to Elsa, 
"Please show me your powers so we can build a snowman."  
She rubbed her hands together.  She threw her hands into the air.  The icy snow came out of her hands and it touched the blue sky and it started to snow. Snowflakes were all around me.
"Do you want to build a snowman," I said.

Erin



My head popped up through the clouds.  I wiped my eyes and I couldn't believe it!  
I saw my toy superman alive, flying and taking down the zombies.  He was helping his friends, Batman and Wonder woman.  He taught me how to fly.  He gave me a Superman costume and he taught me how to do laser eyes and then we took down the zombies together.

Mana


Once upon a time I was climbing up the mysterious Faraway Tree and I peeped through the clouds...I saw my unicorn, Rosie and she said, "Hello, hello Reese.  Would you like to play with me?"  
I said, "Yes."  
"Come on then Reese."
So we went to the playground and I hopped onto Rosie's back and she flew up into the air and Rosie saw a rainbow. She went onto the rainbow and she ran down the rainbow.

Reese 


My head peeked up into the exciting land of toys...
I saw Emmet smiling at me and I smiled too.  I said to Emmet,
"Can I help build a house with you? I love building houses.  It is fun."
Emmet said, "Yes."
Thank you Emmet.  

Coby



When my head shot through the hole in the amazing cloud what I saw was amazing.  All my eleven ponies were there.  I asked them what land it was and they said it was the land of toys.  I asked my favourite pony, if I could trot around on her and she said I could.  We went very fast and I almost fell off.  Then I saw a house and a stable and we went to sleep.

Maddie


I peeped up into the...exciting land of toys.  I saw my pirate ship shooting cannons!!!!  Shoot. Shoot. Bang. Bang. Bang!!!  
I saw Superman flying in the air.  I flew with him. We flew fast, really, really, really, really fast.

Benji


My head peeked up into the Land of Toys.  Wow!  There were all of my transformers and dinosaurs and they were very, very big.  We played army.  I got to have a turn in my army hulk to shoot the bullets.

Riley

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Benji, Keiarliya and Sam for receiving certificates this week. Well done!

I will not ever Never eat a...

Today we read a Charlie and Lola story called 'I will not ever Never eat a tomato.'  

This prompted a big discussion about what we will not ever never eat.  Here are some of our fabulous stories...

Yuck!  What is that Mum?  Tomatoes?  I hate tomatoes...When nobody's looking I just drop it on the floor and let the cat eat it.

Written by Marcus

I will never ever eat beans.  When Mum puts them on my plate I try to dodge them.  I push them to the side but I eat the rest.  Beans are stringy and sour and I will never eat them!

Written by Finley

Yuck!  Water!  I never ever like drinking water because I don't like the taste of the water.  It tastes disgusting.  When Mum says, have a drink of water, I pretend I drink it but I disappear and I splash it in the sink.

Written by Sam

I will not ever never eat a tomato because tomatoes are too sour and they have little seeds in them.  When Mum puts them on my plate I pick them up and throw them under the table.  Then I call the dogs to eat them.  I will never eat tomatoes but my sister Eve, she loves tomatoes!

Written by Reese

"Ewwww!  What is that Mummy?  Honey!  Yuck!"  I hate honey.  Honey tastes like corn and I hate corn too.  Honey feels like a butterfly wing fluttering in my mouth.  I will never ever eat honey ever again!  I say to my Mum, "What are we having for tea?  Please don't say honey, please."  

Written by Keiraliya

I will not ever never eat peas.  If my mum gives me some on my plate i scrunch up my face.  I will accidentally throw them on the ground and my dog will eat them.  They are too green and small.

Written by Erin

I will not ever never eat spicy hot chilli because my mouth will go on fire like a dragon.  If my mum gives me some I will mash it in with my potatoes.  It tastes like spicy pickles and smells like burning fire.

Written by Benji

Who Am I?

WALT describe a character using Pic Collage.

The Muffin McLays had to choose a character from the Enchanted Wood that they could describe.  Then they had to write 4 clues about their character.  Can you guess who they are?

Benji's...

Tyler's...

Niamh's...

Keiarliya's...

Discovey Time in Room 1

Mrs Blakesley was very proud of all the children who came to Room 1 today to make loopy loop rings and bracelets.  

It was amazing to see so many children from different rooms in Manuka hub helping each other and working together.  

Thank you to all of the loopy loop experts who came in to teach others.  You did a fantastic job!!

Thank you to Mr Pope and Mr Blakesley for making our fantastic looms.

So many amazing teachers!

Our Magic Faraway Tree Adventures

We have been reading The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton.  We love creating pictures in our head while we listen to the story of the children's adventures up the magic Faraway Tree.  

We imagined our own lands that could be at the top of the Faraway Tree and wrote about them, using wow words to help create a picture in the reader's head.

The Land of Movies
Wow!  I tiptoed up the ladder.  I crept up into the land of movies.  Movie land was covered in movies. Trees were full of movies.  I climbed up a tree with a movie.  I went inside the house. When I got inside the house a spider chased me.  I got an axe and chopped the spider.  I ran out of the house...I climbed up a tree and a t.v hung from the moon.  The movie I watched was the Lego movie.  My couch changed into a bed.  I went to sleep.

Written by Benji

The Land of Fish
Tip top..I crept up the ladder and I spotted a fish land.  Water was all over the sand.  I saw a crab on the wiggly stones.  There were lots of fish swimming around the place.  I saw a shark, "arghhhh!"  There were lots of pine cones on the trees.  I love my land of fish because all the lovely fish are colourful.  

I put my togs on and jumped in with a big splash and I swam with the lovely fish.

I saw a dark cave and, "arghhhh," I said.
"A shark.  Amazing, but it's going to eat me." The shark had long sharp teeth and the shark was humongous.  I was shivering.  I hid behind the rocks.  A colouful fish quickly swam to me and said, "Come with me."  
"Okay," I said.  He took me to the big long hole at the top of the tree.  Finally I was home.  

Written by Maia

Yummy Land
Wow!!! I peeked up through the clouds.  I got a shock!  The land was called...Yummy land.  There was a blue lake of...tutti fruiti vitafresh.  The houses were made out of colourful lollies.  The grass was made out of chocolate. Everything was edible.  The trees were made of broccoli and you could bite them whenever you wanted some broccoli!

One day I went in my chocolate kayak to go for a swim in the vitafresh lake and a sleep on my kayak.  When I went for a dive at the bottom of the vitafresh lake I saw a chocolate shark and it said to me, "I'm going to eat you up!"
No!" I said.  "I will eat you up."  So I swam after it and ate it all up.  "Yum, yum." I said.  
I love this land.  I will never go home!

Written by Tyler

Lego Land
I climbed up the ladder and peeped through the big hole in the clouds.  I can see Lego houses all around me.  There are Lego cars driving on the Lego roads.  The cars have to stop at the traffic lights.  The boss is Broad Business and I have to get him because he is bad.

Written by Finley


Ice Crystal Land
Wow.  Suddenly I appeared in ice crystal land. I saw ice on the trees.  It was amazing.  I loved it. 
"Arggggh."  The snowman was getting closer.  I was scared. I ran away but he still chased me. I tried to get down the ladder but he grabbed me and took me home.  
We went to the lake.  I spotted some gorgeous golden fish.  I went to put on my togs and I jumped off the grass and I landed on a shark. I screamed.  He bit my leg.  "Ouch." I said. I started to cry.  The snowman laughed.  
I found the hole and ran home as fast as I could.

Written by Nimah


Wonderland
Wonderland has lollipops and snow too with a castle.  I like the land of Wonder.  I went to find the castle in the land.  I climbed a tree to find the bridge to the castle.  
I went inside to find the Queen in the castle and I looked for the stairs.  I climbed up the stairs but the stairs were high.  I flew up to climb the steps and I found the Queen.

Written by Ashanti


Easter Land
Wow!  I am in Easter land.  There are chocolate Easter bunnies.  They are holding baskets full of scrumptious Easter eggs and when I am hungry I eat the Easter bunnies. When there are rainbows, there is chocolate at the end.  
One night I woke up...I saw a really bad Easter bunny... (to be continued).

Written by Riley

Autumn Writing

We went for an adventure outside to play in the autumn leaves.  We also worked in groups to create a pic collage about Autumn.

Then we used our experience to create some descriptive writing using I see, I hear and I feel...sentence starters.  These pieces have lots of descriptive wow words in them...

I can see beautiful colours on the damp leaves.

I can hear leaves bump into each other when I stomped on them.

I can feel pointy sharp claws on my skin and it was ticklish.

By Keiarliya

I saw leaves all over the wet, green grass.

I saw beautiful orange, red, yellow and brown leaves.

I heard birds singing in the trees.

I felt soft smooth leaves.  They were colourful.

I jumped in the leaves and they were ticklish.

The tree trunks were massive but I got leaves in my long hair.

It was good fun and Finley and I threw leaves at each other.

By Sadie

I see thousands of colourful leaves on the damp grass.

I feel crackly leaves under my shoes.

I hear the leaves shuffling around.

By Finley

Wow Words

We have been working hard on adding wow words to our writing.

Wow words add detail to our stories and help paint a picture in the reader's head.

We have been writing about our adventures at the Redwoods and today we learned a little bit about the history of the trees.

The magnificent Redwood trees were planted in the 1930s.  They are 80 years old.  Mason Chambers planted the ginormous trees. The Redwood trees are so wide.  I can't wrap my arms around them.  When I looked up I could only see the humongous tree trunks of the trees.  The trunks felt lumpy like a hard rock.

Written by Tyler


The Redwood trees are humongous and they were planted in the 1930s by Mason Chambers.  They have been growing heaps and heaps and now they are huge trees.  We loved going to see them.

Written by Brianna 


The Redwoods trees are humongous.  I saw hundreds of spiky sticks.  Mason Chambers planted the trees in the 1930s.  Te Mata Peak used to be under water.  I was excited when we were at the big Redwoods.  

Written by Benji

Pic Collage

We have some new ipads in Room 1!  Today we were learning how to use the pic collage app.  We had to create a pic collage about ourselves.  Our collage had to include - our name, our photo, a background and some pictures or photos of things we like.  Once we had completed our collage we had to email it to Mrs Blakesley.  We did well learning so many new skills!

PRIDE Awards

A big congratulations to Tyler, Niamh and Benji who received PRIDE awards during March and April.

Tyler - For being a great leader and role model in Room 1.  Well done!

Niamh - Consistent work ethic and being a fantastic responsible helper and leader.

Benji - For always showing Respect for others and consistently being such a hard worker in Room 1.  Super effort Benji!

Reading with our Buddy Class

Room 12 is our buddy class.  Today they visited us after lunch and we had an enjoyable time on the grass listening to each other read.

Thank you Room 12 - we look forward to seeing you again next week.