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Farewell Brianna

Today is Brianna's last day in Room 1 as she and her family are moving to a new city.   

All the best on your new adventures Brianna!

We are going to miss your gorgeous personality and enthusiasm for learning  - your new school is very lucky!

Fantastic Workers!

Congratulations to Hunter, Finley, Raiha and Niamh! 

Delicious, Scrumptious Vegetables!

 Look at what our tiny seedlings have become!

 "A white cauliflower as big as a soccer ball!"

 "Long, green celery.  Yum!"

Ants on logs!  Crunch Crunch!

Cauliflower and dip.  What a treat.

What clever gardeners you are Room 1!  

We still have leeks, carrots, cabbage, silverbeet and more celery to harvest.  I wonder what we could make?  What do you think?

Commonwealth Games

Our Commonwealth Games were held on Friday morning.  What a beautiful day!  The sun was shining and we were ready to compete. Some of the events we raced were hurdles, sprinting, gymnastics, relay, javelin, hockey and weightlifting.
We all had fun and showed lots of Parkvale Pride as we competed with our teams.  Well Done Room 1!

Sam with his team, ready to start.

Marcus and Coby competing in the hurdles race.

Sadie and Niamh racing in the hockey event.

 Tyler throwing the javelin.

Raiha in the relay race.

Maia and Erin sprinting past.

Terrell and Finley

Tyler weightlifting!

Raiha, one of our gold medal winners!

Tyler with his silver medal!

Brianna and her winning team!

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

Finley's Pride Award

Congratulations on receiving this weeks Pride award Finley!  You are a hard worker who writes creative stories and works hard to achieve your learning goals.  You are an organised and helpful class member.  Well Done Finley!

Finley's Writing

Finley wrote this great piece after his weekend away in Taupo...

Whoa!  That is some serious fog.  The fog was on the mountain tops - two parts of fog because we went over two hills.  Finally we found some sun!  It broke through the clouds.  It took a long time to get to Taupo.

Manuka Hub Assembly

Isaac, Brianna, Jerome, Finley, Maddie and Tyler received certificates today at our Manuka Hub assembly.  Well Done to you all.  We look forward to our next assembly in a few weeks.  

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

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!

Gooey, Slimy, Slippery Slugs in Room 1's Garden

Today we worked on adding 'wow' words to our writing to describe the slugs and our garden.  Can you spot some?

 Oh, we have some gooey, slimy slippery slugs in Room 1’s garden.  Yuck.  Mrs Blakesley put some slug bait out otherwise they will gobble the seedlings.  At my house there are a lot of snails and slugs.  They look fat.

Written by Sadie

 Ewwy Gooey slimy slugs are yuck.  Some are fat and some are skinny.  Some can eat the plants all up.  Mrs Blakesley sprinkled snail bait around the garden.  Snails and slugs come out in the morning when no one is at school.  They might come out from the yummy strawberries.  They sneak into the garden.  Room 1 went outside yesterday.  I am going to go outside today to check the seedlings. 

Written by Maia

 Oh the slugs and snails are eating and hiding in our garden.  They are slimy and they are munching and eating plants.

Written by Jerome

Look at the slimy spew.  The slugs will eat the leaves.  Room 1 saved the day because we put the slug bait on the dirt. 

Written by Isaac 

Ooh yuck.  There are slimy slugs and snails in our garden everywhere.  They are munching and crunching and eating our vegetables but…we put slug bait so we could make them die because we didn’t want them to eat our vegetables.

Written by Marcus

Wow.  What slithery, slimy slugs but unfortunately I hate slugs because they eat our vegetables so we had to sprinkle out the slug bait.

Written by Finley

Discovery

We have Discovery every Friday in Manuka Hub. This week there were lots of interesting things to explore and do.  

Our focus at Discovery time is to be curious and to work together co-operatively.   Here are some of the creative, curious and co-operative Room 1 children ...

 Tyler and Mason with their huge aircraft creation.  

 Finley working hard on his aircraft.  

 Terrell, Mana and Jorgia making their tomatoes on toast.

 Yum!!

 Risha and Niamh being crafty.

 Miro enjoying the train set.

 Keiarliya and Raiha constructing in Room 17.

 Busy woodworkers!

 Creative drawing.

 Sienna using the tractor catalogue to create her picture

Jerome and Benji enjoying the ipads.