Isaac's Reindeer

Isaac's Reindeer

My Year In Room 1

I liked  going to the Redwood because I liked walking.

Zoom up to the Traffic Lights!

Yummy!  Yummy!  Ice blocks!  You come and get them because they melt in your mouth.  I'll bet you'll like this bit - you get a free animal rubber!

Mana

Traffic Light ice blocks are the best so come to Room 1 and 12's stall on market day.  They are the best because they are only made of fruit and vegetables.  Better eat it up before it melts!  I'm sure your mouth will fill up with juicy goodness.  If you buy one you will get a free beautiful animal pencil animal rubber.  Zoom up to the traffic light tomorrow!

Tyler

Traffic Lights!  Stop!  Don't waste just...taste.  They are fruitalicious.  Start your day the juicy way!  Zoom up to the ice block stall.  They're just one ticket!

Sienna

Traffic Lights.  Traffic Lights. Beep, Beep, Beep.   You get a free rubber.  The flavours are strawberry, orange, apple, and the other flavour is carrot.  They are very good for you. Don't waste, just taste,  Take it from Rooms 1 and 12's stall.

Isaac

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 

Congratulations Riley and Isaac!

Riley and Isaac were both awarded trophies at their Rugby prize giving on Sunday for most improved players in their teams.  Well Done boys!  

You can also spot Isaac in the Monday edition of 'Hawke's Bay Today' with Israel Dagg.

Papier Mache

We have been learning to Papier Mache.  We found out that Papier Mache is a French phrase, meaning 'chewed paper'.  

Before we began we ripped up a lot of newspaper and Mrs Blakesley made a lot of paste.

We talked about what we need to do to be successful at Papier Mache.

This is the criteria we came up with:

The paper is not allowed to be dry.
Paste under and over the paper.

Paste one piece of paper at a time.

Make sure there are no gaps.
Make it flat and smooth.

Complete one layer at a time and let it dry.

We can't wait to add more layers next week!  Keep an eye out for our finished projects.

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.  

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

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

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.

Reading Time in Room 1

Today we talked about the importance of staying on task at Reading time by making sure we are doing lots of reading and writing so we can become better readers.  

Here are the Super Duper Room 1 Readers - 'reading to self' and 'reading to someone'.

Our First week in Room 1, 2014

Wow!  Room 1 has had an amazing first week of school!  We have been busy getting to know each other and settling into our new classroom routines.  
Well Done Room 1!  You all had a fabulous week.  

Our big focus this term is Parkvale PRIDE - Personal Best, Respect, Integrity, Determination and Enjoyment.

During week one we focused on Respect and what it looks like in Room 1.  We also gave our Personal Best and showed Determination in the work that we did.