Mihi and Shared Kai

Thank you to all the family and whanau who came in to watch our Mihi's and share some kai with us! Enjoy the video!

Recycling

This morning Room 9 looked at heaps of garbage. A lady came and showed us how much rubbish we create at Enner Glynn School in ONE DAY! We felt sad about the rubbish. We felt sad because that rubbish will go to a landfill. Here is some of the rubbish that was there.

Plastic

Food Scraps

Paper

Cardboard

Mrs Langi gave us some ideas of how we could help. Here are some ideas. 

• We can recycle things like paper, bottles, yoghurt pots and food scraps.
• We need to keep our food scraps in our lunch boxes until lunch time and then put them in the worm bucket (remember the things that can't go in there like orange peel and plastic).
• We could wrap our sandwiches in baking paper.
• We could make our own muesli bars.
• We could start using canvas bags for our shopping.

Our classroom reuse and recycle boxes

Thank you

We loved the performance so much last week we thought we had better write to Bernard and Kuba and say thank you! We spend the week thinking about what we loved and what we learnt from their performance. Here is the email we sent to say thank you.

Dear Bernard and Kuba

Thank you so much for visiting Enner Glynn School in Nelson, New Zealand last week. We throughly enjoyed your performance, and I have to say I was as captivated as the students! My class decided it would be a good idea to write and say thank you for coming and tell you what we enjoyed about your show. The children have just chosen part of their writing to share with you as it would have taken you a long time to read it all! They are a year 1/2 class so all aged between 5 and 7. 

Thank you again for coming and sharing your inspiring performance with us! 

Kind regards Alice Whitehead and Room 9 

Here are some of the children's comments:

I liked the performance. The best dance was the slow and fast motion when both of you were dancing. From Catayana

Piper was good. I hope you come back. From Lilly C

My name is Lily H. I liked the dancing. It was cool. I loved it too. I hope I see it again. From Lily H

We learnt never to give up! From Te Waimana

My name is Sam. I am 5. I liked you doing the hoop dance. I loved Kuba doing his dance. I also learnt a little bit of poi from you Bernard. From Sam

I loved Kuba. He was cool and Kuba was good. He is really nice too us. From Danica

I hope you have a good time travelling. From Sebastian

I loved Kuba’s dancing, he moved like a robot. From Aaliyah

Your dance was amazing, I would like you to come again please. From Annabel

I learnt some Maori words from you Bernard and I loved your dancing. From Zoe

I really liked your dancing Bernard, it was amazing. Could you teach me? From Ava

I liked the eagle dance, you looked like an eagle in the sky. From Levi

On stage Bernard taught us a Maori word. From Lyric

I loved the hoop dancing, you are very clever to make an eagle dance. Kuba you dance like a slow robot. From Sophie

Kuba I like you handstand. Its like you are walking on the roof. From Ollie

Your dancing was amazing because you had cool music. From Marlon

I liked the way you said never give up. I would never give up playing rugby. From Coen

Kuba’s dancing was amazing. I also loved the way you did the hoops really, really fast. From Leana

An Exciting Week!

Room 9 has had an exciting week! We did lots of cool stuff. We started our Inquiry which is about FORCES. 

We went to the museum on Tuesday. We learnt about Roman machines. We saw Roman pictures. We used pulleys. We know now that it was really hot in the Roman's days. They built lots of things.

Yesterday we had an INCREDIBLE performance called Mana, Spirt of Polynesia. He was so good at dancing. He was quick at dancing. He taught us to use poi. He said he travelled to all different countries.

Fractions

We have been learning about fractions. 

We have learnt what a half is. We have learnt the symbol for a half. 

We have also learnt about quarters. 

We have learnt about thirds too!

This is a whole.

What fractions can you spot?

The Places We Could Go!

This week for our inquiry we have been thinking about places we might go in the future. We read "Oh The Places You Will Go" by Dr Seuss. Have you read it? We used our imaginations to think of some places we could go.

 My place is Mars. There is a camouflaged snake and there is a house on its side. There is a colourful sun and pink, green and red hills. You have climb stairs to get to the house. By Marlon

 My place is a movie fair where there is a poisonous snake. People walk home from school there over a big hill. The sky is blue and there is a purple mountain. By Levi

 My place is a place for boating. Its about jumping into the water going fishing. Its is funny place where you can go funny fishing. You catch orange fish. By Sebastian

 My place has mountains with funny colours on the. There is a really big tower which gets sunshine every day. By Lily H

 My place is on Easter Island. There is an elevator there and there are Easter bunnies that work underground. You have to go on a big boat to get there. There are orange clouds and brown sky. By Ollie

 My place is the Easter bunny’s place. It has a stripy door and a trampoline. There is an Easter Hunt and it’s night time. There are Easter eggs getting hidden because it is dark. By Sophie

 I would like to go to the Easter bunnies house and hide Easter eggs every where. I would eat them all night and day. I would like them in my lunch. The place looks magical with magic everywhere so you could fly. By Leanna

 My place is a fishing place. You can fish anywhere and run on the water. There is a colourful hill and a colourful house with a colourful roof. By Lyric

 My place is very blue. There is sea in the background. It is a house. I like the hills coloured in bright. By Danica

 My place is colourful and it has a pool. It is sunny and super great. There are two slides so you can slide in the pool. The pool is super fun inside. By Catayana

 My place is a Thomas the Tank engine railway. The railways go by the docks. It is so cool because it has Tomas, Edward and James. There are stations and sheds. There is also a big quarry next to the little river. There is tunnel to Misty Island. By Tauki

 I want to go to the old house when I am big. You can ring the doorbell and something happens. A big arm lifts you up and sees what you look like and then it puts you down. Then you can walk in. You have to climb a big mountain to get there. By Matua

 My place is Australia. There are snakes, swimming pools and grass. The sky is blue and the grass is green. By Jack

 My place is a funny house. It is on an angle so it looks funny. It’s got a pink roof. Silly people live there and they dance upside down. By Lilly C

 My place is Australia. There are clouds and my brother lives there. He lives in a house with a chimney with smoke coming out of it. By Te Waimana

 My place is Hawopwop. It is like a playground and it is so hot. There are some butterflies. By Zoe

My imaginary place is called magic school. People are out with their wands to get the dementors away. The school is colourful and tall. By Annabel