The Fish Swam

Yesterday we were taking boring sentences and making them more interesting by using descriptive words. We decided that more descriptive sentences help the reader to visualise by giving them a clear picture.

The sentence we started with was 'the fish swam'.

Check out some of the amazing sentences we came up with!

Making Benchmarks

We have been learning to measure length We searched the school looking for objects that we could use as benchmarks for 1 metre and half a metre to help us estimate length.

Here are some things we found that were about 1 metre:



Here are some things we found that are about half a metre:

A Moment in Time

Last week we thought of a time we were nervous, scared or excited and focused on a particular moment. We then had fun trying to guess what each others' moments were! Check out some of our moments.

I heard the other people playing.
I saw the alien on the roof.
I felt the armour chaffing my body.
I wondered if I was going to get shot.

By Connor


I felt worried, excited and proud.
I saw the seagulls perched on a rock.
I saw it next to me.
I wondered if I could make it.
I heard silence and it was scraping the ground.

By Josephine


I heard the water splashing.
I saw the boat stuck in the water.
I felt my hands gripping the top of the slide.
I wondered how fun this was going to be.

By Leighton

Class Treaty

During the first week we spent some time talking about what we want our class to look, sound and feel like. We also explored te Tiriti o Waitangi and what a treaty is. This lead us to creating our own class treaty with some expectations that we decided are important to an awesome classroom!

We have been talking about consequences and how our actions affect others. Also, about how consequences can be positive and negative. We came up with a list of possible consequences to go with our class treaty, both positive and negative.

Then, we signed the treaty to show that we all agree to the expectations and possible consequences. 

Check them all out below!

Water is our Taonga

For our inquiry this term we are investigating water, where it comes from, how we use it and why it's important.

Last week we were exploring what Taonga means and what we consider to be Taonga. I absolutely loved sharing everybody's Taonga and discussing why we find these things special.

Today, to get ourselves inspired about water, we watched some videos and did an alphabet brainstorm to get an idea of all the things we already knew about water.

Below is one of the videos we watched, check it out!