Ouch!

One of our writing prompts this week was "A time I hurt myself". It turned out to be a really accessible and interesting topic to write about! Here are a couple of examples, and the rest will be displayed in the class by the end of next week.

Getting Run Over by a Bike

by Gamu

My sister and I decided to have a race. I was not on a bike and my sister was on a bike. I said, "On your marks, get set, go!" 

I ran down and my sister pedalled as fast as she could. Suddenly, the dog next door barked loudly. I got a surprise and fell down. My sister tried to stop and ran over me.

But I got up, and told my dad the dog scared me and my sister ran over me. My knees were grazed and my hands were scraped. My sister said "Sorry," and I said, "It is ok, the dog really scared me." My dad said "It will dry." It was a very sore experience!

The Walking Dead

by Alannah

I was filled with excitement as I skipped to the playground. I was walking to the playground with my friend Alea. I was in Hong Kong!

When we got to the playground the first thing I wanted to do was go on the monkey bars! A smile spread across my face as I went bar to bar. I didn't hear my friends saying, "You're going too fast!"

Crash! "Ow!" I said as my friend's mum drove me to the hospital. My tears fell like hail. When we got to the hospital they x-rayed my arm. Finally they announced that I broke my arm! They gently put a cast on it and sent me home. Now I know that I have to take my time on the monkey bars. 

Crashing into a Rock

by Jacob

One day I was bike riding. I was at some kind of park with my Grandpa. When I wasn't looking, I crashed into a rock. Bang! Ow! My tummy was hurting. Grandpa laughed, but I felt shocked! Then I picked up my bike and went home.

Dog Bite

by Saku

When I was a baby I was at my Grandma's house. Her dog bit my face! I went to the hospital.

Ouch!

by Kingston

There I was, walking and playing on my dad's phone at the same time. I was going to New World, when Donk! I had just walked into the glass door of New World, like a bird. 

I felt so dizzy from my smash to my head. It had only closed 18 minutes ago. Why didn't we go before? 

I felt so embarrassed. All the staff were laughing at me, even my dad was. My cheeks blushed. I said to myself, "I wish I hadn't played on my dad's phone!"

We can do it with our eyes closed!

What do you think these children are doing?

No, I didn't just happen to photograph everyone mid-blink...as an introduction to our work on 3D shapes the children are taking turns to hold and describe wooden shapes, using their sense of touch to establish how many sides, corners and faces each shape has. Their partner noted down what they said. 

Sandwich Time

On Thursday we got busy making sandwiches! First we wrote and published instructions on how to make a sandwich that we like. We brought along the ingredients, then the recipes were swapped and we were assigned someone else's instructions to follow. We got to taste the sandwich they made, plus the one we made, plus a few others...

Building huts

Last week we had a fantastic time building rope and tarpaulin huts outside. The children have written little reflections on the experience and we finished publishing them today. 

IT in the classroom...

This term we acquired a set of 5 Chromebooks for our class, to supplement the iPads and iMacs that we already have. The children have been using the Chromebooks and iMacs to create slides that introduce their family members in te reo Maori. Here are a couple of examples! The rest will be up in the classroom by the end of next week.

On the iPads, everyone has been using an app called Book Creator to write little book reviews. I'm afraid the video playback doesn't seem to show them in very good quality, but I hope you can get the general idea!

As we all get more skilled with using the app and our google accounts, everyone will be able to save work directly to their accounts so they can look it up and share it either as a pdf file or a video at home. 

Mad Hutters, part 1!

Today we got started with our new unit of inquiry, Mad Hutters. Using sheets of different fabrics, plus chairs, desks and pegs, the children experimented with making huts in and around the classroom. Here's a few shots of how it went...

Hongbao Time!

There has been excitement in our Chinese class lately, as we exchanged letters with children from Remuera Primary. The letters were written partly in English and partly in Chinese, and they were delivered in "hongbao" - handmade red envelopes used on special occasions. Here are some photos of the class opening and reading their hongbao...

Alongside the fun of reading real information about other kids in Chinese, Guan-laoshi used the hongbao to teach us some useful Chinese language. Oliver has written a little report about this...

Chinese

by Ollie

Today for Chinese we were learning how to say when we do have a hongbao envelope and how to say when we don't have a hongbao envelope. We also learned how to say "Do you have a hongbao envelope?". I hope everybody in the class loves Chinese. We got 3 minutes of game time.

and here's some video of speakers in action!