Good Effort Nuzayba!

Meet Nuzayba, this weeks Principal's Award winner. Nuzayba received her award for the fantasic effort she has been making to finish and improve her writing.
Well done and keep up the good work!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRANAV!

On Monday, Pranav celebrated his 9th birthday. To mark the occasion he brought in some treats to share. We loved the Transformers birthday cake. Thanks for sharing your birthday celebration with us and we hope you had a fantastic day.

Great Writing Eric!

Congratulations Eric for winning this week's Principal's Award for trying really hard in writing. Eric has written some really creative narratives over the last few weeks.
Here is his story, Sophie and Buddy Go For a Run.

Sophie and Buddy go for a Run.

Sophie and Buddy went for a long run. Suddenly Buddy saw his lost red ball in the freezing cold river. He jumped into the cold water. The water was deep and buddy couldn't swim. “Hold on Buddy, I'm going to save you!” Sophie said loudly. Sophie got a mountain climbing rope and threw the rope at Buddy. Buddy got the rope in his sharp teeth and sophie pulled him hard. Finally, Buddy and his red ball got out of the river.

By Eric

Homemade Honey!

Finn's dad keeps bees and makes his own honey.  He brought in some for us all to try and it was delicious.   Finn has also written some instructions on how to make your own honey.

How to make sweet sweet honey By Finn

What you need:

10:empty jars

2:big empty buckets

1:small sack with holes

1:bucket with a tap

1:machine that spins

1:spatula

Steps:

1.First put the honey comb frames in the machine

  And turn the handle.

2.Once finished put one of the buckets under the tap and turn the tap handle.

3.Buy  honey from the shop and pour the honey into the homemade honey.

4.Mix with spatula and wait for 10 days until white stuff come to the top.

5.Then hang the sack on the roof and pour the bucket with honey

Into the sack and put the other bucket with the tap under the sack

6.Finally fill the jars with honey.Enjoy.

By Finn.    

Seasons Tree

Recently we created artworks using paint and collage to represent the 4 seasons. Here are some of our impressive Season's Trees.

Silly Billy - Retold by Divyesh.

Silly Billy was a worrier.  Billy worried about shoes and big, giant birds eating him.  His mum said nicely. "Don't worry, everything will be fine."
One day Billy had a sleepover at his grandma's house.  Billy couldn't sleep.  He rushed to grandma, and grandma gave him a  six worry dolls.  Billy told his worries to the worry dolls and slept as still as a log.
But a few days later, he was worrying again. He worried about the worry dolls.
He went to the kitchen and made worry dolls for his worry dolls and they all lived happily every after.
By Divyesh.


We liked Billy's solution to his worrying problem, so we all made our own worry dolls to tell our worries to.  We have taken these home to put under our pillows to ensure a great nights sleep.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CICI!

Cici recently celebrated her 9th birthday. Thank you for the delicious cake you and Nana baked to share with us.

Last Day of Term 2

As usual, the last day of the term was a busy one.  Room 16 had a number of successes to celebrate...

Finn was an excellent elephant in the Year 3 and 4 Assembly Item.

Sidharth, Anita and Caeli receive awards for being excellent writing tutors. Moroni and Cici also received these awards but were absent.

Xavier was in the Under 50kg Rugby Team that won the Papatoetoe Primary Schools Tournament.

Celebrating Matariki

On the last day of term 3 we headed outside for our own special Matariki celebration. The seven stars of Matariki are a constellation that appear in our skies sometime in June. This is when Maori celebrate new year. Traditionally they flew kites to celebrate because they fly high in the sky close to the stars. We all made our own bird kites to fly.