INNOVATION

Last Friday we had many parents and grandparents into our school! They all came to teach us new activities. Some of the activities included sewing, learning a new language, woodwork, paper marbling, making sherbet, line dancing, decorating vinyl records, science experiments, music and many more things.

We hope you enjoy our video!

Digi Awards

We are very proud of our class entries in the Manawatu Digi awards- look what we got!
Congratulations to Maiya, Charlotte, Sophie, Ben and thanks to Morgan!

The Year 3 Sleepover

We hope you enjoy this small snapshot of some of the activities we did during our Friday night at school!

Year 3 Sleepover

Telling time

Kiwi Art

We have just about finished our Art work. We used toi toi to make our kiwi's look authentic. They will be up in the classroom by next week for you to come in and have a look. Here's a sneak preview!

Wheat Heads

They're growing!!! We water them everyday.

Plant to Plate

We have a small snapshot of some of the amazing things we did today with the people from Plant to Plate. We planted, prepared food and had a shared lunch. It was the first time some of us had tried different vegetables and the first time some of us had cooked!
We can't wait for next week!
Ruma Whitu

The Mararena

I learnt the Macarena. We sang the song and danced with actions. It was Awesome.
Jewelia

Manukura

Last week to celebrate Maori language week we had a visit from Manukura. They taught us songs and games. We had a fabulous time, it was really cool. My favourite part was when we learnt Twinkle, Twinkle Star in Maori.

By Steph.

Plant to Plate People Came to Hokowhitu School!

It was amazing!

Lots of Plant to Plate people came to help us.  We planted and cooked.  We planted seedlings.  We planted spring onions, purple cabbage, spinach and thyme.  We looked flash in our gardening gloves.  Some students chopped, some students grated but we all ate the kai!  Our puku were full and felt like they would explode!

Boats make a splash!

Some students made waka for their treasure.  We took the waka to the  swimming pool to see if they would float.  The boats floated because of the shape of their hull.  We have large waka and heavy waka but they still floated because of the shape of their hull.

The water current and wind made some move and some stayed still.

Planting Seeds!

We have planted sugar snap peas and we are hoping for a crop of sugar snap peas.  We shovelled potting mix into the planter box.  We each planted several seeds.  Seeds need soil, sunlight, space, air  and water.

Every day we take the planter boxes outside into the sunlight.

Every day we water the seeds.

The seeds have germinated and the plants are growing.

Matariki is time for a new beginning!

Our Taonga!

Tararua Two had a cool homework challenge.  They worked with their whanau to design and create a treasure.  They had great ideas and worked with lots of purpose.  They brought their treasures to school and told us all about them.  Congratulations to you and your creative whanau!

Magpies in Ruma Waru

Weta reading group presented a play about Denis Glover's poem called the Magpies.  Elizabeth had red lips and Tom went light in the head.  The magpies quardled, oodled, ardled, wardled and doodled all day long.  Our actors were amazing.

Matariki

We celebrated Matariki today by doing a lot of different things. In Ruma we learnt to keep time with rakau sticks and then we did some weaving!
We had so much fun!

Ruma Whitu had fun with Shapes!

Mr Campbell !

Today is Mr Campbell's last day in Ruma Whitu. He has put together this video of all the cool things that have happened in his time here. Thank you Mr Campbell- see you again soon!
http://dai.ly/x2qwwch
Ruma Whitu by anthony_tjay

Sign Language Week

Last week was sign language week! Emerald is our Class sign language expert so she helped us to learn to sign our name.
We hope you enjoy our videos.
Thank you Emerald !!!

Police, police, police please !!!

We were excited when the police car arrived at school.

We tried on handcuffs, uniforms and hats.  We sat in the police car and heard the siren.

Thank you to the police officers who visited Ruma Iwa.

Measuring Millilitres

We have been wondering about measuring liquid.

We had lots of ideas about what we already knew.

We wanted to find out lots of new information.

Miss Puts organised great learning activities for us.

Making Patterns

Our maths group did an activity today where we had to try to continue a pattern....
We even got to try and create a pattern of our own. Some pattern cards were more difficult to work out than others.

Measurement

Today we were trying to fill a cup of water using millilitres. We all used different containers which we learnt held the same amount! Some of us needed to check our levels!

Making Frost!

We read a book about Fizz and Frost. One of the activities was learning how to make frost.
We followed the instructions from the book.
First we went to the staffroom and got a pot. Next we got some Epsom salts and boiling water. We stirred the pot with stainless steel spoons. When our crystal solution was ready we went back to class. We put on gloves and cleaned the windows. Then we spread the solution around with sponges. We made frost!!!!!
We learnt that frost happens on a still morning (no wind)  when it is 0 degrees outside!
Lee, Kayla, Emerald, Sophie, Steph, Nickolas.

ANZAC Poppies

Yesterday we made some poppies to wear at our school assembly to remember the ANZAC's who lost their lives in World War 1.

We hope you enjoy these photo's of us working with teacher's and grandparents.

The Fish Kit!

We hired a kit full of activities from Te Manawa. We moved in groups around several activities.
Some tasks included... Is it a fish?
                                     Native fish.
                                     Is this fish the right size to keep?
                                     Fish role play
         We hope you enjoy the photos showing our fun afternoon activities.

Our Swimming Sports

We apologise for the delay- technical issues! We hope you enjoy a snapshot of our Sports!

Remember our Duathlon will be held at school on Wednesday 1st April. We are asking the children to wear their House t-shirt or a t-shirt which represents their house coolur. We hope to see you there!

Looking Flash !

Wow!  Have you seen any students at Hokowhitu School wearing weird coloured shirts ????

These shirts are our house T Shirts!  You can buy them from the office.  There come in 4 different colours.

If you are in Kakariki house then you will look very smart like our model.

If you are in Kahurangi house then your T shirt will be blue.

Whero you should buy a red T shirt.

Kowhai you will look like the beautiful flowers on the kowhai tree.  Kael knows you will need a yellow shirt.

Writing to Describe

We are learning to write to describe. For fun today we arranged for one of the teachers to dress up and kidnap a child from the class. ( the children knew that this was going to happen so no one was frightened).
We pretended to ring the police, who asked for a description to help them with their search!
We had to be clear and include all the details that we could remember.

WANTED:

The Kidnapper had black hair, a green handbag, a black flowered dress, red sunglasses and mesh covered her face. She had a blue bow on the top of her head and behind it she had a tiny little hat. Emerald had been kidnapped.

By Eli

(fortunately by morning tea Emerald had been found thanks to Eli's clear description and normality had been restored to the class- phew!)

Hurricanes!

Ruma Iwa won a radio competition and had a visit from the Hurricanes.
The whole school got to meet some very special visitors, thank you Jacob!!!!

Reading Activity Ruma Whitu

Our reading group read a story about how to create a bird-friendly garden. We looked how to make a bird feeder. Today we melted some fat/ lard and stirred some bird seed into it. We pushed the seed mixture into the spaces in the cones. We tied string on to pinecones so the feeders could be hung in a tree.

It was fun and I can't wait to see the birds eating it.

By Maiya.

Swimming is a BLAST!!!!

Ruma Iwa bring their togs to enjoy our great pool and swimming lessons EVERYDAY!!!!

Ruma Ono's Music Lesson!

Ruma Ono had a great time earlier this week learning to play the ukelele with Mrs Bradnock! We are learning how to strum and play several different chords.

Ruma Ono's Amazing Self Portraits

Ruma Ono has just finished some amazing self portraits! Come and check them out in our class!

We are poets and we didn't know it!

Chase bought us a chrysalis on Wednesday.  We were noticers and observers.  We drew diagrams and wrote descriptions.
Yesterday we used all our writing to paint a picture with words!

Chrysalis

Poets: Ruma Waru

Butterflies hiding in chrysalis’

Caterpillars hiding in chrysalis’

Caterpillars eat pale green leaves,

caterpillars eat bright green leaves,

caterpillars eat dark green leaves,

Caterpillars love to eat leaves

Caterpillars hanging and curling,

upside down caterpillars,

caterpillars slowly turn into chrysalis

Golden spots are dotted on the chrysalis

Golden dots are spotted on the chrysalis

hanging on the branch

 a green chrysalis turning dark

a black chrysalis is waiting for the butterfly to appear

A head is emerging

The butterfly unfolds out of the chrysalis

wet wings belong to butterfly

the stretching butterfly dries out

Oh my butterfly

Fly

Fly

Fly 

Tararua T-ball players 14-02-15

Our Tararua 2 T-ballers team was amazing on Saturday.
Ka pai!

Swimming Lessons

                     Ruma Ono, Whitu and Waru are learning to improve our kicking skills.
                                      -We need to pretend we are rubbing our toes together!

Music Lesson

Ruma Whitu had our first music session with Mrs Bradnock today. We had so much fun learning songs, rhythm and beat. It's tricky to keep in time.
Our music room looks fantastic, we are looking forward to learning how to play different instruments.

Ruma Waru has fantastically friendly feet!

Ruma Waru has very friendly feet.  They walk around to welcome new  people.  They walk to make new friends.  They walk around to help people. Our feet walk around to give people hugs.  Our friendly feet help us do sport, run races and skip.  Our friendly feet help us walk.  Our friendly feet help us kick under water and help us do a starfish.

By Ruma Waru