Wednesday 10 December 2014

Tuesday 5 August 2014

Today in Ignite Room 2 learnt about spiders


  • Today we learnt about spiders
  • How they make a flies body into juice
  • How to make a spiders web
  • The connection between a spiders web and the internet
  • How to draw a spider
  • Spiders have 18 joints on each leg
  • Spiders have 8 legs and 8 eyes. To of the eyes are on the front of its head, two on the back and 4 on the top.
  • Female spiders have bigger abdomens than male spiders because they have the babies in their abdomen.

Thursday 31 July 2014

Africa's great adventure under the sea

The Great Treasure
Hi my name is Africa and I am a great animal rescuer. Today I am planning to go on a beautiful adventure under the sea with octopuses, anemones, sharks and the beautiful rainbow  fish. I wonder if I will see any beautiful dolphins. Today I am diving with my partners Shavaun, Alannah and Leah they are all animal rescuers too .

We are on the boat now and I am very excited and I think my crew is too.  We are going to dive down to the coral forest and look at the red, blue, green, pink and purple fish.  I am probably going to meet an octopus and a crab .
“It's time to dive!” yelled the driver.
I got very excited, I saw a dove fly over our boat then I dived in and  swam down under the water.  I saw a turtle and lots of different types of coral. I saw a pod of dolphins and so did my crew.
We swam towards them and they came up to us happily. We swam with them for ages and I  made  new friends.  I called one of them  winter and my friend Leah called one Frost.  We swam away to explore somewhere else,  we saw a turtle .


It was a green sea turtle and it was swimming very fast.  I couldn't catch up so I gave up.  I swam up to the surface and called everyone up and I went happily home .

In the morning I was so excited because I was going diving again .When I got on the boat  I was shivering with excitement.   I jumped in the water  and swam down to the reef bed.  I saw something  unexpected I saw a shipwreck and I decided to explore inside it.  I swam around and around until I found a door, I went through the rusty brown door and into a little basement. I saw something shiny and gold I swam closer and realised that this is a treasure ship. I found a block of gold .

I swam to find the way out and up to the surface to tell everyone.  I had the with the block of gold.  That is the end of my adventure I hope you have a great adventure one day too .


This term I learnt........

THIS TERM I LEARNT:

Cooper:
I learnt about Joshua and Jesus and God. I have also got better at writing.

Raine:
I learnt to be more loving, I've moved up a level in reading and I've learnt more about how God is so creative. I've learnt about Joshua. I've learnt to help around the house and how to write neatly. I've learnt how to write longer stories with interesting words and ideas. I've learnt about dot art and I've learnt how to do fractions.

Boaz:
I got up on a higher level in reading. I learnt more about animals. I learnt about Joshua and the great fall of Jesus. I learnt to write longer stories with interesting ideas and words. I learnt about how much God has done for us. I want to learn more about animals and do more maths.

Oliver:
I learnt How to be creative, and how to make a model car. I also learnt about God and Jesus and how God made the earth and the water, he made me and you. I moved up a level in reading and I learnt how to use an Ipad.

Bryan:
I have learnt to be kind to people and have gone up a level in reading. I am learning math. I learnt about animals and craft, and I have learnt more about God.

Jasmine:
I like reading and learning how to make it go smoothly.

Hunter Walsh:
This term I learnt to make a spider out of Lego and it was cool. Next term I want to identify different spiders.

Zion:
This term I learnt to be better at writing and doing the play and next term I want to learn to read books.

Dominic:
This term I learnt to read better and I moved up a level.

Shavaun:
I learnt that an animal with a backbone is called a vertebrate. When I moved up a level in reading I liked reading more. I Learnt more about God and Jesus and learnt about turtles. I learnt about animal classifications.

Leah:
Hi, i am 8 years old, my name is Leah, and I am going to tell you what I have learnt this term, I have learnt how to write neatly.

Matthew:
I loved reading and how I moved up a level.
I like to work on my maths I also like to draw. I have learnt about god and how he is so creative. I have learnt about facts.

Africa:
This term I learnt how to be more helpful and loving, I learnt that animals with back bones are called vertebrae and animals without backbones are called invertebrates. I learnt how to use more interesting words in my stories and I am more creative in my art. I'm more loving and I'm better at reading. I learnt more about Joshua because we did a play on it.

Petur:
This term I learnt about Jesus and Joshua and the fall of Jericho and about Jesus and his miracles and marching around Jericho. I like to read and I learnt how to write longer stories.

Alannah:
This term I learnt about Jesus and God and the story of Joshua I also improved my reading and spelling. I did a good job in making stuff. I have been good in class it was fun in class I learnt lots of different things in school. I have done lots of art because art is really cool to do. I have learnt about invertebrates and vertebrates and animal groups. There are mammals, fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles and anthropoids. We learnt about the groups that they are in.

Sammy:
I learnt about animal classification. there are seven groups. I really like animals, I have an animal dictionary. I learnt that it is important to read the whole book quickly because you don't always have a lot of time. I learnt about take away and plus in maths. maths is more important than fiddling.

Hunter Worthington:
I moved up a level in reading.

Sean:
I want to be a scientist when I grow up. I have learnt about writing and doing homework and I have learnt to do mathletics and reading eggs

Ruby:
This term I learnt to write better and longer stories with more interesting ideas and words. I learnt about classification group animals. I like reading and learning how to make it go smoothly and I am being helpful around the house. I learnt about what kind of animals go into which group

Jordan: 
This term I learnt about the Titanic and how to do reading eggs.

Praise:
This term I learnt more about writing and reading. We also learnt about animals in class and we learnt about the story of Joshua and Jesus and God and being kind. Next term I want to move up a level in reading.

Ashton:
This term I have learnt to do animal facts on the ipad and I learnt to be nice to people. Ive been writing nicely and I have been reading too.

Josef:
This term I learnt about Joshua and God and the things he has done for us. I moved up a level in my reading and I learnt about Jesus.

A story from Ashton

The Golden Sea  by Ashton Henderson

The Golden Sea was very lonely. The next day something happened to it. It was very lonely then it got rainbow colours around it and some fish came in. The person who did all this was God.  He knew the sea was so lonely he wanted to put some colourful stuff into it.

Soon a boat came by and it went past the Special Sea. It was going to a far away land. Suddenly it crashed into a massive rock. The boat sank down to the bottom of the Golden Sea. It got all rusty then one day beautiful seaweed plants grew on the  shipwreck. Then fish started to live in it. They ate the seaweed.

Later on people watched the news on TV and saw pictures of the shipwreck. Some divers heard that there was treasure on the ship  and decided to go and explore. The divers got their gear ready and went to get a boat. They thought about the treasure hunt and planned how they would explore the ship.

They followed their rope to the shipwreck. They had enough air. They had to break into the shipwreck. They saw lots of gold. One of the divers had to go back up to get a bag. They filled the bag with gold and then they all went back up.

All the divers felt happy. The Golden sea felt happy because people came and explored in it.

The divers were so happy they went back to shore and went to Mahurangi Christian School and shared about it.

Monday 30 June 2014

Room 1 and 2 Collaborative Learning

Today Room1 and 2 worked together on a collaborative task. We were learning about how Jesus Calms the Storm. In groups we had to design and build a boat. We learnt how to work as a team. It is not always easy as some of us like to work alone, but we got the task done. Here is a picture of our boats. Three groups chose to do a play on the story. They wrote original scripts and we all enjoyed there plays.

Thursday 26 June 2014

Discovery time

On a Friday Afternoon Room 2 has Discovery time. Today the students spent their time building, painting, using pastels, building puzzles and creating with play dough.