90 Mile Beach

 I have been learning to use Book Creator to write a story on my chromebook.  I learnt how to add pictures and text.  I learnt how to record my voice and add it to the page on my story.  I found it easy at some points and hard at some points.

90 Mile Beach

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

I have been learning to use Book Creator to write a story on my chromebook. I learnt how to add pictures and text. I learnt how to record my voice and add it to the page on my story. I found it easy at some points and hard at some points.

Celebration -Rocket Launch New Zealand

One of the students in Te Moana, Imogen, chose to inquire about the Rocket launch at Mahia because someone very special to her was involved with it's launch.

Rocket Experiments

Imogen and I researched how we could launch our own rocket. We had to do a variety of experiments before our rocket actually launched. In the first experiment we put the lid on too tightly. In the second experiment we nearly drowned Shirley. In the third experiment the lid was too loose and the rocket only launched 30 cm off the ground. In our final experiment we learnt that you should not launch a rocket under a roof.

Collaboration with Te Awa

Room Te Awa (Year 1) and Te Moana (Year 4) work collaboratively throughout the day. Many of the older students support the teina to prepare for school, support them at play and lunch eating and play times. We also collaboratively read together as buddies, support each other during art, inquiry, wet lunch times, Physical Education as well as supporting the younger students to catch the bus each night.

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Teina/Tuakana Collaborative Buddy Reading with Room Te Awa

Te Moana have special Reading Buddies in Te Awa. They establish their goals each session and read to each other in a teina/ tuakana relationship both learning from each other.

Imogen wins Her Triathlon

Our Triathlon

On Friday the whole of Paihia School participated in a triathlon, everyone was so excited. We all brought our bikes to school. The bikes, they were a storm.

Firstly, we called the roll and then we all walk to the beach it was like a storm. The year 4 girls were last to swim. We had been making sand castles it look like a pig had been boring a hole in the sand. We all lined up to swim in the rough water. Mrs Neumann told as that there was a huge drop off and it was like a huge whole.  So I did not run as fast as I could so I could stop myself. It was splashy! showering! shivery! shallow! I came first in the swim.

Secondly, we did the run I felt as though I could not do the biking. I think it was about a kilometre long. Angela and Jade passed me, and then we got to school I was so puffed out.

Thirdly, we did the biking. We all got on our shoes. I got a  ahead of everybody because I just had to put my sandals on. We had to do two laps of the field at school. I was first to do two laps over all I came first!!!!

 

Imogen's Limerick

Clown

There once was a clown with a frown,

Who rode a bike to the nearby town,

Got stuck in a door,

Slipped on a shiny floor,

Juggled jars till his pants fell down.

          

             

Imogen's Sweet Argument

Imogen's Special Name

Swim Safe Lesson 3

 Swim Safe Three

At Swim Safe we ran to the changing room and then we put a life jacket on. We fell into the pool and then we did a huddle and chain. We might fall off the boat. We floated like a balloon instead of sinking. We floated on our backs for more than a minute. We floated freely. Some of us sank like a rock when we fell into the water. Harlem was straight as a wall. Arohaina was like a scary elephant. We were as quiet as a spider. Katlin was as bendy as a gymnast. Josh was as bendy as a bendy toy. Kaavin was as flexible as a dolphin.

We were as excited as a dancing flopping dolphin. Some of us were sinking like a rock. Harlem was as straight as a statue. We were as happy as we could be.We love doing it Tracey. We were as loud as a roaring lion. Shay was as cool as a happy face. Zara was as funing as a clown. Jade was as silly as a silly clown in swim safe three.

All of the boys and girls went in the freezing changing room. We were as happy as joy. We did a mushroom and we looked like a mushroom.We were so happy when we saw Tracey. Calais was a hungry lion. Breeze was as happy as can be. Arohaina loved  the whole thing. Swimming, in the saucy  aussie  soap maker.

We had to get dressed in funny clothes to pretend we had been shipwrecked or washed off the rocks. It was scary as the clothes made us sink and were not able to swim very easily. It was even harder to try and take them off in the water as they stuck to us like a gluey glove. So remember to wear swimming clothes and always wear a life jacket in case you get into trouble in the water.