Book character parade

On Friday we had book day. We dressed up as our favourite book characters because it was book week. We started the day off by going around the classrooms and listening to stories. Some of the people who read to us were Mr Johnston, our principal, Whaea Mele, Carlo's mum and a teacher at the kindergarten, the Panmure librarians and Mr James. After that we went to the hall for a special book day / Samoan language week assembly. There was a big surprise and Spiderman showed up. Spiderman jumped up on the stage and he was asking questions and all of them were about him. Next, all of the classes went to have lunch with their buddy class. With our buddy class we read books and ate our lunch. The last thing we did was take photos of ourselves in the Thing 1 and Thing 2 board. The day was fantastic!

Library trip

  

We went on a trip to the library for book week. We walked to the library and we got library cards. We got to get some library books to take home. There are some rules about library books. If the book has a hard cover you have to read it on the table so you don't break the spine. You aren't allowed to keep the books but you can have them for 28 days. I got a book called Black is a colour it is about a rainbow where there was black and some people thought black isn't a colour but it is. 

Author: Amarley Ryan                                                                                          

Learning to take photos

Micaela and Ava are learning what makes a good photo and what makes a bad photo. Above is some examples of 'bad' photos. The first photo they have their finger in the way and the photo is blurry. The second photo they aren't looking at the camera. The third photo they have lots of people behind them and the photo is unfocussed. 

To take a good photo you need to remember to have a background without distractions, the photo needs to be focused and the people need to be looking at the camera and smiling. Don't forget to keep your fingers clear of the camera lens.

Buddy Reading

 

Every Tuesday after lunch room 7 does buddy reading with room 5. We like buddy reading because the big kids read us funny stories like 'Captain Underpants' and sometimes they read us jokes from their joke books. Today we read them our poem called 'Bugs! Bugs!' We only started the poem yesterday so it was good practice for us and when we got stuck the big kids were able to help us. 

We Love the Library

We love library time! Our library has lots of fun books and so many fun places to read them. Our teachers always reads us a book at the start of library time then we get to go pick our own to take back to class. What is your favourite place to read? We really like reading outside.

Lost Shoes

Room 2 love poems. Every week we do a different poem. After losing a lot of shoes at school over the past week we decided a poem about losing shoes was a good idea. First Miss Pryde read us the poem. She sometimes reads it in a silly voice which we think is funny. Then Miss Pryde picks one child from each reading group to read the poem to the class. We get to pretend to be the teacher. After we have listened to the readers read the poem we make actions to the poem. We love making actions to the poems. This one was really funny. We took off our shoes and hid them for real. We pretended to look in the house, the car, the cupboards, and the shelves. We didn't find them there. We found them walking by themselves. Look at the videos below of us doing the actions to our poems. Hine-Sky and Sahara did a really good job of reading the poem. They were both very nervous.