Mr O'Connor's Last Day

Today was Mr O'Connor's last day in Room Ten.
We have been so lucky to have him with us for the last four weeks as our student teacher.
WE WILL MISS YOU! Good luck with your studies, you are going to be a wonderful teacher.

A Comment to Stavely At Methven Primary

Dear Stavely,

I enjoyed reading your poem because it had lots of clever sentences and I learnt that Tenzing and Edmund Hillary went all the way to the summit of Mt Everest. My Favourite part was when it said the queen has given Sir Ed a medal. I didn’t know you could get a medal for climbing a mountain. Thank you for sharing your work.

Rima, Roimata, Ezra and Omari

A Collaborative Comment To Our Buddy Class

To our buddy class at Methven Primary School,

We enjoyed your poem because it had lots of detail and we learnt things we did not know before. We didn’t know that Sir Ed climbed the snowy mountains. Our favourite part was when you described the horribly, dangerous mountain.

Keep up the great work
Room Ten at Pt England School

How to be Cyber Smart and Leave A Positive Comment

As part of our Cyber Smart programme Room Ten have been working on writing an effective comment to people, one that we would be proud of,  that is respectful and positive.

Lately we have been reading the blog posts from our Buddy Class in the South Island,  a year 2 and 3 class at Methven Primary .

They have been sharing their amazing poems and artwork .  http://mpsbarrhill.blogspot.co.nz/                    
WHAT DID WE DO?
We had to used our " How to comment on a blog" card which guides us and helps us write a quality comment and therefore help us leave a positive footprint online.
Some examples of our comments will be posted soon.

Human Knot by Omari

Omari has written the following story about taking part in a cooperation game, "The Human Knot".
He shares it with you via imovie.

Ezra and Baseball

Ezra writes about his experience learning to play baseball.

The Human Knot

Room Ten have been working on respecting one another and have been learning how to cooperate. Today we created a Human Knot and needed to work with one another to untangle ourselves.

Once again Rima is responsible for the images and footage, great work Rima with your broken arm!
Watch our movie to see how we got on. Our stories will follow later in the week.



Thanks to Mr O'Connor our student teacher for putting this activity together for us.

Night Likes Baseball

Night shares his story about baseball.

Adriel Makes A MarshMallow Tower

Adriel shares her recount about the cooperation activity, 'Making a Marshmallow Tower'.

Phaezon Plays Baseball

Phaezon shares his story about learning how to play baseball.

A Story About Baseball

Waimaria, enjoyed learning how to play baseball and has written a story to share her experience.

Respect - Our School TV Film

Today our movie about RESPECT was shown on school TV. The photos are by Paris and Ashley and videographers were Lukis, Phaezon and Night.

We hope you enjoy it!

Adam Makes A Marshmallow Tower

Room Ten have been working together and learning to cooperate. Last week they were asked to work as a team and build the tallest tower they could out of Marshmallows and spaghetti.
Adam has written an introduction paragraph about this.



Adam made this film in imovie with Elizabeth.

Collaborative Writing

Our inquiry this term is The Pt England Way and our value is respect. Room Ten have been taking part in lots of activites which require them to work together well and respect each others ideas and the way each other work. One of these activities was Collaborative Writing where the children needed to work as a team to write a story. They have shared one of the stories below.




A Tiger Shark is hunting for food they can smell your blood from a distance. The Tiger Shark meets a fish and it eat's the fish quickly. As the fish went down the sharks throat it was began to punch the shark . The fish punches the shark so hard that it made a gigantic hole and the fish swam away.

Elizabeths Writes About The Weather

Elizabeth has written a story about Auckland weather

Marshmallow Towers

Room Ten have been learning to work respectfully as a team.

Today in class the children of Room Ten were challenged to built a Marshmallow Tower as a team. They needed to remember to listen respectfully to the ideas of others, share equipment and include each other in the task to make the tallest tower possible that would stand without help.
Watch the movie below to see how they got on. Stories about this experience will be posted soon ... watch this space!

Walking in the Rain by Roimata

Roimata has recorded her first story in imovie with the help of her friends. She has created her background picture in Hyperstudio

Where is Methven Primary?

Today the children of Room Ten had an exciting time in class.
Due to the wonderful world of skype we got to talk to a class from Methven Primary School in the South Island.


Check out their Class Blog and add it to your favourites to follow what these children get up to in 2012.

http://www.methven.school.nz/gallery.php?table=Album&view=NULL