My Tidy Desk

Time to learn.   I am ready to go, and do my writing.  I have a sharp pencil and it is too sharp to touch.  I sharpen it when it is blunt.
 
I try to keep my desk clean so that when I go into my desk I can find what
I need.  When I have a good day my desk is clean.

It is fun to learn and I love it.

by Aaliyah

Te Awa Hou Speech Competition.

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Awesome Speech competition!! Awesome half of the school went to see our final speeches at the hall.  
Everyone was cheering for their best friend. All of the speeches were finished for the juniors and they were amazing and the winners were Emily, Bella and Tariki. Everyone wanted their friends to win but the winners were the ones that have the best speeches and all of the juniors went back to their class rooms.

There was only the old seniors there. The speeches were so amazing because all of the speakers talked clearly and they tried there best. The seniors speech winners were Michal  Ella and  Kavarn 

The speeches were finished and everyone who came first and second get a trophy !!!!!!
Fantastic New River rocks.

By Henare Kingi 

How do You Tell the Time?

When you want to tell the time you can tell its morning, play time, afternoon or  mid-night by looking at the sky outside to see if the sun is shining inside your house.  

The morning is am and the afternoon is pm.

How can you tell the time?   Look at the sunshine outside, check your clock, computer, laptop, watch, cellphone or the alarm clock in your room.

by Iliili

Estuary Map

The day was here and the amazing Spring arrived to school and she brought a big map.

She choose some people to go to room 10 to do some art and other stuff, and she also reminded us about the Estuary trip.

As I was saying Spring gave us our paper hands and we cut them out and traced around our hands onto the map.

After that we painted our hands and made it colourful and then we put our names and the date on. When we were finished we had to go back to class.

By Kathryn

Librarians Day 2013

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Libraries open books to potential staff

Kathryn and Shakira attended Librarians Day, read the article that follows and find out what an exciting day they had.

Budding young librarians were treated to top tips during a student librarian training day yesterday.

Invercargill City Libraries manager of customer experience Cynthia Smith said 60 pupils, some from as far away as Balfour, attended the training day held at Invercargill Library.

Organised by the Southland Literacy Association, the day was an opportunity for pupils who volunteered as librarians in their schools to learn more about their craft, she said.

During the day, children spent time comparing Tisbury School library, which was small, with James Hargest junior campus library, which was very large, to learn how to work with different spaces.

The training also covered techniques for reading books to children, how to make displays to attract readers and information about the Dewey decimal system, Ms Smith said.

Tokanui School pupil Emma Smith, 10, attended the course yesterday and said she learned a lot, especially about making cool book displays.

She had really enjoyed her day, she said. "I liked going to other schools and looking at their libraries."

The librarian training day was likely to be held every two years, Ms Smith said.

Senior School Cross Country

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The Awesome Cross Country

Yeah, it was cross country.  I could see people running fast.  I could see people coming  with red hot faces.

When I did power walking I came 2nd.  I wanted to come first but Emily did.

The power walkers had to sit  in a circle and cheer for people.  I watched the joggers and runners come in and I was cheering for them.  I had fun on Cross Country Day.

by Aaliyah

Kowhaiwhai Patterns

My teacher read us a story about family treasures. My kowhaiwhai  pattern has been enlarged-enlarged means zoomed. She brought in her pounamu the pounamu  is green all green. Mrs Rolton  is going to display the kowhaiwhai pattern  the class.  

by Skyla-Rose!!!                                                                             

Kowhaiwhai Patterns....

Wow I can't wait till we do our kowhaiwhai patterns in maths time.

In kowhaiwhai patterns there are four things you must remember when you do this - rotation a turn, reflected a flip, enlarged a zoom, and translated a slide.

My family treasure is a korowia cloak because it was very special to my great great uncle.

Our teacher Mrs Rolton read us a story about kowhaiwhai patterns. The story was about kids presenting their patterns.

Once we were finished we displayed our lovely patterns for the class to see.

By Bailey !!!

Whanau Taonga Kowhaiwhai Patterns

The awesome Room 12 is learning about transformation. 

The four main key words are reflection (a flip), translation (a slide), rotation (a turn) and last but not least enlargement (a zoom).

I think that the teacher is teaching everything we need to know about the four transformation skills.






by Henare