Maori Language for Feelings

On Tuesday afternoon we learnt how to say Maori feelings and how to ask how people are feeling.

This is how to ask how someone is feeling... 'Kei te pehea koe? 

This is how to answer it... 'Kei te _____________ ahau. This means 'I am feeling __________'.

If you watch this video you might be able to say these feelings and ask how other people are feeling.

Can you guess what the feelings mean? If you don't know, come to Room 14 and we will tell you!! 

Student of the Week - Kalotia

Today at assembly Mr Melrose presented Kalotia with her Student of the Week prize. 

She received the award because she has a positive attitude towards her learning, works hard, gives everything a go and is kind to everyone. 

Well done Kalotia, keep up the hard work!! 

Kalotia looked surprised when she heard her name! 

Mr Melrose is reading Kalotia her award. 

Great job Kalotia, you should be proud! 

Spider Hats

This afternoon we made spider hats for our Construction topic in Art. We had to colour in the face and legs with black crayon and cut them out.

Next we cut the middle out of a paper plate so we could sit the hat on our head. After that we had to fold the legs and staple the face onto the front of the hat. 

Then we stuck the legs on and made eyes out of white paper and stuck those on too. 

We were scared when we had them on our heads because there were spiders on us!!! (just kidding, we knew they weren't real... or did we?) 

Argh! Scary spiders!!!!! 

Looking good Room 14 :) 

Robot Construction

We are learning about Construction in Art this term. We decided that construction means when you build something out of something else. 

We have been helping Miss Brown collect recycling since the term started (even some of the teacher's helped - thanks Hampstead teachers). 

Finally the day arrived that we got to use that recycling to make a robot! It was so much fun! The class was really messy but we were all hard at work making the best robots ever.

Some had wings, some had water bottles on their back, some had jet packs and some had no arms or legs!! 

Have a look at our photos, who's robot do you like the best? 

The pile of recycling was WAY bigger than this when we started

Yellow table kids working hard to put their robots together. 

I wonder what these robots will look like at the end? 

Working very hard here to make a cool robot.

The finished product... awesome robots! 

Even more robots! 

Great job Room 14! 

Teddy Bear's Picnic

Last Tuesday we were allowed to bring our teddies to school for a teddy bear picnic. 

We went under the trees on the field in the shade to have it because it was a hot day. 

Some boys from Room 11 judged the teddies and gave out prizes. 

We got to show our teddies to our buzz group in class.

Some of our teddies had funny names.

Some of our teddies came dressed up in our uniform, like Kneecap the Moose.

Some had big teddies and some had small teddies.

Some of us forgot teddies... whoops! 

Here are all our teddies! 

Harold and the Life Education Bus

For the first two weeks of this term we had Harold visiting Hampstead School. We went into the Life Education Bus twice to hang out with Harold and learn about what makes us different. 

We learnt about our personality and our body parts. 

Everyone in our class, school, town, country, even the world has a different personality and that is what makes us unique and different... and awesome! 

We now know that our personality is the way we: feel, act, think and what we like to do.

Here are some photos of us from inside Harold's house. 

Zac and Rudi are showing us how big our brains are... put your fists together to see how big your's is! 

Brock is putting a label on which sense he thinks the picture is showing, can you guess which sense it is? 

Amelia is also helping show us which sense is which. 

It's beginning to feel a lot like... SUMMER!!!

Wow! It was really hot today here in Ashburton! We came back inside from lunch and were sweating heaps! 

We said that we needed a fan to help keep us cool and someone asked Miss Brown if we could make one and she said yes! 

Charlotte said that she thought Miss Brown was joking but then she put some paper in the middle of our circle and we folded it into a fan. Then we stapled the bottom and pulled the sides out to make it wider.

We taught each other how to wave the fan so that it air blew on our faces to keep us cool. 

Duncan's Guitar Show

Yesterday Room 14 was treated to a talent show... featuring our very own Duncan! 

He has been taking guitar lessons after lunchtime every Wednesday this year and he wanted to show us what he had learnt.

Take a look at the video Miss Brown took of him performing 'Rock around the Clock' 

Voting for a New Flag

Today in Room 14 we sang lots of songs - in one of the songs it talked about politicians. That left some of us wondering what a politician was and what they did.

We found out that a politician is like a member of our student council and they have ideas to make NZ better (sometimes) and they can make rules and laws that we have to live by.

We learnt that they are wanting to change our flag... some of us were happy about that and some of us weren't! So we held a class vote...

Miss Brown showed us our current flag and the new flag options, and then we voted! 

These were our choices 

We then had to write a number on our voting slip and put it into the voting box - Miss Brown counted them up and we had a tie between flags 3 & 4.
So we voted again!!! 

Wow! Lots of votes!! 

As a class we voted that flag number 4 should be our new flag... I wonder what you guys think!? Add a comment to tell us which you would want. 

Tane and the Stars... with Music!!

We got to choose an instrument to make the music to Tane and the Stars. By Harry

We had to choose each instrument that went on each page to make the noises in the story. By Zac

Harry read the story about Tane and the Stars. By Annaliese

Each person got to play the instrument when Harry read each page. By Apaiata

We felt excited and we had fun when we had a little play with the instruments. By Zaylah-Cru 

Japanese Student Visit

Last Friday we sat in the hall and we sang some songs. They were 'We don't care' and 'Happy'. By Brock

Then the Japanese students sang us a song from Big Hero 6 and did a dance. By Hayden

Some of the Japanese students came to Room 14. By Alfred

We played games and we had a pretend gun. We had to try and hit the balloons with a rubber band. By Charlotte

Then we played another game. It was yo-yos and we got stickers. By Saydie

The Expolding Milk Experiment

On Monday Room 14 made exploding milk. We put milk in a container and some food colouring and we dipped it into the milk. By Kelly 

Then we dipped dishwashing liquid into the milk and the milk moved and made different shapes. By Duncan 

Next we put vinegar and baking soda into the milk. Then it rose up and the milk got bubbly. By Kaha

It looked like people swimming in the swimming pool. By Maa

We poured it into each containers and it bubbled up more. By Kalotia 

Kymani-Cruz and the Taiaha Performance

Below is a blog post about the Kahurangi Dance group coming to perform at our school.

Here is the video of Kymani-Cruz doing some taiaha movements.

Kahurangi Dance Show

On Tuesday the whole school went in the hall to see the Kahurangi dance show. The people that were there were two girls and three boys. By Kymani-Cruz

The people on the stage performed dances to the whole school. They showed us the Cook Islands dance. By Chanelle

They also did a NZ dance and a Samoan dance and a dance from Hawaii. By Amelia

Kymani-Cruz went on the stage and learnt some moves with the taiaha. By Wiremu 

Then the Kahurangi people sang a goodbye song and the whole school sang Ka Waiata to them. By Eva

Singing.... Room 14 style!

Room 14 are so good at packing up in the afternoons that we often have a spare couple of minutes to sing a song at the end of the day.

This week our assembly song is 'Sweet Caroline' by Neil Diamond, lots of teachers at Hampstead like this song! 

We were enjoying it so much yesterday that we started dancing, take a look at the video Miss Brown took of us... 

Measurement - Temperature

To start this term off in Maths we are learning about Measurement. We have learnt all about temperature this week. 

We made our very own temperature gauge, ordered food onto on a thermometer and got to watch the temperature go up and down on the thermometer by putting it into water with different temperatures. 

I wonder whose thermometer is in the hot water? 

Eva thinks the 'red stuff goes up when the water is hot' 

Harry what's the temperature of your water? 

I wonder what is happening to the temperature? 

Using the thermometer is fun!