How big is a Gigantosaurus?

We were very lucky in Room 13 to have Mrs. Clyde bring in her awesome dinosaur tooth that her son found whilst digging at the beach! Can you believe it?????
We all found it fascinating! Yi Fan discovered a book in our class library all about dinosaurs and when he was reading it he found that it had a picture which showed a dinosaur tooth which was exactly like the one Mrs.Clyde showed us!!!

He read that the tooth came from a dinosaur called the Gigantosaurus! Mrs.Clyde suggested we go outside and lay down in a long line to show just how huge the Gigantosaurus was!

WOW!!!!!!!

A VERY special performance!

Room 13 was very lucky to have Yuxi perform for us on her violin! We all enjoyed listening to her beautiful playing and she taught us what she knows about the violin. We were very impressed with the dedication and hard work she puts in to practising her violin! You are amazing Yuxi!

Folk Dancing!

We have learned some great Folk Dancing this term as part of our Physical Education programme!
We practised and performed 'The Windows Dance' at our Junior assembly - we did so well! Ms.Maloni was very proud as it we really did our best!

Here we are in our groups - some more photos are to come of us dancing!

Week 7 - Literacy Week!!!!

We had a great time in Room 13 during Literacy week! Everyone enjoyed the workshops run by Stu Duval! He was very entertaining with his story about Huia Bay and the pirate, Captain Black Custard! We also loved learning about cartooning and all created some cool cartoons!

We enjoyed D.E.A.R - drop everything and read - it was great to stop and pick up a book and just enjoy reading when the buzzer went off!

During the week we enjoyed many stories read to us by MS.Maloni! Some were her OLD favourites from when she was a kid, such as, 'The Diggingest Dog,' 'The Story of Ping,' 'The Five Chinese Brothers,' and the new favourites, 'Baa Baa Smart Sheep' and 'I Love Lemonade.' We even wrote letters to the author and illustrator of the books and are looking forward to getting a reply from them!

The final day of Literacy Week was celebrated with a Book Character Parade! We all dressed up and enjoyed parading around for the whole school to admire our awesome costumes!

The Disco!

In week 4, some of the Room 13 students and Ms. Maloni had a great time at the school disco! There was great music and Ms. Maloni was very impressed with the dance moves!
(Sorry about the quality of the photos - I need to upgrade my phone!).

One Land Many Cultures!

In Room 13 we have been sharing our family histories and discovering the many places our parents, Grandparents and so on have traveled from to make New Zealand home! We created posters to share what we had learned about the cultures of these lands and our New Zealand culture. We each made a waka to represent the journeys that have brought us all together in one class - Room 13!

Kapa haka

Every Friday the Juniors get to go to Kapa Haka. We learn lots of new Maori words and songs. Last Friday we learnt the days of the week. Can you say the Maori days of the week? Have a look at the pictures of our days of the week below.