Remember Finlay? Well his diary entries are very interesting!

Read Finlay's diary here!

Family Fiesta - recycled creatures!

Our creatures represent a variety of Māori gods. From Tangaroa (God of the Sea) to Tāne Mahuta (God of the Forest). Can you pick any others? 

Room 11 children can you list the names of the other gods we looked at. (As a comment please.)

Kidsedchatnz: Week 8: The Courage to Continue

Check your Drive - Topic folder - Twitter Week 8 Sports - and answer the questions!

But first - LET'S watch a video!!


Click here for more info!: This week we are focusing on Sport. We have a flipped lesson incorporated into this week's chat. Here is a a clip for you to watch toge...

Kidsedchatnz: Week 7: General stuff about school

Kidsedchatnz: Week 7: General stuff about school: Click to see a  Geo message  from @LittleGiants7 This week our topic is "general stuff about school". Questions on Thursd...

Skyping with Preethi!

Another lovely skype with Preethi! She is very excited that her new school offers classes in Drama, Art, Science, History and lots more. BUT they start at 8.30 and finish at 3.25pm.

Her uniform is a grey dress and today she is going to ask her new teacher if they can set up a class blog to communicate with us!

Manga high Maths Challenge started today!

And look where we are already! 

I think it will be a hard job to beat Rotorua Intermediate but you never know. 

Let's aim for Pahiatua School first!

Less than 10 minutes later look at how many more medals we have!

I'm so sorry!

I forgot to put the spelling words on spelling city..

I hope you all managed to complete your testing using PAPER AND PENCIL!

Mrs Drake hits twitter! But did she know it?

“@JacindaPanther: our newest 5 yr olds using Technology in Writing! http://t.co/imsFG6ILnO” could show our junior teams @Scott1Robyn
— Marcelle Natusch (@MNatusch) March 6, 2014

Kea: Weird and Wonderful Wednesday

Check out the blog of our new friends in Granity!! We have been tweeting them this week and we might also try and skype them soon!



Kea: Weird and Wonderful Wednesday: On Wednesdays Mrs Sherie brings in food for us to try as part of the Great Food Project. It could be weird it could be wonderful, it could b...

Grey District Swimming Sports

@Room11GMS Good luck to all our swimmers today competing in the District Swimming Sports! 11 from Room 11! Ka pai!
— Jacinda Panther (@JacindaPanther) March 12, 2014

Room 9's Google forms!

Alex and Joshua
Bryan and Jack
Cameron and Andrew
Emma and Kylie
Haylee and Yana
Lakin and Troy
Mackenzie and Joseph
Shakanna and Coralee
Shialla and Ella R
Summer and Paris
Zac and Reilly

New World coast kids triathlon

Well done Room 11! We swam, we biked and we ran. And then we ate a sausage and sauce in bread!! Woohoo!

Gardening - old school style!

Chain gang gardening from Jacinda Panther on Vimeo.

Twitter! Holy moly it's fast!

This week's Kidsedchatnz is based all around learning! Here are the questions!

Q1. What is learning and why is it important?

Q2. What skills/things do you think you should learn and why?

Q3. Who are the people that are responsible for your learning and why are they important?

Q4. What are the things that drive/help your learning and why are they effective?

Q5. What are the things that block/stop your learning and what can you do to prevent them from happening?

Q6. Why is it important to share your learning with others? What is your favourite ways to share your learning?

Q7. I am proud that I learnt how to___________because……... 

Q8. What are some of your favourite learning activities/games/sites that you use in your class?

Preethi phones home!

Preethi left us this week but we have already been in email contact AND skype. 

Good luck at your new school!

Our first voice message for 2014!!

Click here to listen!