Final Awards Assembly

Today we had our final awards assembly where there were two members of each class receiving awards for Academic Excellence and Personal Excellence. The Year 5 and 6 children received their service to the school awards too. Our class eagerly waited for the announcement of the new deputy house captains for 2012. What a great way to end our year at school.

 

Ariel and Brenda

Ariel received the Academic Excellence award and Brenda received the Personal Excellence award for LZ19.

Deputy House captains: Caleb, Kartik and Akira.

Meet the new deputy captains for next year. Akira for Hillary, Kartik for Walker and Caleb for Batten.  What an awesome job they will do next year.

Our Summer Poems

On Tuesday it was the last day we had Mrs Browne in our class. We talked about summer and came up with lots of ideas. We turned our ideas into acrostic poems which we published on the computer afterwards. Merry Christmas Mrs Browne, we hope you have a lovely break.

SUMMER

Summer air, in the sun you and me

Under the sea seeing sea creatures

Making BBQs with my dad and

Making a ball to play volleyball on the sand

Every summer is so cool and

Relaxing in the shade and eating food, yum ice cream.

By Paula

Super humid sunny hot days

Under a big umbrella listening to music

Melting ice cream as you wait

More of these hot days will keep coming

Every day is super fun at the beach and pools

Relaxation in the sunny hot sticky sun

By Aimee

Slurping on cool ice cream

Unforgettable long days and good times with family

My family loves watching movies

Munching on strawberry ice cream in the back yard

Eating BBQs with my family

Relaxing in the warm sunshine peacefully

By Derick.

Sizzling in the burning hot sun

Under a colourful shade umbrella

Making fresh delicious cold lemonade

Mixing strawberries to make a fresh smoothie

Enjoying a yummy hokey pokey ice cream

Relaxing in the sun, summer air surrounding you

By Akira

Slurping on a nice cold sparking lemonade

Under the trees in a colourful hammock

Meeting new incredible friends

Magnificent and incredible presents

Enjoying an explosive start to the new year

Relaxing in the warm sunshine peacefully

Bt Kartik

Sizzling in the sun

Umbrellas on the beach

Meeting a friend

Munching on watermelon

Enjoying an ice cream

Relaxing on the hot beach

By Cruize

Summer is a wonderful time with flowers

underneath the cold pools, refreshing in the hot sun

Me and my family going to the movies

Making ice blocks and ice creams throughout the day

Eating watermelon with my brother

Relaxing in the sun at the beach in Australia

By Victoria

Sometimes I have a rest in my bedroom

Under the shade of the sun umbrella

Mummy buys us Hokey pokey ice cream

Merry Christmas in summer

Eating cold apples

Relaxing in a beautiful blue sea

By Jun

Our NZ Habitat Dioramas

This term we have been learning about NZ habitats. We chose one and designed a diorama showing what we would find in each. Here are the pictures of our dioramas.

Performing Arts Festival

Last week a group of children from LZ19 participated in the Performing arts festival. We had two night shows and a matinee for some local schools.  It was great fun and an opportunity for the children to show off their talents in the choir, Korean and Chinese dances, line dancing and lots more.  Here are some of our photos.

Kids for Kids concert

This year the year 3 & 4 children went to the Kids for Kids concert in Manukau to sing Christmas songs with Suzanne Prentice. It was an awesome night. Congrats to the girls and boys who performed with her.

Habitat Poems

We have been learning about New Zealand's natural habitats. We wrote some acostic poems about them.

Fresh air surrounding you

Over there are our beautiful native birds

Rivers for the birds to bath in and drink from

Each bird can safely lay their eggs

Safely the eggs crack

Tourists watch and take pictures of the lovely birds.

By Akira.

Twirling water with pebbles

Hitting the sand for food

Eating krill for lunch

Crying, I can see a little blue penguin

Opening the new coast at the zoo

Ate a huge lunch for a big journey

Swimming with a cute seal

Tweeting birds, you can hear

By Faadhil.

High country, there are lots of Keas

In the high country there are blue ducks and geekos

Geekos hide under rocks

High country is an elevated land

Calling out for fun

Only the parrot, Kea lived there

Uses rocks for homes

New Zealand's high country

The high country is in the south island

Rocks and shingle

Your High Country!

By Ariel.

Night is a place of darkness

I love night

Giant dark sky

Hundreds of lights and rock

The best place for a kiwi

By Bahar

ALFIE

Check out our new page! It has what Alfie is getting up to each day in our classroom. Hopefully he will have lots of fun adventures between now and the end of week 4.

HOLIDAYS!

Hot on the beach but good for a holiday
Outside raising a hand for a taxi or booking a hotel
Lime flavoured ice cream while enjoying the view
Impressive mysteries
Delicious pretzels and have a juice to wash it down
Amazing incredible different stuff to discover
Yelping yah! After coming back from an adventurous story
Summer break in eight weeks time
By Adi

Holiday are fun when I'm in London
Outside in the sun
Little holidays are fun
Ice creams to cool us down
Days are fun but holidays are better
A holiday, fun as!
You rock!
Saw a fantail
By Connor

Holiday are very fun
Outside playing around
Lollies and playing
Ice cream is cooling us down under the sun
Days are long and hot
Anyone having fun?
Your Nerf toys are cool
So much fun!!
By Sang Woo 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Congratulations to Bahar, Ryan and Caleb for representing LZ19 at the interschool cross country.
Caleb came 36th, Ryan came 39th and Bahar came 59th in their races.

Of all the things I've been doing....

All the things I've been doing.....
eating KFC for dinner
playing fontage on the computer
drawing horsesand lots of animals
playing and practicing my piano
phoning Aimee and talking for along time
shopping for new shoesand clothes for spring
decorating my house with spring flowers and decorations
reading chapter books before bedtime
wearing my flower mini shorts and t-shirts, not pyjamas
cutting paper and materials for decorations


By Ariel


Of all the things I've been doing....
eating my breakfast
sitting on my chair
walking to school
playing with my toys on the weekend
listening to my parents
writing words
watching TV at night
washing the dishes
reading books at school
sleeping in my room

By Derick

Week 9 News!

What a fantastic week in LZ19.  We had the class speech finals, where we had plenty of awesome speeches on NZ native animals. On Wednesday, we had the MLC photography competition in which Aimee from our class came third with her photo of 'Mother Pukeko'. On Thursday, Mrs Jackways our librarian announced the winners of the storywriting competition. Brenda won a prize for the most interesting title.  On Friday, Kartik confidently presented his takahe speech at the MLC assembly. What an amazing class we are!

 

Persuasive Writing.

Should we have bubble gum at school?

Hello, I am going to talk to you about having bubble gum at school.

Firstly, I think bubble gum should be allowed in school because at lunchtime and morning tea when you and your friends get bored you can have a competition of who can blow the biggest bubble.

Secondly, all teachers think that kids stick their bubble gum around the classroom but we are all sensible enough not to do that.

Thirdly, most kids like bubble gum. Its tarty so why can't we have them.

Lastly, bubble gum should be allowed at school.

By Adi.

Should MHP have a pet day?

MHP should not have a pet day.

Firstly, we should not have pet day because our pets would go crazy and wild.

Secondly, where should we put our pets and they do not have anything to eat.

Thirdly, what should we do with them at morning tea and lunch time? Where should we take them when they need to go to the toilet?

Lastly, the pets will rip and mess up the room. Like cats they'll try to eat someone else's pet fish.

Therefore, we should not have pet day at MHP.

By William.

Should MHP have a pet day?

I think we shouldn't have pet day at MHP.

Firstly, there would be too much barking and other noises. We wouldn't be able to work because there would be too much noise.

Secondly, if by mistake a dog or bird got loose we would have to chase them around the whole school.

Thirdly, a student can be allergic to the pets that have fur.

Lastly, the dog might not like you or even a cat and they might hurt you. If something happened the teachers would never have a pet day again.

That is why I think its not a good idea to bring a pet to school.

By Akira.

Birds!

We spent our art session this week weaving the background to our bird. We then drew our bird onto black paper and then cut the inside out. The black paper was then put over top of our weaving. We now have a weaved bird! Check out our Penguins, Pukeko, Kiwi and Fantails.

Word Study

Ryan, Derick, Cruize and Sahana have been part of the word study group at ACE time this term.  They have been looking at words with a different chunk each week and learning different skills to help them spell.

Here are some of the word clouds they made with the chunk 'in'.

New Zealand Birds

Here are some of our presentations that we have been working on about New Zealand Birds. Hope you enjoy reading them.

Pukekos life, By Megan

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The Kiwi, By Connor

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Takahe, By Jun

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Pukeko, By Bahar

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Kiwis, By Sahana

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Kea, By Derick

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The kiwi, By Timothy

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Pukekos, By Akira

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Penguins, By William

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Kiwi, By Faadhil

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Penguins, By Aimee

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Kakapo slide show, By Ariel

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Kaka, By Brenda

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Kiwis, By Jessica

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Velvet and Elvis

Today we went to the library to listen to 8Ci (from MHJC) talk to us about the long fin eel found only in NZ. They read us the story of 'Velvet and Elvis', then we got to see some 'REAL' eels, listen to the pollution response team, look at the tapestry eel and the model Kokopu fish. The eels were really cool!

RWC day at MHP!

On Friday 9th September it was our Rugby World Cup opening. We all had to dress as our rugby team colours. LZ19 got Argentina. We had a parade in the courtyard. The LZ's walked around with two flag bearers and when we got to the steps we had a class picture. Then we went back to our spot where we sat. There was a waka, it was made out of cardboard. Learning Zone one also did the haka.

After the parade we went to the courts. We had a challenge. We had to throw the rugby ball at the try. LZ19 versed Scotland, Georgia, Romania and England. LZ19 won against Georgia, Romania and England but we lost against Scotland. Scotland got sixty nine points and Argentina got sixty one points. We had to kick or throw the ball at the try.

After lunch we went to the hall for the presentations. South Africa and Italy did a dance. LZ19 fount out about Argentina. We went on the stage and we showed everyone our facts and pictures. And then we game the cup to the winners- South Africa and sung World in Union.

I enjoyed the day!

By William.

MHP's Rugby World Cup 2011

A snap shot of the Rugby World cup opening at MHP.

Argentina - our adopted World Cup team!

Cross country 2011

LZ19 has some awesome runners. We had twelve runners who came somewhere between 1st and 10th. In the 8 year old races: Muriahua- 6th, Ariel- 8th and Jun- 9th, Caleb-4th, Kartik-7th, Gurjas- 8th, Adi- 9th and Timothy- 10th. In the 9 year old races: Megan- 1st, Bahar- 5th, Faadhil- 8th and Ryan- 10th.

8 year old place getters

9 year old place getters.

MLC Waka Challenge 2011

Today we launched our altered Learning Framework in the Middle School. Instead of it being in a circle the Middle School has chosen a waka to help us work through each piece of our learning.

As a Learning Community we got together in the hall to 'set the scene'. We were given this senario; we were a group out observing the habits of a Kakapo when the weather started to change. It was going to rain and we were going to get wet. We found 8 plastic bags and a roll of sellotape in our bag to make a raincoat.

We went back to class to follow the different steps: 'challenges', what challenges do we have? 'Focus', what are the jobs we need to do and what do we need to know? 'Solutions', what is our solution? 'Action', now lets make it. Next week when we are finished we are going to 'evaluate' our raincoats and learning.

We have had an awesome day creating our raincoats and we are not finished yet!

Check out our Wiki!

Hi LZ19,

I have set up a Wiki for you so that you can find all your favourite games that we have used for Maths and Literacy.  Also on the wiki are some links to websites for integrated studies; like the space ones we used last term and there are Native bird websites for this term. 

Enjoy!

http://mhplz19.wikispaces.com/ 

MHP's Got Talent

Introducing our marvellous Magician and our fabulous Pianist! 

On Friday MHP held it's first MHP's Got Talent. There were lots of musicians, gymnasts and dancers. Brenda got through the auditions and was the finalist chosen from LZ19. She gave us a great performance on the keyboard.  Kartik kept us entertained with his magical book.

Wacky hair day

What a Fantastic end to our week!

This week's assembly was full of surprises.  Victoria presented the poem that she had been learning in her Poetry ACE and was the schools best banker at ASB. Timothy received the excellence reward for his hard work in class. Ryan was our class representative, who picked our Rugby World Cup country that we will learn about and follow in the coming tornament. Go ARGENTINA!!!!

Koru Artwork

This term we looked at the Koru and its importance to Maori. We learnt how to draw a simple one, then we created a A4 piece of artwork with pastel of our simple koru design.

Our Fabulous Rockets

We have finished our rockets and they are ready for our Rocket Exhibition tomorrow.

Pancake Day

Today the MLC watched Mrs Hutcheson give a demo on how to make pancakes. We then got to make our own one with our choice of topping. YUMMY!

Yummy Pancakes

1 cup of flour
pinch of salt
1-2 tablespoons of sugar
1 egg
¾ cup of milk

1. Put all the dry ingredients into a bowl.
2. Make a well in the middle and add the egg and milk.
3. Mix it all together.
4. When your pan has heated up pour ¼ cup of mixture into the pan.
5. When the pancake top is bubbling and the bubbles have popped flip it over to cook the other side.
6. Check the pancake so that you do not burn the bottom.
7. Add your favourite topping.

Enjoy your pancakes!

Noodle time!

Mr Small has been coming in every second week to teach us Social skills. This afternoon as an end of term treat we all got to share noodle soup.  It was yum!

Rockets in construction

Today we started making our Rockets that we had researched and designed yesterday. We are constructing them out of materials that we find around the home.

Bambi!

Over the week we have been presenting our prepared reading presentations to the class.  Victoria got to present hers at assembly this week. She used lots of expression and confidence when presenting Bambi to the Middle School.

Our trip to the Stardome Observatory

On Friday 3rd June, our class went on a class trip.  It was an exciting day.  We got to sit on a very comfortable chair and watched a 3D movie about our solar system.  We saw the eight planets. They are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Now Pluto is not a planet, it is a very cold place that you will be frozen.
 (A snipet from my recount- By Brenda)

Fantails

On Tuesday we had two fantails that came flying into our Learning Zone.  We wrote some Haikus about their visit.

Flying to the roof

Flying in to the classroom

Tweeting round our class

Jun

Chasing their feathers

Both hanging on a long wire

Pooping on a book

Ariel

Fighting and chirping

Playing for hours in the room

Beautiful fantails.

Faadhil

Fantail was little

Flying in the green classroom

And played ring a rosy

Sahana

Swooping through the class

Leaving poo on the table

Fighting in the class

Kartik

Beautiful feathers

Fly fast little happy birds

You'll get out don’t worry

Aimee

Flying in circles

Beautiful long brown feathers

Scared fantails leave

Timothy

Tweeting in the class

Flying fast in the classroom

Beautiful feathers

Jeremy

Griping the bright lights

Beautiful long brown feathers

Tired of flying round

Akira

Two little fantails

Landing on our chairs, fighting

Poo on chairs and books

Bahar

The fantails flew fast

They were so loud in the class

They were flying quick

Brenda

Two little fantails

Flying fast around the class

Birds sat on the lights

Gurjas

Flying around fast

Flying in circles quickly

Hanging round the class

Dane

Flying round the class

Being scared and too afraid

And we were out side

Cruize

Scared birds hanging high

Birds like to play ring a rosy

Tired birds are falling

Ryan

Fast flying scared birds

Griping tired brown little fantails

 Landing hiding birds

Megan

The birds are flying

Like in ring around rosy

The birds are too fast

Maya

Fantails chirping loudly

Being scared because of noise

Tired of flying around

William

Flying in the class

Fantails tweeting in the room

Fighting in circles

Caleb

Flying fast around

Fly fast for help to get out

Flying out for food

Victoria

Alien Art

To infinity and beyond

Birkenhead Leisure Centre

When we became LZ19

Moving LZ10 to LZ19

On the move, no stopping

Very steaming hot in the sun

In the rain for 1 minute

No running with the stuff

Good- not good cause I had to do a lot

Day was hot

Aimee was doing good

Yes, We did it!!!

By Jeremy

Moving from one class to another

Our tables and chairs came too

Very heavy stuff

In the class, the classmates helped

Nearly everybody

giving help to other people

Did lots of work that was hard

A fun day we had

Yeah! What a hard day at work!

By Brenda

My class is moving form one class to another

Our class had a job for each person

Victoria was tired after we moved

I was moving wet day games with Megan

Nobody complained

Giving up time to move is fun.

Day was saying lots of jokes

Aimee was going fake shopping with baskets

Yah, we're all done!

By Ariel

Moved in April

One day LZ10 moved to LZ19

Very easy

Inside we moved the furniture

Helping in the morning

going backwards and forwards

Day goes well

A fun day

Yelling for someone to help.

By Ryan

Friday's swimming

Our acrostic poems

We have been writing acrostic poems about ourselves and family. Here are some that were presented at our school assembly this week.

Muriahua is 7 years old

Unicorns, I love them

Reading is my favourite subject

I love eating chicken and pizza

Amazing artist

Hubba bubba is my favourite bubble gum

Using computers is my favourite thing to do

Amusing person

By Muriahua

Family is important to me

Always eat broccoli

Mum makes cookies

I like playing with Dad

Like Mum's soup

Yummy food for dinner

By Dane

William is nice

I like pokemon

Like playing bey blade

Lived in Vietnam

I'm good at swimming

Always have friends around

By William

Bahar is my name

Always helping at home

Have four people in my family

A little sister Hannah

Road trip sometimes

By Bahar

Adi is my name

Does whatever I want to do

I like sport

Joe is my swimming teachers name

Oranges are yum for me

Everyday I watch TV

Sports are awesome

Pans for cooking are big in my house

Harry Potter is cool!

By Adi

Father works as a hairdresser in a salon

All through winter we eat hot and spicy stuff but healthy

Mum is a christian, we celebrate christmas but not halloween

I enjoy going to Jeremy's house with our family

Lollies is what my mum expects us not to eat

Yah! I like Mum baking because I can help

By Jessica

LZ10 in 2011