Christmas writing prompts...

Today Room 14 wrote a Christmas present wishlist and it got me excited about what other christmas writing prompts are out there. Here are a few we discovered. Are there any prompts you are excited to write about?

The Town was Usual Enough model...

The Multicultural Festival was usual enough,

It had a fun fishing hole, a bike station, Mr Cole’s corn hole

and a zombie shoot out.

It even had a bouncy castle.

My friends and I did what kids do - 

Spent all their money on food, games and junk,

Jumped up and down on the bouncy castle,

Waited hours for sugar donuts,

Ate a pottle of hot chips,

Biked, raced with each other

And performed on stage. 

By Room 14

I learnt how to use James K Baxter's model of The Town was Usual Enough

for the Multicultural Festival. I found it challenging to come up with the phrases or words that sounded right. Did you play Mr Cole's corn hole game and dunk the principal?

Travelwise Celebration

I really enjoy being the Travelwise Leader at Papakura Central School. The Travelwise Team is composed of 23 students. The students have worked really hard this year. We were celebrating the year and learning how we can earn Gold for 2020. We are ready for the challenge!

Pedal Power

Max's Pedal Power Riding (see Slide 3). Room 14 had our first Pedal Power Session on Friday morning with Jane and on Monday afternoon our second Pedal Power Session. What was your first biking experience like? Please leave a comment.

Motat was usual enough

 Motat trip

Motat was usual enough;

It had a tram, olden days school, machines, gift shop
and a trampoline I never been on.

My friends, my parent helper and I did what kids do
- ate morning tea, looked at machines, walked in
an olden day house, posed behind the
colourful Motat sign, and sat in the tram. 

Doing everything important. 

By Ekamjot kohli

Ekamjot's writing was inspired James K Baxter in his
model of The town was usual enough... We had fun using
his model to create our own Motat poem.

Why Blog?

Why do our students blog?  Here are some reasons why our students blog:

• It is FUN! Fun!….. it is wonderful when students think they are having so much fun, they forget that they are actually learning. 
• Authentic audience – no longer working for a teacher who checks and evaluates work but a potential global audience.
• Suits all learning styles.
• Increased motivation for writing – all students are happy to write.
• Increased motivation for reading – students will happily spend a lot of time browsing through fellow student posts.
• Improved confidence levels –when students receive feedback from family and friends this is increases their confidence to write more.
• Pride in their work and increased proofreading and validation skills
• Parents with internet access can view their child’s work and writings – an important element in the parent partnership with the classroom. Whanau from overseas have made comments on student posts. 

Please leave a comment about what you enjoy about blogging. 

Isobel's (Izzy's) Square Collage of How to Take Care of a Chromebook

Yesterday Izzy learnt how to use callouts for the first time and created a slide of how to take care of her chromebook.

Kayelim's Tray Label

My T-shirt by Ivy

Check out Ivy's t-shirt with all her favourite animals, food and more.

Room 14 wrote about The Best Part of Me

My Mouth

My mouth helps me to eat my delicious food
and drink my water. My mouth can even help
me to taste the food I eat like chicken. It can
even help us to breathe in the fresh air and
oxygen. It is one of the parts that can help
me talk and be a chatterbox. My mouth is the
best part of me.

By Leslie

Sonshine Ranch by Ryleigh

Sonshine Ranch Sonshine Ranch was usual enough: it had horse riding, zip lining, a rope line, a huge playground with a long slide. There were baby bunnies that we got to pat and hold. There was rock climbing and a pitch black tunnel and goats that liked pink flowers. My horse was named Sapphire which was a world champion. There were seven baby bunnies. I had a great time at Sonshine Ranch.

Koshik's Swim Notice on Screencastify

Trey and Kaizer took some snaps of Room 1 swimming. Here is a reminder - we are swimming Monday to Thursday.

Swimming Notice

In Room 1 we created a notice for swimming which we then recorded onto screenastify. Here is Josiah's notice before recording it onto screencastify.

Amani-Grace Crazy Hair Day Certificate

Amani-Grace's hair looked incredible on Wacky Hair Day. I loved the Christmas tree. Students you are all so lucky to have such talented parents to think of all the amazing ideas for your hair.

Wacky Hair Day

Telesia-June had an amazing hair-style on Crazy Hair Day. Cruze her brother's hair was incredible too. Check out the photo of TJ in our school newsletter - 16th November 2018

Taya and Telesia-June - screencastify Swimming Notice

Taya and Telesia-June enjoyed sharing their skills learnt using screencastify. Please watch and leave a comment. Remember swimming is Monday to Thursday Term 4.

Amani - Screencastify - Snake vs Iguana writing

On Thursday we learnt how to use screencastify. The students were very hyped and were so enthusiastic about sharing their learning via screencastify. Please watch this video and leave a comment.

2018 Duffy Summer Reading

Remember the $5 2018 Duffy Summer Reading form has to be back tomorrow (Friday 16th November)
Such a great deal!

Travelwise Celebration

The Travelwise Celebration
 By Taya

 Finally the train stopped and we can hop off. Wondering what I’m talking about, I’ll explain it. So me, my teacher Mrs Campbell, Amani-Grace, Amani-Grace’s mum, Telesia-June, Trey, Alayna, Franki, Lauren, Olivet, Hayley, Riley, Teri-Rose and Leslie on the 9th of November went to a Travelwise Celebration. I will tell you about Travelwise if you don’t know what travelwise is. Travelwise is a program to make schools travel safer, healthier and funner. Anyways let’s get back into the celebration. So me and all the others traveled from Papakura to Britomart. If you know what the Cloud is you will know what I’m talking about, so we went to the Cloud and had a packet of chips and two cookies for morning tea. Yum! The first activity started at 11:00 am but before we left the Cloud to the Maritime Museum, they announced the winners for Gold, Silver and Bronze. But guess what Papakura Central School came Bronze along with heaps of other schools. Time passed by while we were hunting the answers to old things. The one that I liked was the Sir Peter Blake with his red socks because we got a badge for Sir Peter Blake. At 12:00pm it was lunch, average lunch but at 12:00 pm instead of 12:30 pm. After lunch we ended up staying at the Cloud than going to do the next activity because we had to go on the train in a bit. But we still got to watch some awesome BMX bikers. While my group was watching the BMX bikers we got free ice-cream. Being amazed by stunts took off being at the Cloud so after more minutes we had to go back to Papakura. We got back at about 2:45 but I went home at 3:00pm. When I got home I kicked off my shoes and had a longggg nap.

Roti Making with Room 1

Hayley and Ryleigh were the photographers yesterday when Diya's mum (Neerja Rana) and Kirpal's mum (Gurpreet) came and made roti with Room 1.