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.

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.

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.

Scooter day...

Some very important lessons we learnt when fitting a helmet - make sure you are present when mum, dad and whanau are purchasing a helmet for you so that it can be fitted correctly. It doesn't need to be expensive but it does need to fit properly. This poster demonstrates the 2, 4, and 1 helmet safety rule - ask your child to explain this to you. Check out the latest newsletter with a couple more photos. Thanks seniors and middle school students for your helpon the day. It was great so see students with scooters. 

Scooter Day Thursday 28th November

We were thin on scooter day photos but here is a great photo of Marianne from Auckland Transport and Charlotte Ready teaching Room 1 how to wear a helmet correctly. Check out the next post how to and please comment.

Sonshine Ranch update

Thank you to everyone that was able to offer to help for the day. We look forward to our trip to Sonshine Ranch and hope that everyone can attend. The money is due Monday 3rd December (Monday of this Week - Week 8) A reminder to all - the trip is on Tuesday 11th December.

Be a Reading Rock Star!

Just a gentle reminder to read every day. Every student in Room 1 has a Be a Reading Rock Star! sheet in their reading book. Each time you read a book please colour in one star and have your parent's sign - I know Amani-Grace's mum signed just underneath as there isn't really space on the star too.
ALL readers are due back on Wednesday of Week 8 - please have a search under beds, in drawers etc and see if you have any lying around. They can be returned to the box outside Room 2. Thanks very much as each year a lot of readers go missing. Library books will also need returning soon.

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.