Swimming begins

This week we started our swimming programme. We are lucky to have a portable pool at our school. Even though the weather is freezing, it’s nice and warm in the water. We will be swimming everyday for 2 whole weeks and have an instructor to help us improve our swimming skills. We are looking forward to swimming everyday and learning new skills.

Michelle Newton’s Visit to Room 6 by Leki

On Friday we had a guest speaker who spoke to us about how she became successful. The speaker was Michelle. She is 32 years old and works for Niu FM in Manukau City. She is a sound engineer and a stand up comedian.The minute she walked through the door she made us laugh with one of her jokes. She is a Cook Islander but her dad is English. Michelle went to university and studied hard so that she could work for a radio station. She told us that it is hard to get job to work on the radio. She wants to be the CEO of Niu FM so she works really hard so that  she can become  the CEO. We asked her a lot of questions like If she likes to read and if she wanted to work for the radio when she was young. When she was growing up she had always liked entertainment and that was a career she wanted to be apart of. She told us later on about her family she has two children and two dogs and is a single mum. She likes to embarrass her children but her mum likes to do the same thing to her. At work she works with a lot of Pacific Islanders because it is a Pacific Island radio station. She gets to meet  a lot of celebrities and most of them are kiwi. To me Michelle is an inspiration to people who want to be successful because she is successful.

Catholic Schools Day by Monique

Yay! I said as soon as the teachers said St Josephs school was coming over to Saint Pius X Catholic school. On Tuesday, 21st May when St Josephs came to SPX, we had a school mass for Catholic school day with St Josephs school together as a community.

While mass was still going on, I got to know people already because I shook hands with the students from St Josephs. Even 2 house captains from St Josephs served our school mass and they brang along their priest Father Terry to be our father for today. I really enjoyed seeing a lot of students even though there were only 5 classes at St Josephs. it was a pretty small school, I really enjoyed celebrating school mass with Father Ioane and Father Terry.

Lunch time was on and I got to meet more and more people. I got to have a very special buddy name Tiana, she is very special to me because she was very kind to me and I was very kind to her. We had a lovely time together running playing singing and talking in our own place near the tree.

After lunch time Tiana and I ran and lined up ready to go to the hall for the school concert with St Josephs and SPX. Saint Pius sang some songs and performed and St Josephs students performed for us. I really enjoyed my time with St Josephs singing together and dancing. I hope we get to meet them again. I had a cool and amazing day. 

Pictograms

We are learning about statistical literacy. This means reading and writing about statistics. We learned about pictograms. One of the most important things to look for is the key. The keys is important because it tells you clues. Here is an example of a pictogram:

Using new language features in our writing

This term we have been really focusing on using new language features in your writing. Each day we do Newsboard wrting where we describe the weather. We have been using similes, metaphors, personification and alliteration. Each week our descriptions have been improving. Here are some examples of our awesome writing.

I can feel the wind delicately dancing past me

and the sun is chasing us like a wild goose chase.

I can hear the birds singing they are singing opera songs

and the ground is drenched like it will never dry up

Aurora

I can see the tree wobble wildly, I can see the clouds floating in the air like they are in heaven.

I can hear the birds flapping in the sky looking for land to raise their young.

Sonya

I could feel the wind high fiving my hand

I could see the bright green rubbish bin all still like a frozen computer

Ierei

I can see the sun looking down like a falling fireball.

Ilaisaane

I can see the tree waving their hands and losing some of their hair.

Salote

The clouds are dark like they are having a war with the sun in the sky.

Simione

I could feel the sun burning on my arms like I’m in a safari

Savelio

I can see the sun and clouds greeting each other trying to make new friends

Monique

My ears can hear the wind rushing like an invisible racing car in the classroom

Jane

I can hear the birds racing for the golden medal

I can see the grass flirting with the flowers

I can see the branches alone without any leaves

Lose

When I feel the wind it feels like l’m flying

Oscar

I can feel the wind crashing into my body like  people punching you

Tangi

The birds are screaming like they are having a war. They are singing “This is it boys! This is war!”

Taiwan

My eyes could see the clouds swimming in the sky,  the trees are dancing to the beat of the rushing wind and the trees are losing their hair.

Ierei

I can hear the tree branches swishing side to side like they are all doing zumba

Lezabelle

Holy Week

We have had a very busy past few weeks in Room 6. Along with our normal learning, we also celebrated Holy Week. This is the week leading up to the Easter celebrations. As a school, we had an Easter liturgy that depicted the Passion of Christ. We also created Google presentations explaining Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Here is Sonya's for you to see.

We are learning to use  alliteration. These are my ice cream flavours. Would you like to taste these?

Curry Lettuce Chocolate Chips 
Egg Chilly Lollipop Lime
VaniIla  Veges  Vegemite 
by Oscar

Chilly,Capsicum,Cola.

Lettuce, Lemon, Lime.

Paeroa,pickle,Pepper.

Tuna,Tomato,Tropical.

Sassafras, Souvlaki,Hasi, Sushi.

Watermelon,Waffle,Wheat.

By Folauhola

Chilly, capsicum, cola, chocolate.

Tuna, tomato, tropical.

Butter, bread, banana.

Peanut, pumpkin, peach.

Chop suey, cucumber, custard.

Pizza, Pimento, plum. 

By Simione