Our New New Class Photo!

Our New New Class Photo!

Sunday 7 December 2014

Magic Trick Websites!

http://magic.about.com/od/libraryofsimpletricks/ig/Easy-Tricks-for-Kids/

http://www.kidzone.ws/magic/

Wednesday 26 November 2014

Desk Symmetry


This is Alex showing us one of the activities we did with symmetry on our desks! Can you see the green line of symmetry down the middle?!

Monday 17 November 2014

Symmetry Painting

Today we did symmetry with paint! 

1. Fold a piece of paper in half, and unfold it again (so you can see where your 'line of symmetry' is).
2. Put thick paint on one half of the paper wherever you like.
3. Fold the paper closed and press together. Squish the paint around for interesting effects!
4. Unfold and check out your awesome symmetrical artwork!

   

                                


 

 



Sunday 16 November 2014

Symmetry

Check out our 'Maths' page for a couple of cool online symmetry games!  We are going to be exploring symmetry during maths time this week.

Saturday 15 November 2014

Everybody Hurts, Sometimes...



This is the video that we showed in Assembly last week. It has our plaster pictures that we made of the times when we got hurt!

Here is some of the writing that went with the pictures:
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It was a cloudy Monday afternoon and I went to the playground. There was a beach there as well. I was running by the train tracks.

“Ahhhhhhh!” I cried when I fell on concrete. I screamed when I fell. My knee was very painful. Blood was dripping down from my knee. I heard Grandma coming with a plaster for me.
By Tasmyn McInnes
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It was a Saturday. It was very dry and hot. There were white fluffy clouds in the sky. Nobody else was around.

Crack! I slipped on the rocks. Blood came out of my hand. It felt like the bone was going to come out but it didn’t! My mum had to help me get up. 
By Jared Rongo
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon my family was getting ready for dinner. We were at home in Aotea. I could hear the stove working.

Ahh! My finger is bleeding! On my way to see daddy my finger slammed in the door. Mum came running fast because she heard me scream.
By Mahana Bartley
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One spring afternoon I was at Abigail’s. It was on Saturday. There was a dog barking and my and my friend Abigail were bouncing on the trampoline. Two families were having lunch.

Ow! I twisted my ankle. I felt blood zooming down my foot. My knees were shivering. It felt like it was going to crack open. I hopped all the way to mum.
By Ella Carroll
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Sunday 9 November 2014

A Measurement Game...

On Monday we are going to learn how to use a ruler properly, so that we can measure things!

Try this game out:

What are the rules we need to remember about using a ruler?

Tuesday 4 November 2014

New photos!



Here are a couple of photos with our whole class since James J joined! Miss Simpkins LOVES it when everybody is at school!

Tuesday 14 October 2014

James starting in our class

There's an awesome new kid called James J who has started in Rimu Toru. We call him James J because there is another James in our class - James W! 

Here is James J. 

Sunday 12 October 2014

Production Photos!

Here is a video with some behind-the-scenes and on-stage photos from production!

Rimu Toru, you did a wonderful job.

Sunday 21 September 2014

Production Week!!!!!


 Guess what??? Production is THIS WEEK!!! 

Wow, it has come up quickly! We are looking FANTASTIC in our costumes (here is a sneak peek...) and have done an amazing job practising our dance and the whole school songs. We hope that you can come along to see us on Wednesday night, Thursday afternoon or Thursday night.



If you don't have tickets already, head to the office at school to get yours now!

We hope you enjoy the show. 

Sunday 14 September 2014

Short/Long E Sound!

This week we are looking at the vowel e and both the short and long sounds that it makes.

The short 'e' sound comes up in words like... 'wet', 'pet', 'forget', 'petrified', 'Ben' and 'exercise'.

The long 'e' sound comes up in words like... 'weeds', 'sweets', 'meet', 'bee', 'sea', 'beads', 'country' and 'sneaky'.


Tuesday 9 September 2014

Sunday 31 August 2014

Short 'U' Sound!

Our sound of the week is the short 'u' sound! What words do you know with the short 'u' sound in them?

Here is Geraldine the Giraffe learning the short 'u' sound.






And.... try this:
Starfall Short 'U' game!

Sunday 17 August 2014

Long 'O' Sound!

Our 'Sound of the Week' this week (and last week!) is the LONG 'o' sound!

What letters together make a long 'o' sound?
o-e as in rose
oa as in boat
ow as in snow
oe as in toe

And sometimes, all you need is the letter 'o'!

Challenge: Can you think of an 'o-e' word, an 'oa' word, an 'ow' word AND an 'oe' word?

Some videos about the 'long o' sound:





How many 'oa' words can you spot in THIS video?:


 A cool long o game:
Starfall - Find the Long O Sounds in the Picture!

Sunday 3 August 2014

Make 100!

Last week we celebrated being at school for over 100 days! We brought things into school, or used equipment that we had at school, to show the number 100.

Check out some of the things we used. 

M'n'Ms...

Scraps of Paper

Writing our name!

What did we do that helped us to count them quickly?


Wednesday 23 July 2014

WOW writing


We have been working on making our writing more interesting for other people to read! We are putting in WOW words and adding details. 

Here are some examples:

Miss Simpkins' sentence 'I went on my bike down the road' got changed to...
'Me and my little sister rode on my bike. 'Clatter-clatter' down the street'
By Zahir and James

'My bike zoomed along the road' 
OR
'Zoom! My bike went along the bumpy road.'
By Levi and Tawera

Anna changed her own sentence from "I went home afterwards" to...
"I stomped home afterwards because I was tired and grumpy."

Brooklyn changed her sentence from "That night I had a sleepover with Paytan" to...
"That really dark night I had a sleepover with the amazing Paytan"

WOW! What amazing writing! 


Monday 21 July 2014

Emily's Holiday Writing!

Last Tuesday was an exciting day. We went into Wellington. Can you guess

how? We went by bus and train. Once we were at the train station we walked

to the cable car. We went on the cable car two times. We went to the cable car

museum at the top of the hill. I met somebody famous from the Red Rattlers

reading book. At the back of the book there was a man. He was on the cable car

driving it. After we meet daddy for lunch. We had Subway for lunch. I got to

choose the cookie. It was chocolate!

Next time I go to Wellington, I would like to go to Te Papa.

By Emily



Saturday 19 July 2014

Time for Term Three!

I can't wait to hear all about Rimu Toru's holidays when we get back to school on Monday!



Our new SOUND OF THE WEEK for Week One is the 'short i' sound (like in 'pig', 'tin', or 'hill'). 
Can you think of any words with the short i sound in them? Say them out loud to check!

Monday 30 June 2014

Awesome Disco Writing from Rimu Toru

Here are some excerpts from our awesome writing about the disco this morning. 


On Friday night my whole family went to the Papakowhai School disco in the hall. I got a lemonade ice block. I found Miss Simpkins to dance with. My favourite song was 'Happy'. I danced side to side. I was very tired. 
- Cora


On Friday night I went to the Papakowhai school disco. I went with my mum. ... I got some Sprite ans chips. They were salt and vinegar chips. After I finished my Sprite and chips I went to Cora and we danced to the Bob the Builder song. I fell down but we kept dancing until I got tired. 
- Bella


On Friday evening I went to the disco with my sister and dad and I had one whole pizza and my sister only had four slices!
- Jared



Sunday 29 June 2014

A Special Message!

Here is a special message for Anna and the rest of Rimu Toru... take a peek to find out who from!!!


Great bracelet making, Anna!

Monday 2 June 2014

Sound of the Week!

Our sound of the week this week is.......

glittertextmaker.info

What words can you think of with the 'z' sound in them?

This week we also have a 'Word of the Week'. The word is 'are'. Practise spelling this word at home! 

Tuesday 27 May 2014

Sound of the Week!

Our sound of the week this week is....

Glitter Words


Can you think of any 'igh' words?!

Sunday 25 May 2014

Our Poem of the Week!

Normally our poem of the week gets sent home in our folders on Friday...

But this week we are doing it a bit differently! The poem can be found here! You can listen to it, read it, do a sound search, and play a 'find the word' game.

Have fun!

Friday 23 May 2014

Runathon...Coming Soon...

Cross country is coming up on THURSDAY! We have been training really hard - we even raced against Mr Robinson!

Thanks to everyone who has so far agreed to sponsor someone from Rimu Toru in the Runathon. The money we fundraise is going towards the new school playground, and every cent counts! 

If you'd like to sponsor Mr Smith or Mr Robinson to run, you can email them to make your pledge. 



The Enormous Turnip

We have been listening to the enormous turnip. We changed the characters and the vegetables. Here are some story maps.



Bella's story map

James's story map

Leah's story map

Ohara's story map

By Bella B and Brooklyn P

Thursday 22 May 2014

Week 3: Sound of the Week!

Our sound of the week is...

X

Can you think of any words which have an 'x' sound in them???

Saturday 10 May 2014

Sound of the Week!



free glitter text and family website at FamilyLobby.comis the sound of the week this week!


Question: What words can you think of which have 'qu' in them?


Certificates in Rimu Meeting; Week 1 Term 2!


Every Friday we have 'Rimu Meeting' just before lunch (and after Discovery Time!).  Each class teacher in Rimu writes out some special certificates for some fabulous people in their class during the week.

This week Bella, Ohara, Raymond, Brooklyn and Maddy got certificates  - Bella for her wonderful writing, Maddy and Ohara for awesome maths, and Brooklyn and Raymond for working hard on their reading. Well Done!!!

Friday 2 May 2014

Sound of the Week!

Welcome back Rimu Toru!

The sound of the week this week is:

free glitter text and family website at FamilyLobby.com
What words can you think of with the 'ck' sound in them?

- Another word for choose is...
- The name of a famous boy who climbed a beanstalk is...
- The opposite of 'defence' is...

Sunday 27 April 2014

Happy Holidays!


Hello Rimu Toru!

I can't believe we are halfway through the holidays already. I hope that you are having a wonderful time with your family and friends. 

What have you been up to these holidays? Can you think of anything you could recommend to your friends that they could do too? 

See you in a week! 


Miss Simpkins


Sunday 13 April 2014

Joan Miro Art

We are learning to do art in the style of the Spanish artist Joan Miro. Here is an example of one of his paintings:


We started on Friday by trying out some of the different shapes he uses in this 'Roll A Miro' game. You can play it at home too if you want!


Next week we will put up some photos of us working on our Miro artworks. They are going to look AWESOME!

Friday 11 April 2014

We Like to... Move it!



In Rimu Toru we like to go on a website called 'GoNoodle'! We get points for doing brain breaks, and one of our favourite brain breaks is doing this dance to 'I Like To Move It'. Check it out!

Monday 7 April 2014

We have very silly faces!

Today we took some new photos for the blog so that Advait was in the photo too!

Here is a photo of us with very silly faces.

We hope you like it!


Sunday 6 April 2014

Sound of the Week!

Our sound of the week this week is...

Glitter Words


Can you think of any words which have 'll' in them?

Post them in a comment and we will make sure they are on our class brainstorm!

Here are some helpful hints...

1. Something you like to throw
2. A game you might play: ________ the leader
3. The opposite of push
4. An animal that looks a bit like a combination of a sheep and a camel... Tricky!

Sunday 30 March 2014

Sound of the Week!

Our sound of the week this week is....



What words can you think of with 'zz' either at the end, or in the middle??

Ideas:
- What sound does a bee make?
- If you bought something from 'Domino's', what type of food would it probably be?

Challenge:
- What type of special cheese might be on that food from 'Domino's'?

Type them in the comments section... and remember, if you post a comment this week you will get a sticker for your sticker chart!

Friday 28 March 2014

Rimu Toru at Swimming Sports!

Swimming Sports on Thursday was AMAZING! Well Done to everybody in Rimu Toru who participated - you did a great job!

Here are some photos from the day.

Sunday 23 March 2014

Sound of the Week

Our Sound of the Week this week is....

Glitter Words

What words can you think of with this sound in them?

Friday 21 March 2014

Posting Our Letter to the Fairy Godmother



Rimu Toru and Rimu Wha have written letters to the Fairy Godmother this week and today we sent them to her!

I wonder if we will hear back soon?

What would you say if you were writing a letter to the Fairy Godmother?

Sunday 16 March 2014

Sound of the Week

The sound of the week this week is........


Glitter Words


'Ing' often goes at the ENDS of words. Can you think of any words that end in 'ing'?