The day Levi came to school

Today Levi, the strongman from Mitre 10 MEGA came to visit. He spoke to the school about having dreams and working hard to achieve them. Here are some of the things Room 20 dream to be...I can't wait to see it all happen!

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Safety Expo and Padlet

Today we experimented with a new tool called Padlet. This is a website that allows us to share and collaborate our ideas all in the one place. Each group uses a tablet to share their thinking all on the one page. We loved it! Here is a copy of what we did with some of our reflections on the Safety Expo.  Scroll around to see our ideas, you can even add your own...just double click on the grey background and away you go!

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Mystery Reader is Back!

Today we had our first mystery reader in yonks come to visit us! Waahoo! Fiona came in and read us the book 'Stuck' by Oliver Jefferies. This was a funny book about a boy who gets his kite stuck in a tree and throws everything up to try and get it to come down.

Post a comment below sharing a time when you have been stuck... We would LOVE another mystery reader next Friday (hint, hint, nudge, nudge)

Seb's Writing

We have been learning how to persuade in writing.  We wrote letters to Fonterra telling them what we thought of their new 'Milk in Schools' - check out Seb's excellent letter.  You can hear him read it out loud below.  What makes this a great piece of writing?

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Zoey and Luke share Maths

We LOVE our new tablets in Room 20! There are so many things we can do with them. The hexagons are using the tablets in their maths to record and explain their maths thinking. Here is Zoey's first go at using this app...

zoeymaths1 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.

And here is Luke...

lukemaths1 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.

Kindness Boomerang

Last week was kindness week at Waipahihi School.  The whole school spent the week celebrating our motto 'It's Kool to be Kind!".  We watched an amazing video about passing kindness on and we were completely inspired to make our own version.  First we brainstormed lots of random acts of kindness and then put them all together like a jigsaw puzzle to create a storyboard.  The tricky part of filming was everyone remembering their part as the video never stops.  We think we did a pretty good job.  Keep being kind to one another as 'kindness keeps the world afloat'


Kindnessboomerang2 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.

Wacky Wigs and Mad Hatters!

Today Waipahihi School had a fundraiser for Kidscan...we all wore our best hats and hair dos! Room 20 decided to take on the challenge of creating hats using only newspaper... Crazy Hat Day on PhotoPeach