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Thoughts from our Hangi

2010-07-18T21:41:00.000-07:00

A wonderful experience had by the kids in Room 4, watching, smelling, listening, hearing and tasting the Hangi recently held at the school. Please enjoy some of the children’s thoughts as they wrote about their own experiences.

We heard the wood going crackle and crickle. It was funny listening to the sounds and then after a while the wood started to fall and fall and then some of the wood went down into the big hole with a CRASH!

Blake

I heard the fire burning and CRACKLING and POPPING

Israel

I saw smoke floating in the air. The smoke got in the people’s eyes and I saw logs crashing on the ground and when the logs got to the ground the rocks go down.
I smelt smoke everywhere and I smelt fire. I smelt wood burning. It smelt stinky!
When the logs fell it went CRASH ! BANG! And down the logs go and the little bits of logs went SNAP! CRACK!

Max

I saw the fire’s huge flames. I smelt the grey smoke from the fire.I heard the fire POP!
I liked the Hangi because it was YUM!

Shanelle

The Hangi is hot and it made my throat sore.
I saw smoke and I saw a lot of food and I saw the men.I smelt the smoke. My ears heard the CRACKLING from the wood.

Riley

The smoke started going up in the air and SWISHED around.
I smelt smoke and it was stinky. I heard the CRACKLING of the wood

Jakob

I saw the six logs falling in the hole. I smelt smoke because it was YUCK! I heard the the fire burning and the flames were making a FIZZING sound.

Cole

I saw smoke going out of the Hangi. The food was cooking in the Hangi. I smelt YUCKY smoke. The smoke was coming out of the ground dirt. I heard CRASHING and CLICKING coming out of the Hangi fire.I felt hot. My eyes were watery! I was very hot! I got very very hot. I was burning!

Brianna

The Hangi was very hot in your face. The fire got hotter and hotter and then a very loud noise CRACKED! I saw the wood cracked down into the hole. I smelt the smoke coming to me and all of the other kids too. I heard popping and popping and POP! My hands were hot and my face was hot too.

Ryan

The logs were criss cross like weaving, the logs were black, the logs were falling into parts. The Hangi was covered with sand. The smoke was stinky and bad. It was yuck smoke and it looks like a burnt home. My ears heard a BOOM and another BOOM!
My hand were excited to eat the Hangi. My hands were sweating. My hands were hot wet hands. Then people were going crazy.

Ataliyah

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2010-05-24T21:50:00.000-07:00

We had a fantastic day visiting Te Manawa and experiencing what it was like to live in Great Grandparents day We also learned lots from watching and listening to Warren showing us the Maori people made their tools. He was a very clever man with his hands.

2010-03-29T19:44:00.000-07:00

You can see the children sorting their favourite toys and discussing the data

2010-03-29T13:55:00.000-07:00

The children have had a lovely time today discussing their favourite toys with each other and sorting them into groups. This enabled them to create some data and make a graph to show this data.

They are learning about statistics and what it means.

2010-03-23T15:33:00.000-07:00

As you know this term we have studying creepy crawlies and our task is to find out why we can group them together in a certain way. In small groups the children have been searching pictures and books to help them with this task. Here you can see the children sharing their findings.

2010-03-03T19:17:00.000-08:00

WE ARE HAVING SO MUCH FUN LEARNING NEW THINGS IN THE SWIMMING POOL.

2010-03-03T18:53:00.000-08:00

THE GLUE IS VERY STICKY AND THE WOOL, WHEN MAKING THE CIRCLE, KEPT COMING OFF BECAUSE IT STUCK TO YOUR FINGERS.

ATALIYAH'S THOUGHTS WHILE MAKING THE SPIDER WEBS.

I HAD TROUBLE DOING THE CIRCLE BECAUSE WHEN I STARTED IN THE MIDDLE IT CAME OFF THE GLUE. i HAD TO STICK IT ON AGAIN.

RYAN'S THOUGHTS TOO!

2010-02-22T19:10:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to all of our followers. It seems ages since I have posted any thing on here. I would like to welcome Keegan, Shanelle and Lydia to Room4.

Our Topic this term has created a huge interest in creepy crawlies with children bringing all sorts to school, dead or alive. It's a very interesting topic for children, creating lots of new learning. S o keep those bugs coming kids.

Painting our Tiles

2009-10-26T20:53:00.000-07:00

What a lot of fun we had painting our tiles

2009-09-24T21:34:00.000-07:00

"We were selling chocolate baskets. We had to get a spoon and mix in the chocolate and fruit lollies," said Suede

2009-09-24T21:29:00.000-07:00

Selling day is a good day because we are selling all the yummy food.I am selling lolly bracelets and we put marshmellows on the lolly bracelets

By Ataliyah

2009-09-24T21:24:00.000-07:00

"We are making chocolate cats. We put the cocoa in it. We put liquorice for the ears and the tails," said Jorja

2009-09-24T21:15:00.000-07:00

"I am making lolly trees with M and M's and marshmellows," said Ryan

"We are making the chocolate trees to buy and to eat and we had icing and M and M's and marshmellows and monkey lollies," said Sunny

"I put the marshmellows on the lolly trees and we ran out of icing," said Brianna

Selling Day

2009-09-24T21:08:00.000-07:00

I made chocolate crackle boats made out of chocolate and goodies, and we forgot to put the butter in so the mixture went hard.

Painting Rocks in our Discovery Time

2009-09-07T23:10:00.000-07:00

Designing and painting.

2009-09-07T23:06:00.000-07:00

Wow what awesome hair do's for our wacky hair day last Friday.

Discovery Time

2009-08-23T20:41:00.000-07:00

Thanks Room 5 kids for joining us and sharing your ideas and thoughts with Room 4 kids. We would love you to come again and have fun experimenting and exploring with the activities. We would like to know what you enjoyed about Discovery Time?

Writing from a piece of daphne.

2009-08-11T14:57:00.000-07:00

I can see sparkly sprinkles and beautiful flowers.
What a hatching!!!!!

By Suede

It smells like lemon and it is glittery and it looks like a star.It has new flowers growing.

By Adam

welcome back

2009-07-23T16:09:00.000-07:00

Earthquake Thoughts

2009-06-30T14:36:00.000-07:00

The Earthquake Assimulator arrived at our school this morning. The kids couldn’t wait to get in and try the machine out. here are some of their comments they made afterwards.

When I was in it, it was fun. I was shaking. It was very shaky. I liked it .It was very shaky.

Rachei

The truck was shaking and it was scary Samuel

The window was moving up and down and side to side and across. I was moving up and down and side to side and across.

Suede

The ground and walls were shaking and the box was shaking and the whole thing was shaking

Brad

It was shaking and the window was shaking and the whole thing was shaking and the table was shaking and the whole thing was shaking side to side and up and down and up and down. I had to hold on tight and I was shaking side to side.

Adam

Earthquake Thoughts

2009-06-29T20:56:00.001-07:00

Earthquake thoughts

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Discovery Time fun making popcorn

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kiwifruit stories

2009-06-19T17:23:00.001-07:00

The kids have been looking and noticing things about the slice of a kiwifruit. Here are some of their thoughts.

It looks like the sun in the seeds Ryan

It feels weird. It looks like a sun. It’s got little seeds. Blake

It tastes sweet and in the middle is a sandcastle. It smells like an apple. Adam

It is sour and it’s got seeds and it is hairy and it is green and lines light green. Logan

It’s like an eel and it tastes sweet. It smells like an apple and it has black seeds.
It is green and it has hairs on it too. Zak

It tastes sour and it has black seeds and when you put in the sun it shines. Emily

Fantastic writing kids. Keep it up!!! Mrs S

Edible Garden

2009-05-28T18:14:00.000-07:00

We found some potatoes in our garden. They are purple and grey and gold.They are little but we are going to take them home and cook them up to eat today.They have little spots on them and are a little hairy.

by Logan, Ryan, Zak, and Max

2009-05-28T15:36:00.000-07:00

The leaves are shiny and gold. The
black leaves are soft and have hard spikes.The black dots are on the sticks.

by Suede

The class was looking at the dead heads of the acapanthus.

My Shallbe

2009-05-28T15:20:00.000-07:00

My Shallbe is really smart at maths and it is good at writting

by Emily

Rumpelstiltskin

2009-05-28T13:12:00.000-07:00

Rumpelstiltskin was very silly and funny too he had a big nose and his hair went up. The puppet is string puppet.

By Zak

My Fire Fighters Story by Max

2009-05-11T20:20:00.000-07:00

I am the fire fighter.

I have a helmet on my head.

I have boots on my feet.

Ihave overalls on my legs.

2009-05-07T15:16:00.000-07:00

we saw a picture of the school where the fire people saved the man from dying and we got to tried on the fire fighters hat.and it was fun.

by Jorja

puppet making

2009-05-04T13:27:00.000-07:00

we had 5 bits of news paper. Then we scrunched one pes of paper up in to a boll. then we rolled 3 bits of paper and foded them in to harf. then decorated them.

by jessica

welcome

2009-04-29T19:51:00.001-07:00

helloo there