Scarecrow success

One of the activities we did on camp was to design and build a scarecrow. The kids and adults did an amazing job!

Postcard Week 7: Keighan

Well done to Keighan who was the recipient of the Week 7 postcard.
She was amazing on the Camp Omatua trip, participating in everyone activity, and giving her very best.
Her behaviour in the classroom is exactly like this. She is a good demonstrator of Parkvale P.R.I.D.E, and she can find the enjoyment in any activity.
Well done Keighan!

Postcard Recipient Week 6: Paige Holloway

Well done to Paige, Room 12's latest postcard recipient.
Paige is a conscientious worker, with plenty of initiative and a great attitude.
She always is friendly to everyone, and can often be spotted helping someone out.
Paige treats all adults and fellow students with respect, and she has been very impressive in her artistic work as well.
She thoroughly deserves this postcard.

Postcard Week 5: Liske Halford

The postcard this week went to Liske Halford.

Liske is an excellent student who keeps trying until she has completely mastered a skill. She is a natural leader, and is absolutely determined in all learning activities.
She is a great swimmer, and has natural athletic skills.
Her behaviour and attitude are excellent.
Liske has an amazing understanding of what PRIDE is, and she always does her best to display it.
Well done Liske!

Pride Challenge

This weeks P.R.I.D.E Challenge was for each group to work together to create a tessellating pattern. That is a pattern that repeats using simple geometric shapes.
There were varied results, with some teams finding a pattern and getting started immediately, and others arguing their way to not finishing.
Challenges like this really require the students to give their personal best, show respect for others, and be determined to succeed. It really needs to be a co-operative effort!

Student-led conferences

It was so lovely to see so many families attend the student-led conferences this week. It was great to see the students showing their learning to their whanau, and it was equally nice to hear the positive responses from the families.
The students were all very proud of the things their parents had said.
Here are just a few pictures of some of the Thursday families.

Paige and her mum

The twins

Mya and her mum, her dad was there too!

Emma and some of her family

Postcard recipient Week 4: Georgia Roil

Well done to Georgia who is Room 12's latest postcard recipient.
Georgia earned the postcard this week by having a great attitude towards everything she does, giving her best effort in all of her school work, and for great commitment to all of her sporting activities.
She is very committed!
Great job Georgia.

Swimming Sports

Room 12's swimmers showing P.R.I.D.E in and around the pool.
Keldon

Victoria (Green togs)

Liske ready to dive

Victoria in the freestyle race

Keighan supporting her house

Izrael in the backstroke

Keighan in the backstroke

Keldon ready to start

Keldon waiting to start

Georgia backstroking beautifully

Keldon and Shaydn supporting their houses after their swim

 Victoria coming second

Liske with a win, Tarshay lining up too

Keldon in the big race.

P.R.I.D.E awards

Well done to Bodie Scott and Mya Wallace who were Room 12's first P.R.I.D.E award recipients.
They are both fabulous examples of Parkvale Pride in action.

Postcard Recipient Week 3- Logan Neis

Congratulations to Logan who was this week's postcard recipient.
Logan has earned the postcard by being super well behaved, completing his work to a high standard, and always having a positive attitude. Logan is a very hard worker, and demonstrates Parkvale P.R.I.D.E inside and outside of the classroom.

P.R.I.D.E Challenge No.3

For today's P.R.I.D.E challenge, the students were in groups and working together to compete a challenge. The task was to use a small amount of Lego to make an animal of their choice.
The students could only have the items that they were given, and the tricky part was agreeing as a group, planning and creating their animal as a team.
Some team members had to really try to involve themselves, and others couldn't come up with a game plan quick enough.
Here are some of the animals.



 A Zebra

A hippo

A lion

An elephant

A frog

A giraffe

The winner- A bluebird

Rory

Rory is Room 12's class teddy.
Each night he goes home with a student who needs to take care of him, and write a journal about all of the things they got up to together.
Rory recently had his first trip to the dentist with Georgia.

Rory has also been to the park, scootering, the beach, swimming lessons, and many more places!

The Fern Dollar system

Hi everyone,
The Fern dollar system in Room 12 is a financial literacy and rewards system.
Students can earn fern dollars by completing work, great behaviour, being a positive role model and showing Parkvale P.R.I.D.E.
However, they also must earn enough money in the week to pay for their classroom bills (power, table rent, and bag hook rent).
Excess money can be saved and spent.........

Postcard Week 2- Victoria Sullivan

Victoria has earned the postcard this week for having excellent listening skills, always giving her best, and being very kind and helpful to others. She is always on task, and gives her best effort. Victoria definitely has Parkvale P.R.I.D.E and shows it every day.

Dog Tricks

This dog can do tricks. You need to type in the instruction, spelling it correctly. What tricks can you get your dog to do?

New Zealand flag winners are......

We had our weekly P.R.I.D.E challenge today.
The task
Replicate the New Zealand flag on a larger piece of paper.

Students had just 45 minutes to work together to reproduce the flag effectively. This was quite challenging, and some teams struggled to work together, and to share their ideas well. Most teams worked effectively together, showing respect for each others' ideas, and showing determination to achieve this in the time given.

Mrs Lowe was the guest judge this afternoon, and she selected the flag made by Connor, Shaydn, Emma and Paige. She commented that they had made the best flag, especially the union jack, and the colouring was mainly correct and even.
Connor, Shaydn, Emma and Paige were also very good at working together. They quickly decided on a plan of attack, and worked to produce it.
What an amazing co-operative group!

Valentine's Day Love

With Valentine's Day coming tomorrow, Room 12 made some heart art showing the things that we each love. They look great, and the students had to think hard about the things that matter the most to them.

Spiders by Connor

This is another fine paragraph from Connor.
It has several good features, including using two correctly punctuated lists, great punctuation and spelling, different sentence starters, and interesting vocabulary.
What a great paragraph Connor!


Some spiders are dangerous and some are deadly. There are 3 names for deadly spider bites named poison, venom and toxic. All spiders have a painful bite. These arachnids travel in four different ways: crawling, jumping, climbing and swimming. Creatures like these spin webs to catch their prey.
By Connor

Horses by Victoria

We have been working on separating our writing into paragraphs (different sections for different ideas). The students had to plan, write, edit and share their work.
This piece is written by Victoria, a Year 4. She is great at experimenting and trying out new things with her writing. Great job Victoria!

Horses

Description

Horses have hooves, not feet. They have a long tail to whack flies away from their body. Horses have a mane over their neck and a little bit over their head. Their ears prick back if they are angry. The horses neck has the mane on it to stop it’s neck from getting sunburnt. The horses neck is attached to the head, which has the ears, eyes and nose on it. It has 3 body parts; the neck, the head and the body.

Habitat

Horses live on a farm. On the farm, there are paddocks. Horses stay in the paddocks so they don’t go into peoples’ houses. At night, they put the horses into stables so they don’t get cold at night.

Diet

All horses eat hay, hard feed and grass. Not all horses eat carrots and apples. Some horses, like one of my horses, Maggie, eat oddfellows. She doesn’t just like oddfellows, she loves oddfellows. They also eat oats.

Behaviour

Horses travel from farm to farm in a horsefloat. You can ride horses too! Horses can gallop instead of running. Galloping is just like jogging for horses. When horses are playing, they run, jump, buck and kick. You don’t want to be in the horse paddock when they are like that!

Well done to George, Room 12's only Weetbix Triathlete.
George is a Year 3 and is only 7 years old, but he was able to complete all three sections of the Triathlon without stopping!
What a fabulous way to show that he has Parkvale P.R.I.D.E.