Room 12 amazing Narratives

 The Beautiful Princess

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess. She had curly brown hair down to her back and she had a bright cyan dress. She had a sparkly silver necklace as bright as the sun. She is kind, helpful and smart like a mad scientist. She is friendly and forgetful like me. She is as funny as a clown. There was also an evil witch. She had a purple cape with a horrid smile and crinkly green hair as green as grass. Her name was Grizelda. She was evil, eerie and wicked. She was very very rude. She was also mean and selfish. The princess was on a big ship. The ship looked old brown and rusty. It smelt like rotting flesh. It felt cold. The princess could hear the lake splashing and sploshing and the seagulls squawking. It tasted like the fresh air going up the princesses nose. One day the witch scared the princess and the princess fell into the lake. Duh Duh Duuhh. But a shiny grey dolphin saved the princess. The witch got so angry and burst into a thousand pieces. The the dolphin and the princess became friends. And they lived happily ever after. 

By Arya

The Princess

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess. She had white hair with stripes of blue at the bottom. She has a long pretty dress with silver high heels. The princess has a beautiful crown with gems. She has smooth pale skin. The princess is as polite as Mrs Howell. She is very calm. The princess is super helpful. She has a little voice like a mouse. There was also an angry alien that was super short. The alien was very ugly like a hairy one eyed monster. He has one huge eye like Mick. The angry alien has three long fingers. He was super angry. He had 2 long legs. The alien is super scary. He was super mean. The alien never showed his manners. The alien always yelled at people. The princess was on a big ship. The ship was rusty. The big ship was very old. It had its motor falling off. The big ship had goo all over the floor. Next minute the princess started singing and the alien did not like her singing but she kept on singing. Then the alien came down from the drivers seat and onto the gooey floor. He pushed the beautiful princess off the ship. The alien was now the only one on the ship. It was very light and then it sunk! Suddenly the princess and the alien bumped into each other and both were tall enough to reach the ground. They were saved by a man who caught them and saved their lives. They both lived happily ever after. 

By Indigo

How to find a friend

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess. She has long pink hair that has passed her shoulder. She has a long pink dress that has glitter and sparkles on it. She has pink high heels that have glitter on it. She has a royal pink crown that has lots of hearts on it. She also has pink crystal earrings that are as sparkly and shiny as diamonds. She is as girly as a girly girl. She is as smart as Albert Einstein. She is calm and always joyful. She is shy. There was also a dumb zombie. The dumb zombie has a head that is shaped like a rectangle block. The zombie has neon cyan eyes. The dumb zombie walks like a normal person. The zombie is as dumb as someone that doesn't have a brain. The zombie is always depressed because nobody taught the zombie maths. The zombie is always tired because the zombie has not slept in days. The dumb zombie is very hungry. They lived in a giant royal ship. Inside the ship is royal themed. The royal ship is silver coloured on the inside. Inside the ship has a golden pattern on the ground. The royal ship has seven stories. The ship is as big as a blue whale. Then the princess fell into the lake. The princess saw a ladder to get back on the ship. The princess fell into the lake again because the ship was moving fast. When she was just about to fall off again the dumb zombie pulled her up. After that they became friends and the princess taught the zombie maths. They lived happily ever after. 

By Cecilia

The beautiful Princess

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess. She had hair as golden as a goldfish. Her eyes were so bright that you can hardly imagine. She had a round face like a circle. She had small ears. The princess liked to go swimming in the blue lake. Her thoughts were always very great thoughts. She was very good at maths. She also liked to sit on a ship. There was also an evil zombie. The zombie had a green body with all black eyes. The zombie had no hair. He had black lips. His teeth were all red. He was very evil. The zombie liked to drink blood like a vampire. He is a little bit smart but mostly dumb. He can only breathe under water. The princess lived on a big ship. There was a lot of smoke that you can hardly see through. The ship was as big as the titanic. There were so many windows that you could hardly count. There was a giant swimming pool that whenever you wanted to swim you could. But the problem was a pirate was coming so the princess fell down into the lake. The solution was the evil zombie became not evil and helped her. The princess became a mermaid and they lived happily ever after.

By Moy

Happy Diwali from Room 12

 

Kowhai Assembly Friday 6th November

On Friday Room 12 shared their spooky Haunted House drawings and descriptions. Congratulations to Alvin, Mason, Georgia and Indi for their Learning Awards.

Character descriptions

 Character Descriptions

Room 12 have been learning about and writing Character descriptions. Here are some of them.

Character description about Jemma

Jemma has black hair that is tied into a ponytail. She has bright green pants and a violet top. Over Jemma's violet top is a light cyan hoodie. She has soft and smooth skin like baby's skin. Her eyes are as black as a black hole. Jemma is as funny as a silly clown wearing big poofy pants. She is as smart and clever like a scientist with a big brain. She is joyful and calm. She is always happy.

By Cecilia

Character description about Mr Barlow

Mr Barlow has blonde hair and blonde eye brows. His skin is as smooth as a table. He wears a blue striped T-shirt with short blue pants. He has black eyes with spiky hair as spiky as a porcupine. He is sometimes as angry as a demon emoji! Mr Barlow is sometimes nice and happy too. He is also clumsy but smart.

By Alvin

Character description about Sophie

Sophie has black hair as long as her head. She has black eyes and a long mouth as long as a caterpillar. Sophie wears a hat with blue and green stripes. She has a blue T-shirt. Sophie is forgetful like an ant. She is understanding. Sophie is kind and helpful just like your best friend. She is joyful.

By Grace

Character description about Christmas dog

Christmas dog is fluffy like a teddy bear. He is as small as a baby. Christmas dog has ears that are long passed his neck. His whiskers are so small you can hardly see. He is yellow like a banana. Christmas dog isn't trained, but he is very friendly. He likes to chew things, but he is very fun. Christmas dog is excited about eating. He likes to wag his tail like a fish.

By Moy

Fun times in Room 12

We are very lucky to have had some fun outdoorsy experiences and creative opportunities recently in Room 12. Here are some pictures.

Room 12 had fun at Sport Tuesday afternoon playing Paper, Scissors, Rock

 

Character Descriptions

Room 12 are learning about Character descriptions. 
This week they described themselves.

 

Room 12 had a fun sport afternoon

 

Growing seedlings and painting pots

 Team 12 have loved planting and growing our little seedlings and we can't wait to grow our own vegies and eat them too! We have been busy this week painting pots to put our little plants in so we can take them home. What a fun way to learn about vegetables :)

Fractions!

 We have been learning about fractions. Here is a problem and some strategies we used to solve it.

Persuasive writing

 Room 12 have been learning about Persuasive Writing. This week they chose a topic and wrote about it. Here are three fantastic pieces.

Minecraft VS Lego    By Dia

In my opinion Minecraft is better than Lego. 

One reason is that when you build Lego you have to destroy it but with Minecraft you don't have to. One example is when my cousin Maya came over she was building something with my Lego and I built it on Minecraft. Maya said not to break it when she goes, but I had to. When I did break it I made sure I got the same design as when she built it. 

My second reason is you can drop your Lego and it's easy to break, but with Minecraft it's only easy to break if you hold the screen. An example is when I was going to show my mum my Lego, when I was coming over to her I dropped it and it broke. 

My third reason is that if you come in the house when it's dark and you have nothing on your feet and you forget you were playing with Lego and then you step down..."OUCH!"

Therefore Minecraft is better than Lego.

Donut VS Ice-cream    By Arya

In my opinion ice-cream is better than donuts. 

One reason is you can put more toppings on ice-cream. An example is if you want more toppings, you can get an ice-cream. 

My second reason is you can choose more flavors of ice-cream than donuts. An example is if you have already tried the same flavor ice-cream, you can get another flavor.

My third reason is you can get a lot of ice-cream scoops at once and not donuts. An example is if you're feeling like you want more ice-cream you can buy more scoops.

Therefore in my opinion ice-cream is better than donuts.

Bike VS Scooter    By Alvin

In my opinion bikes are better than scooters.

One reason is that riding a bike is way more comfortable than a scooter. For example if you're riding a scooter downhill and you're going very fast and you forget to hit the brakes you will most likely fall down and hurt yourself.

My second reason is that a bike can go faster than a scooter. For example if you're going on bumps you will get speed and go faster but if you are on your scooter and you go fast on bumps you might fall off.

MY last reason is that if you're on a mountain bike you can go on grass or on rocks. But scooters can only go on flat concrete or uphill. For example if you want to go biking on a mountain but you want to ride a scooter, you will most likely fall down a mountain. 

Therefore in my opinion a bike is better than a scooter.

 

 

Sock Masks

Today we made masks out of old socks. We followed the instructions on this video.

Next week, we will write our own instructions on how to do this. 

You could try making one too, it's easy. 

Making Cars

 Room 12 are learning about Toys as part of their Inquiry. 

They made and decorated their own toy cars. 

Don't they look amazing!?

Congratulations Gyana, Alex and Zoe!

Well done to these Super Gems for earning these certificates - they were meant to get them at the Kowhai assembly before lockdown. Instead we had to give them out in class.

Gyana: For always settling into tasks quickly and quietly

Alex: For improved effort and focus resulting in pleasing progress

Zoe: For always trying her best and helping to inspire others.

Room 12 Art and Writing

Room 12 did some amazing pieces of art and writing about themselves and what they enjoy doing.

GROW PROTECT TASTE (Your Veges)

We had an exciting package arrive this week which contained 24 different seedlings. Today Room 12 were studying their vegetables in the hope that they can grow their own and learn to love ALL vegetables. Maybe we can even inspire others to do the same.

Room 12 are having fun today

Winner: Congratulations Dia!

Check out these awesome videos Dia sent through of her teaching us how to play the piano. This was part of Dia's Self Belief GEMS work. You get 5 Dojos Dia.

Friday 28th August

 Ata Marie Team 12 and Happy Birthday Alex!

Checklist for today:

1. Sharing all your work with me (Miss R) today. Not Mrs Howell and not Mrs Turner. They will not be checking their emails today.
2. Answer the riddle in the comments (see video to hear riddle). Remember to sign your name so we know who is commenting!
3. No Google meets today
4. Thank you for sharing your work between 9 and 3!
5. Back to school on Monday - Make sure you are prepared: Do you have a named water bottle and and pencil pot?
6. It's Daffodil day today. If you haven't already, try and make a daffodil on the last learning slide. Check out Mason's awesome drawing:

WINNER

Big congratulations to Cecilia. I loved your Panda advert. I especially liked the way the colour theme matched the product.

Everyone make a big effort to be the dojo winner today. It could be YOU!

Thursday 27th August

 Good Morning Team 12

Checklist for today:

1. Sharing all your work with me (Miss R) today. Not Mrs Howell and not Mrs Turner. They will not be checking their emails today.
2. Answer the riddle in the comments (see video to hear riddle and this time, don't google the answer, have a guess instead). Remember to sign your name so we know who is commenting!
3. Google Meet at 1:00 (not 1:30) - wear something YELLOW since it's daffodil day tomorrow.
4. Please try to do your learning between 9 am - 3 pm. Try not to share your work outside of these times. After 3 you should be relaxing and spending time with your family :)
5. Be good and be kind and wash your hands!

WINNER

Big congratulations to Arya who made an exceptional effort with her puppet making and performed the play using her puppets - all by herself.

(Make sure you click the play buttons to see her performance)

Who will win today????

Today's Google Meet

 

Wednesday 26th August

Morena tamariki ma!

Lots of important information today. Please read them all carefully :)

1. Sharing with me (Miss R) today. Not Mrs Howell and not Mrs Turner. They will not be checking their emails today.
2. Answer the riddle in the comments (see video to hear riddle). Remember to sign your name so we know who is commenting!
3. Google Meet at 10:30 - bring something special from home to share with everyone e.g. a piece of jewellery, your favourite book, a trohpy, your cat! Anything that is special to you.
4. Thursday's Google Meet will now be at 1:00, not 1:30.
5. Please try to do your learning between 9 am - 3 pm. Try not to share your work outside of these times. You should not be doing your home learning at 9 o'clock at night - you should be in bed!
6. Please watch the video below that Mrs Turner posted last week, about how to insert a slide, and highlight and comment on a specific slide when sharing your work with your teacher. Some of you are still not doing this properly.

How to Comment and Add a Slide in Google Slides

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Congratulations to Indigo for her superb advert (which she also turned into an infomercial). 5 dojos is going out to you Indi.

 

Who will be today's winner?

Tuesday 25 August

 

Today's Checklist:

1. Comment with your answer to the riddle below (What has a neck but no head?) Remember to sign your name so we know who you are!

2. Decide what activities you will do from the Week 6 Learning slides and share them with Miss R

3. Be good and be kind

Have fun with today's learning, if you have any questions just ask me :)

Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OSCAR for yesterday!

!!!!WINNERS!!!!

I made a sock puppet. He is friendly, his name is Jeremy he has three eyes

My Own Map 

(2,4) - Computer

(2,6) - Refrigerator 

(3,1) - Phone

(3,9) - Vacuum 

(5,5) -Washing machine

(5,7) - Car

Congratulations boys! Who will win today?

Monday 24th Winners

 ***WINNERS***

Naia for showing growth and self belief in persevering with her maths addition. Great job Naia. 

Mason for showing growth in an amazing Alliteration poem. Fantastic job Mason.

Monday 24 August 2020

 

  Today's Learning Checklist and Weekly Reminders 

 1. This weeks slides are in your Inquiry folders on the Google drive 

 2. Google meets this week are Wednesday and Thursday 

 3. Daffodil day is this Friday 28th August. There is a slide/activity for you to complete for that 

 4. Have a happy fun Monday 

RIDDLE 

 Everyone has it and no one can lose it... What is it? 

Comment with your guess below 

@@ Mrs Howell's email to share your work with: annah@sunnyhills.school.nz

Friday 21st August - Miss You Already Team 12!

Thank you so much for your kind words! What a lovely surprise xx (check the blog post below)

Love you Team 12!!!!!

******* 

Wahhh - Today is Mrs Turners last 'official' day of being your teacher this year! 

Sob, sniff!

Don't worry, I will definitely be visiting as soon as I am allowed to say a proper goodbye and give you all the cards I have written and a little 'something'. :-)

Thanks for all being so wonderful. Keep being AMAZING like you already are, and most of all...

Keep learning! xx

RIDDLE: What has to be broken before you use it?

TODAY'S CHECKLIST

• Comment on the blog (this is the blog!) with your best answer to today's riddle.
• Do the last activities off the Y3 slide deck in your Inquiry folder (today is the last day)
• Have fun and be nice to your family.. It's the weekend tomorrow!

****** WINNER ********

Congratulations to Miss Hayley!

Not only have you been sharing quality work with me ALL week, but you tried extra hard with your Writing. I am very proud of the way you followed the instructions on the slide and told me how to play a game that we saw at the Howick Historical Village. (Actually you told me how to MAKE the stilts, but I was impressed with your effort anyway!) Tino Pai Rawa!

How to make wooden stilts.

Follow the instructions on how to make the wooden stilts.(might need a adult to help)

What you need: 2 pieces of long wood ,nails , measuring tape, pencil, 2 block pieces.drill and screwdriver .

What to do:

 1. Firstly place the two long pieces of wood on a work table .

2.  Next measure where you want to drill in your two  block pieces for          your feet mark it with your pencil . 

3.  Now using your drill,drill your holes and screw in your nails to hold the wood together. 

4.  Once you are done make sure they line up together and are even.

 

5.  Finally you can take them for a walk.

You should be able to balance walk on your stits with out fallin

Goodbye Mrs Turner, Love Team 12

 

Thursday 20th August

 Todays Learning Checklist:

1. Check out Mrs Howells video on the post below!!!!!!! SOOOOO COOOOL!!! 
2. Comment on it!
3. Watch this video too AND comment on it!
4. Do some work from the slides in your Inquiry folder (Try some Reading, Writing and Maths 1st please!)
5. Come to the Google Meet @ 1:30pm (if you didn't come yesterday). Wear a silly hat! - your parents have been emailed the password.
6. Have fun!

Riddle of the day:

What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

(Comment with your guess below)

****** WINNER ********

Congratulations to ARYA on winning the 5 Dojo points! Here is a pic of her Mandela that Miss R was most impressed with! Ka Pai!

Story time with Mrs Howell

Hi Room 12, From Mrs Howell

Thanks for coming to the meet today!

 Hope you all had fun at the pyjama party. Stay snuggly!

Wednesday 18 August

Happy Wednesday Team 12! 

Remember to share your work with Miss Robertson today - katier@sunnyhills.school.nz

Here is today's checklist:

Have I:

• Watched today's blog video?
• Commented on the blog with the answer to the riddle?
• Decided whether to attend today's meeting at 10:30am or tomorrow's meeting at 1:30pm
• Shared some Reading, Writing and Maths with my teacher in the slide in my Inquiry folder?

Have a great day and I'm looking forward to seeing some of you at the meet at 10:30 for our PYJAMA PARTY!!

       

Today's Riddle: What is the easiest way to double your money?

!!!!!!!WINNERS!!!!!!

Congratulations to Dia and Josh! They are the WINNERS of Tuesday's DOJO POINTS for excellent work. Thank you to everyone who shared... I wonder who it will be today?

 

• Mrs Turner loved the the way that Dia showed all her working to the word problems by drawing pictures - just like her Spotlight Goal told her to.
• Josh wrote a special acrostic poem about his cat Misty. I like the way he used a different colour for the letters down the side.

Last but not least - here is the picture of the awesome tower you guys made last week at school. It's taller than Gyana! But very messy to clean up after knocking it over...

                                                      

Tuesday 18th August

Good Morning team 12! 

Thanks to everyone who shared work with me yesterday. You are amazing! Here is a checklist so you know what is expected of you today...

Have I:

• Watched today's blog video?
• Commented on the blog with the answer to the riddle?
• Shared some Reading, Writing and Maths with my teacher in the slide in my Inquiry folder?
• Told Mum and/or Dad to check their emails for my Meet time Wednesday or Thursday?

Have a fantastic day! (and don't forget to check out below the video to see who WON the 5X Dojo points for the BEST work yesterday! 

       

Today's Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

!!!!!!!WINNERS!!!!!!

Congratulations to Georgia and Moy. They are the WINNERS of Monday's DOJO POINTS for excellent work. Thank you to everyone who shared... I wonder who it will be today?

• I love the way that Georgia thought about lovely things to say and gave reasons on why she LOVES her Mum!  (Rachel, did you cry?). 
• Moy, thank you for checking your work and making it even better as I gave you feedback. It was lovely to see you trying your best and you had FANTASTIC full sentences for your comprehension! (I'm not putting a picture of your reading up, people might copy it ha ha - so I added your fish picture) x

 

 (AHHH! - Sorry.. I cant turn it round ha ha)

Maths Millionarie WINNERS...  1,000 House point's each!!!

• Alvin
• Arya
• Zoe

Monday, Term 3, Week 5 - Distance Learning Round #2

Hey Team 12!

Distance Learning Round #2 is here! :-) Please read the instructions below and watch the video. Good luck x See you at our Google Meet!

TO DO:

• Check and comment on the Class blog EVERY morning to see what we have put up. It might be a video or message from us, or some of your classmate’s work to comment on.
• We will email your parents later as to when you are having a Google Meet this week with the login code, most likely Wednesday or Thursday.
• We have shared a copy of the Distance Learning slides to your Google drive in your Inquiry folder.  This is where you will do all your school work please.
• You can share (assign @saraht or @katier) the work to us when it is finished and we will look at it (LOOK AT THE HOW-TO VIDEO I posted below). We will comment on some of your work and give you feedback. THE BEST WORK WILL GET 5 DOJO POINTS!
• We expect you to do some of the Reading, Maths, Writing and Toys Inquiry activities on these slides by the end of the week. You can do it in any order you like. A little bit each day is fine.
• You all have devices and know how to use them very well because we have learned a lot this year already. If you need help reading the instructions, ask an adult or older sister or brother to help. It does not have to be perfect but always try your best. 
• If for some reason you have forgotten your google drive email or password your parents can email me and I will send it to them. Remember all of you can access your school drive on any device with this email and password. 

Enjoy doing your learning at home and have fun. Remember your GEMS and I will see you soon online.

How to Comment and Add a Slide in Google Slides

Hey Team 12, This slide is in your INQUIRY folder. 

To keep your distance learning tidy, please ADD your learning to this slide like we do for Reading.

It will also be SUPER helpful if you can COMMENT (instead of sharing) so we can give you feedback. :-)

Here is a video on HOW TO COMMENT and ADD a NEW SLIDE.

Friday Eco Mufti Day :-)

 Did you find something 'green' to wear today?

Thursday Morning Message

 Such a lovely day today - get outside for some exercise maybe?

We've got this! xx

Don't forget your Maths Week (Wednesday Millionaire) bookmark - do the daily Quiz - Let me know how much money you get today in the comments!

Howick Historical Village

What a lovely day we had today. Check out all the photos we took. Can you remember the names of all the different toys we saw? Thanks heaps to our lovely parent helpers who came with us. xx

Jammies in June

This is ALL we did today parents... honest!

Thanks to everyone who donated!

The school got 176 pairs of pijamas AND made $1106.70 for Middlemore hospital. 

What a help it will be to have warm jammies this winter!

Dragon Writing from Assembly

Here are the slides we shared in Assembly today.

Remember,

If you hear a verb touch your nose. If you hear an Adjective, touch your head. AND if you are lucky enough to hear a simile - do a bottom boogie!

Autumn Descriptive Writing

A few weeks ago Team 12 went on a nature walk. 

We used our senses to talk about what autumn felt like, and collected things that reminded us of autumn.

When we got back to class we worked together to brainstorm and choose adjectives to describe what we had found.

We then started to write a poem about autumn.

Finally we published our work ready for display. 

Next time you are in the classroom come and take a look x