End of Year Trip

What a great day Room One and Three had today!
Visited the park, a tour of the police station, swim at the pools and lunch at St Josephs school.

Terrific Tennis

Check out our terrific tennis from today.

Milo Cricket

Wooooo hoooooo - cricket is cool!

We learned the correct way to catch, throw and hit small balls to be able to play cricket.
We need:
- soft hands
- keep our eye on the ball for catching and hitting
- look where we want the ball to go for throwing
- run fast
- work as a team

Arguments?

Room One have discovered that they love sharing their opinions and giving reasons why they think something and that is what argument writing is all about.
We have been exploring some tools to help us organise our thinking so that we can write excellent arguments.

1/ Lines of continuum
At one end you very strongly agree with something and at the other end you totally disagree.

2/Thinkers' Hats - Yellow and Black
When we use the yellow hat we are giving reasons that we see as being positive.
If we use the black hat we are giving negative reasons.
They help us to remember whether we agree or disagree.

Here is our statement can you work out what we thought?

Check back later to find out what our fantastic reasons are.

I wonder who will use their black hat and who will use their yellow hat?

November 10 - What a Day!

Mother Nature was kind to us and gave us a perfect day for inter-school cross country other than a bit of wind. Congratulations to the following children for their outstanding effort and commitment in both their running and behaviour when outside of the school:

5yr old girls
2nd - Shianne
5yr old boys
1st - Ben S
6th - Rikardo
6yr old girls
10th - Chloe
6yr old boys
1st - Conor
11th - Sean
7yr old girls
5th - Bronlee

In addition and no less fabulous was the feedback I got as a teacher on our return to school. I'm thrilled to say that Mrs Jones reported that ALL the rest of Room One demonstrated brilliant manners and 110% commitment to their learning and behaviour. Well Done!!!!!!! I am exceptionally proud of you all!

Sailor, Spoke and Asthma

Today we had an exciting visitor to Kuranui School.
Kim from Project Energize came out to talk to us about asthma - what it feels like and what we do if we get it. Some of the children from Room One and Room Five shared what they do. Kim then told us a story about one of the Home Play challenge characters we had met earlier this year, Spoke, who discovered she had asthma. Her family got her a puffer fish to sit next to her bed to remind her to take her preventative puffer every morning.

Spoke's fish was called "Sailor" and here he is:

The stinky witch

A stinky witch enters the room, a crocked hat sits upon her head. Her eyes are as bruised as someone who has fallen off a cliff.
A firey broom stick flashes through the air as smoke fills the room. The people scatter like autumn leaves falling from the trees.
I love Halloween!

By Bronlee

The Skeleton

The naked bones rattle while the skeleton dances in the dark.
The skeleton glows in the dark just like a glow stick.
The bones smell like they have been buried under ground for 10,000 years.
What a rattly old skeleton.

By Ben

Halloween Dance

Twas the 28th of October and all through Tapapa Hall smoke and mist swirled and twirled to the beat of the Zombie Dance.
Check out our gorgeous costumes - can you tell who everyone is?

Most of all - a HUGE thank you to the fundraising committee for all their hard work and creativity which ensured a fantastical night was had by all!!!!!!!!

**NEW** Online Books Page

Please check out our new "Online Books" page for a selection of stories to listen to, read along with and just enjoy.
What language features can you hear?
 - similes
 - adjectives
 - specific nouns
 - alliteration
 - rhyme

Happy Holidays to all...

Just so that the All Blacks know that we wish are thinking of them even during the school holidays.

RWC vs Maths

After an exciting weekend of rugby and league we were clever kiwis and put these events to great use to explore and challenge our mathematical brains.

What strategies can you see in action?

Here's a question for you all, please post answers as a comment with your first name and age.

Imagine a Try = 5 points, a Conversion = 2 points and a Penalty = 3 points


The All Blacks scored 38 points in total and the Wallabies scored 36 points. 
How might each team have earned their points?   e.g 1 try, 8 penalties, etc.

Budding Builders

Woooo hoooo - "Construction Day" has arrived.
Check out our fantastic building, we can now use our mimio board all the way to the tippy top.
A huge thank you to Mr Vincent and Mr Taylor :-)

View all

Get your own

Racy Room One Runners

The sun rose over a crystal clear Waikato spring day.
The dew had dried by the time the first runners left the blocks and I'm pleased to say we had a 100% attendance day at school, so it is with pride that we can recognise that every single child who attends Kuranui School ran and completed cross country.

Here are some of the amazing runners from Room 1 - as your teacher I am bursting with pride for each and every one of you!!!

X-country training

Our cross country is coming up soon and as you can see we have been training very hard.
We all have our own personal goals but most importantly our aim is to run our best and never give up because that's what true Kura Kids do!

The Racy Runners of Room One

Bronlee’s Shell-less Egg

This was our exciting class news today. 

We used this cool opportunity to practise our growing questioning skills.

Thank you Bronlee for answering us so clearly, we all learnt lots.

Questions:

1. Where did you find it? (Shianne)

In the nest when mum went to get the eggs in the morning.

2. Why did it turn out like that? (Conor)

Because the hen didn’t get enough grit and the egg wasn’t warm enough.

3. Why does your mum like getting the eggs? (Madison)

Because we like eating them and soon we might be selling them in the newsletter.

4. Why does it feel scaly? (Rikardo)

Because that’s just how they feel.

5. Why did it crack a bit? (Jacob)

It might be the way its been sitting in the box.

6. Which chicken was it from? (Brendon)

Do you mean like which hen laid it? One of our black hens maybe because she was the only one laying out of that pen of chickens.

7. Why does your mum do the eggs night and morning? (Dylan)

So that if the hen gets off it, it doesn’t go cold and the chick dies inside it.

8. How does it get warm or cold? (Conor)

If the hen sits on it her feathers keep it warm but sometimes she’s not actually sitting on it or she might be playing with the other hens or getting some food or water.

Madison said – just like how Mrs Jones warmed Ms Daniels’s seat.

9. When did the hen lay it? (Benjamin Y)

Yesterday.

Procedural Writing - Shoulder Stands

We are learning how to write procedures.
We had to include a list of things we needed, then practise our shoulder stands so we were clear about what we had to write.
Next we wrote our instructions and then tested them to make sure we hadn't missed anything important.
We recorded us performing shoulder stands in pairs according to the instructions we wrote.

You can check out the actual writing on our Room One Writers Blog.

Kuranui School All Blacks Support Message

Dear All Blacks
Kia Kaha!!!
We are behind you all the way.

Arohanui
Kuraui School in the Mighty Waikato.

The Gruffalo Show

Woohoo, grimble, grumble – with a slash of wind off sped the big yellow bus to Rotorua on Tuesday 30 August to watch The Gruffalo. The windy roads made me feel dizzy. When Room 1 and Room 3 reached Rotorua, it looked wonderful with all the flowers showing but I’d better tell you a secret, Rotorua stinks a lot!

Finally we got to the show, the mouse was as funny as a clown as he tiptoed behind the gruffalo, poking her tongue out and wiggling her bottom.  The gruffalo roared like a lion and was a bit scary but in the end he was afraid of the clever little mouse.

At the show we had all felt hungry so we leapt back onto the us and zoomed off to the park. We gobbled down some food and played on the playground until it started to drizzle really hard.

Mrs Goodwin drove us safely back to school just in time to eat more food. What a great day, I loved The Gruffalo show!

Combined writing by:

- Conor, Bronlee, Sean, Jacob.

Wooo hooo - Gruffalo here we come!

Tomorrow we are off to the Gruffalo show with Room 3 - it is extremely exciting.
Please remember to:

• Bring your lunch, a drink, shoes and a warm jersey.
• Pack your best manners, 5-star listening skills and super 'Kura Kid' attitude.

Get a good night's sleep and see you all bright and early in the morning.

Arohanui,

Ms Daniels

Click here to link to Gruffalo site