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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 :-)

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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.