An Un4gettable furry find

It seems that there are no arachnaphobes in room 4. This is a furry discovery of another member of the class. We believe that this is a fine specimen of the Wolf Spider.

NOTE the little babies around the mother spider....hmmm Friend? or Foe??

Tangrams game

Tangram Game

Click on the picture above and experience the fun of tangram shapes

An Un4gettable Autumn

The team have been outside looking at the signs of the season...Autumn.

We have been studying the colours and textures associated with Autumn.

Check out some of the pictures of the class plying and working with the leaves.

What amazing colours!!! How many colours can you see in these photos?

Sports Update with Sasha and Cory

It has been a busy weekend for un4gettable!!
Flynn and the Zappers lost to the Thornten Reds. It was 1-0. Nice try guys good luck next week.

Hope and Georgia had an awesome game. Special mention goes to Georgia and her team for their outstanding win over the Edgecumbe Planes 7-1. WOW, must of been a great game.

Us Rugby boys (Sasha and Cory - your handsome sports update reporters) had a hard game. We vs Ruatoki, a tough team but we pulled it off!! We won 25-5 . Go the JAB Bad Boys!!! Represent!!!

A big welcome to our 'mystery' visitor.

National Young Leaders Day 2010

While the rain poured in Whakatane, the sun shone brightly inside and out of the Rotorua Energy Events Centre yesterday. I (Mr Reade) took 10 Apanui School Leaders to the National Young Leaders Day 2010 conference in Rotorua.

The theme of this years conference was "PLUGGING INTO YOUR POTENTIAL" (Mr Robinson would have loved it).

Great speakers, awesome life changing advice and encouragement were being dished out like parking tickets.

Mr Reade even won a food eating comp in front of the thousands of onlookers as he gobbled up cheeseballs, cheerios and VERY creamy spongecake...all at the same time.

***Here are the Apanui Leaders with Television personality Dayna Vaudrey from Studio 2***

Japheths Jabber

Player of the day

Last saturday, we had a rugby game against Edgcumbe.
They didn't tell us the score at the end because we 'wasted' them!
My friend Cory and I both got three tries. Its our best game so far!!
I got player of the day and got a medal and its not plastic.
Sasha 8yrs

Macca's Joke for the week

"What did the bee say to the flower?"

A very special mother

My Mum is like a volcano,

because she sometimes growls at me.

My Mum is like a beautiful rose,

because she is always blossoming.

My Mum is like a flower,

because she smells nice.

My Mum ios like a blanket,

because she makes me safe and warm.

Rayvehn 8yrs

Making dreams come true!!

Congrats to all the children at Apanui for a great job with our Make.A.Wish Mufti day.
A massive $285 was raised to help kids have a wish granted.

If you are interesting in knowing more about Make-A-Wish Foundation then click on the logo above.
To make a donation to the charity, click the button below!!

Did you celebrate Matariki?

Here is a cool Matariki interactive game for you to play.

Matariki

What is Matariki?
Matariki is a small but distinctive star cluster whose appearance in the north eastern pre-dawn sky in late May, early June marks the start of a new phase of life.

Although there are tribal differences regarding the timing, celebrations most often begin at the next new moon after Matariki has risen. As with similar ‘moveable feasts’ in the western calendar, such as Easter, the exact timing varies from year to year but usually occurs during the month of June.

In ancient times Matariki arrived at the end of the harvest and was therefore a time of plenty for our ancestors. The kumara and other root foods had been gathered. The migration of fish such as moki and korokoro also made Matariki a time of bountiful catches. Visitors were often showered with gifts of specially preserved eel, birds and other delicacies. Matariki was a time to share and present offerings to others.

Matariki can be translated in two ways – Mata Riki (Tiny eyes) and Mata Ariki (Eyes of God). Either way the eyes are thought to watch over the land and its people.

Click the picture for more info!!

Click here for a cool Matariki word search (PDF)

Simon says

Haley has no 'hangups' about her education

Like games???????

If you like games then you will love this link.
This site has lots of fun 'educational' games for the whole family.

Tell us what you think!!

Game of the week - Cone Crazy

This game is great practise for your times tables.
Have a go!! Test a family member.



Did you like this game? Leave us a comment if you liked it.

A 'restful' day of learning for the Awesome 4some crew!!

Camp 2010 with Room 4 and 7

Solve this problem!

Work with your family to solve this problem...

Move only 3 matchsticks to make the fish swim in the opposite direction. Leave us a comment about how easy or hard this problem was! Did you work together as a team? Did you use equipment to solve it? Let us know!

Much thanks to http://www.blifaloo.com/mental/match2.php

Today in spelling...

Today the Awesome 4some team looked at the "Bb" sound.

We investigated all the words that we could find that began with the "Bb" sound.

We also looked at words that contained the sound in the middle of the word and also ended in "Bb"

Can you think of any words with the "Bb" sound in it? Can you find a word with more than 3 "Bb" sounds in it?

The reason for this type of learning is to help children to identify the sounds within the english language. A better understanding of these sounds will aide them in their ability to spell words and decode unheard or unseen words.

Cinquains

Today, the team have been looking at and learning about 'Cinquains'.

A cinquain is an oriental verse of five lines following the pattern of (1, 2, 3, 4, 1) words in each
line. A cinquain produces a fragile image or a delicate thought.

A cinquain pattern contains 1 noun, two adjectives, three verbs, a statement or feeling and the initial noun.

Check out some of todays cinquains from the Awesome 4some team.

'Spring
shiny, colourful
growing, opening, dancing
spring is like summerSpring'
(Kauri 8yrs)

'Spring
hot, steamy
boiling, heating, shining
spring is really warm
Spring
(Chloe 8yrs)

Food
smelly, tasty
staring, sleeping, crying
the food cries loudly
Food
(Christian 8 yrs)

A fond farewell

We would like to acknowledge one of our Awesome 4some that has recently left us.

Mercedes has been with us since the beginning of the year and has been a reall asset to the class atmosphere.

We are going to miss having her happy, caring, energetic personality in the class. We wish her all the very best at her new school in Kawerau and hope that she will leave us a message now and then to let us know how she is doing.

"All the best Mercedes, and remember that you can achieve great things, just by believing in yourself!!" - Mr Reade

Fun-damentals day

Yesterday, Apanui had the Sport Bay of Plenty team at our school. They were conducting tests on year 3/4 children to establish the levels of basic fundamental skills that the children have. This included jumping, running, skipping, throwing and catching. Some of our Awesome 4some got to participate and loved it!!

Well done team

(Photo shows Jo from Sport BOP instructing the children on fundamental skills)

A sad day for Mr Robinson and FORD owners across the country!!

It is with great regret that I must show you the levels that Mr Robinson had to go to just to get to school.

The photo speaks for itself.