YouTube: You either love it or hate it!

Hi Bloggers,

This week we did some focused writing around YouTube. In Parekowhai Class we LOVE YouTube but we're finding that it's full of the good vs the bad so this week we decided to locate some wonderfully useful videos that are fun yet educational.

To see the task in full, hop on over to our class site otherwise I'm handing it over to Patrick and Kanishka.

Patrick's Blog



Kanishka's Blog

 Don't forget to check out their blogs and let them know what you think!

 See you next time.

Miss B & Parekowhai C;ass

Term 3, Week 1

Hola Blogger Fanatics,

It's hard to believe that the first week of Term 3 has ended. The year certainly is flying by.

This term is a HUGE one for our school, Hay Park, because we are preparing for our big production which is based on the awesome book by Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things are. Have you heard of it?

So for our first week we have immersed ourselves in the story. Check out the Where the Wild Things Are page on our class site. The link is here. These were some of the tasks we have been working on this week.

One of our focuses was practicing reading with expression. Here is the fantastic Fatima reading the story with enthusiasm and expression:

Have a little look at the student individual blogs to see some more videos of the story being read and don't forget to drop a comment letting us know what you think!

See you next time!

Miss B and the Parekowhai Crew!

World’s Best Pancakes

Good Afternoon Bloggers,

We have finally reached the end of term and holidays are underway. Over the next 2 weeks I will be blogging about what I’m up to in order to keep in contact with my students in Room 6 and give them some ideas about what they can blog.

So it’s day one of the holidays and I decided to do something I can’t usually do at 11.30am on a Monday... Pancakes! I think I have found the best recipe to make these light, fluffy circles of mouthwatering delight.

This is what they looked like before I devoured them...

Topped with marvelous maple syrup, wicked whipped cream and a picturesque view of the Manukau Harbour. A glorious start to the holidays - wouldn't you say?

I think they're the world's best pancakes - but are they?

If you have enjoyed reading my blog posts why not leave me a comment and give me some cooking suggestions or check out my students blogs to see what they're up to. They can also found on this page.

That's all for now.

See ya!

Miss Berry - Parekowhai Class Teacher.

Digital Diagram of the Unsinkable Titanic

Kia Ora World,

Today the task was to share some work that I am really proud of. In class, I have been learning a lot about the ship called the Titanic which sailed from Southampton to New York. I have chosen my DLO a diagram of the Titanic. I created this on Google Drawing and explored all the different shape tools using them to create what the Titanic looked like before it sank.



I am proud to present this work because I think my model of the Titanic looks very similar to the real ship. I didn't really know how to use Google Drawing before doing this and now I can use it.

Have you ever used Google Drawing before? What did you do?

Have you seen the Titanic before? Let me know!

See you next time.

My Dog Sitting Adventures with Benji

Guten Tag,

Meet Benji.

Benji is my friend Jo's beautiful, white fluff ball. He is a friendly, playful dog and I had the pleasure of dog sitting for him on Saturday. My job was to make sure that Benji was fed, watered and walked so I took him on an adventure to Cornwall Park in Auckland.

Benji is quite an energetic dog so he ended up taking me for the walk instead. He likes to walk quickly and every time he sees another dog he pauses and tries to sniff their bottom. Eew!

At the end of the walk, we were both exhausted so we went back home. Benji had some water and gobbled up all of his dog biscuits. A little bit later on, I found him like this:

I was really sad when Jo came back and I had to say bye to Benji. Hopefully I will see him again very soon.

Do you have any pets that you look after? Let me know!

Blog you later!

Miss Berry.

Aboriginal Inspired Artwork

Hi,

Miss Berry here. Today I want to help my class improve their blogging skills and we have been working on lots of aboriginal inspired artwork that we want to show off. This is my model, please have a look at the students individual blogs for their wonderful work.

On Thursday 28th June it was Culture Day at Hay Park and we all wore our stunning cultural clothing and had the opportunity to share some cultural work with the whole school in our cultural assembly. We looked at Aboriginal Australia as our culture and created some cool artwork.

Here is my evaluation which shows how I did it and how I thought it went:



Feel free to comment, leave feedback and give me some suggestions on maybe what I could do next time.

Blog you later!

Aboriginal Inspired Art!

G'day,

So this week was our cultural focus. We spent the week preparing for our cultural day on Thursday. As a team, we decided on Aboriginal Australia and spent time planning, designing and creating aboriginal inspired art on canvas.

Thursday, the big day came along. Fehi, Ina, Mandita and Kanishka worked hard to practise their scripts so they could introduce and present our artwork to the whole school. They did a marvelous job. Everyone loved creating and presenting.

Have a look at this page on our class site to see what we produced!

Enjoy folks!

TTFN!

Can it Cheese?

Hello Everyone,

How lucky are we? School Kit very kindly sent us a science kit that allowed us to investigate the process of making cheese.

First of all, we tasted different cheeses: Cheddar, Feta, Brie and Blue Vein (moldy cheese - yuk!). We completed a taste chart to cheese descriptive vocabulary that best represented what we had tried. Check out Simon's taste chart to see what he thought of each cheese.



After that we followed instructions to make Paneer cheese. This was simple and needed only milk and lemon juice to create curds. Once the curds (lumpy globs) had separated from the whey (the liquid left behind) we strained the whey to leave the curds and then pressed if using plates and a brick. This then got rid of any remaining liquid so that once refrigerated, we had cheese.

We got to taste the Paneer and most of us liked it - so we filled out our final chart on the taste test. Finally, we used our taste chart to compile a guide for Countdown customers to help them choose different cheeses.

Check out Lucas' guide to Cheddar:

Check out Lillias' guide to Paneer:

We had great fun tasting, making and evaluating cheese. If you want to see more, check out our term 2 photo gallery here! You can also find our tasks and work around this cool experience on our class site here.

Let us know your thoughts. Comments are always welcome!

See you next time...

The Retelling of the Titanic Disaster!

Kia Ora Blog Fanatics,

This week we have been learning lots about the disaster of the Titanic. Most of us had seen the movie and were captivated by this historical moment.

The task was to create a DLO showing the true story of the sinking of the ship - NOT the movie, which we found out is a fictional love story created to make people want to watch it.

Here is Ina's Screencastify of her animation and story!

Enjoy and drop us a comment to let us know what you think :)



Until next time...

Vodafone Warriors Take Over!!

Howdy Bloggers,

What a busy week we've had in Parekowhai class. An enormous truck, with the Warriors logo plastered on it, came to visit the school. When it was unfolded, it became a mobile classroom. Room 6 were the first class out of the seniors to visit the truck. We went in on the Wednesday and Friday - 2 very wet days!

It was a Tu Kaha programme led by 2 fabulous people called Matua Tom - who is actually our very own Yazmine's uncle - and Miss Jess. They talked to us and did some awesome activities with our class around Hauora - which is our wellbeing. Check out some of our collaborative pieces of writing we did about what we learned.



Plug Alert!! Heaps of photos were taken on the 2 days that we were learning in the truck. Don't forget you can check out our 'photo gallery' here to see what other wonderful learning we do!

That's all for now. 'Til next time - keep blogging!

Miss B and the Room 6 Crew!

Bully Free NZ!

Hi guys.

Friday 14th May the whole of Hay Park turned pink to make a stand against bullying. The school council did a fantastic job of making sure that everybody had something pink so some people have bows and ribbons!

We spent the week leading up to it learning about bullying and the things we can do to prevent it. In Room 6, we're pretty good at being good friends and understand what makes a good friend. In our reading tasks we also spent some time looking at what bullying actually is. Did you know there are more than one ways someone could bully. Check out Kanishka's digital poster which shares the different types:

Hope you enjoy! Happy pink day!

See you next time!

Supermarket Sweep!

Buenos Dias Blog Fanatics,

So this week Parekowhai Class went on a visit to New World Supermarket. Prior to our visit we had the lovely Adele visit us from Heart Foundation NZ to talk to us about our food choices. We didn't realise just how much sugar is in lots of our favourite soft drinks! This photo shows just how bad it really is:

Adele also taught us the importance of being able to read the labels on food packaging so that we can make healthy choices. This helped prepare us for our visit to New World in Mount Roskill where we went round and compared some of the different food groups on show. We can now make healthy choices. Take a look at our photos to see how we got on.

It was so much fun - we even got a free lunch box to remind us what healthy choices we can make when preparing our lunch. Miss Berry was even given a $60 voucher so that we can plan and make our own healthy shared lunch. Watch this space to see what we decide to make...

That's all for now!

Room 6

Molley Green Community Day

Kia Ora Everyone,

Room 6 have had yet another busy week at the Hay Park Headquarters this week. Our highlight this week has to be the preparations for Molley Green Community Day - which was held on Saturday 10th March at Molley Green Park.

The brief we were given was to 'get creative in the kitchen' meaning create some delicious treats to sell. Fudge seemed like the way to go: simple to make, scrumptious to taste! So armed with our basic ingredients: icing sugar, condensed milk, chocolate and butter, two groups set to work creating fudge. It was hard work as once the condensed milk, butter and icing sugar were combined, it was really difficult to mix together!

Although not everyone was able to participate in the actual creation of the fudge, we all got to make a label to go on our product and some of us made posters to advertise it.

Finally, after 21 long hours of setting in the fridge, the fudge was ready to be sliced and wrapped ready to be sold! Check out our slides showing all our hard work and finished products!


We're happy to report that our product was the first to sell out on the day! Yippee!!

That's all for now brilliant bloggers! Don't forget, leave us a message and we'll get back to you!

Miss B and the Parekowhai Peeps!

The World's Craziest Excuses by Parekowhai

Talofa lava bloggers,

This week we have been getting our teeth into our class novel 'There's a boy in the girl's bathroom' by Louis Sachar. So far we have been enjoying learning about Bradley - who is quite possibly one of the naughtiest boys ever - and his never ending list of ridiculous excuses. That made us think about the different excuses we've heard or even used for various reasons such as why we forgot our homework or were late to school.

Check out these examples by Rhia and Kanishka. Aren't they silly? Let these two wonderful pupils know what you think to their excuses.



Have you ever used a ridiculous excuse? Comment and let us know what it was!

See you later,

Miss B and the Parekowhai Crew :-)

Parekowhai Class Assembly!

G'day Bloggers,

This week has been manically busy. We have all been busy little bees in room 6 preparing for the first whole class assembly of 2018. A huge task to take but no challenge too hard for us tough lot!

Our first assembly sees us show casing a few of the exciting adventures we have already had this year. Check out our learning slides - watch out for the video of us demonstrating how we show the Hay Park Way in room 6.


Let us know your thoughts!

Til next time

Miss B and the Parekowhai Crew

Welcome To Parekowhai Class 2018

Kia Ora.

Welcome back to the start of another fabulous year in Room 6.

Please browse our class newsletter to find out what's happening this term!

Miss Berry

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