Matariki Festival of Music?

Rm I have been practicing their rakau. When it is polished we will record a version!

Rm J Matariki Whetu

Who are the stars in the Senior Team? Rm J!
Check out their skills in the photos below. Mr Cribb has been training his class members to construct stars in a variety of materials. (Flax, paper and plastic).
They are going to teach us on Enviro Action Day this Friday.

An egg...the real deal!

KFC, our biggest hen, had been displaying some laying behaviour so we made sure we had fresh hay in their nesting boxes. Sure enough over the weekend when they had some peace clever KFC laid our first MSS bantam egg. Check it out below. 

Ms Ellis hen egg on the left and KFC bantam egg on the right

Are the chickens finally earning their keep?

Guess what we found today in the chickens nesting bag...

Hmm, seems very big for a bantam? Also it was cold like it had been in the fridge...

We, in Rm I, think that mischievous Maui (AKA Ms Ellis) is foxing us.

But we loved it!

Jigging with Thornton

Thornton talked us through fishing for trout in NZ waterways. We found they must be 35+cm to be legal. Thornton and his Dad fish off a boat. With jigging you carefully drop the line in the water, you don't swing it back and cast it out. The most fish Thornton has caught is 7 in one trip.

Rm I were very interested and had many questions that Thornton answered well.

Finished Sign!

The Awahuri Forest sign is finished and looking great. What a wonderful collaborative effort from the Enviro Team at MSS!

Maddie's Teach the Teacher

  What an enthusiastic and entertaining teacher Maddie was today in Room H. She taught us about internet memes and even organised a competition to make our own complete with prizes. Well done Maddie. 

Triad Learning

Each week we work together in our triad (group of 3) to complete Seesaw activities. This week because of illness we have had to mix up some of our groups.

Here we are trying to label and identify all the parts of the Food Pyramid.

Lightning has some ideas for this lucky group

TINANA TOA

Lots of fun for the senior team this afternoon as students were challenged to climb, jump, step, crawl and balance!

 

   

Haylee Teaches the Teacher

Today Haylee played a word game with Rm I. They had to create the template then find as many words as they could. Everyone enjoyed the challenge.

Mac's Spooky Halloween Jokes...

Mac has been busy entertaining the class with his jokes:

Mrs Palmer is so efficient she was posting Mac's Teach the Teacher as he did it!

What do you call a fat Jack-o -lantern?

A plumpkin

What do bats need after a shower?

A batmat

What time is it when a ghost comes to dinner?

Time to go...

What do little witches hope to get for their birthday?

A haunted dolls house!

What do ghosts eat for dessert?

Ice scream and booberries

Play dough in the Seniors????

 Kaden and his side kick Jack making play dough as Kaden's teach the teacher this week. We had lots of fun playing with it afterwards making snowmen and animals in a tightly fought competition. It took us back to our time in the Juniors. Thanks Kaden

Autumn Acrostic poems from Room S.

 We have been writing poems about ... yes, you guessed ... autumn. It took some very thorough planning. There needed to be a Simile, a hyperbole, an onomatopoeia, an alliteration, a personification and a metaphor. We also published these on Seesaw after taken a photo of autumn.

We certainly are getting better at using seesaw to record our learning. 

Hi Room I. We love all the work you do on the team bog.

Uenuku meets Elmo!?

This morning in Rm S our beloved Uenuku met Elmo the turtle. Uenuku was not sure about him, he chased her. She thought it was very strange that the rocks in Rm S move?!

Meet Teddy

Today Kyron brought his lovely 8 month old Yorkshire Terrier "Teddy" to school for his Teach the Teacher. Teddy was very cute and loved to sit and lie down on command...when there was a treat involved!