Our Town

Last week we wrote poems based on the poem, "Our Town" by James K  Baxter. We used the same structure to write about a place of our choice. Enjoy!

These students are buddy reading "Our Town" poem. 

Gracias Maria: Spanish Lessons

This afternoon, Maria (Leola and Violeta's mum) came in to teach us Spanish. Some of us chose to work with her as part of our golden time today. 

A big GRACIAS to Maria for her time. It is great to have parent expertise in the classroom!

We learnt how to introduce ourselves:



We learnt numbers 0-9

We are singing a Spanish number song


Here is a song that we will be learning in class: 

We learnt our colours: 

We have the "blanco" balloons.

Worser Bay Running Man Challenge

We have taken up the challenge. Worser Bay school presents...

THE RUNNING MAN CHALLENGE!

Now we challenge you. Schools of New Zealand...

#nzschoolrunningmanchallenge

Our Year 3 and 4 students took the challenge. What a lot of fun! 

 Thorndon School Challenge

Tauranga School Challenge

 Best of the Running Man Challenge

If You Learned Here: Worser Bay/ Tautoru Pages

We have come to the end of our project, "If You Learned Here". We have put together the pages for the global ebook. Our students have worked really hard to contribute to the project and they should all be very proud of themselves. We're all looking forward to reading the book... Watch this space!



Find out more at: ifyoulearnedhere.weebly.com

The Helping Circle

We have been reading a poem called, "Our Town" by James K Baxter. This week we will be writing our own version of the poem. As a group, we brainstormed places that we could write about and then we went off to work on our own brainstorms for our poem about our chosen place. 



At the end of our writing session we worked in a sharing circle. We read our brainstorm to a buddy and they read theirs to us. This is a great opportunity to edit and improve what we have written.  




Students have been helping each other to brainstorm what they can see, smell, touch, feel and taste in their chosen place. 

This links with our school focus about being connected. 

This is the poem that our students have been reading:

OUR TOWN

By James K Baxter

The town was usual enough; it had

A creek, a bridge, a beach, a sky

Over it, and even a small tin church

I never went to. My brother, my cousins and I

Did what boys do- dozed in the hot

Schoolroom, made bows and arrows, dodged the mad

Boat builder, crept like rabbits through the black

Under-runners with a weak torch,

Burnt dry rushes, wrestled or swam

Doing nothing important.

Connecting and Collaborating

Our focus this term is collaborating. Our Year 3 students have been helping our younger students to use Google Apps for Education (GAFE). Our Year 1 and 2 students have their own folders in our shared account. We are writing for our project, "If you learned here." We had a great morning connecting with people that we don't usually work with.

Swimming Begins

Swimming lessons started today!