Crazy Commenting!

This week we have been learning about leaving positive, thoughtful and helpful comments. We worked with Miss Morgan and watched a video about being true and kind online.

Then we talked about how to leave a comment and what we wanted other people to know when they were commenting on our blogs.

We decided to make some animations because we love doing them. We made animations to teach people how to be positive, thoughtful and helpful! We looked at Devran's animation and we really liked how he made a pretend computer screen and blog comment with his two characters!

Have a look and see what you think!

The Art of Hokusai and Haiku

                          Here is another of our block prints and haiku both done by Peter.
                          The haiku says:        Japan is so far
                                                           away.  Little house of wood
                                                           the mountain green, white

Japanese Art and Writing in Te Mahuri Tahi

One of our class Paige, is in Japan, before she left she showed us pictures of Japan. We then looked at the art of Hokusai,  a famous Japanese artist and made prints like he did of Mt Fuji. We wrote Haiku to go with them. It was tricky counting the syllables but we think our Haiku are really good. 

This is Hendrik's, it says:

Lava is so hot

Volcano is erupting

Volcano is hot

Pink Shirt Day

Today has been Pink Shirt Day. Lots of people wore a pink shirt to school to stand up and celebrate the fact that we are all different. No one is the same as each other and we all have different things that we enjoy or that we dislike, things that we need more help with or something that we're amazing at!

We know that even though someone might look, think or be good at different things to us, it is a positive thing, otherwise our world would be pretty boring! At YMS we're all HEROs and TM2 decided that we thought celebrating the differences in other people would fit into being an Open-Minded Explorer!

How have you been an Open-Minded Explorer this week? Have you celebrated Pink Shirt Day?

Cross Country

Our Cross Country was on Friday and we all were really excited to have a go. Some of us found it really easy but some people found it tricky. The main thing was that we all tried our best and were great Open-Minded Explorers by trying something new!

We had to run 1500m, which is 1.5km!


We started running at the triangle and then had to follow the markers around the big field, down the side of the Wharehui, around the edge of the little field, out past the teachers' cars and then all the way down to the domain, plus all the way back!

We were pretty puffed, but we were all proud of ourselves for trying our best! We have worked really hard to practise our running and build up our stamina to run further than the last time and now we might keep it up by working towards running for a whole marathon over this term with Mrs Dods and Ms Lange!

Have you done your Cross Country run yet? Or are you working hard on something else?

T2W1 CyberSmart

This week for Cybersmart we have been being detectives! We had to find out information about Miss Morgan and her dog Cooper by looking at their blogs.

We had to screenshot and make a list of all the things that we could find out.

Have a look at the slides we made using the information. How else could we have found out about Miss Morgan and Cooper?

Please leave us a comment!

Welcome to Term 2!

We have been welcoming our new children at Yaldhurst Model School with our Mihi Whakatau. We also celebrated our HERO's and their awards.  Angel-Mey got her 100 award, Alex got her 40, Ruby got her 60, Devran got his 100 and Zara got her 40.  

Our HERO awards are for people who have lots of HERO cards. We get HERO cards for being a HERO (Healthy Individual, Enthusiastic Learners, Responsible Citizens & Open-Minded Explorers) in class and showing our HERO values. When you get to 100 HERO cards you get a badge which says YMS HERO 100! Angel-Mey and Devran have now got their badges and can wear them every day on their uniform.

What values does your school have?

Digital Art

For our digital art this week we have been doing animations. We've had to use CTRL+D to duplicate a slide, use Explore tool to add in backgrounds and characters and we've also practiced using the mousepad to drag and resize as well as some grouping to move our characters around.

We shared some of our animations on the TV and we were super impressed with Ema-Leigh's! She's worked so hard on this at school and at home! She has 609 slides!!!

Have a watch of her animation below and leave her a comment! What did you like the most?

Amazing Tapa Cloth Art

This term we have been working on making tapa cloth. Tapa cloths are when you have 6 symbols about things that you care about or you like. Lots of different countries use them, but mostly in the Pacific Islands like Fiji or Samoa. Tapa cloths have lots of unique designs to show different personalities from different cultures.

We picked 6 things that mean something to us and used chalk and oil pastels to create our designs. 

Some of us have finished them and they're ready to be dyed but some of us are still working hard on them.

Have a look at the pictures we found on google and compare them to our colourful versions. What is the same and what is different? Leave us a comment :)

Jump Jam on World Happiness Day

Yesterday was World Happiness Day and Brett from Jump Jam came to school. He did fitness with us and we danced to lots of music.

We danced to the minion version of YMCA, Afro Circus and the Coconut Song. 

The best part was listening to the minions and the Afro Circus songs. We made letters with our arms for the YMCA and made chicken beaks with our hands. We also got to play imaginary drums for the Coconut Song and stretch to reach our toes with our hands when we sat down.







We think that it was even better than doing GoNoodle and dancing along to their videos.

Thank you for reading our blog post and please leave us a comment. Tell us what you think of Jump Jam. What is your favourite song to dance to?

Pick A Path Story

We have been writing a Pick a Path story to teach people how to be a YMS HERO at school.

We took something that might happen to us and turned it into a story. There are lots of options you can pick from. Some of them are the bad choices and some of them are the good choices. We should be using the good choices to make sure that everyone is happy and safe in our school.

Sometimes people will get angry, sad or frustrated but it is important that they think before they do or act. If they are feeling grumpy and they don't think, they might end up making the wrong choices.

Have a read of our Pick a Path story and use the links to choose which choice is a good one! Some of these end happily and some end sadly. Please leave us a comment to tell us which one you chose! :)

Hobo Stoves

Hello everyone! We are making Hobo Stoves at school camp so that we can roast some marshmallows and make smores. We have been writing a set of our own instructions. You could test our instructions out and make your own smores!

To make a Hobo Stove you will need:
Dry sticks and leaves
Newspaper
Matches
Large tin
Tin Snips
Nails and a hammer OR a can opener/bottle opener

How to Make a Hobo Stove:
1. Cut eight holes around the middle of the can.
2. Cut a flap at the bottom of the can using the tin snips.
3. Cut the top of the can off.
4. Snap the sticks in small pieces so they fit inside the can. If they don't snap then they are too wet.
5. Scrunch up some newspaper and put it and some leaves inside the can.
6. Put the snapped sticks inside the flap of the can.
7. Light a match and set fire to the leaves, sticks and newspaper.
8. Let it set fire and then slowly put in extra sticks.
9. Roast marshmallows over the fire and make smores.

Thank you for reading our blog. We hope you enjoy your smores - leave us a comment and let us know how your Hobo Stoves worked out!

Our Favourite Place in TM

We have a great classroom with lots of colourful walls, displays and some cool as wobbly chairs. Lots of people's favourite place is our reading corner because it's a quiet chill place where you can go to calm down if you need it. Stella, Dakota and Dylan really like this spot. We have a colourful rug and some comfy cushions.

The small room is also a good space to calm down and it's really quiet to sit and work quietly in. Sahil really likes this space. Angel-Mey really likes the teaching jelly bean table because it's got wobbly chairs and they help her concentrate. Bridie really likes the mat because she likes sitting down and listening. She think's it's comfy and really nice to sit next to people.

Devran really likes our Carb Break tables because he gets to make his own yummy sandwiches when he's hungry at Carb Break time! Riley and Levi love the calm down box area because there's lots of stuff to help people calm down.

We made a graph to help us with our statistics and probability learning about where our favourite places in our classroom are.



What do you think of our graph? What's your favourite place in your classroom?

Our Class Novel

Since the beginning of school this year we have been reading Roald Dahl's book called The Witches. We have been pretending that our teacher Miss W is a witch but the book is great.

We have heard all about the narrator who lives with his grandmother and ends up accidentally going witch hunting. The Witches are all disguised as ladies and they really like to turn children into strange things.

We're really enjoying reading the book each day - you should read it too!

Have you got a class novel for 2019 yet? What is it and is it good? Perhaps we should read it next!

TM2's Class Treaty

In TM2 we have a class treaty. We have to follow the things on our treaty so that we're being a HERO and being responsible. It reminds us how to act so that we can learn. Our class treaty helps us to remember to think before we speak, use safe hands and feet and kind words. 

It pretty much means that we're just being nice people and showing respect to everyone no matter who they are in our classroom.

We also have to be CyberSmart and look after our devices and ourselves when we're online. We make sure that we're kind, sensible and safe online. We also make sure that we use Des and Troy when we're carrying our Chromebook.