Go Girls- Good Luck

Go Girls - Good Luck!

Good luck at the Dance Festival today!

Well Done Eli! Our Winning Dancer!

Well Done Eli!

We are so proud of you. Winning group at Hawke's Bay Dance Festival! What an amazing effort.

Buddy Class War Photographers

Today we did some drama based on the Simpson and the Donkey story. Rm 16 told us the story then we acted scenes. One of us pretended to be the photographer and when we 'froze' the frame - the image was 'taken'. Thank you Room 16 - you are great buddies.

Introducing Miss Fisher!

We interviewed Miss Fisher, our new student teacher, to find out more information about her.

Miss Fisher studies at Waikato University which is in Hamilton. She has enjoyed her first few days at Te Mata because everyone has been very welcoming. 

What Miss Fisher enjoys most about teaching is working with students and watching them grow and learn. She hopes to get to know each of us more and start teaching next week.

Miss Fisher has always dreamt of being a teacher, especially since she was a student at Te Mata.

Her favourite subject to teach is Literacy and she enjoys running and playing Netball. 

We hope you now know a bit more about Miss Fisher!

Interviewed by Amelia, Brooke and Arianna.

Learning to Write Exciting Titles and Beginning Paragraphs.

Today we went and played in the leaves and then had to write a title and the opening paragragh. How could we 'hook' our readers in so they would want to continue reading our work?

These are great examples and we decided we would want to continue reading these two great pieces. Well done!

Five Minutes of Autumn

We sprinted down the path with excitement among us. We smashed into the  piles of sharp crispy brown leaves, and sprung from side to side until we collapsed into the dirt underneath our dirty trainers and bare feet. As soon as we fell, our friends started to cover us in the dusty leaves and laugh tremendously loud using all the energy they had left in their fuel tank. The leaves rustled upon us, dancing around in the autumn wind. It felt like they were tickling us.

By Fletcher and Aston.

The Beauty of Autumn

We were shuffling towards the brightly coloured autumn leaves. We heard the rustling of the leaves as our feet sank into them. We felt the sharp corners and rough edges on the leaves as we delightfully  picked them up. Harrison was slowly getting buried under a mountain of leaves. Laughter floated up into the morning air.

By Daniel and Toby