Measuring is Fun!

Join us on our journey to creating, designing and making a letterbox.

First step:  Exploring dimensions - measuring various sized boxes to understand how to use a ruler, measuring tape and recording these measurements in our books.

Goal Setting - Meet the Teachers Evening

Wow what an amazing turn out of parents this evening!

It was so good to see your parents to talk about your goals and discussing the New Zealand Curriculum Standards in both Numeracy and Reading.

Thank you to all those that could make it tonight!

The Writing Corner

Writing is a lot of fun…especially if you have something to write about.

We have been learning to use images to think creatively and write stories.

One fine and sunny morning, my family went to the beach.  The waves were huge and high.  I had never seen such big waves in my life.  So, I took a swim in the shallow waters. As I was taking a dip, I saw this young teenager riding the waves on his surf board.  I was so amazed and wished that one day I would be able to do the same and maybe to compete in competitions and win some medals.
By Jonathan.

It's 'Island Time'!

Boy what fun we had learning about Cook Island dancing.
Today we had Mekania (Mrs Sa'u's daughter) come and teach us how to 'Ura' (Cook Island hula).
Mrs Sa'u taught the boys how to do the 'boys' hula.
We danced to both slow and fast drum beats.
Check out some of our experts!

Say "Cheese!"

Check out Peter's 'cheesy' smile!

Today was the first time Room 7 had experienced the taste of 'feta cheese'.

After reading the book 'Dimitri's Lunch' we had questions about what it was and what it tasted like…so Mrs Sa'u brought some to school for the class to try.

Here's what we thought...

The feta cheese was to salty, crumbly and too soft.   I didn't like it.

The feta cheese was yummy, felt oily and the tasted was sour.  (Fareed)

It smells funny, but it tasted funny and yummy.

Doing it for the community!

Wow!  Check out Mrs Taylor and her awesome family, sons Tre' and Hayden and her sister Losa doing some fine volunteer work for the community!  Well done!

Can you guess what they were doing with these buckets and why they wore these vests?

What VALUES do you think they were showing?

It's great to see our ex Pomarians using the values out in the community.

Nice work!

Where in the world?

Where in the world is Onemana Beach?

In the weekend my family and I were fortunate enough to stay at a bach across the road from this beach.  We left Auckland at 7:00pm and drove without stopping. We arrived at our destination at around 9:30pm and it was pitch black! We could hear the sounds of the waves rumbling, rolling and crashing onto the beach!

I couldn't wait to go for a swim the next day!

Can you locate this amazing beach on a map?

How long did my trip take approximately?

I went past these towns along the way - Kopu, Thames, Whitianga and stopped before Whangamata.