Digi Awards - We ROCK!

Last night a few families, very excited children and a few YMS teachers headed to the Aurora Centre to a find out what prize we may have won. We were all very excited and a little nervous. We weren't sure what to expect.

Well it was an amazing night.

Tayla - 1st Place in the Art Category (Year 1-3)

Aliz'e, Xavier, Thom and Richie  - 1st Place in the Movie Making Category (Year 1-3)

Kade - 1st Place in the Digital Sandpit Category (Year 1-3)

(entry to come!)

We also had wins in Rimu and Te Kakano, what a clever bunch we all are.

Each group received a prize for their hard work.

And at the end of the evening there was a special draw for a Chromebook and guess what?! The 4 boys won it and they have kindly donated it to the school. 

Here are some photos from the night:

Celebration Friday!

In Te Pihinga we are very creative and busy children, we love sharing our fantastic work with everyone. Lately we have been working in groups, pairs and as individuals to achieve our goals in literacy. Working together is helping us with our participation and co-operation skills. 

Celebration Friday is a time where we are able to share a piece of our work from the week, we are super proud of all of our work in Te Pihinga. Below are a few images during Celebration Friday, Ka pai team! 

Come check out our work from last week in TP! 

Some fabulous explanations 

The Loraxs sharing their diorama's to the class

K's diorama based on a journal text 

The Foxes sharing their work based on a text 

The Hortons sharing their restaurant menus

A pair sharing their fabulous menus 

The Sam-I-Ams performing their puppet show

                  

Hand made props based on a story from their guided reading session 

               

This Week's Writing Task

Walt: write a recount using Book Creator.

We are all working on writing recounts about Show Weekend. We are learning how to do it using Book Creator. Some of us are sharing them on our own blogs and some of them are shared here.

We hope you enjoy reading them.

Learning how to use Chromebooks

Some of Te Pihinga were learning how to use the Chromebooks today with Mark from Learn, Create Share. This is what some of them produced.

 Well done - it looks fantastic!