Our SCHOOL KIT metaphors and similes with Room 5's informational activity sheet

We had so much fun doing the crazy activities on the fun filled informational sheet about ourselves. Look closely and you will see some of the nutty things we had to do.

Look at our crazy metaphor cards. Our teacher is very proud of us!

We gathered together our metaphor and simile cards about ourselves....

and put them in with our class photo, hand fan from Tonga and our found poem.

We do hope Room 2 from Nelson enjoys looking at and reading all our crazy information!

Our Lenten Promises

Room 5 have been working on their Lenten promises for Lent and created posters to show their sacrifices and promises to do a Kind Act each day of Lent. They have been blogging their Kind Acts each day.

Below is a slide show of some of the Lenten Promise Posters created by the students.

Congratulations Summer Learning Journey Bloggers

Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator

Today, Rachel came to St Pius X to present our champion Bloggers with their certificates and prizes.

Mrs Middleton received a special chair for her classroom for supporting her bloggers in the holidays. She was grateful and appreciative of the comfy chair which is now a Birthday chair for students as well as a special seat for students who achieve personal success in their learning.

(See picture of chair below)

Below are the students from Room 5 who blogged some or all of the Activities from the Summer Learning Journey site. 

Back Row:Solomone, Cameron, Charis, Lily, Gabriel, Christopher, Etuale

Side: Diego

Front row: Silia, Akesa, Dianne, Opeti

Missing - Patience Makatesa

 These are the students from Room 5 who received special spot prizes.

From left to right: Silia, Akesa, Dianne, Opeti

Many thanks again to Rachel Williams and her team of commenters who made this exercise fun and worthwhile.

We look forward to taking part in the 2018 Winter learning Journey in the July holidays.

Kawa of Care

Most of the students in Room 5 have had their netbooks since 2017. We talked about reminding us of how we care for our netbooks and made some posters with important points to remember.

These are some of Room 5's tips for caring for their/your netbooks.

(No teacher input, students remembered on their own and shared their tips with the 4 new Year 4 students - proud teacher!)

Seven Sharp TV appearance

(Click on the image link to the video to watch the whole article - Room 5 students are at the very beginning and the main article continues featuring Rachel, Aaliyah and Katelyn)

On Thursday 8th February, Room 5 was filmed as the introduction for an article about the Summer Learning Journey. Katelyn and Aaliyah, 2 students from Nu'u Learning Space were heavily featured as they were the most active bloggers during the holidays.

Rachel Williams has worked incredibly hard setting up this Holiday Blogging Activity program and supporting the students as they blogged throughout the holidays, giving them comments and feedback.

St Pius X was blessed to be chosen to represent the Summer Learning Journey blogging program and are just one of many schools in the Manaiakalani cluster participating.

We at St Pius X are incredibly proud of the effort and commitment shown by the students blogging through the holidays and look forward to taking part in future Blogging journeys with Rachel and her team.

Lady of Fatima statue visit

 

St Pius X school was blessed by the visit of the Lady of Fatima statue. The whole school had a liturgy honouring and praising our Lady of Fatima, the mother Mary.

Room 5 posed in front of the statue and then wrote a recount of their personal experience of the event.

This is the recount of one of the students, Patience Maketesa.

Meet the mother Mary

I was very excited to see the statue and the sisters. The sisters were all wearing a dark blue and the statue was wearing white.

As we were saying the rosary my voice got tired and I lost my breath I couldn't talk or say the prayers as much because the prayers were so long!

When I came up close to see mother Mary I thought she was beautiful. Her cheeks were as pink as a rose, her crown was as bright as the sun and her clothing as white as a dove.

I think that Mother Mary looks real because her skin looks very smooth.

At the end each class took a photo with the statue with our rosaries and prayer cards. That was my favourite part of the visit.

That was a very fun experience meeting they Fatima statue, I hope I get to see her soon.

If you are interested in finding out more you can click on the extract below to read further about the tour of the statue and how it was organised.

"On January 11, Pope Francis blessed six statues of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and conferred upon them the title of “International Centennial Pilgrim Image of Our Lady of Fatima.” Each of these pilgrim images have since been sent from the Eternal City to a continent, where their pilgrimage will be focused."

Money Tips for Kids

Room 5 had a lot of fun learning how to be Moneywise with Tom and Abs, accountants from Price Waterhouse.

They also then did an hour with the ASB people about Financial Literacy.

Room 5 learned so much about how to be smart with their money that they thought it would be a good idea to make a movie and share their ideas with other kids and

VOILA!

Room 5's movie was made called Money Tips for Kids!

We hope you find a tip you can use to become more money wise!