New Buddy Blogs

We now have our own individual blogs which can be found on the right hand side of our page. We will use our main page to repost some of our blog posts and share projects and things we do as a class.

We also have new blogging buddies from Marshall Laing Primary in Mt Roskill. Each student in our class is buddied up with a student from Miss Lobo's class. We are really looking forward to working with them. 

Check out some of the wonderful things we are doing 

Making Ice-cream

Hi my name is Irene and I’m talking about science. The teacher for science is Whaea Tepora. This week we made ice-cream. First we put ice in a big packet then we put rock salt with the ice to keep the ice nice and cold.

Next we put cream in a small packet and added vanilla essence. After that we put the small bag of cream into the big bag then shook it for 5 minutes.  Then you have got ice-cream. You can make other flavours too by adding different ingredients.

I hope you can follow these steps - if you do then enjoy your ice-cream.    

        

By Irene

DAWSON SCHOOL VALUES

DAWSON SCHOOL VALUES

These are our school values

TIKA- Means to be TRUTHFUL!

MANAKITANGA- Means to be CARING and RESPECTFUL!

AROHA- Means to show LOVE and AFFECTION!

WHAKAWHANAUNGA- Means to show sence of whanau a relationship working together to show community values!

AHURUTANGA- Means to have a SAFE place!

These values represent our Dawson school. The children at our school show these values.

By Tristan

International Friendship Day

  International Friendship Day

Rm 18 is participating in the international friendship quest.

We made a short movie about New Zealand & about us. Many other schools around the world joined this quest as well like Australia, Taiwan, USA, South Korea etc. Remember to respect and treat people friendly!

Check out our video below...

By Alana

Get Writing NZ

R18 has been super lucky to be involved in Schoolkit NZ's get writing activity. We completed 32 postcards and wrote some exciting metaphors to go on the back. We also did a Ko Wai Au sheet about our class with lots of interesting facts about us. One of things that was a surprise to us was how many kids we had in our families. Can you guess the total amount? We bet you can't!

An Unexpected Visitor!

Last week, during a routine lesson, Mrs Northey was interrupted by an unexpected prickly visitor shuffling along the deck between R17 & R18...a hedgehog!


Mrs Northey tried to coax it into Fogavai's spacious shoe, but it was too frightened. Instead, Helena sacrificed her jumper and Mrs Northey wrapped the spiky fella in a cocoon of material. Gently lifting 'Prickle' (as we named him) up, we took him/her to Whaea Tepura to ask advice. We learnt a few things during this time:
* Hedgehogs love eating snails and slugs, which means they are friends to our gardens.
* Bread and/or milk is not okay for them to eat - it will make them very sick!

We decided to place Prickle in the butterfly garden because it had a higher chance of not being trampled on by students at morning tea time. Room 18 enjoyed patiently watching Prickle surface from the confines of Helena's jumper. He took one sniff of the rotting pear we provided him then scampered off into the flax bushes.

Good luck little guy!

 

Mrs Northey 

Of all the teachers in Dawson primary there is one that has art skills and has a very good sense of humour her name is Mrs Northey and she teaches in room 18.

Mrs Northey is a pinkish peachy coloured skin person. She has reddish hair that she sometimes leaves hanging and sometimes does up in a ponytail. She wears black glasses that makes her look intelligent but other times she doesn't wear them.

To be continued....