Meadowbank Tour

Olivia, Zoe and Kayla made a video for our friends at New Town.  Watch the tour of the Senior Side of Meadowbank School.

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Swimming Sports

On Monday the Year 3's had their Swimming Sports.  First Mr Ratcliffe called the first swimmers out.  We had races for students who needed a kickboard,  or non competitive and competitive races.

We had lots of fun watching everybody race.  Everyone had an awesome time.  I raced in the freestyle first and I came 2nd in my race. In backstroke I came 3rd. I found the backstroke more tiring but I managed to finish.

My favourite part was when I started last then I raced quickly to finish in 2nd place.

By Kayla

Our Mihi - All About Me

Ka pai to Olivia and Parker who were very busy today videoing the class doing their mihi.

A mihi is an introductory speech introducing yourself.

In Room 19 the class have been learning to say their own mihi and practiced saying each line in Maori.

Ko ____________ ahau - My name is ................
Ko ____________ taku mama - My mother's name is ...............
Ko ____________ taku papa - My father's name is ...................
E _________ oku tau - I am _____ years old
Ko _________ taku hoa - My friend's name is ....................

As the year goes on we will keep adding to our mihi to mention our siblings, river, mountain, and so on.

Can you say yours?

mihi from ula on Vimeo.

Our Connections

This map shows our class heritage. We are all from different cultures and a lot of our families and ancestors are from different parts of the world. Find out more about us. What is your culture? Where are your family links or ties?

Created with Padlet

More Meadowbank Tour Guides

Zoe's Video
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Stellan's Video

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Leo's Video

2015-03-05 11.44.52 from ula on Vimeo.

Milan's Video

2015-03-05 11.48.05 from ula on Vimeo.

Kayla's Video

2015-03-02 12.34.40 from ula on Vimeo.

Jolee's Video

2015-03-02 11.52.41 from ula on Vimeo.

New Town Elementary's Video

In an earlier post we showed a video of Olivia and Zoe introducing our school to New Town.  Today we were excited to have received a video from our friends at New Town sharing about what they have been doing at school.

Thanks for the video New Town Elementary!


NZ video from Stephanie Geoffrion on Vimeo.

Here is the link to their school website. http://newtown.ucps.k12.nc.us/

More Tour Guides...

Katerina's video.

2015-03-05 11.42.15 from ula on Vimeo.

Lennix video.

2015-03-05 12.07.36 from ula on Vimeo.

Parker's video.

2015-03-05 11.40.52 from ula on Vimeo.

Your Tour Guide Today Is Lucy

2015-03-03 14.23.05 from ula on Vimeo.

Sit back and enjoy the Tour of Meadowbank School

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Introducing your Tour Guide....Dylan

2015-03-05 11.35.15 from ula on Vimeo.

Amelia welcomes you to Meadowbank School

2015-03-05 11.42.35 from ula on Vimeo.

Meadowbank Tour Guides

In writing our task was to describe Meadowbank School  We talked about what we would show if we took a group (tour guide) around the school.  The class brainstormed all the things we have at Meadowbank from buildings, playgrounds, the Gully, Garden to Table to the school pool.

The students wrote in their writing books what they would show.  They used a map of the school and went around with the ipads taking photos.

The students then used PuppetPals an app on the ipads to publish their writing.  Here are some of our videos.  Watch this space as we will be uploading more videos.

We would love to read your comments and feed back.

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2015-03-05 11.53.54 from ula on Vimeo.

Video to New Town Elementary, Waxhaw, USA

We have written letters and have sent videos to our friends at New Town Elementary, North Carolina, USA.   Here is a short video we sent last week introducing ourselves and school.  In Concept or Topic we have been learning about connections and whanaungatanga.  Our connection to New Town is through Miss Lologa who taught there for three years.

We are looking forward to hearing back from our friends soon.



NewTown from ula on Vimeo.

Totara Reading Task

Click on the link.  http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/

You are to go on the website and read the latest current events.

Choose an article that you are interested in.

In your own words you are going to post a comment on this post about what you read.

What happened?
Where did it happen?
When?
Why?
How?

Use these questions to help you with your post.  Remember when you are done just leave your first name under your paragraph.

http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/

Our Awesome Tennis Day

Yesterday we had Nick from Auckland Tennis to teach us some tennis skills and techniques.We played down at the courts by the school library. First we warmed up by doing a hand clap while side stepping to the end of the court. Next we got into groups of five and lined up behind a cone and did some warm ups again by going round a cone e.g. Olympics skipping and side stepping. After that we got into pairs and grabbed a tennis ball. In pairs we put our hands together and we pretended it was our net.

 When we had got our hand net together and hit the ball over the net with our hand. Next in pairs we got one tennis racquet per pair and gently placed the racquet's on the hard surfaced court. With the racquet on the court we threw the ball up and then tried to hit the strings of the tennis racket when the ball bounced and your partner was meant to catch the tennis ball when it bounced back up. If you did that you got one point. The aim was to get the most points as possible. 

After we had done about ten minutes of doing that we picked up the tennis racket and took turns hitting the tennis ball. This is how we played it, first someone threw the ball so it bounced and then the person holding the tennis racket had to hit it and the person who threw the ball had to try to catch the small tennis ball and then if you did all of that then you scored a point.

 Finally we both got a tennis racquet each and found a line and we pretended it was our net. In our pairs we were volleying over the fake net and we had to try to get as much over the net in a row. It was really hard to get a lot in a row because we did`t have much room to move around. Everyone was really hot by now but luckily it was the end. Everyone said "thank you nick" and silently lined up and went back to class. 

When we got back to class everyone had a big drink! 

The End!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By Zoe



Tennis day for Room 19

Tennis Day for Room 19

Yesterday on Wednesday we had a tennis teacher Nick teaching some year three classes tennis skills.

We played on the courts near the library.

First we did some clapping with a partner across the court.

Next we did some side stepping and olympic skipping in groups.

After that we got back with a partner and grabbed one tennis ball.In our pairs we got hands together and we pretended it was a net.We started throwing it over our arms and tried to catch it.

Then we put the racquet one the ground and tried to hit it on the racket so it would bounce to the other person.

Then we got a racket for everyone and tried volleying over a line. After that we were so tired luckily it was the end. Nick gave our teacher some letters so we could have a tennis lesson there!!! 

By Hannah.