SCHOOL MURAL

Have a look at our school mural. 
It's in progress at the moment and shows significant events and some of Porritt School's history over the last 40 years. 
Brendon Blair is the artist. He's doing a magnificent job. It's looking fantastic and is almost finished.

BOOK WEEK

Book week was a lot of fun.
We dressed up as our favourite book characters and paraded on the front courts in glorious sunshine.

                Here are the Junior Best Dressed. 

Spiders, Binklebonk, Cat in the Hat and Fancy Nancy.

Later in the day  we all enjoyed the BIG read on the field.

CAT in the HAT

We have been doing an author study on Dr. Suess.
We found out that he was born in America and named Theodor Suess Geisel.
When he wrote books he went by the name 
Dr. Suess or he wrote his surname backwards and went under the name - Theo Lesieg.
He loved to make up words and use rhyme in his books.
He died 34 years ago at the age of 83.

We made our own "Cat in the Hat" hats.
We looked so cool.

                            

We also did some awesome pencil sketches and made ourselves look like Cat in the Hat characters on the ipads.

                                           

                  

SHAPES

       We found out that shapes are everywhere.

   Then we made shape pictures.

BIG BREAKFAST

Last week we had a HEALTHY BIG BREAKFAST for our Junior children and whanau, as part of our Healthy Eating topic.

We started at 7:30am (although the teachers were here much earlier) and people came in and out until 8:30. 

It was awesome eating breakfast and meeting with new people and catching up with others.

Lots of children ate new things they had never tried before. For example - tamarillo, scrambled egg and baked beans, to name a few.

Many parents were amazed just how much their kids could eat!!!

KAPA HAKA

The Kapa haka festival was on last week at Tamatea Intermediate. 
It was great to see ten Room 2 kids take part in this. The performances were awesome and everyone looked great in the new costumes. 
Well done everyone. You showed great commitment to Kapa Haka for over a whole term.

EXTINCTION

We have been learning about extinction this term. Here is some of the learning we have done during this inquiry.

Triceratops have 3 horns. They could grow as long as our classroom. That's 9 metres long and as high as our roof. With their little mouth they ate plants and twigs. They were not meat eaters.

People used to eat Moas.They only lived in NZ.
Moas had long legs. They laid eggs.-Ize
Moas ran fast. Their favourite food was twigs and water.-Elley-May
Moas ran fast and couldn't fly. They lived after the dinosaurs.-Angus
Moas had long necks and legs. They had feathers.-Raiven
A moa egg was 10x bigger than a hen egg.
Moas only laid one egg a year.
Moas couldn't fly off cliffs. They had small wings.-Osiris
Moas were taller than people. They had BIG feet and long necks.-Kieran
Moas could run fast but they couldn't fly.- Jerry

Woolly mammoth were BIG and they had fur to keep warm. They lived in the snow. They had BIG feet and a little tail.

Mammoths had big eyes. They ate grass and plants. They are extinct now.

By Tanith

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Miss Jones taught us about mammoths. They have tusks and were 4 metres tall. They were brown and they were fat. They had a fat tummy and they lived in the snow. They had BIG GIANT feet and they had a short tail. They had a twisty trunk and long legs. 

They ate grass and plants. They lived in BIG caves by trees.

By Marie

I watched a sabre tooth tiger movie. They ate meat and people.

They had long teeth. They had spots on their back too.

They are extinct.

By Hamiora

Sabre tooth tigers were really fast. They ate meat. They had long teeth and a furry chest. They were 2 metres long. They had sharp teeth to eat animals.

By Flynn