Builders Collaborating

We saw builders working as a team, as they were passing the tiles to the guy on the roof, so he could place them on the roof. So then Damien and I went down with Miss Holland, to ask if you could do the job on their own, and I quote ''No, it could not be done on our own." Why?  Because it would take a lot of time for one person to have to get the tiles to the roof. There would be a higher risk of the builder falling off the ladder. When there are lots of builders working as a team, it will be easier and faster to get the roof tiled.

Oral Lanugage

Miss Smerdon had the fabulous idea of running an oral language programme each day in Learning Hub 3, and we love it!

Our learners take turns at filling each roll and every morning a few people present their on their area of expertise or findings (I'll let our students fill you in on the specifics of each role a little later on.)

For now, enjoy these videos showing off three of our talented presenters.

Damien shares his recent science experiment...

Damien Oral Language Science from Sarah Holland on Vimeo.

Our other Damien fills us in on roller hockey, his favourite sport...

Damien H Oral Lang from Sarah Holland on Vimeo.

and finally, Finn investigates a recent news story and shares it with us (you can find one of the original articles on the NZ Herald here)

Oral Language Finn from Sarah Holland on Vimeo.

The 'Wonderful Readers' look at Inferencing

Today everyone in the hub learned about Inferencing when we read.

The Wonderful Reading group - that's us, Courtney, Ruby, Meg, Damien P and Albert worked together with Miss Holland.

We worked together to find out the right meanings. To start with, we didn't really know what inferencing meant, so we used dictionaries and the internet to find out what it meant. Some of the meanings were confusing so we talked about what it could mean and helped each other.

Today we were in Building Knowledge - We Found out, Brought what we know, Brainstormed, Guessed and...

We were in Making Meaning - We Organized and Knitted together.

Tearno and I have decided that the next thing we will do is Apply Understandings. We need to collaborate and work as a team to have the same understanding. We will decide on one meaning together.

Here's some of what we think and know (we made it in Popplet):

We hope you liked our post and catch you later!

From Hossain and Tearno (from the Wonderful Readers)

McDonald's are coming to visit!

Hi everyone,

Today we got an email back from Mrs Rush at McDonalds and are very excited! They will be coming in to meet with us, talk about shade and look around our school.

By Edwin and Damien P.


We've been working hard and doing lots of investigation, trying to make our deadline of tomorrow. We have also decided to make morning tea for our visitors to make them feel especially at home. The presentation will go really well, I can feel it already!

Miss H

A Wet Day at Stonefields by Damien P.

Damien has been working on using similes in his writing and did a great job of including some descriptive word choices.

We went outside to get some new ideas and then Damien had a go at writing about a wet day here at school.

Check it out!

Damiens day outside in the rain from Sarah Holland on Vimeo.

"At outside of the school it was a yucky weather and everything is wet. A yucky weather is rainy day and it is a very cold day that it is just cold as a fridge. It is a windy day just like a tornado and it is very strong too but it is too strong that the umbrella will blow off and gone. All the rain made a puddle and then all the puddle went into the drain and all the drain water will go to the ocean. The entire raindrop is making dripping sounds and some sounds are loud and some is light. The rain clouds are blocking the blue sky and the white clouds. The wind is blowing the branches and it is just like a moving tree."

 By Damien P.