RAPUNZEL - BY MADDY

Once upon a time there lived a little a couple and they wanted a child.  One day the wife said, "I want some lettuce form the Witch's garden.  Please can you get me some." The husband said "Yes."  So he did. But when he got a lettuce the Witch said, "Moia-ha-ha!  I've got you now!"  The man said "My wife said to me that she wanted some lettuce from your garden."

"Fine.  Your wife can have as much lettuce as she wants,: said the Witch.  "But when the baby is born, you must give it to me.  Waa-ha-ha!" cackled the Witch and off she went.  The husband didn't really hear what the witch said.  He was worried.  The husband told the wife that she could have as much lettuce as she wanted.

The day the baby was born, the Witch snuck up slowly.  The wife said, "GO!"  but when the couple walked quietly away, the witch flew out of her hiding place and said, "Now you have to give her to me!"

The wife cried.  "Please don't!"  But the Witch already had left.  The wife cried again and again.  The wife cried all day long.  She never stopped crying.

The Witch locked Rapunzel in a tower in the woods.  The Witch visited Rapunzel every night.

One day, a Prince heard Rapunzel heard singing.  He said, "Follow that voice.  Find that girl!"  The men searched the woods.  They could not find the girl.  The Prince heard the singing coming from the tall tower.  He waited all night then the witch came and said, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel.  Let down your hair."  Rapunzel did.  The Witch climbed and climbed and then the big old mean Witch climbed down the big tower.  Then the big mean Witch said, "I will be back at 1pm."

The Prince came and rescued Rapunzel from the tower.  He took Rapunzel back to the Kingdom.  At 1pm the Witch came to the tall tower and said "Rapunzel, Rapunzel.  Let down your hair."  But she was getting married at the Kingdom and they all lived happily ever after.

THREE LITTLE PIGS - BY LAYLA B

Once upon a time there lived three little pigs.  One day the mother pig said, "you guys are old enough to find your destiny and you will have to make your own cottage."

The First Little Pig built a house out of straw.  Suddenly the Big Bad Wolf came and blew his house down.  The Second Little Pig built a house of sticks.  Then the Big Bad Wolf blew the Pig's house down.  The next Little Pig built his house out of bricks.  Then the Big Bad Wolf came and blew and blew but the house didn't blow down.  The Wolf had an idea.  He climbed up in the chimney.  He burnt his tail and they lived happily ever after.

THREE LITTLE PIGS - BY CHARLIE

Once upon a time, there lived three little pigs.  They lived in a cottage with their mother.  One day their mother said, "You must leave and make your house somewhere in the wood."  So the pigs moved out.

The First Little Pig made his house out of straw.  The Second Pig made his house out of sticks.  Lastl but not least, the oldest had a different idea.  He didn't make out of straw or stiks.  He made his house of bricks.  Close by the Wolf was spying on the pigs while they were playing.  Suddenly, the Wolf appeared and said, "Little Pig!  Little Pig!  Let me come in!"  but the Little pig said, "No!  Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!" 
"Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down!" said the Wolf.  And he did.

The First Little Pig ran as fast as he could to his brother's house. 
Knock, knock!
"Who's there?" asked the Second Little Pig.
""ME! Your little brother.  The wolf is chasing me!"
"OK come in." said the Second Pig.

Behind a bush, the Wolf was surrprised to see two pigs.  "Quick," said the pigs.  "Get in the house!"  The Wolf knocked on the door and said,
"Little Pig, Little Pig! Let me in!" said the Wolf.  The Little Pig said, "Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!" 
"Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in," said the Wolf.  And he did.

"Run, run!" said the Pigs and they ran to their big brother's house. 
Knock, knock!
"Who's there?" asked the Third Little Pig.
"Us!  Your little brothers." 
"OK come in,"  he replied
"The Wolf is chasing us!"
"Little pig, little pig!  Let me come in!" called the Wolf
"It's the Wolf!  Quick hide!"  said the pigs.
"Answer me!" shouted the Wolf.  "The door is locked!  OK I will climb through the chimney."

The pigs had an idea.  "Let's boil the water in the fire, before the Wolf gets in!"
"OK, boil it!"

"OUCH!" said the Wolf and he ran home and they live happily ever after!

CINDERELLA STORY - BY AVA T

Ava had been working on this amazing piece of writing of a few weeks now...

Once upon a time there lived three mean sisters and a young girl called Cinderella.  She had to do all the work because her mean sisters told her want to do.  One day they got a letter from the prince to go to the Ball.  They all were excited to go. 
Cinderella said "Can I come?"  but her mean sisters said "No, you can't.  Only us." 
Cinderella cried with sadness.  She wished that she could go. 

Suddenly in a cloud of smoke, a Fairy Godmother came. 
She said, "Did someone say wish?"
Cinderella said, "Who are you?" 
The Fairy Godmother said, "I am your Fairy Godmother, darling." 
"Can you help me?  I want to go to the Ball."  Cinderella asked.
"OK," said the Fairy Godmother.  With a tip of her wand she had a beautiful dress which has light blue sparkles that looked like stars.

No one at the Ball noticed that it was Cinderella.  So she went to the Prince's Ball in a carridge that actually made from a pumpkin.  Meanwhile, she got there just in time for the Prince to decide who he wanted to marry.  The Prince decided he wanted to marry Cinderella.  Cinderella was so happy, but it was midnight.  She ran as fast as she could but when she got to the end of the stairs the magic came off so she ran home. 

Cinderella had left her shoes.  The Prince was so sad that he couldn't even know her name.  So he had an idea.  It was to go to everyone's house and tell them to put on her shoe.  If it fits it would be her.  Then off he went.  When he got to the last house there was Cinderella.  Cinderella put on the shoe and it fitted!  Everyone was happy.  The Prince said, "What is your name?" 
Cinderella said, "My name is Cinderella."  Then the Prince and Cinderella got married and they lived happily ever after.

ATHLETICS!

On Wednesday we went out the the Massey University track for Athletics.  We had a great day participating in the different events.   We each had a turn at shot put, discus, sprints, hurdles, long jump and high jump.  Lots of parents came to support us.  We were so lucky with the weather!  It was a beautiful day and we had a blast.

Zac's mum came and took these awesome shots ...

And on Friday, Mr Bron presented Fai'ana and Quinn B with medals for being earning the most points for the Year Twos.  Well done kids!

CINDERELLA STORY - BY ELLIOT

Once upon a time there was a girl called Cinderella.  She had to do all of the jobs.  Then one day, an invitation arrived.   The stepsisters were bossy but they got invited.  Cinderella wanted to come bit she couldn't then... a Fairy Godmother came and she said "I can make you go to the Palace."  Just as she said it, Cinderella magically appeared in the Palace.  The stepsisters didn't even recognise her.  Cinderella forgot about her new clothes disappearing at midnight.  She ran down the stairs and the Prince ran down the stairs too.  She got her fancy clothes back and the Prince lived with Cinderella forever.  They lived happily ever after

THE THREE LITTLE PIGS - MAKE IT MONDAY

The First and Second Little Pig wrote to some of the kids in Piako Rua.  They needed our help. The Third Little Pig wants them to move out of his house.  The kids needed to help the Pigs by building them a house that the Big Bad Wolf can not blow down.  We were HOOKed. Of course we said that we would love to help.

The first thing we needed to do was to WONDER about all the learning we would need to be able to do in order to meet the success criteria.  The Pigs need to be able to build their house from materials that they find around their brother’s house. They need to be able to build it in one hour because that is how long it take for the Big Bad Wolf to get to their house from his.

We recorded all our questions down...

We are pretty good now at figuring out what we need to find out when we go to EXPLORE

Once we had finished our WONDER sheet, we moved through to EXPLORE.  Here is where figure out all the answers to our questions. Things we learnt today were:

• How long is an hour?
• How tall is 20cm?
• What materials are strong?

There were also lots of measuring, time and literacy things to do as well.

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Part of learning something new, is taking the time to stop and REFLECT.  You need to check that you know everything you need to know before you move on.  In Piako Rua, we have to complete a Checkpoint with the teacher so that we can prove that we have learnt everything we need.  Mrs Ruawai was in charge of the Checkpointing today.




Once we have figured out all we need to know, we go through to the Rainbow Room to ACT.  We draw a plan of what we want to make. We list the materials we need and then we go about making it.  The whole time we need to be thinking … does this meet the success criteria? If it doesn’t we need to make changes to our design.



The final stage of the process is REFLECT.  This is done once we have completed our design.  Today we tested our houses using Mrs Lunn’s Hairdryer!  Some houses blew away! Some houses stayed put. We decided that the best houses, the ones that didn’t blow away were all heavy!

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We complete a REFLECT sheet.  We decide if we have met the success criteria and have a think about what we would do differently next time to improve our design.

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There are some pretty CREATIVE houses that were made in Piako Rua today!
Well done kids!

NEW INDEPENDENCE LICENSES

Congratulations to the children that have moved up an Independence Licence Level!  These kids have show that they are SELF MANAGERS as well as being COMPETENT at a variety of things including Writing!  Well done guys!

Our new Press Pass kids...

Our new Platinum Press Pass kids...

AND

Our new Candylanders!  Hooray!

FRACTIONS

On Friday in Maths we were learning abut Fractions.

Mrs Lunn held a Game Show all about Fractions. We worked in teams to come up with the right answer.

You can help us at home by getting us to do the quiz an see how many we get right!

CINDERELLA - MAKE IT MONDAY

Word must have gotten out!  We are expert problem solvers. We had ANOTHER fairytale character email us today.  Keira read the email out to the kids



Cinderella is tired of her shoes falling off and needs our help to her a pair of shoes.  Cinderella had some pretty strict success criteria that we needed to met.  We were super excited to see what we could make for Cinderella, especially when one of the criteria was that the shoes need to have another use!  What on earth could we do for that?  We WONDER!!!



We brainstormed all our ideas for what we could do!

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Once we had though about what we needed to find out about in EXPLORE, we went through to the other room to get started on our learning!

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Part of being a SELF MANAGER is knowing when you are ready to move onto the next stage in the Learning Process. For us, this is going to our REFLECT CHECKPOINT.  Mrs Kenyon checkpointed us to see if we were ready to move onto the ACT part of our Learning Process.

Once we passed the checkpoint we were able to move through to ACT in the Rainbow Room.  

Look what we came up with!

Royce made Cinderella a hover board.  It's pretty cool!

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Ryla, Ava-Rose and Holly P had a great day making their shoes - lots of pink and strapy shoes today!

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  Keira, Charlie and Amelia made their shoes that could also be used as handbags!  Now that is clever.

Lauren and Katie made a strap so Cinderella's shoes will stay on.

Once we had finished making our shoes we needed to REFLECT.  Did our shoes meet the Success Criteria?  Lots of them did.  We hope Cinderella likes them! .             .