Well done Hannah!

Congratulations to Hannah G for earning our latest excellence award for LZ6! Well done for being such an active member in our quadblogging Hannah - you were fantastic at visiting our blog buddies and leaving comments on their posts! I liked the fact that you did this both at school and at home in your own time - you are a superstar!

Quadblogging week 4...

This week is the final week of our quadblogging group and we are back in New Zealand visiting Carlton Primary School in Wanganui. It has been a really busy time for us at MHP with the exciting arts festival last week but we hope to get a chance to visit their blog and post some comments for them. To visit them just click on the picture link above.

Look at our amazing art exhibition!

We are very proud to show off all our AMAZING art in the arts festival this week! The whole hall is filled with panels of our work and there are over 700 pieces on display! Everyone in the primary school has a piece of work on display...and LZ6 kids have several! Come and check it out if you get a chance!

Quadblogging week 3...

Our quadblogging continues this week with Hertford School in the United Kingdom! We look forward to visiting them and seeing what they are up to. Don't forget you can leave comments for them from home as well - just ask mum or dad to help you if you are not sure!

Fancy Feet!

Last week it was Travelwise week at Mission Heights and we got cool prizes for walking and riding to school instead of coming in the car. On Friday we had a mufti day with the theme of "Fancy Feet" and we had to dress our feet up in crazy ways. These are some of the fanciest feet in LZ6! Max the pukeko came to assembly and gave out prizes as well!

Wheels Day!

Introducing Rocky - our visitor from the South Island!

Meet Rocky (who Marli is firm friends with already!) who arrived from the South Island last week. He is originally from Dunedin and one of our linked blogs www.super7scoopers.edublogs.org and he has been visiting another of our linked blogs in Invercargill www.leakeysblog.edublogs.org Now he is visiting us and he has a task for while he is visiting us up in Auckland. We need to find our top 10 places in Auckland that we think visitors like Rocky would like to go! We will have to brainstorm this as a class and try and get him to as many as we can! Welcome to Auckland and Mission Heights Primary Rocky!!

Hickory Dickory Dock claymation by Dylan, Vivian and Alvin!

The 3 Little Pigs claymation by Hannah G, Nikail, Max, Ricky, Nikita and Jenna!

Humpty Dumpty Claymation by Logan and Ryan!

Mary had a little lamb claymation by Diyana, Hannah and Melissa!

Hickory Dickory Dock claymation by Kashvi, Jackson and Katie!

Row, row, row your boat claymation by Faatimah, Natalee and Jed!

Humpty Dumpty Claymation by Tiffinni, Matthew and Harry!

Quadblogging week 2...

Our quadblogging group continues this week with the focus turning to us!! We hope to get lots of visitors and comments on our posts and have committed to putting up a new post every day this week! Best get to work then LZ6!!

Grandparents Day!

Today it was Grandparents Day at Mission Heights. We had a special assembly with dancing and music and stories and poems. Lots of our families came to watch and visit us in the classroom. We showed them the blog and our books and stuff on the computer. Then it was time for a picnic lunch. I like Grandparents day!

Look at what we made today!

Today we worked with Mrs Hishey in LZ26. She taught us how to do French knitting and we each made our own bracelet. We are very proud of how fast we could learn a new skill. Miss Baker said she did not know how to make one so we will have to teach her!

Our quadblog begins...

This week our very first quadblogging group begins. There is some information about it on the right side panel. There are 4 schools in our quadblog and this week the focus school is Longshaw Infant School in the United Kingdom. We are trying to visit them every day and see what they are up to and write a comment. We can do this at home as well if we want to. Next week the focus will be on our blog and people will visit and leave comments for us. It is very exciting to make all these connections with other classes all over the world!

Happy birthday Harry!

Today Harry's mum brought in a birthday cake for us to share with Harry. It was super yummy and had a big candle on top. Thank you for letting us celebrate your birthday with you Harry - we hope you have a fantastic day on Saturday - you get to share it with Guy Fawkes day!

Money master!

We have been practising our money counting skills this week in preparation for our upcoming market day. Ms Bower found this great game online to help us. You can play in lots of different currencies if you want to. Give it a try by clicking on the picture link.

Look at our holiday acrostic poems!

Coming soon...our claymation movies!

As you can see we have been busy this week making claymation movies. We had to make backgrounds as well as characters for a well known story or rhyme. We worked in small groups and all had jobs to do. Today we finished taking all the photos, downloading them and recording our voices with the easispeak microphone. Ms Bower and Miss Baker will finish them off so they will be up on the blog next week! We really liked making them.

Athletics day!

We had a fantastic athletics day at school today! The Junior Learning Community had all sorts of fun activities like sack races, moonhoppers, javelin, skipping, parachute games, egg and spoon race, hula hoops, duck duck goose and more! Then in the afternoon we had our sprint race heats and finals. It was very exciting and fast. The great news is that Dylan came third in the year 2 boys final and Tiffinni came first in the year 2 girls final! Bravo you two and everyone else for trying their best and having a great time!

Mufti day - costumes and cultures!

Last Friday it was mufti day at Mission Heights with a "costumes and cultures" theme. Don't we all look fantastic in LZ6!! We got to have a lunch combo of hot chips and a lolly bag which was very yummy!

Congratulations to Tiffinni!

Well done to Tiffinni for being awarded the Excellence award for LZ6 at last weeks assembly. She got it for her fantastic effort in reading - pushing her words together to make them smooth and reading with expression. Great job Tiffinni!

Check out this video!

I found this amazing video on YouTube and thought you might like it LZ6. It uses very clever lighting and computer technology.

A challenge!

A challenge for all the bright cookies in LZ6! First one to come and tell me the answer gets a jellybean!!

Welcome Ms Bower!

This is Ms Bower and she is a student teacher like Mr V was. She is in LZ6 for four weeks. We are so lucky that she is in our class. Now we have 3 teachers in LZ6 and they all start with the letter B!

All Blacks are world champions!

After a long and hard battle it is finally official - the All Blacks are once again champions of the world! LZ6 is right behind the boys in black and are very proud of this amazing victory!

Fruit shoot addition game!

Hi guys! Here is another great game that you can play during the holidays (or during term!) - you squash the fruit with the number that matches the equation...the faster you go, the more points you get. It makes a great splat sound as well!! Give it a try by clicking on the image above.

Ten thousand page views!!!

We are celebrating our blog statistics once again because we have hit TEN THOUSAND pageviews!! This is very exciting for us as our blog only started this year! Thank you to all the people who have come to visit and look at all our blog posts - we appreciate all the interest in our exciting class! We will have to think of an exciting way to celebrate once the holidays are over!

Holiday spelling games!

Just in case you need a new game to practise your spelling in the holidays - try this website! It is from one of our blog buddies- The Pirates of Room 4! You can either choose from one of the pre made lists or make your own custom list by adding your own spelling words. Give it a try by clicking on the picture!

Board game day!

We have been learning about toys and games - both old and new - and on the last week of term we could bring our favourite board games to school to share with our class and LZ5! It was lots of fun learning because we had to talk about and demonstrate how to play our game and then we all took turns playing all the different games in both classes!