The History of Comics

Saturday, August 8, 2015


  • Who is your favourite author?
  • What is your favourite book?
  • Who is your favourite illustrator?
  • Tell us an interesting fact about an author!

Post your comments here!
Miss Kent x

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Which Telling Time Games do you like?

Room 8 played the "Time" games today and made a poster of the ones they enjoyed. Let us know if you find any others that are good to help you practise telling the time and are fun too!
Miss Kent x

Monday, May 18, 2015

Taking Good Photos

Did you enjoy taking photograghs? Post a comment to let everyone know!
Miss Kent x

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Kia ora from Room 8!

Hi, we are the new group of children in Room 8. Read what we like about being in Year 4.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Hi from Room 7!

We are the children in Room 7 this year. Read our comments about what we like about being in our new class!

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Welcome to Room 9!

How are you enjoying being in Room 9? Post a comment to let us know!
Miss Kent x

Sunday, October 27, 2013

We are going to make a Photostory!


I hope you enjoyed making your Photostory! Post a comment to let us know what you learnt, what you enjoyed or what you found hard! Miss Kent x

Check out your finished stories on this new Blog! kowhaiphotostory.blogspot.co.nz

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Say Cheese!

We have been learning to use the school digital cameras with Miss Kent. Post a comment to let us know what you learnt, what was hard, what you enjoyed etc.
Miss Kent x

Monday, February 25, 2013

What would you be?


If you could be an animal, what would you be and why? Post a comment!
Miss Kent x

Owen and Mzee


I hope you enjoyed this lovely true story about friendship. Post a comment about the story.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Vintage Photos

In Room 9, we have been looking at the story of Guy Fawkes. We wrote letters to Lord Monteagle and tried to make them look old-fashioned. After we had done this we used and IPad app to make photos of ourselves to look vintage like our letters.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Kowhai are making Powerpoint presentations!

We have learnt how to present our information on New Zealand birds, in Powerpoint. We learnt lots of skills to make our presentations interesting and successful. Read our comments!
Kowhai Classes x

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Amazing Cave Photos


Check out these amazing photographs of a cave system in Thailand.
Miss Kent x


Thursday, August 23, 2012

Winners of headline competition


Welldone those of you who won the headline competition! Your headlines are printed below and you each get a housepoint (per headline!)

Miss Kent x

Guinea pigs tri hard in Olympics. Taylor. Room 7.

G - CREW JESSICA room 9

Guinea pigs hurdle for GOLD!:Max martin,room 7.

Guinea pigs go for gold. louise room 7

G Force in action sam room 7

Guinealympics Jessica Room 9

Guinea pigs go for gold Eisak 10

The g - force Dana - Room 9

Hilarious G Olympics Flora - Room 9

Golden Guinea Pigs Josh - Room 9

Guinea pigs strike for gold. Esther room7.



Monday, August 20, 2012

In Room 9 today, we brainstormed all the birds that we know. We went into tagxedo.com to put them into a word shape. Here is our word shape. Enjoy

Check out Kauri's Animation blog!


This term Kauri syndicate are creating different types of animation. Have a look on their blog:

kaurianimations.blogspot.co.nz

There will be more added as I work with the classes over this term!

Miss Kent x

Headline Competition


Can you make up a good headline for this picture?
Post your headline about the guinea pigs.
Don't forget your name and room number (I will give housepoints for the best!)
The competition will close this Friday (24th) so you have plenty of time!

Miss Kent x

There have been some great headlines posted already!

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

For our syndicate assembly on Monday, Room 9 created a news article about Miss Atkinson finding the "Best Class" during our time in the hall.
Room 9's newspaper article about our Triathlon. We wrote this together as a class.