Using Chopsticks

Chinese:
How To Use Chopsticks
In many countries in Asia, instead of eating with a knife and fork, they use chopsticks. While they can be hard to use at first, practice makes perfect, so today we are going to practice using chopsticks with some chopstick races!

Chess Interschool Tournament

For the chess tournament there were four schools and for our school we took seven players. Before we started the man in charge explained the rules and paired us up with partners for that round. This continued until we had gone through seven rounds. Every time you won you got a point and if it was a draw you got half a point. Then when the rounds were over the points were counted up and the prizes were given out. The points were counted as the highest four players in the team. First was Helensville school with 27 points, second was us with 10 and a half points, third was Huntly College with 10 and a half points (we won through tie breaker), and fourth was St Andrews with 10 points. Post by AK.

Loud Shirt Day 2010

On Friday 17th September Kimihia School held Loud Shirt Day. This was an opportunity for students to dress up in the wackiest and brightest shirt and bring a gold coin donation to support the deaf. After morning tea we had a parade to see who had the funkiest shirt out of year levels 1&2, 3&4, 5&6 and 7&8. There were lots of interesting and bright shirts but the winners were...
Year 1&2: Runner up: Vaish Navi Prusad, Winner: Lucy Harris
Year 3&4: Runner Up: Mitchell Cotter, Winner: Clarissa Jacobs
Year 5&6: Runner Up : Sonya Fenton, Winner: Ryan Tapp
Year 7&8: Runner Up: Sebastian Allen, Winner: Taylor Thurston
Staff: Runner Up equal: Mrs Tait and Mrs Yates, Winner: Mrs Kosoof
Post written by E.H

The Parrot Retold

Duffy Assembly

On Monday 13th we had two guest speakers come to our school named Mrs Kippenberger and Mr Charlton-Jones. After introducing themselves, Mrs Kippenburger asked for six volunteers to come up the front and take part in a play about a chicken thinking that the sky is going to fall. She then meets a wolf, a rabbit, a cow, a horse, and a dog. After they all meet each other, they walk all the way to the King's palace and the chicken told the king how the sky was going to fall. The King welcomed them into his lovely palace and they all had huge feast.
After watching the play, Mrs Kippenburger talked to us about how she writes her own books and about her huge home where Mr Charlton-Jones records his music in the music room. They told us about how Mr Charlton -Jones doesn't care about how much noise he makes. Then Mr Charlton-Jones sang us some of his original songs. He asked people if they had any pets and they had to describe what their pets looked like and then Mr Charlton-Jones made up songs about their pets. After the original songs he played and the play Mrs Kippenburger told, they eventually they gave out the Duffy books and then it was time for questions. Post by CTS.

Senior Assembly

On Friday 10 of September, two students from Room 11 presented our Senior School Assembly; Manuel Stevens and Keila Tari. They had to speak in front of the senior school and it was scary for them to speak without practicing through the whole week because it was busy through the week and we had just found out on Wednesday. Keila and Manuel hadn't done an assembly through this whole year but they did their best for their first time. Well done. Post by AR and KT.

firewise visit

Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about being firewise as our concept this term is healthy and happy. Mr Lambert came into our class and tought us about being firewise. We learnt that unattended cooking can harm us, that it only takes a few seconds for a fire to start and then, once it's started, it's best to get away from the fire.

Fire needs oxygen, fuel and heat. Fire could also start by a candle falling over, a cigarette that hasn't got the smoke out of it properly, smoke can also make a fire occur, and overloaded powerplugs. Fires can easily start in schools, homes and in the forests. Post by B.E

Our Blog

What would you like to see on our blog? What would you like to be able to do with it? Inquiring minds would like to know! Post a sticky and let us know your thoughts.

Second Chinese Video

Recently in Chinese, we have been learning how to say numbers. We made videos where we were introducing ourselves and saying our phone numbers - not our real ones:) We are also going to be doing a self-assessment of our videos and we came up with some marking criteria which focuses on our speaking ability in Chinese - not reading.

Self Assessment Chinese Speaking

I had a bit of trouble with my Chinese assessment because I started learning late but I will soon become better at it. I wasn't very confident because I haven't learnt much1/4. I had a normal voice 2/4. My pace needs a lot of work 1/4. My tone needs a little work 1/4. My pronunciation needs a lot of work1/4 and the flow was just right 2/4. (BJ self -ssessment)

Loud Shirt Day

On Friday 17th September 2010 is Loud Shirt Day. Loud Shirt Day is a day where you can forget about your normal school shirt and wear a bright coloured shirt to school. While looking funky and cool you will also be supporting the deaf and helping deaf people talk with all proceeds going to The Hearing House. There will be prizes for the best shirt in year levels 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 and best staff shirt. In the morning there will be a parade in the hall where the judges will be judging the best shirt. You can create your own BRIGHT shirt or wear an already bright shirt and support the deaf. To be able to wear a loud shirt to school on the day, you will need to donate a gold coin. This post by CB.

Interschool Cross Country 2010

On September 1st 2010, 21 students from Kimihia went to the Interschool Cross Country at Lake Puketirini. The sunny and partially windy weather wasn't too bad as the school came out with some great placings. The best placings for the age groups were: Junior Girls: 4th Maia Weetman-Norris, Junior Boys:3rd Brendan Hunt, Intermediate Girls: 2nd Makuini Robust, Intermediate Boys: 1st Aidan Baxter, Senior Girls: 1st Briar Tapp, Intermediate Boys: 3rd Austin Dias. The students behaved excellently and had a great time. Good luck to the year 7 & 8 runners who will be going to full primary next Wednesday.
Post written by DWN

We have been learning the Chinese numbers and actions to go with them. Here is a video to show you.
Post by RM.