All Saints Day Mass

 

Charlotte made a lovely Saint Rose of Lima for our Saints Mass.  

 

Room 9's BOTTLE GARDEN

We have waited patiently for our plants to begin to grow.  Hopefully next term we will see some pretty flowers.  Thanks to all those who helped us.   Room 9

Garden.....almost finished!!

Room 9's Gardening

We have worked in groups to design and create things for our school garden.



SCARECROW NO.1

Our Bird Feeder



Our Tyre Garden (tiring work....!)



We made Pet Rocks for the Garden

CLASS GARDEN

Congratulations Emma

Emma played her ukele for Room 3's assembly.

Home Learning Challenges

Now that we are over half way through the year most children have already completed half their Strength and Gentleness home learning challenges.  Lydia is explaining how she can make an erupting volcano (science experiment).

Our Trip To Pataka

We had a lovely learning time at Pataka.  We saw how artworks were created from recycled material.
We looked at how different cultures used art to decorate and welcome visitors to their homes.
In the art work room we had fun making leis our of paper and using plastic to make a lampshade.
We learnt the new three 'R's'   ROTATION      REFLECTION       REPETITION

Our Olympic Visitor

Today we had an awesome surprise as Storm Uru the Olympic bronze medalist in rowing came to visit us.  He showed us some photos and shared his story of 'Perseverance' with us. We are learning about Perseverance as one of our school values.

 We asked him many questions.

Welcome Back

It is always exciting to hear what the children and their families have been up to in the holidays.  Mrs Vernon

had an exciting time cycling the Otago Rail Trail (150 kms) with a friend.

We have begun our term with our first Outdoor Education activity - a walk around Tawa to Willow Bank Park.  Tomorrow we are planning to walk the Redwood Bush track.   Weather permitting we will then catch the train to Cambourne to walk around the bay and sketch the boat sheds.  

I hope you enjoy looking at our photos.

Holy Week - Easter Liturgy

We had fun preparing for Easter with our School Liturgy in the hall.

Room 9 Childrens Comments to:
    HOW  DO YOU LIKE TO LEARN TO WRITE?

• Time to think
• Practising
• Sounding out words
• Quietness to write
• Time to talk about ideas
• Sitting by myself
• Using my brain to think what I am gong to write
• I love writing Narratives.
• I like it when the teacher chooses our topic
• I like choosing my own topic to write about.

Shrove Tuesday PANCAKE RACES

We  had fun in Room 9 making pancakes and tossing them in our race.

It has been wonderful meeting the new children and parents.  Thank you all so much for having their books already, named and labelled.  This means we can all start together.  Just a reminder to check all clothing is named, especially with swimming starting and that your child has their sun hat each day.  Thank you also to the parents who have helped with odd jobs i.e. pasting, labelling, sorting new equipment.  There are often little things needing doing by an adult so I do really appreciate any offers of help especially at this stage of the year.   I look forward to meeting all parents during the year and please feel free to pop in and have a chat about any concerns.  Thanks  Bev Vernon