November catch up

With two weeks of school left we will be busy with Christmas activities, preparing for the School Concert on the 9th, final assemblies and packing up before the holidays.

Congratulations to Safina and Piripi and Josh and Hiram who are the certificate winners for the past two weeks.

Last Monday the Junior classes went for a trip to Quail Island.  Again the weather was stunning and everyone enjoyed the boat ride and spending time on the island.

We had a super sports day on the 21st.  It was a hot day so lots of water was drunk by all.  We shared some fabulous food at lunchtime and finished off with a tug of war between the Houses.

We visited the Museum as part of our Inquiry about change.  Anthony, the museum teacher told us all about dinosaurs and showed us some models and real fossils.


Firstly Congratulations to Aurora who was the Gold Award winner for November.  Rooms 1 and 2 children performed the "Dinosaur Stomp"  at the end of assembly.  Everyone sang and stomped very well.

Wow, November has gone by very quickly.

Grandparents visit school

Congratulations to Sam and Jarrad who were the certificate winners this week.

What a great morning we had on Friday.  Many grandparent took the opportunity to come to school and have a look at their grandchildren taking part in a variety of activities.   We started with an outdoor assembly in the sunshine after which grandparents could move around the school visiting the classrooms and seeing their grandchildren.  Rooms 1, 2, 4 and 5 were having Discovery Learning time.

Swimming is over.

Congratulations to Logan and Zoe who were the certificate winners for Week 2.

It has been a busy two weeks with Aquagym lessons every day.  The children enjoyed themselves and it was great watching the progress they made in the pool.  Last Friday all the children signed a letter to thank the Aquagym tutors for teaching them.

Welcome back to school

Welcome back to term 4.

We are learning about Measurement for Maths.  This week we measured ourselves and found out who was the tallest and shortest in the class.

We have had a great first week at Aquagym.  It is already easy to see the children making progress in the water.  They are becoming more confident and are trying hard practising their skills.

End of Term

I hope everyone has a restful holiday.  Remember that Term 4 begins on Monday 13th October.  Room 2 will be going swimming at 8.30am so make sure you are at school just before the 8.30am bell.

Last week we had our second Gold Award Assembly for the term.  Big congratulations to Madeline who was the Gold Award winner for September.  Constance, Tom  and Logan were also lucky to win draws at the assembly.  Thank you to Sam, Annania, Tom and Ryan who showed their Robots to everyone.

Well done Ngarimu house who won the House Treat for Term 3.

On Tuesday we had our Healthy Heroes celebration.  The children went to the senior class teachers to take part in some fun activities for the morning.

Congratulations to Arnika-Rose and Aiden who were the certificate winners in Week 9.

Duffy Role Model Assembly

Last Friday Tom and Isaiah received certificates at our weekly Kakano Team assembly. Congratulations to you both.


Yesterday we were fortunate to host Jacqui Knight at our Duffy Role Model Assembly.  Jacqui spoke to us about her passion for reading and for learning new things.  She showed us a book she had written about her dog Brae and their journey through New Zealand.  She presented some Duffy books at the assembly and everyone else got their books when we got back to the classroom.
The photos show Tom And Atiria receiving their books from Jacqui.

Making Porridge

Our poem this week is Pease Porridge Hot.  Yesterday the children in Rooms One and Two made porridge using rolled oats.  Everyone had a turn stirring the porridge in the pot and when it was cooked they ate some with brown sugar and milk.

Tongan Language Week

It was lovely to have a visit from the children and teachers from the Niu Preschool who sang some songs to us as part of their celebration of Tongan Language week.  

Dippy eggs

Congratulations to Constance and Alex who are the certificate winners this week.

On Friday Fred and ben from Metro cricket came to school to share cricket skills with the children.  As well two other men brought the Cricket World Cup for us to see.  They told us the tournament will be held next year and the opening match is in Christchurch.

This week our poem was Hickety Pickety.  On Monday we made dippy eggs and toast "soldiers" for the children to enjoy.  Everyone was able to put an egg into the pot and then butter their toast while they waited for the eggs to cook.

Week 5 update

For our Language experience this week we made shoes and put laces in them.  The children will be able to practise tieing their laces on the shoes.

On Friday we went to St Chad's for the first Gold Award of the term.  Josh was the Gold Award winner and here he is receiving his award from Miss Smith.

Atiria was chosen as the winner of the Healthy Eater Award and is seen getting her torch from Mrs Edmundson.

On Friday we said farewell to Miss Middleton who returns to continue her studies at Canterbury University.  We enjoyed having her in our class and wish her well in her teaching career.

Weekly certificate winners

Congratulations to Mahalia and Madeline who received certificates at Assembly in Week 3 and to Logan and Atiria who got certificates today.

Jack and Jill

This week we are learning the rhyme Jack and Jill.  On Monday we made Jack's sad face as our Language Experience.  The children coloured the pieces and glued them on Jack's face.  They had fun adding brown paper, a sticking plaster and googly eyes to complete the faces.

Healthy Heroes

This term our Health topic is the Rotary sponsored "Healthy Heroes" programme.  There are five challenges to complete each week.
As part of the "Stretching the MInd" challenge we have been exploring some craft activities with our buddy class.

Certificate Winners

Congratulations to our certificate winners this term.  Well done Harlem, Sam, Alex and Annania who are the winners for weeks one and two.

Pink Pigs

On Monday the children from Rooms 1 and 2 made pink pig biscuits.  We used wine biscuits, pink icing, marshmallows and chocolate drops.  The children took turns to decorate their biscuit.

Our Nursery Rhyme this week is;

This little piggy...

This little piggy went to market
This little piggy stayed at home
This little piggy had roast beef
This little piggy had none
And this little piggy went wee, wee, wee, all the way home.

How To Make Incy Wincy Spiders At Home

This week Rooms One and Two are learning the nursery rhyme Incy Wincy Spider.  

Today for Language Experience we made Incy Wincy Spiders.  First Mrs Moore read us the story Incy Wincy Spider and then we made our own Incy Wincy Spider .  We pretended to be birds and ate Incy Wincy Spider.  They were yummy!  

A big thank you to Mrs Moore for organising the ingredients.  

We are going to write about what we made today.  Watch out for our wonderful writing!

How To Make Incy Wincy Spiders At Home

Ingredients:

A mallowpuff        4 pretzel sticks       icing mixture

2 M & Ms

Instructions:

1.            Break the four pretzel sticks in half to make eight legs.

2.           Carefully push the legs into the mallowpuff. Put four legs on each side.

3.           Using a little icing stick the eyes to the mallowpuff.