Christmas Decorations

Mrs. Flannery, our new school chaplain showed us how to make these beautiful Rudolph the reindeer Christmas decorations

Swimming lessons

Next Monday, the 28th of November, we will start our last week of swimming lessons

We need to have our togs and towels everyday!

Georgia is 8!

My mum brought in some cupcakes for the class. I really liked them. There was enough for eveybody. I showed the class the my birthday picture book. 

Mini Natureland!!

Hannah's pets
Today goslings, rabbits and one baby duck came to visit room two. The goslings had to eat wet bread and I got to touch a gosling. Bradley liked a gray rabbit and he held it. The baby duck looked like it was fighting with Mrs. Shellings chick. The gosling bit Hannah's finger.
By Timoci

Hannah's Goslings

Today I held a chick. It pecked my finger and my fleece and one time it fell asleep on my lap. I love chicks. They are cute fluffy and fun.

Then a few minutes later Hannah came in with her dad. They had goslings. What a surprise. They had rabbits too. We got to pat the rabbits, hold the chicks and pat the goslings.

The End

By Kaia

Maths

We are learning place values of numbers

Cross Country Awards

6 year old girls
2nd place : Kaia
6yr old boys
1st : Misha
2nd : Joshua
7 year old girls
1st :  Hannah
2nd : Saraiah
3rd : Georgia
7 year old Boys
1st : Jye
2nd :  Tomoci
8 year old Girls
1st: Shakyla H

Word Families

We are learning about word families. It helps us with spelling.

Jorjah

Welcome to our class Jorjah. We hope you have fun!

Painting Penguins

We have been learning about penguins

Then we made some out of clay

and painted them.

They look so good!!

Mrs. Shelling's daughter

 Mrs. Shelling's daughter Magda came to visit our class with her baby and her puppy.

Sophie's birthday

YUM!!

Our chicks are teenagers now!

Homework

Please remember the FREE web site http://www.coolmaths.com/ . Number twins and maths lines help reinforce essential learning in a fun way.

Time

We are learning about time.

We are learning to "interpret " calendars, to calculating the days and months of the year and when the year begins and ends, how many days make a week, how many days are in a fortnight and a month.

We will learn how many seconds are in a minute, how many minutes in an hour, how many hours in a day.

Thank You Letters

We are learning about informal letter writing this week



We are talking about being thankful, so they are thank you letters.

 We made our own envelopes and decorated them.

Mrs. Saxon

Mrs. Saxon is our teacher this week.

Ginger Beer

In science we are learning about chemical reactions by making ginger beer.

Different ingredients can cause different reations.We learnt that yeast causes a reaction called fermentation.

This is Mr. Georges special lemon squeezer.

Te Awhina Marae

Last Thursday we went to Te Awhina Marae. It was so cool. It is a living Marae. People live there. The hall is still used by the community. With the support of the community and churches of Motueka, they looked after lots of Christchurch earthquake victims. They help local teenagers and teach them to carve.

The bit about the church was the best bit that I liked because of the good carving. By Grace

The bit I liked best about the church was the bell on the top of the church. By Jessica

When we went to the marae I liked the kai. Why I liked it is because there was chips and crackers and chocolate muffins and other food. By Misha.
I like the hangi pit because I like the food we can put in there. By Seth

Dear Te Awhina Marae.
Thank you for all the kai what you did for us and for teaching us about the octopus and the dolphin. I loved it. By Abbey G

The best part was the carving. I like the carving. It was interesting. By Bradley
When we went to the marae I liked the carving and the reason I liked the carving was the patterns. By Timoci

Our Chicks

Our chicks hatched. They are cool. There are four of them. There is one called blackbird. He is my favorite. He is black. there are two yellow ones and one brown one. He was the first to hatch.

By Jye

Goodbye Riley

Riley is moving to Christchurch. Friday is her last day so we will all bring something to share for morning tea.

We will really miss you Riley. God bless you. Have fun at your new school. 

Hatching Eggs

The Martin family have bought special eggs lent us an incubator.

We read a book that had pictures of the different stages of development of the chick while still in the egg.  We learnt that the eggs have to be kept a little bit wet as well as warm.

Abbey N says "It will take 21 days for our eggs to hatch. We won't open the incubator."

One mum's good idea

"I wrote numbers on scraps of paper. My children and I skip counted forward and backwards in two's. We jumped on the number as we said it. The ACTION of jumping and forward and backwards really helped them to remeber it well"

If you have good learning ideas that you would like to share, post a comment or tell us at school!