The Tinderbox Show

On Tuesday we had a visit from The Toyman. His name was Richard. He brought in to our school lots and lots of old fashioned toys. There were spinning tops,  jack in the boxes,  ball and cups, puppets, peg dolls,  hen pickers,  climbing men and an amazing marble run. We learnt that old toys often moved using string, they did not use batteries or electricity, they were not made out of plastic and they were often made for children by their mothers and fathers. We really loved having time to play with all of the fabulous toys.

Gumboots and Umbrellas Day

Today was Gumboots and Umbrellas Day. We had a great time walking to school in the rain with the teachers. We really enjoyed splashing through the puddles in our gumboots!

Feeling Faces

We have made amazing feeling faces in art. We made the heads using coloured paper from magazines and ripping it into small pieces and then gluing it onto a circle shape. We then working with Miss Hong to make the hair, eyes and mouth. We wrote sentences to go with our faces to describe what makes us feel happy, sad, angry, proud, scared and confused.

A Happy Face By Daisy

An Angry Face By Michael

A Sad Face by Seong Won

Tennis and Volleyball Sports Festival

We had a sports festival on Friday. We had lots of fun participating in games to develop our skills in tennis and volleyball.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

For the first four weeks of this term our theme unit is Keeping Ourselves Safe. This week we have been learning about how special we all are. We have learnt our full names, our addresses and telephone numbers. We have also been talking about our feelings. We drew pictures and wrote sentences to describe what makes us feel happy, sad, angry, proud, scared and confused. We had a special visit from our Police Education Officer, Constable Harwood.

Constable Harwood taught us about how important it is to know our full names,
telephone numbers and addresses.

Here we are writing our full names and addresses. 

Wonderful Water Creations

We concluded our very exciting unit on water this week by sharing something we had learned with others. For our homework challenge we made some wonderful things like:

Charts showing the water cycle. 

Dioramas showing underwater themes.

Models of sea animals.

Posters sharing facts about water or sea animals.

Look at some of our creations below.

Whakanuia Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

Whakanuia Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

Celebrate Māori Language Week

Māori Language Week 1 - 7 July 2013

This year, the theme was ‘Ngā Ingoa Māori – Māori names’with the underlying theme 'Arohatia te Reo – cherish the language'. We had the task of designing a poster for homework. We are really proud of our completed posters and think they look amazing!