The Peace Child

Last night we had our whole school production of The Peace Child.  Here's what the children wrote:

• Molly: I was the leader of the elephants.  Room 8 and 9 we danced the Sotongi Strut.  My mum and my dad were proud.
• Merion: I went to my sister Atita's production and I did my production.  I was a buffalo.  I felt shy.
• Fatafehi: In the production it was fun.  My dad was proud at the production.  At the production I felt happy.
• Ilisapesi: It was fun.
• Ehmarze: It was fun last night at the production.
• Francis: I had fun last night.
• Abdifatah: I went to the production last night.  It was fun.
• Tiara: I was a little nervous and it was a little fun.  I was standing still when it was finished.
• Kapi: It was funny at the production.  My family was proud.  I was great.  It was night.  There were 100 people.  It was cool so many people came.

Hands on

Today we replenished our play dough supply.  We recently found a fabulous cooked play dough recipe that we have been using.  The children help to cook it and love adding the dye!

Tongan Language Week

Look at the gorgeous Tongan children from our class getting ready to go to assembly.  Molly is wearing an outfit that her mum used to wear when she was little!  So special to be able to share the amazing cultures and traditions of the children in our school.

A very busy day

As well as the usual learning we do in Room 8, today we had a SNAG golf lesson in the morning.

  
In the afternoon, Ahmed, Natan and Joshua from Room 15 taught us soccer skills as part of their Genius Hour project.



  

When we got back to class, everyone was exhausted!



But after a little rest and a couple of songs, we found the energy to carry on making colourful squares for a class tivaevae or practise reading and writing numbers. :)

 

Contructruction Time

Look at this awesome construction set we got!

We had an awesome afternoon discovering how everything went together.  Fantastic Maths language used and all the key competencies (Thinking, Relating to Others, Using language, symbols and texts, Managing Self and Participating and Contributing) were in action.

Children from other classes have come in to investigate the new item and attempt to make different things.  Great to see everyone trying something, thinking about whether it's what they really wanted and make adjustments.



 

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo. How about you, you, you?

On Friday our whole school went to Auckland Zoo.  We were so lucky to get some animals VERY close up. We ended the day learning about classification from the wonderful Kirsty.


It was so cool watching Burma and Anjalee working with their trainers.


There were lots of "oohs" and "aaahs" as the sea lions swam past us.


Berani, the Sumatran tiger loves cloves on the chicken boxes!


Francis and Joseph help us navigate our way around.


Did you know that the Galapagos tortoises live in a heated house?


Animals that have feathers are called Birds, animals that have skin are called Reptiles and animals that have fur are called Mammals.  What are we?

Book week

Books, books, books.
Reading, reading, reading.
Colouring in, author visit, book character parade, certificates.
Fun, laughter, naughty fairy.
More laughter.
We love books!!

Thanks Super Andrea for another fabulous book week.

ANZAC remembrance

Our learning in Week 1 of Term 2 focused on ANZAC Day.  Even though ANZAC Day fell in the holidays, we wanted to remember all the people who were in the wars, and especially those who lost their lives.

Holiday Reading Diaries

We were proud to come third in the Holiday Reading Diary competition.  Here's the blue fairy asking who brought back their reading logs, and giving all those people prizes.  For coming third, we won a cool stacking game that the fairy's helper Andrea delivered :)

Sunshine Rewards - Games Day!!

Our school earned over 8,000 Sunshines as part of the Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) programme.  As a reward, we had a Games Day on the last day of term.  We played Stuck in the Mud with our awesome buddy class, then went and joined the rest of Puriri team on the field for even more fun!

Planting with Brian

Our caretaker, Brian, doesn't just look after our school.  Here he is helping us plant seeds so we can have delicious autumn and winter vegetables.  We planted silverbeet, carrots, broccoli, spinach and parsnips.  Once they grow into seedlings, we'll transfer them to the garden that we share with our buddy class. Maybe we can make some soup to share.