Beach Safety Day!

Last Friday was beach safety day. We had amazing weather for the day!
All the children spent the day learning about safe practices around water and on boats! They learnt about Bouyancy with Miss Grover, went diving with Miss Kereru, fishing with Nanny Dixie, Kayaking with Haley, Boat safety with Miss O'B and the Amazing race with Miss D'Ath. 

Hats off to the Year 8 leaders who did an awesome job looking after their younger group members. They had the responsibility of moving their groups from activity to activity, and did this really well!

Week 5 Update!

Wow busy weeks already. We have had a whole load of fun during Weeks 2,3,4 & 5!

Week 2 we started Monday off with our trip around the Mahia Peninsula visiting all the beautiful places to take photos of. The kids all had turns using the camera to take photos of our beautiful views. You may have seen our calendars at gala! They have some pretty impressive photos in them. There will be an order in this weeks newsletter for those that missed out at Gala!

Week 2 Wednesday was Pet Day!
What a whole bunch of fun! Our class did an awesome job with their artworks! And what lovely pets our tamariki have. Thankyou to all the whanau that turned up and supported the day!  Congratulations also to all our prize winners! I bought Rosie in for the day and was super impressed with the kind and caring way Room 3 looked after her- she had a blast! 

Week 4 we had an enviroschools trip up the Whangawehi to see the whitebait and eel habitats. The children loved the day- especially bringing back their whitebait to show me! (Thankfully I found the ones some had left in class before they started smelling!). 

Week 4 was also Gala! What an awesome day. It was really cool to see everyone there. I hope you all enjoyed the day! Our calendars sold well- if you're after some remember check this weeks Panui. 

Week 5 was an awesome week! And such a busy week! Wednesday we had the Whakarewa Cup. Man we have some very speedy runners in Room 3! Quite a lot of them even outrun students older than them! Thursday we had another enviroschools day. Unfortunately the trip to Kinikini Reserve was cancelled but we did have a very interesting lesson on what we need to pack in our bags for trips like that in the future- next time Room 3 will be sorted! 

And of course on Friday we had the Kapa Haka festival! We were amazing! I have some beautiful photos taken on my camera (these are my phone one's)- which I will put up separately. 

Hope you all have a fabulous week!

Happy!

Room 3 (and the school) are practising "Happy" to sing at Prize Giving this year. Heres a clip so you can all have a practise! 

Last term and Week 1!

I hope you all had a safe and happy holiday!
So nice to be back at school with well rested kiddies who are pretty excited about everything that will be happening this term!

Last Day Pirates at their Pirate party!

The last week of last term we were super busy- and had so many cool things happening. Our school was awesome at Performing Arts! They looked, sounded and were overall AMAZING! They should all be very proud of themselves!

We were very lucky to also meet Will Hall. Will used to be Doctor Kip on Shortland Street. He told the kids about the importance of reading, and showed us one of his scripts from one of his Shorties episodes. It was a lot of reading just for one episode! 

Hikurangi getting his Duffy book from Will Hall

Showing Will our Kapa haka bracket.

Room 3 sea creatures with Will 

Last week we started back into what will be the busiest term this year! On Wednesday we headed off on an observation day for enviroschools. We split into two groups and swapped over activities mid day. The group I was with headed to the settling ponds first. We met Jason at the new sewerage system and tanks in Mahia where he explained what happens with our waste water. Then we headed up the Kinikini Road to see the settling ponds- my gosh they are massive! Our group ended up getting stuck behind a stock truck trailer so we had to do a wee bit of walking- before having lunch at the boat club, and then heading off for a look at the Opoutama and Oraka Wetlands. 

A very big Thankyou to the parents who came and helped for the day- your support is awesome to have! 

We have another busy week, and a short week too. Don't forget Pet Day tomorrow! Also please make sure you check your children's bags/book bags for notices everyday. There is a lot going on this term. 

Hope you all have a lovely week, and enjoy your long weekends! 

Miss D'Ath

Learning about the waste management system. 

Learning about all the birds that inhabit Opoutama Wetlands

Tuhi's Blog

This is my story and picture about the Hare and the Tortiose.
The Hare was fast. The Tortiose was slow. 
By Tuhi

Week 9

I cannot believe this week (Week 10) is the last week for this term!

We all deserve a nice relaxing holiday in Room 3- we have been working so hard this term. I have been so impressed with all the cool things happening in class. We have some master sounder outers, which has meant our writing has been whizzing along! We have also been busy making sure we know all the ways to make 10. We have been subitising to practice this. Subitising is being able to instantly recognise a number of objects in a small group. 

Jhalena and Rome practising their subitising!

Practising hard at Kapa Haka

This week (Week 10) is going to be very busy. Unfortunately our Pet Day was cancelled for Tuesday- due to this very yukky weather.  Wednesday we have a special visitor to school for our Duffy Assembly. His name is Will Hall (all of you Shorties fans will remember him as Kip!). On Thursday we have our Performing Arts Performance! And I know everyone will be very sleepy for our final day of the term- Friday, which is our class Pirate Party! So expect a blog update next weekend with some very awesome photos!

Make sure you get some rest this week where you can fit it! No doubt the week will fly by!

Alyss's Blog

16.9.14
In writing I am learning to sound out all my words and write about our pet rocks. My rock looks talented and beautiful.

Alyss with her awesome sentences. 

Week 8

My gosh I cannot believe we are into Week 9 already!

We had a lot of fun during week 8. We started on the undercoat for our pet rocks. The kids have selected their rocks, and very careful planning is underway as to what they are going to look like at the end. 

The girls painting their first layer of their pet rocks.

Some of the boys painting their pet rocks. 

We were very lucky last week to have Miss Hickling come and visit us! Annnnnd she even bought up her caravan. Miss Hickling has been working on getting her caravan looking all flash. We all went inside and had a look!

Us all hanging out in Miss Hickling's caravan. 

This week we are getting ready for Pet Day, and getting ourselves all sorted for Performing Arts. Our class are sea creatures. We have some Sharks, Crayfish, and some mermaids! We're going to look awesome. Enjoy your Week! 

Painting our "Good ideas"

Busy painting class. 

Lucas's Post

5/9/2014

Today I made a pattern. It has blue squares and green circles. I made it with a potato. 

Lucas with his awesome potato pattern. 

Week 7

Week 7 we had the awesome opportunity to plant trees at the Whangawehi Bridge. Room 3 worked very hard to get as many trees in as possible, and listened carefully to their house leaders when they were told which trees like what conditions. 

In literacy we have been working on sounding out words before we write them. We have been working hard at doing this all by ourselves, and our writing has been awesome! 

On Friday we worked on creating our own patterns for maths out of potato stamps. We worked out what colours, and what shapes our pattern would have on it while Miss D'Ath cut out our potato stamps. We then had a lot of fun stamping out our patterns. 

This week we have cross country on Thursday. We are sending a very speedy group of 5 and 6 year old runners! We will keep you updated on their results!

Hope you all enjoy the sunshine this week! 

Week 6

Another busy week!

The count down is on for pet day- happening in week 10 (Tuesday the 23rd), as well as counting down to Performing arts (also in Week 10)! We started rehearsing this week and Room 3 were super stars! Some of our class have very important roles (sea creatures), as well as lines that need to be learnt!

We spent a lot of time focussing on our fractions this week, which resulted in us making pizzas, to practice splitting shapes into halves and quarters. All of Room 3 need to be able to read 1/2 and 1/4, which they are all very good at! 

Tuhi's tasty pizza!

Lucas showing his well planned halves and quarters.

On Friday we celebrated daffodil day! Everyone in Room 3 dressed up which was fantastic to see! We had some very funky costumes including a bumble bee and a princess! Miss Violet and Shayne both won prizes for their awesome costumes. Our whole class celebrated by making daffodil day cookies.... perhaps some of them made it home for sampling??

Shayne and Violet with their Prizes!

Our colourful school!

Our class all dressed up!

The term is whizzing by. This next week we have Miss Reeves coming out to help us with our maths learning. We have our planting day down at the Whangawehi Bridge on Thursday- we would love your help if you have spare time! Hope you all have a lovely week 7!

Violet's Blog Post

Today I made a pizza. I did some writing about it. My pizza has halves and quarters. 

Violet with her tasty looking pizza, and piece of writing she wrote about it!

Waitama's Blog Post

22/8/2014

Today we made snakes because we are learning about patterns. It is a pattern because it repeats.

Waitama has been working hard to identify patterns and then copy them
to make the pattern longer. Here he is with his pattern snake!

Room 3 Update

We have had another busy week!

Wednesday, I had to head to Gisborne with Miss Kereru for a course, and we missed out on the Duffy Theatre. The kids said it was an amazing day! 

We have begun to focus on "digraphs" this last week. A digraph is a pair of letters that creates a new sound, such as "ch" and "ph". The kids have been making coins with our "digraph" words on them flowing from our "digraph" treasure chests. 

Kapai te Kiwi has also been on two weekend stays now! Waitama and Jhalena both had a lot of fun having Kapai to stay for the weekend, and Kapai informed me he also enjoyed his time!

Colouring our Name Tags

Playing with our new "Felt Scenes"