End of term

Out of this world, our new unit. We researched what the planets looked like and sketched and coloured our own solar systems. 

Reading our PPP letters. Thank you for the lovely letters you wrote to your children about their recent PPPs. The children thoroughly enjoyed reading them. 

End of term boys' picnic. Today the boys had their classroom picnic complete with animated videos and computer games. 

Happy birthday to Tobey!!

Extra reason for Tobey to celebrate today. He was awarded the CBS celebration award for our class for consistently demonstrating the CBS core values. Well done Tobey!

Letter Art

Our Blank Canvases

Our Finished Letters

Our letter art was so much fun to create and share.  Here is the process we went through to create our art.  >>HERE<<

Once again, thank you to Mr and Mrs Aitken for cutting out all of our letters to begin our project!

Here is a video of us getting ready to take our letters to the hall for the Art Expo.  If you can't view it click >>HERE<< to be directed to the video.

Our letters on display in the hall.

Buddy Science

Milky way experiment.  We filled a small tray with milk.  Then we added a few drops of food colouring into the milk in separate places.  After we added a drop of dishwashing liquid, we used a toothpick to swirl the colours in the milk.  It made beautiful patterns.

Our next experiment was to make paperclip helicopters.  We had to follow directions to fold and cut the paper and add a paper clip to make our helicopters work.  We had fun letting them go from as high as we could reach and watching them spin to the ground.

Te Tahawai Marae

Today we went to Te Tahawai Marae (The Edgewater Marae).  We had a fantastic time learning about the Maori culture and this marae in particular.  Charlotte spoke the karanga greeting on behalf of Room 3 and 16.  Once we were inside the marae, Tobey spoke the whaikorero and presented the koha on our behalf.  Following the powhiri we shared hakari together as is the Maori custom.  After we had eaten, Room 16 went to learn more about the Marae and Room 3 learnt about the kowhaiwhai patterns and got a chance to make our own. Then we learnt how to use the pois and sang a song using them.  Afterwards we switched places with Room 16 and we got our turn to learn about the Marae and look at and touch the beautiful carvings.  We had an excellent afternoon experiencing a Marae.

You can view a video of our afternoon by clicking here, or watching below.

photo booth fun

We've had fun using Mrs Nichol's daughter's wedding photo booth to take our individual start of the year photos.  Don't we look like a crazy bunch!?

Senior Playground!

Our first class photo of the year was where else, but on the Senior Playground!  Yippee!!!

Mrs Nichol's goal for the year is to climb to the top!  (but will she get back down?!?!)

Nice to meet you!

Today we got to meet each other.  The children met their new teacher and classmates, and the teacher met her new students!  We have such an amazing group of children!  I am looking forward to a great year together!  See you in February!