Helping out

Our class is involved in lots of sports around the school.

One of the jobs is retrieving lost sports equipment...we enjoy this job A LOT as we get to go 'out of bounds'.

:)

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Being Dramatic

At the end of our 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' unit we acted out how to do the 5 key learning tasks. We showed each other:

How to be confident.

How to say no.

How to stay safe etc.

My little garden learning

We had to put the soil in a container and then we had to put the water on top. Wait for a while and the soil will suck the water up. Then we scrunched up the soil and put it in the little pot with the seed. We got to watch them grow.

By Trihaan

Home Play Challenge

Go to this website and register (must be done with parents) to do some fun challenges and go in the draw to win a bike!

http://www.sportwaikato.org.nz/programmes/team-energize/home-play-challenge.aspx

Outdoor Art Exhibition

Every sunny moment we get we are outside painting drains for our upcoming art exhibition. We can't wait for all the adults to come in and see our fabulous pieces of art around the school. 

COME TO SCHOOL on Tuesday 26th September at 5pm. 

Bees and pollination

We have just planted our little garden flowers. These are helping us to learn about how important bees are and the pollination process.

Did you know that bees love maths, particularly hexagons? 

Ask us about it :)

Gymnastics

We had our second session with project energise learning new gymnastic skills, on equipment this time. Our balance and confidence is getting better each day!

Maths Fact-a-thon

Serious concentration faces today as we put in a HUGE effort to complete the 100 questions in 10mins. Ask us how we did. Mrs D is proud of our achievements with this tricky task.

Kakariki House Visit

Today we went on the school bus to Kakariki House. One of the reasons it is known as Kakariki house is because it is an environmentally friendly building. Here is some of the fantastic pieces of art they have on display in their building. 

What a great experience!

Black Ferns v Teachers Netball

Reading for the fun of it.

Sometimes there is nothing better than reading to a buddy, outside...so peaceful.

Mindfulness take two

Every Wednesday morning from 9am-9.45am Whaea Kat teaches us mindfulness. This was our second session and we are doing really well at it.

We learn about mindful breathing, mindful moving, mindful eating and many other practises. Last week we talked about gratitude and this week we learnt about happiness. 

Ask us about how it makes us feel and remind us to pause, breathe, smile! 

Joe Harawira

We went by bus to the Hamilton City pop up library to listen to Joe Harawira tell us stories in Te Reo. He was a fantastic story teller and even explained his Ta Moko to us which was very interesting.

CHECK OUT OUR BLOGS to see what we learnt from Joe.

Our letter

We don't want to give away too much yet...but we are busy working away on our letter for the big reveal at the outdoor art exhibition later this term.

Remembering how to be cybersmart...

We are remembering how to use technology for our learning the best we can.
Here are some things you should/shouldn't do:

• Only use links from the blog (or ones our teachers have shared with us).
• No youtube (unless it is a link from a teacher).
• Keep your passwords and personal details to yourself.
• Appropriate language at all time.
• Only use your email for learning purposes at school and at home.
• Make sure you are doing the right learning.
• No social media.
• Only the school logo and school photos can be your pictures.
• Don't talk to people you don't know.
• G-Suite is for learning only.

So much fun to be had at break times!!!

Something exciting is coming soon...

Oral Language

Being able to talk with others is an important skill to have...so is being able to LISTEN. During oral language time we practice doing both of these in a variety of ways. Here we had to come up with rules as a group on how we were going to take turns, how long we would talk for and how to show good listening skills.