Happy Holidays

Thanks parents for all your hard work with your children's learning.  They are awesome.  I hope you have a lovely time with your family these holidays.

Kind regards,

Ngaio Duffy.

Class Rosette

Congratulations to Isla for being awarded the class rosette for room 13, 2016.  Well deserved Isla.

more museum photos

Museum Trip

Room 13 had a fantastic day visiting the museum.  Thanks to our parent helpers.  Mrs Akbari, Mrs George, Mrs Kavia and Mrs Ng Shiu.  here are some photos from the trip.

Athletics Day.

Divali

Jacob and Caleb's Divali pic collage.

Citizens award

Congratulations to Caleb who was awarded the citizen award at the syndicate assembly.

Diwali

On Friday the students and teachers had the opportunity to dress up to celebrate Diwali.

Term 4

Welcome back to term 4.  In Inquiry this term we are looking at natural systems, stratosphere, geosphere, atmosphere and biosphere.   We will be looking at geosphere in depth.
In maths we are studying addition and subtraction and capacity.
 For written language we will be writing reports and instructions.
In art we will be completing our tapa patterns.  
For health we are looking at the importance of good sportsmanship.

letters to Joy Cowley

We wrote letters to Joy Cowley.  Here are Isla's and Arhum's letters.

Needs and wants.

We learnt the difference about needs and wants.  Here are some pic collages Isla and Azra made.

Chinese banknote

Isaac showed us this Chinese banknote for news

ASB visit

We were all super heros' when the lady from the ASB came to talk about saving spending and sharing money.

Retelling using Puppet Pals

Nimit's story

Here is Nimit's publishing about the Olympic day.

Grayson's banknote

Grayson chose his dad as his hero for the banknote.

Money Matters

For our inquiry unit "Money Matters"  we designed our own bank notes.  We had to choose someone special to us and explain why we chose that person.

Orange Day

We had fun dressing up for Orange Day

WALT read with expression.

Huda is using the explain everything app to read with expression.

Maths strategies

Tristan is using the explain everything app to explain which strategy he used to solve a maths problem.

Reading with expression

Seth is learning to read with expression.  He used explain everything.

Time activities

Family and Whanau,

This week we have have been exploring time and learning to tell time to the hour and half-hour. We have also been looking at different sorts of clocks.

This week your child is asked to draw pictures of the clocks that you have at home (watches, appliance clocks, novelty clocks, clock radios …). We will be using these pictures in an activity later in the week so please remind your child to draw each clock on a different piece of paper.

It would also support your child's learning if you were able to state the time when certain things happen especially if it is on the hour or half hour. For example: "Look! It's 8 o'clock, time for bed" or " It's 5:30, time for tea"

Calendar Art

We have completed out Pukeko pictures ready for calendar art. Here is a preview.

Welcome back to term 3.

  This term we will be studying Money Matters for Inquiry.  (see previous post).

In maths we are looking at multiplication and division.  For strand we will be looking at time.

For art we are going to making tapa pictures.

Gymnastics will be our focus for P.E.  The Olympic day will be held this Thursday 11th August.  We are practising for cross country on Thursdays and Tuesdays.  Please bring spare shoes and a change of pants for the practise as the field can get very muddy.  The cross country will be held on Tuesday 23rd August.

For music we are going to be participating in folk dancing fortnightly.

In Health we are looking at healthy eating.

Written Language will focus on recounts and letter writing.

Any questions feel free to pop into room 13 for a chat.

Welcome back to term 3..Next Thursday 4/8/16 we are having an Olympic day.  Our country is Malaysia.  The colours of the flag are yellow, blue and red.  It would be great if your child could dress in these colours in sports clothes for the event.  See the Halsey Drive app for more information or see me.

More title pictures.

Narratives

Narratives

Here are some more of our Title pages