End of year picnic for Room Two

Sabine helped us to get ready for the picnic by making some lemonade.

End of year picnic for 2010

Our adventure to the river started with us having to wade across the river. Watch out Lily don't fall in!

Christmas picnic

Lots of us were brave enough for a swim.

Christmas picnic

Chi tried some fishing.

Christmas picnic

Emma has a sunbathe on the rocks after her swim in the river.

Christmas party

We had lots of yummy food at our picnic. Mia, Cilla, Lily and Pearl enjoy some delicious christmas treats.

Christmas picnic

We had a tug of war."Heave ho me hearties!"

Bike Week 29th November 2010

This week has been bike week at school. Everybody has had great fun.

Lily and Mackenzie have learnt to ride their bikes without trainer wheels - fantastic!!

Bike Week

"We had a bike week at school. It was fun and I (Macy) am in this picture catching up with Hani and Emma"

Bike Week

"I like speeding on my bike. I hit the back of someone else's bike because I was going so fast. I really like doing wheelies too!"

Bike Week

"I was going fast on my bike, it's quite fun going fast on my bike"

Athletics Day 19th November 2010

"This is me (Caleb) doing the sack race".

"It was fun. I really liked the sponge and spoon race too".

Beanbag Throw

"It was quite easy to throw the beanbag into the hoop."

"I had fun at Athletics Day. The sack race was my favourite".

Waterfill

"I got a bit wet doing the waterfill race!"

"I'm concentrating hard to not spill the water. This was my favourite race"

Sponge and spoon

"I was fast in the sponge and spoon race. It was easy to keep the ball on the spoon".

"Athletics day was cool!"

Relays

"It was tricky to balance the ball! We weren't allowed to hold onto the ball".

"It was a good activity day, everyone had fun".

Week 6

We are learning Fundamental Skills with Helen.

Shianne, Mackenzie and Cilla are practising underarm throws.

Gardening

Lots of our plants got eaten by the birds!

Red group and Orange group are planting pumpkins in the old treestump.

Keep off birds!

Squares

In maths we have been looking at shapes.

Wren, Eden and Mia are making different patterns with five squares.

Fridge Magnets

We are making fridge magnets as presents

First we had to design our fridge magnet.

Lily is painting the disk with a backgroung colour before she puts on her design.

Story Grandad

Every Tuesday Story Grandad and Story Gran come to listen to us reading.

Chi is reading with Story Grandad.

Week Three

More magnets.

Shianne found out that her magnet even attracted the paperclip through the window!

Athletics

We have been practising different ways of running.

We are moving sideways and using our arms to make us move faster.

Melissa and Lola come for a visit

We had a lovely surprise visit from Melissa and Lola.

Lola can crawl now.

Week Two

Matua Madson comes every week and teaches us Kapa Haka. It is fun learning all the actions and songs in Maori.

Gardening

We have started clearing our raised gardens ready for planting with yummy veggies. Tim is helping us at Reading Time.

More Magnets

We have been investigating what materials a magnet will attract a paper clip through.

Wren and Eden are trying to get the paper clips out of the bottle of water with a magnet and not get their fingers wet.

Week One Term Four

We started off the week with a visit from The Secondary School's Brass Band.

They were awesome! We learned all the names of their instruments and the different sounds they make.

Magnets

We have been looking at magnets and compasses.

Mia and Cilla investigate how a magnet attracts and repels.

Cha Cha's puppies

Paris's Dad brought in Cha Cha with her five puppies. Cha Cha was very good letting us cuddle them. They were very tiny and very cute.

Kiera and Wren snuggle up with two of the puppies.

Mask Parade

We had a practise wearing our masks for the Mask Parade on Friday.

Term Three 2010 in Rata Class

This term we have been very busy as usual.
Here are some of the highlights.

Writing instructions

We have been writing instructions. We wrote instructions on how to clean your teeth.

Eden, Sophie, Shianne and Cameron follow the insructions to see if they make sense.

Making repeating patterns

We have been looking at repeating patterns in maths.

Ethan is making a pattern with the rods.

Magnets

We have started studying magnets. We have been experimenting with what they attract.

Caleb is playing with some magnetic rods and a magnetic figure.

A visit from Melissa and Lola

Melissa and Lola came for a visit.
We were surprised at how big Lola is now. Lola loved looking at all our faces. She really liked showing off by rolling over.Lola is sooo cute!

Paris's lambs

Paris has been looking after twin lambs. They are called Lady and Tramp.She has to feed them every day.

We had a go at feeding them from a bottle.

Shianne, Lucy and Paris patting Lady.

Big Ball Skills

We have been learning throwing and catching skills with big balls.
Mia throws the ball to her buddy.

Spring is here

We have been noticing lots of spring flowers.
Sophie studies these daffodils very carefully and tries to use the right colours. We noticed that not all daffodils are yellow!

We are authors

We have all written a book. It took a long time. First we had to plan our story with a storyboard and then we had to write it. Sally and Clare published our stories on the computer. We are really proud of our books.

Macey shares her book with Nina and Lily Quan.

Book Week

Some of our parents and grandparents came to read to us in book week.

End of Term Three Dress up day

At the end of Book Week we ahd a dress up day when we all dressed up as a character from a book.

Week 11- the last week of Term Two

We celebrated Matariki - the Maori New Year. We had a shared feast and walked around the track in the dark with the lanterns we made.

Dancing in our masks

We have been learning a folk dance called "Strip the Willow". We practised the dance, wearing our masks that we made with Clare.

Room One Transition

Five children are moving up to Room Two next term from Room One. We had a lovely time snuggling up on the new sofas in the library.

Week Ten

For our maths this week we have been studying tallies and making graphs. We stood next to the highway and checked what colour cars drove by.

Truck safety

We all had turns sitting in this big truck to see what the driver can see when he is driving. We talked about the "blind spot".

More about electricity

Wren checks out how static electricity makes the balloon stick to the curtain when you rub it on your hair. Look at what it does to your hair too!

Week 9 The Cross country

We did the cross country at the Hunter's Farm.

On your marks, get set, GO!!!!

The finish line is in sight

Keep going Wren and Ethan you are nearly there!

Well done!

Cooking with Sophie's Mum Terri

Caleb and Hani mix up some muffins - yum!