Tidy numbers

In maths we have been learning to add and subtract by first making a tidy number. Tidy numbers have 0 at the end. Here are some examples we have made to share our learning with you:

Thanks for watching! 

Our assembly

Team work!

Kia Orana!

Mastering A Haka Mana

Thank you to all the wonderful parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, siblings and friends that came to our assembly. We love playing the ukulele and hope you enjoyed watching us. We hope you like our outfits that we made to celebrate Cook Island Maori Language Week. 

From Room 4. 

What we made to wear to assembly.

Minibeasts!

We have been very busy, buzzy, beautiful bees these term! We love our new topic - minibeasts.

Here is some of our fantastic work so far:

Term Two

Wow! What a great term we had last term. As a special treat on our last day we made healthy smoothies. We were learning to describe using detail. We could describe the smoothies taste, smell, look, feel and the sound it made when it was in the blender.

Come in and have a read of our wonderful writing.

Writing about our smoothies!

A highlight from Term 2 was making and flying kites to celebrate Matariki. These are displayed in our room, come and see! :-) 

We wrote wonderful recounts about our experience. 

Flying our kites

We have a published writing wall where you can come and read our writing and leave us some feedback.

Reading Together

Dear Parents and Caregivers

We are running a programme here next term (term 3) about how to help your child with reading at home. It's called Reading Together. It is a research based programme that helps fono/whanau to support their child/ren with reading at home.

We would love to see you there if you can make it. It is a very effective programme and I highly recommend it.

The dates will be:

Session 1 Thursday 23rd July 2.00-3.00pm
Session 2 Thursday 30th July 2.00-3.00pm
Session 3 Thursday 6th August 2.00-3.00pm
Session 4 Thursday 3rd September 2.00-3.00pm

For more information visit the website: http://www.readingtogether.net.nz/

Please fill out the form your child is bringing home about it if you are interested in attending.

Thank you,

Miss Bound

Samoan Language Week

Talofa! 

Samoan Language Week was awesome! We learnt the Samoan National Anthem, how to draw Samoan Patterns, songs in Samoan and greetings. We are experts at counting from 1-10. Tasi (1), Lua (2), Tolu (3), Fa (4), Lima (5), Ono (6), Fitu (7), Valu (8), Iva (9), Sefulu (10).

Here are some of our beautiful patterns:

Link to the Samoan National Anthem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8MiS-0zbY 

At 11.40am we had people come and teach us some Samoan activities like songs and dances. I thought it was so cool that we could all join in on counting in Samoan because we had done it in class. I love Samoa. It is very nice and tropical. By: B

Thank you to our wonderful visitors during Samoan Week :-)

Guide Dogs!

Hi everyone :-)

In week 6 we had some very special visitors come to visit us. 1 puppy in training, 1 breeding dog and 1 guide dog. We learnt lots about what they do and how they are animal heroes.

Guide Dogs are heroes because they lead blind people and look after them so they don't get hurt.
- By: T

Our topic is heroes. This is our last week at looking at animal heroes.