Maths Time

Today we looked at sequencing and time. We talked about our day and all the things we do! We are very busy people.

Next we drew a picture that went with one activity. Finally we ordered them. Now we have a great timetable across our room - come and see!

Dress Rehearsals

Dress rehearsals for the shows start next week so could you please start bringing in your settlers clothing named and in a plastic bag.
It will need to be at school until the end of week 3.

We will also be looking for some Parent help in Week 3 escorting us to Green Bay for our filming. If you are available please let us know.

Thanks,
Imogen and Sarah.

The Leaf Hunt

The worms and Miss Macartney went on a leaf hunt today after reading the book "This Leaf". We explored around our school to see what we could find. Some leaves were too big to bring back to class!
It was a lot of fun.

Ballistic challenge

Today we learnt that practise makes perfect! Remember to keep practising at home for the challenge next week. 

Ballistic Challenge Forms

These are now due- can you please bring them in asap. 

The class with the most sponsorship wins a prize!

Well done Amelia who is the first to bring hers in today!

Day One Term 3

We had a busy first day back today! We shared what we did in the holidays, talked about our reading goals, chose new jobs for around the classroom, wrote and drew a picture about our holidays and went to the School Library!

 

Check our notebooks tonight!

There's a special surprise lurking.. What is it!? 

Spelling

We now have a spelling section in the back of our homework notebook. Please complete by Friday. 

Back to school

Back to school tomorrow! Remember your book bags and library books :) 

See you there! 

Liams goal

Sorry Liam! 

We forgot to put up that Liam had reached his goal!

Great work Liam!

3 more reading stars meeting their goals!!

Well done to Kostya, Sancy and Zac who have met their goals this week! 

Such a great effort! 

Matariki Celebration and Showcase

Today we had our Matariki celebration! We put our Matariki masks and coloured stars on and paraded around the field in the morning. Then we watched the teachers have silly races like running with a ball between their legs. After lunch we had a special assembly and sung a Matariki Macarena.

Broadcast stars

We had 2 broadcast stars this morning! 

Bridget and Evie got their Term 2 walking school bus awards! 

(Liam recieved one too just not on camera) 

Well done! Sorry the images are a bit blurry. 

Tasty treats

Today we got to make some tasty fruit kebabs! Thanks room 20 for sharing your extra fruit! They were yum

Tye has met his goal!

Well done Tye! Tye met his reading goal today and is now reading Blue 1! 

Helper of the week

This mystery person is our helper of the week! She is always asking to help others and helps the teachers by wiping down the tables. Thanks helper!!

Painting Friday

This week we read a big book about a bunny rabbit jumping into different paints and making new colours! We learnt 

Red+yellow=orange

Blue+yellow = green 

Blue +red = purple

Today we made colour wheels with paints and mixed paints together! 

We then used our mixed paints to paint our Matariki Masks. What a lot of painting !!

Rectangles

Today the rectangles worked on the computer to practise their counting! They made pictures by drawing "how many more to ten". First they rolled the dice to get a number, then they counted how many more to ten! Check out the cool pictures they drew!

Certificate

Today our class certificate went to Bridget Simpson for her great work in Writing! Bridget has been sounding out words using blocks! Well done Bridget. 

Reports

Today our Mid Year progress reports will be in our book bags! These report on the progress made towards the National Standards so far this year. If you have any queries or concerns please don't hesitate to see Miss Black or Miss Macartney.

Word lists

Some of us have been bringing home word lists to practise our high frequency words. 

There are 16 words for us to learn. 

Everytime we bring them back to school we get stickers for each word we get right!

Vivaan learnt all his words this week! 

Well done Vivaan!!! 

Help needed!!

Our school show is coming closer! We are practising and singing everyday and now we need your help!

We are looking for parents with areas in expertise to help out with Room  22’s settlers scene in the production this year.

Especially: Set design, costuming, music editing, prop making, drivers etc. 

Please leave a comment below or email Imogen if you can help or for more information - imogenm@arahoe.school.nz

Thank you!

Matariki celebration: fried bread

Today as part of our Matariki celebration we made fried bread! We used our 5 senses to describe what we could smell, see, hear, feel and best of all what we could taste!! 

Writing wonders

Today we watched a funny video where an old ladies' dog ran away with her still holding his lead! Check out the great job we did writing by ourselves and using the blocks!