Gardening Fun

A special thanks to our garden helpers, Kelly and Kate who took us out to plant our seedlings this morning! We dug up the weeds first to make the soil ready then planted our beans, marigolds and other plants! 

Golden Rules

Today we talked about golden rules. We talked about the importance of following them and decided on some consequences if we don't follow them. We all agreed to try our very best to follow them and signed a TREE-ty with a thumbprint. Quiz us on what our golden rules are so we can remember them! 

b's and d's

A lot of us are still having problems with our b and d. Today we worked really hard remembering the Casey Shapes that make these letters.

Remember: b is tall stick close the gate and d is open mouth tall stick. 

Triangles Counting in 2's!!

Today the Triangles Maths group practised counting in twos! Check out their hard work!!

Speech Contest

A big thanks to Emily and Zuzia who came and performed their speeches this morning!

We loved hearing about the tiny elf and about sisters. We learnt to give feedback using the sentence starter I like...

Grounds duty

This week it is our turn to look after our school environment by picking up rubbish after lunch. We found some interesting things that had been blown behind our class like a cone, ball, shoes and even a jumper! We will be doing this all week and hope the rubbish will get less and less as we don't want our school to be a rubbish bin!! 

Values cards

Today we made values card holders for our values cards that we can earn off M.A.S.H officers or duty teachers. We will keep these folders for the rest of our time here at Arahoe so we did our best job at collaging. 

Jump Jam star... Eilidh

Bee Pantomime

Today Mrs Tuck told us she loved bees and Mrs Makani said she didn't because she got stung! We had to teach her to love them.

In Mrs Tuck's basket was Baked beans, tomato sauce, flowers, strawberry ice cream and they all had help from bees! Bees pollinate flowers that help make things like strawberries or beans or tomatoes. Binoculars were also in the basket. Can you remember what birds do to help bees?

Bee facts

Yesterday we played a game where we had to answer questions about bee facts. In groups we has to push our buzzer to get a turn and answers correctly to get a point!  Did you know there are around 80000 bees in one hive! Welldone to team 5 (the spring onions) who won!

Today we learnt some more bee facts. See if you can remember the answer...  

The scientific name for a person who studies bees?

An Entomologist is ...

An Apiarist is ....

Celebration time!!

Today we celebrated Mr Limbricks 20th year watching at Arahoe School. We had a special assembly where Harpar and Amelia very bravely spoke. Mr Limbrick was given a scrapbook the whole school put together and a wooden waka. 

IPads

Room 22 is lucky enough to have 8 IPads in the morning for our Reading programme! We love using then and they are going to help our reading skills too!! 

Don't forget ....

Don't forget to dress up nautical like tomorrow for our little celebration!!

Music!

Today with Mrs Sadgrove we learnt how to warm up for dance and all about moving out body different ways and at different levels! It was lots of fun. 

The Big Sad Wolf

We had a lot of fun this morning watching the Big Sad Wolf. There were so many of our favourite story characters like the boy who cried wolf, Goldilocks, Snow White, The Huntsman, Granny and lots lots more!!! 

We laughed and laughed and laughed. Miss Macartney and Mrs Moorhouse thought we were an amazing audience!! 

Please remember your $6 if you have not paid yet. 

Bee visit

Today Oliver from BeezThings visited us. He brought in a working beehive (with 50,000 bees!!) and told us about his awesome job as a full time bee keeper! We got to hold some wax and listen about how the bees work together and the different roles they have. He told us some very interesting facts and we asked him some questions too. 

Hats!

School hats are now compulsory for wearing in the playground. Please remember to bring them to school everyday. 

Beee-utiful day at school

Today we have a BEE day! We will be learning all about bees this term. Today we tried honey on toast, made bee antennae and got out face painted! Over the next few weeks we will be learning more about bees and the important part they play. 

Happy Birthday Miss Macartney

Jump Jam with Room 21

Keeping ourselves fit

Today for fitness we worked on our core muscles so we will be able to sit up straight on the mat and in our chairs! 

The Bee Hunt

Today we went on a Bee hunt around the school. Here is our poem we wrote!

The Bee Hunt

By Room 22

We went on a bee hunt

Around the office

Bee! Bee!

Was it a bee?

No, just a wasp.

We went on a bee hunt

Past Room 2

Bee! Bee!

Was it a bee?

No, just a wasp.

We went on a bee hunt

Next to room 6

Bee! Bee!

Was it a bee?

Yes it was!

Stuck in the mud!

As part of our PE programme today we learnt a new type of stuck in the mud. We had to free people by leap frogging over them. We had a few collisions but lots of fun! 

Room22 singing at Mrs Moorhouse's wedding

Welcome Dylin !!

Today we had a new friend join our room 22 team! His name is Dylin! Dylin did a great job learning room 22 routines today and joined in with everything! Don't forget to make him feel welcome! 

Congratulations Mrs Moorhouse!!!!

What a fantastic day we all had attending Miss Black's (now Mrs Moorhouse) wedding last Friday! 

We sang and danced so well and Miss Macartney got lots and lots of compliments on how amazing we were!!

Here are some photos of the great day!!!