Term 1 Week 3

We are heading down to Whangarei next week to visit the Kiwi House. This week we worked in groups to create KWL charts showing what we Know and what we Want to know about kiwi birds. Here is Maia and Azalea's video filmed by Sky:

Here are some of the things Room 1 wanted to know:

• Why don't kiwi fly?
• Why do kiwi go to sleep in the day and wake up at night?
• Why are kiwi fat?

Before we go to the Kiwi House we will be writing information reports and answering some of these questions.

On Friday Room 9 came to visit us and read their readers to us. Then we read them our library books. We are showing whanaungatanga by being awesome tuakana.

Jacob and Moko working listening to their buddy reading.

Aarav and Che helping their buddy.

Term 1 Week 2

We had such a busy week! On Monday morning Tessa from ASB Getwise came to teach us about money. She taught us her superhero slogan: "Speed to your needs and wait for your wants".

We were captivated for 45 minutes

Tessa the Superhero

Milk in Schools finally arrived! 

Maia teaching Veishali how we fold the milk cartons for recycling.

On Wednesday Christian came to teach us how to ride a unicycle. We were really good at helping each other and sharing. 

'No Hands' Fred!

Harmony showed great perseverance.

Jacob and Holden made a great team.

We had our first Friday afternoon assembly for the year. Mokonuiarangi and Te Kawana were proud certificate winners:

Welcome to 2015 in Room 1

What a fantastic start to the year! We spent the 4 days at school getting to know each other before enjoying a beautiful long weekend for Waitangi Day. 

On Tuesday we planted some cabbage seeds in our class garden box. We are looking forward to making some coleslaw when they grow. 

Here are some of the fabulous self-portraits we created on Wednesday:

Maia

Oliver

Sky

Jacob

Moko

Dziah

Charlie-Gurl

Te Kawana

Term 4 Week 7

We went for an "art trail" walk around Kaikohe on Monday. Here is some of the art we found:

Grafitti art at the skate park.

Our friend Christian on his unicycle.

Whaea Erin told us about the art.

There is art everywhere in Kaikohe!

We stopped at the park for ice-blocks and some kai. 

On the way back to school we were invited to visit Santa's grotto. It had only just opened and we were the first visitors!

Trinity enjoyed looking at the beautiful decorations.

We wrote letters to Santa.

Term 4 Week 6

We wrote simile poems this week. Jazmine earned "Writer of the Week" with her poem.

Term 4 Week 5

We were very lucky to see some Mounted Games this week on our school field. If you want to check out what they were doing have a look at this video:

And to prove they really did come to our school - here are some photos:

We practised being safe in the water again. Whaea Tracey taught us "If you can float, you can survive." 

Term 4 Week 4

We had Chromebooks in our classroom this week so we spent lots of time learning how to file, create and share our work. It was fun doing our writing with a keyboard instead of a pencil.

Marty, Tracey and Avril from Swimsafe New Zealand are visiting our school for the next two weeks. On Tuesday we wore life jackets and learned how  to huddle and make a chain to help us survive in the water. On Thursday we were shown some more survival techniques and we got to practise them wearing our new swimming caps.