Great times and learning are being had during our Play, Past and Present topic.

Festival of Soccer

It was great to see the Middle and Senior girls out enjoying the sunshine last week. They took part in a Festival of Soccer which was kindly put on by Debby Finlayson from Central Football. We would like to say a big thank you to all of those parents who came to support us.

Boosting Maths

Learn how your brain grows when it makes a mistake. Feel good about the struggle because this is how you learn.

Maths

EVERYONE has a wonderful 'Maths Brain'.  We all need have a growth mindset, be prepared to make mistakes and share with others.

Every parent should watch this...

Pyper and her Baby Guinea Pigs

Room R getting ready for our show next week...

Paige's Bunny Visit

On Friday Snuggles came to visit.

Here are some facts about Snuggles

1. He loves carrot sticks

2. His main food is hay and grass

3.He's a litte bit scared

4.We bought him from Shilos Pets

5.He sleeps in my brothers room with me

6.He loves cuddles

7.When ever he dosen't get cuddles he bites

I think Snuggles is a good pet because he behaves himself

By Paige Norling

Concrete Truck visit to MSS

Slater and Spider

Slaters are a main feature of the Room N this year.  But few people know about the Slater Spider.  Room N is making their own slater spider and its prey (slater).   Since all the members of Room N like mess, slime, slop and all the other good fun stuff, we are using paper mâché to make the giant spider.

We have a wire base to start with and have added the first layer.  We enjoyed the sloppy slime so much it has taken a week to dry.

Next is the second layer of paper and tidying up all the hairy edges.

Room N's Nasty Pirates

Arrr! Another Dress-up day.  We all got to dress up as Pirates to celebrate our learning conferences and the end of the book fair.

Longest worm

I did some research about the longst worm in the world and it's called 

Lineus longissimus it can grow up to 55 meters long and and up to 100 mm wide

By Bridget

100

Room N's Mercury maths group worked hard today putting cards in order to 100.  They had to think about the numbers on the card along with the numbers before and after.  It took a while but they got there.  They have found out that the set is missing the number 22.  They are going to have to look for it in another pack.  

Proud to be an Envirokid

Liam has spent a lot of time and used his imagination and artistic skills to create an interesting cover for his Envirobook. Liam loves to share with our class what he has been doing at Envirokids.

Performing Plays

We're having lots of fun performing plays. It takes time and practice to prepare but the effort is worth it! We can't wait to do more.

Swimming Sports

We had lots of fun on Swimming Sports Day by doing our best and supporting each other. On Monday 27th March we are having a special Swimming Assembly in the hall at 2 o'clock to celebrate our achievements and to thank our parent helpers.

Room O School Librarians

Addi and Saskia are being trained by Mrs Bennitt to be our school class librarians. They are learning how to use the new school library programme called AccessIT. They issue and return books for us and they shelve books that we return. We know that they're going to do a great job for our class.

Room O Class Enviro Job

Our class Enviro Job is to look after the budgie aviary. Fynn and Luke have been trained how to do the job. They do the job 3 days a week at lunchtimes. They are training everyone in Room O to do the job.

Bridge building

We have to build a bridge to span the 40cm gap between two desks.  All we have is a pile of Lego.  We have had to discuss our ideas and decide on a design.   The winner will be the bridge that can hold the most dictionaries while spanning the gap.

GET READY GO BUILD!

We will have to finish in the morning.

Term 1 Enviro Action Day

Room R  & T buddy time on our very enviro action day for 2017 :)

How to draw a spider and web

We have been reading the story Charlotte's Web so as an art activity we got on YouTube and learnt how to draw a spider on its web.

Constable Cree's Visit to Room M

By Abby & Charlie

Have a great Enviro Day

Mighty Room M Responsibilities

We are proud to introduce the Room M Enviro, Green Team, Matauranga Maori Kids and Librarians for 2017. They are super excited to start their jobs. 

World Read Aloud Day 2017

We had so much fun reading aloud to our class. We felt so proud of ourselves! 

Room L Marble Treats

In Lovely Room L we work together to fill up our marble jar. We do this by putting a marble in the jar  for doing amazing work, working together well, showing all of the Care Code qualities, taking risks and being responsible for our own learning. Last week we had our first marble treat. A big thank you to Zoe and Kodah for taking the photos and producing these pic collage  pages on our i-pad

Room R Youtubers

Energiser Fun in Room R

In between our learning in Room R Mrs Patching gets us to do lots of different activities to freshen up and re-energise ourselves. Yesterday we had fitness stations in our year groups. Check out the fun we had!!!

What does the red part of the rainbow sound like, look like and feel like???

Today in our "Thinking Groups" we discussed the RED part of our school rainbow. We are learning to work cooperatively to do a task and having fun with our class mates at the same time!!!

Room N and French Cricket

We learned how to play French Cricket last week.  It is a great game because it involves cooperation and everyone gets a turn.

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Who's the tallest person in our class?

Today we used metre rulers and small rulers to measure the exact height of the 3 people who were taller than most of us. We all predicted first, then we measured.Robert recorded the data we collected.

iPads

One day a week the Middle Team classes get to use our team set of iPads. Today Room O learned to use the Doodle Buddy programme and the Spelling Bug programme.

Mighty Milk

We are very lucky to get milk each day at school. Milk is great for our health. Thank you to Fonterra for providing free milk to all Year 1-6 students in New Zealand. We all know how to fold up our milk cartons ready for recycling.