Busy Tuesday!

Wow! What an amazing day we have had! We made Christmas Angels, had a lovely shared morning tea in Josephine's garden and had a fantastic time at Harling Park! 

First swim

Yay..... finally it's sunny enough for us to swim. We joined in with Room 18 & swam for the first time this summer. It was so much fun, we're so lucky to still have a school pool. 

Resthome visit

We really enjoyed singing on Tuesday to the lovely folks at the Redwoodtown Retirement Village. We sung them Christmas carols then gave them Christmas bookmarks we had made. We know they loved our visit as they gave us the biggest clap at the end.

Merits

Tino pai Ziggy, Nikita and Hunter in earning a merit award at Assembly. We have seen all the hard work Hunter and Ziggy that you've been putting into your Maths and Nikita into your reading. Keep this up till the end of term.... you'll be year 3's before you know it, but with this effort you are demonstrating you're more than ready!

Art with Room 18

Here we are working on our Koruru art with Room 18.

Mathematicians at work!

We spent some time today working on problems using thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. We enjoyed the challenge!

Merit awards

Ka pai Oliver and Zatori. You two have been putting in a great deal of effort into your learning lately and it has been noticed. Keep this up, we're all very proud of you!!!

Waikawa Marae

We had the best experience at Waikawa Marae yesterday. The tangata whenua (hosts) were so welcoming and taught us a lot! We were taught by not only the Marae hosts but also some students from Queen Charlotte College. We took part in learning all about the carvings in the wharenui, how to weave with flax, we learnt and sung a Haka and we learnt a song to use rakau sticks too. We saw the kowhaiwhai patterns we had been learning about and creating at school and experienced a hongi. It was a day full of new experiences and fun!

Athletics

Friday was our first time competing in the school's athletics day. It was great to finally use the skills we had been learning and put them into practice. We competed in high jump, long jump, quoits, shotput, and sprints. It was a fantastic day outside the classroom!

Measuring with hands!

We used our hands to measure areas of the classroom! It was fun and noisy!

Measuring time!

We used cubes to measure classroom objects. First we had to estimate and then check to get an actual measurement. 

Taiopenga

On Wednesday a few children from Room 19, alongside many other children represented Witherlea School at the Taiopenga Kapa Haka Festival.

Lots of preschools, kindergartens and schools take part. This is the 2nd year our school has taken part in this awesome event.

Witherlea school tamariki, you did us very proud!!

How long is one metre....we think we know now!

Today we used our new measurement knowledge to look around the school for things we estimated would measure a metre. We then used the metre rulers to see if we were right. Look at all the things we found that measured exactly 1 metre in our school environment.