Performing arts week!

Congratulations to Hemione, who did a fantastic job performing  in front of a big audience. She did two dances with other Highland dancers from school. Wow! Hemione, you were amazing! 

The Minstrel visits!

We had fun with Mr and Mrs Minstrel this morning. We learnt lots about sea safety and fishing rules! Ask your child all about it! 

Athletics

We have started our Athletics training in preparation for Athletics Day (which is on Thursday the 9th of November)
Please come along to watch us if you can....it will be in the morning and a notice detailing exact times will come home soon.

Happy Birthday Rab!

We were lucky enough to share yummy muffins to celebrate Rab's 7th birthday ! Thanks Rab, and have a fabulous day!

Assembly song

We are going to be practicing this song lots before we sing it to the school at assembly next term.
The children love it so I thought we'd have it on the blog so they can practice it at home.

Calendars

We have our stunning calendar art in class. If you still haven't had a chance to look at your child's art, please just ask and we'll show you it. Don't forget orders need to be in by next Friday. 

Spring Lambs!

On Tuesday Sophie's Mum brought some special visitors to school. We were lucky enough to meet Sophie's pet lambs Dot and Snowy. We got to pat them and some of us got to hold their milk bottles while they had their lunch! Thank you Rachael for sharing your lambs with us!

Room 11 reading task

We have been learning how to critically connect with books.
After we had read a book about someone being sick with the Moozles we were asked to create a poster to try and encourage people to stay healthy at school.
We needed to have....

• a border
• large, clear writing
• an eye catching picture
• a title to describe what our poster is about
• captions that gave some more information about how to stay healthy.

These are our posters

Eva

 After we had completed them we looked at them all and judged which ones  we felt had all of the above criteria.

 Our winners were Andrew, Eva and Taylor. Ka pai to everyone for making  such fabulous posters. If you'd like to see them, keep an eye out as every  classroom in the school is displaying one in the hope of promoting  wellness!

       

Andrew

Potato Comp

All of the Punga team together with Mrs Wentworth are competing in a potato growing competition. We will be trying to grow the biggest and most potatoes in a bucket in the next few months. Hopefully Room 19 will be awesome gardeners and will win this challenge!

Calendar Art

Please come and check out our art on the Room 19 windows. These will be used for orders for calendars, diaries and cards. They look amazing!

Pom-poms

We are learning how to make pom-poms with the help of our big buddies in Room 9. It's pretty tricky but we are getting the hang of it with our big buddies assistance. It's also lots of fun chatting to our buddies whilst we thread the wool through!

Swimmers ready to go!

Looking good on day three of swimming! 

Swim week!

Yippee! We are off on the bus with our friends from Room 4 for a week of swimming!

Daffodil day

Today was Daffodil day. A day to support those who have, or have had cancer. Our school raised nearly $600 dollars for the Cancer Society. Don't we all look smashing in our yellow, green & orange?

Scientists at work!

We have been having some science fun in the Punga Syndicate. Room 19 froze some Lego people and then used them in an experiment to find out- What makes ice melt fastest?

Yoga

Every Friday we have started doing children's yoga to begin our mornings.

It has been proven to......

• increase flexibility
• create stronger bones
• improve balance
• lower stress levels
• relieve anxiety
• improve brain function

It's also LOTS of fun!!

Super speller

Room 19 had another super speller who we commended last week for all the fantastic effort she has put I nto learning her weekly spelling. Well done Sophie, keep up the awesome effort!

Award!

Well done Fionn for being recognised in your reading class. You have been constantly putting in fabulous effort into all of the work you produce. Ka pai, keep it up!

Our amazing spellers

Every Friday we test our weekly spelling words with a buddy. If we get them all correct we get a sticker on our charts.
These children for the last two terms have been working so hard learning their words every week and have only had 1 or 2 incorrect words over two terms!
Ka pai, keep up the super effort with your spelling for the next two terms.

Room 11 readers plays

In Room 11 during reading this week we have been learning to add more expression into our voices when we read. To do this we all participated in a play. We were trying to take on the voice & personality of the character we were playing. We practiced our parts all week and presented our plays to Room 3 readers today.  It was lots of fun!!

Certificates!

Wow there were lots of certificates handed out at assembly today..... and lots in Room 19.

Ka pai Harry, Fionn, Pippa, Ben and Mali for your amazing effort and placement in your cross country run.

Well done Sophie and Mali on receiving a merit certificate. You have been putting in so much effort in class, keep it up!

Matariki Stars!

We had so much fun making paper bag stars with Room 11, to celebrate Matariki this week. They are hanging in our window for you to see!....