Our helper...

Every Wednesday morning ‘Gran’ comes to Room 1 and helps us with our reading, writing and maths.  Thank you Gran, you are a Super Gran!!

Young Farmers competition

Lots of fun for all who were taking part!

Grandparents Day...

Thank you to all of the grandparents who visited Room 1.  It was great to see you all.  Thank you for your help in class with our writing and reading programme!

This week - week 7!

This week we have two assistant teachers in Room 1.  It is their task to welcome everyone, get the date board ready and then take on a teaching role.  Well done Ryker and Sophia!

After that our maths time start.  It is great to see the children challenging themselves and others with new maths problems!

We have had an unexpected special visitor - Mr Weta.  We studied the weta and then learned to write a report.  A report needed to have facts and should have verbs like: is, has, can, lives.  Here is some of our work and the material we used for our study. 

Studying our native flora and fauna fits well with our current study about our past.  Children are learning that while there once was an abundance of species, nowadays we have to protect these to ensure our national treasures - our taonga - do not become extinct!.

After writing time, our reading time starts.  Today we learned about characters and settings of a story.  We listened to a Maori myth and then, after some discussion worked hard to produce some excellent work. Tu meke!

Week 6

We visited Barnett's Bush and learned about its history!

Here is the 1200 year old Totara tree!

Mrs Vullings, Mrs Hamilton and Mrs Bain spoke about the past, the present and the future of this beautiful part of Aoteaoroa: our backyard!

Junior Athletics...

We had a great action packed afternoon, with some excellent results. Here are some photos of the athletes. A big thank you to all the parent helpers and for all the parent support. And an extra big thank you to Sarah Monteith for organising this great afternoon. Well done!

Thank you Mrs Hunt (Ryker’s Mum) for all these great action photos!

Friendly Friday...

Here is Douglas visiting again!
We asked hime some questions to get to know him better!
Isla was visiting as well! Here we are sharing news!

Our waka...

...all hands on deck!

Week 1, Term 4

Just an impression of this week's happening... What a busy week it was with Calf Club Day and miniature gardens!

The winners of the Miniature Garden competition!

Ryker sharing his "Show and Tell" on Friday.

It worked!

Jayden sharing his rock collection.

Katrina sharing her success!

Fred and Ryker making a prehistoric miniature garden!