Prize Giving

On December the 4th we had our Junior School Prize Giving.

We dressed up like reindeer.

Congratulations to Bella and Hale who won our class prizes.  

It was very hard for Mrs Nathan and Whaea Maeva to just choose two people. 

Caszius won a prize for Maths and Bella won a Reading prize for being the best in Year 0.

We are so proud of their achievements.

A visit from King Homeboy

On Tuesday King Homeboy came to visit.  He told us all about the history of Beat boxing and about learning how to beatbox.

He is the New Zealand Champion Beatbox and is able to make some amazing sounds with his voice!

He is a video of him in action.

Halloween disco

At lunchtime today we had a Halloween disco.

Matauri was Spiderman

 Jono was Superman.

Athletics Day

Today it was athletics day.  

We all had to run 100 meters.

We ran as fast as we could.

Braeden came third in his race

Temweyne and Logan were third and fourth

Leytton was second in his race

That meant they had to run again in the finals.

It was a great morning!

Jump Rope For Heart Day

Last Friday we had Jump Rope for Heart.  It was our turn after lunch.

We were put into groups and we moved around the different activities on the court and in the Whare.

We had to jump and skip all afternoon.

We were very very tired at home-time.

Our visit to the Expo

Wow there were so many things to see at the Expo!  Here are some of our favourites.

Home School Partnership Expo

Today we have a Home School Partnership Expo to show our parents and friends our work.
Here  are two of our friends making a comment on our blog.
We can't wait until it is our turn to visit after lunch!

Number of the week 13 unlucky for some

This week we are learning about the number 13.

It is too big to make by ourselves so we needed a friend to help us.  

One of us made 10 and the other made 3.

Then we started our 13 book.

Caszius made a rainbow 13.

                                       

 Jono counted all of the animals.  There were 13 rabbits, 13 monkeys and 13 pigs.

 Filipe found all the number 13's

Gideon coloured-in 13 crosses.

Clever Maths

Each day we use our clever maths brains to work out how many people we have at school in Room 11.

Today Isaiah noticed that there were 10 boys on the first bus, because he could see 5 on one side and 5 on the other side.  He knew that 5+5=10.  Then we saw one more boy on the other bus.  That made 11 boys.

Leytton saw that the girls had the same as the first boys bus, so that meant there were 10 girls.

Bella knew we could use our hard doubles to solve our problem.  She knew that 10+10=20.  But we still had one boy on his own bus and Bella knew this meant that we had 21 children at school today.

Aren't we clever!

Jump Rope For Heart.

We have been learning to skip so that we will be ready for Jump Rope for Heart day.

Check out our skills so far!

We are getting better and better at skipping everyday.

Here are some action shots

Fun Time Lunchtime

Today at school we had fun time lunchtime.  

There were toffee apples, cakes and drinks for sale.

You could buy a balloon hat!

The big boys were giving us rides in their go-karts.

You could play games and win a prize.

We had our face painted!

It was a really fun lunchtime ;)

Story Writing

Our Number of the Week- 19

This week we are learning about the number 19.

We have a book about 19.

Tayla and Vika can find the number 19 and circle it.

Jessica and Hauofa can write rainbow 19s.

 

Epenesa can draw 19 raindrops.

Dog safety.

Last week Janet came to talk to us about how to stay safe around dogs.
She told us what to do if we saw a strange dog and if a dog knocks us over.
We practised being turtles so we would know what to do.

Writing with Room 11

Each day we help Mrs Nathan to write her story.  We listen hard for the sounds and tell her how to spell the words we know.  Mrs Nathan writes in black and we write in purple.  Today Mrs Nathan only had to help us with two letters and an apostrophe.  When we finish writing Mrs Nathan tries to trick us by asking us to find words in her story.  We are getting to be great listeners and writers.