Samoan Language Week Assembly

Today we had a special assembly for Samoan language week.

There were a lot of special performances

And Righteous won a very special award for all the great learning he has done this term.

We can't wait for next year's celebrations!

Reading with the Red Group

'Today the red group read Late for the Race.  They were learning to use the pictures for clues to help them find more information about the story.

Isaac L moved up to the red group and he did a great job of helping us.

Star Writer

Today Issac O was our star writer.  He worked really hard with Whaea Maeva and was able to find all the sounds and words he needed on his alphabet card.

Awesome work Issac!

Kiwi Can

Today in Kiwi Can we were learning about our responsibilities at home and at school.

Tuesday's Star Writer

Today Kasslin was the star writer.  She has become so clever at hearing the sounds she needs and finding the words she needs around the room or on her alphabet card.

Star Writer

Today Dara started writing in his new book.  He wrote his whole story by himself.  He knew where to find the words he needed on his alphabet card and on the wall.

Great job Dara!

Reading with Blue Group

Today Blue group were reading Grandma's vase.  They were using the pictures for clues to help them learn more about the story.  They also needed to use their fingers to point to the words and use Lips the Fish to help with the new words they met.

Star Writer.

Today Righteous was,our Star Writer.

He was able to find all the words he needed for his story.

You are working so hard Righteous, keep it up!

Guest Reader

Today Isaac L read to the class.  He was really nervous but he used the pictures for clues and checked each word as he read it.

Great job Isaac!

ANZAC Memorial Assembly

We had an assembly to remember the ANZAC soldiers.

They were heroes.

They fought a battle for us.

We wear poppies to remember them.

Firewise visit

Firefighter Matt came to school to talk to us about staying safe if there is a fire.

He told us that if we find matches or a lighter we should give it to an adult and ask them to put them up high, 

that smoke is fire,

that smoke alarms should be in all bedrooms, hallways and living rooms and we need to check that they are working.  A smoke alarm is the only way we will wake up if their is a fire, because we can't smell in our sleep!

If there is a fire we need to get down, get low, get out quickly and head to our safe meeting place.  

A safe meeting place is the mailbox.

He also told us to shut the door of the room with the fire as we go outside, this will stop the fire from spreading to the rest of the house.

New Reading Buddies and Books

In the holidays Mrs Nathan bought us some new Hot Wheels and SpongeBob books.

She also bought us some finger puppets for us to use when reading; to help with our pointing.
We can also use them to role play with our friends.

Our Bean Plants

We came back to school today to a big surprise.

Righteous and Laki's plants have got beans on them!

Are there any beans on the plants we took home?

Star Writers

Today Kasslin and Isaac L shared their writing with Mrs Dawson.

They are both getting really good at writing the sounds they need and finding words on their alphabet card and around the room.

Counting Stars

Today we have new counting stars.

Kepu and Sacha can both count to 100 by themselves!

Look what we have noticed!

Wow have a look at our beanstalks now!

Look at the beautiful flowers, and are those beans we can see starting to grow?

Check out Dara's sunflower plant!

An Arty Afternoon

Today Mrs Nathan took our photos.

Then we coloured them in like Andy Warhol

Here are our finished masterpieces

Star Writer

Today Isaac L took his great writing to Mrs Dawson.  He was able to hear most of the sounds he needed for his story.  Keep trying hard Isaac!

Star Writers

On Monday Laki and Kasslin took their writing to Mrs Dawson.

Kasslin knew where to look for the words she needed.  

She found them in her reading book and on the wall.

Laki listened hard for the sounds he needed.

Great work you two!

Computer time

Today it was our turn with the netbooks.
We choose our working buddy and learnt how to move the mouse using the mouse pad.

This is a great website to let us practice.
fungooms.com

Our Plants

Wow! 

Look at how much our plants have grown!

Today Alofa and Mrs Nathan moved our plants into cups so that we can take them home to plant in our gardens.  We can't wait to eat our beans and see how big our sunflowers grow.

While we were replanting our plants Mrs Nathan showed us the roots from one of the plants that had been broken.  We had to guess what they were.  Some of us looked, some of us touched them and some of us even smelled it! 

 It smelt like beans.