Discovery Time

The children really enjoy Discovery Time.

Lydia's visit to school

Lydia enjoyed her first transition visit to school. She was very proud of her colouring. That muffin looks yummy!

Writing practice

Chase likes writing on the whiteboards.

Topaz and her pet lamb

Topaz has a pet lamb. Her name is Macey. We watched her drink a bottle of milk.

Katelin's Baby Goat

Katelin started school on Tuesday. Her Mum and Dad brought her little goat to meet her after school! We loved seeing Pepa the goat.

Discovery Time- Term 3, Day 1

The children in Room 5 enjoyed exploring own choice activities in Discovery Time on the first day back at school. Building with the big blocks, the Magnetic dolls, and dominoes were the favourites.

Look at our amazing building.

Lily and Topaz organised the animals.

Kiana, Ben and Maddox made a round building. 

Chase, Wyatt and James built ramps for the little cars.

Keisha, Devin and Althea like the magnetic dolls.

Luka likes the dominoes.

Term 3 First Day

The children in Room 5 are happy to be back at school after the holidays. We are going to have a busy term with lots of fun & learning along the way.

New Entrants first day at school 2017

There were some very excited children who started school in Room 5 today.

We went to explore the school. First we went to the Staff Room. It is where the teachers go to have their morning tea and lunch. The children pretended that they were the teachers!

While we were in the Staff Room, Mrs Forsyth came in and met all the new children in Room 5.

Then we went to the office to meet Taryn the Office Manager. We must be very quiet and use our manners in the office area.

After that we went to see the classrooms where the big kids are taught. Room 3 children were playing a game outside so we sneaked in and sat at their big green desks! The chairs are high. Our feet didn't reach the floor.

Next we went to check out the Adventure Playground. We can play here at playtime and lunchtime.

The Assembly Hall is near the playground. We go to the hall for School assemblies on Friday. We sing songs and receive awards at assembly.

On our way back to class, we called in to see the School Library. There are LOTS of books. We are allowed to take books home to read.

Soon it was morning tea time. We were feeling a bit hungry by then! Mrs Robertson read us a story.

We read books and played some games after morning tea, and before too long, it was lunchtime. We sat with our buddies to eat lunch. We liked exploring the school in the morning.

Brooklyn's Chicken

Brooklyn, from Room 6, brought her little chicken to visit Room 5. 

Room 5 Olympics

Because it was too wet to hold our School Olympics outside, Room 5 had some 'Mini Olympics' in the classroom. There were two countries represented- Brazil and New Zealand. The children had a lot of fun!

Throwing balls in the bin.

The Hurdles.

Basketball. (Thank you to Justine and Carmel for being great basketball Hoops!)

Bobby and Manaia getting ready to shoot.

Yes! Pacein scores a goal!

Jaxon getting ready to dribble the ball up to the goal.

Taylor scoring a goal!

Aarion taking aim for the hoop.

We also had a canoe slalom race, over-head ball and a relay event.

New Zealand won 3 gold medals and 3 silver medals. Brazil won 3 gold and 3 silver medals.

School Olympics Parade

On Friday 12 August, we were to hold a School Olympics Sports Day. However, after a week of beautiful sunshine, the weather changed and it was too wet to hold the Sports!!  It was disappointing, but we did manage  to have  the School Olympics Parade before the rain arrived. Each class representing a country, marched around the school playground area.  It was a lot of fun with children dressed in their adopted country's colours, waving flags.

Room 5 children, representing Brazil, before the parade.

Waiting to march in the parade, alongside South Africa (Room 7/8).

Room 10 (China) Room 13 (USA) and Room 14 (Great Britain) waiting to march.

Crazy Hats

As part of our learning about recycling, we used old hats and other materials to make a 'Crazy Hat'. First we had to decide what sort hat we would make, where we might wear it, and then design/draw what it might look like. We had a lot of fun making our hats. We shared materials and helped each other. When we had finished, we went to show Rooms 6, 7 and 8. They thought our hats looked great.

Recycling and Rubbish

Room 5 has been learning about what we do to dispose of our waste. We have been talking about how lots of things can be recycled. We went out to look at the big truck that collects the rubbish and recycling. A machine lifts up the recycling bins to empty them. We also looked at how the glass is sorted into different colours.

Cross country

We managed to hold the cross country today with all children competing well.

Congratulations to:

Alex 1st, 5 year boys. ( Sorry Alex, you were too fast for me to get a photo of you!)

Hunter 2nd, 5 year boys

Erin 1st, 5 year girls 

Manaia 2nd, 5 year girls.