More free time fun

When we have free time we like making cities, towers and other creations but our favourite free time activity is playing on the top playground!

Learning letter Ee

We are learning about letter Ee. One of the activities we did this week was to find the letter Ee hidden with lots of other letters. We glued the Ee beside an earwig!

Celebrating Diwali

Look at the special treats Trisha bought to school today!  These are for a special celebration called Diwali. We will learn more about it tomorrow. 

Rice bubble slice

Today we learnt what a recipe is. We looked at the recipe for Rice Bubble Slice. The ingredients are: butter, honey, brown sugar, vanilla essence, and rice bubbles. 

The children who were good listeners today went with Janine to make Rice Bubble Slice. She explained the difference between the measuring spoons and explained how to combine all the ingredients. 

Yum!  Yum!  If we listen well tomorrow we will get to eat some of the slice!  

Thank you Janine, for proving our class with this wonderful experience. Xx

Writing letters

Lots of children in Room 18 have been learning to write letters. Look at some neat examples. 

The children practice writing a row of each letter then they choose the best one and draw a heart around it. 

Juno counts to 100!

Juno won her trophy today for counting confidently to 100.  Congratulations. 

Showing appreciation

We are learning to show appreciation for the kind things people have done for us. We made a thank you card for a Airborne Honey who donated some honey to our school. 

We learnt that we write the address for the person who will get the letter on the front of the envelope. After we seal up the envelope we put a stamp on corner at the top.  Now we will put our card in the postbox so the postman can deliver it.

Limbering up

Mrs Sadgrove did some limbering up exercises with us this morning. 

Lunch time

At lunch time we have loads of fun with our friends. Some of us played 'Duck, duck, goose' and some of us made beehives out of sticks. 

Free time fun

When Guru and Jireh had some free time they made a city from the blocks. 

Good stories

We wrote some great stories today about our long weekend. 

Bee costumes

Look!  There are some bee costumes appearing in our classroom!  Some costumes are for the drones and the frilly ones will be for the workers!  

Karakia

We are learning a karakia in Te Reo to say together at the start of the day. It is a special karakia that asks that we have a sparkly day. This morning Leshay's nana helped us pronounce the words so that we say them correctly. 

Making beehive piñatas

We started to cover our balloons in a layer of newsprint. This weekend they will dry and then we will be able to add more layers. Our teacher wanted us to work as a team with our buddy. It was a good opportunity for us to show our teacher how we can share and take turns. When we have finished our paper mâché project we will have a beehive piñata to hang on the tree in our room.

Otto performs

Otto brought his drumsticks to school today and gave us an impromptu performance!  It was amazing to see him sing and drum simultaneously!

 

Here's a video showing the end of Otto's performance!  Notice the grand finale!

Who knows lots of Sight Words?

Ten children mastered their words this week and got a treat for their efforts!  Well done. 

Jump Jam

Here we are enjoying Jump Jam this morning!  We love dancing to 'Who let the dogs out!'

Clever artists

These children got a treat today for illustrating our poem the best. 

Bee Power

Mrs Tuck and Mrs Makani performed a little play today. In the play Mrs Tuck was a bee lover and Mrs Makani was a bee hater.  She was complaining about how scary they are and that she doesn't like them. In the play we helped Mrs Makani to change her mind about bees!  We helped her learn that bees are very important to our survival, and without them we would not have honey, baked beans, strawberry ice cream and tomato sauce!  She loves bees now!

Braden reaches 100

Congratulations Braden!  You are the latest person in Room 18 to be able to count to 100. 

Ways to make 5

During Math lessons this week, we have explored the different ways to make 5. 

Making shades of blue

Ms Reid visited our class again today!  She taught us how to make different shades of blue.  Next week we will use this information to make the background for our 'bee' art!

Celebrating Mr Limbrick's anniversary

This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of Mr Limbrick's arrival at Arahoe School. We celebrated by wearing clothes that reflected his love of the ocean.  At our special assembly Caleb stood up on behalf of our class to say "I like Mr Limbrick because he gave me a sticker when I wrote a good story."  

The staff gave Mr Limbrick a present. It was a little waka to symbolize that we're part of a great team and have a strong leader. The children all helped to make a giant scrapbook to congratulate our principal for 20 years of hard work. At the staff morning tea he cut a special cake that had a picture of his boat on it!

Here is the scrapbook page that we made with Room 20. 

'The Bee Song' with Miriam

The Bee Song

Shiloh's mum, Miriam is a song writer. She wrote us a special song about bees. Today she taught it to us!  We loved it, especially the parts where we can echo the words. 

Thank you Miriam!  We love your song!

Stories about the beekeeper

Here are some great stories that we wrote after today's visit from the beekeeper. Notice the key bee terminology that we used!

Mr Beekeeper

A beekeeper visited us today and brought a hive to show us. It was so interesting to watch the bees busily working together. Some of them were even carrying rubbish out of the hive. 

The beekeeper brought a bee suit and tools to show us. 

We smelt some wax. It smells like honey!

Here are some things we learned:

Isabel - candles are made from wax, which comes from bees. 

Dylan - a tool called a smoker is used to calm bees down. 

Braden - bees carry rubbish eg squashed larvae out of the hive and drop it far away from it. 

Bella - if a bee dies inside the hive, two bees will carry it out. 

Noah - the queen lays a special egg that turns into the next queen bee. Royal Jelly is fed to queen bee pupae. 

The Big Sad Wolf

We watched a great show called 'The Big Sad Wolf' performed by The New Zealand Playhouse.  We were spellbound when the 'judge' tried to convict the big bad wolf of eating Red Riding Hood and for blowing down the three little pig's houses. Luckily there was a happy ending when the judge turned out to be the boy who cried wolf too many times!  

Here's what we liked about the show:

Noah & Finn- I liked when the wolf sneezed on the boy who cried wolf making his clothes fall off. We saw his polka dot undies!

Caleb, Penelope & Dylan - I liked the song & dance at the end of the show 'Big glad wolf smiles' (which was to the tune of 'Gangnam Style').

Otto & Aaron C - I liked it when the wolf sneezed and the pig's houses fell down. (In the story the wolf had an allergy to straw and sticks causing him to sneeze a lot.)

Aaron B - I liked when Little Red Riding Hood 'granny-napped' Granny Hood. 

Class photo

Today we had our photo taken by a professional photographer. Here we are waiting for our picture to be taken. 

Bee movie

We watched the Bee movie and learnt a lot about bees!  

Tasting honey

Honey comes in many colours!  We learnt that the colour of the honey is dependent on the type of flower the bees visit. We sampled some rata and tiwari honey. Yummy!  

Poems of the week.

Awesome work Braden and Otto. Your colourful and tidy work means you are the artists of the week