Friday, December 20, 2013

Happy holidays!

Room 18 teachers and students have gone on their summer holiday!  They want to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and best wishes for the new year. 


Class Awards

Our teachers gave each of us a special award because we are all the best at something. Here we are celebrating US!


Thursday, December 19, 2013

Christmas crackers

Isabel brought some Christmas crackers to school and we had a lot of fun pulling them. We learnt that when the cracker breaks, the person with the largest part gets to keep the surprises inside it!  For some of us it was our first experience with Christmas crackers. 








Decorations

We made more decorations today. We put cut up pieces of ribbon onto coverseal, then added a hanger. 




Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Bee books/DVD

The bee books and DVDs are going home today!  Please let our teachers know what you think of our hard work. 


Making decorations

Look at the cute decorations we made today. 






Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Stationery for 2014

All the children will need new stationery for next year. Please buy your child's stationery pack from the school office. Teachers will label the books. We prefer you do not cover them please. 


Lunch under the tree

As a treat our teacher let us eat our lunch under the tree!  It was nice and cool there. 


A peek at our 'bee book'

Our bee books have arrived!  Take a quick peek at the front cover!  Those people who have ordered and paid for theirs will get them tomorrow. 


Only 12 copies of the book are left, so if you haven't ordered one yet, please be quick!

Penelope wins a prize!

Earlier in the term we entered a colouring competition and today Kay from Glover Real Estate came to hand out the prizes.  Penelope was awarded a merit for her entry.

Free time

When some children finished their work they organized their own memory game. They did an amazing job at taking turns and playing nicely. 


Christmas wreath making

We each made a Christmas wreath today. 





Monday, December 16, 2013

Taking it easy

We are having a relaxed week since it is our last week before the summer holidays!  We kicked off our week by painting some Christmas pictures and some of us made bees out of pipe cleaners. 








Show stopper

Some boys presented a 'show' during break time this afternoon. They got their 'guitars' ready and sang 'What does the fox say?'  Now we're waiting for the next show... The karate show!





Friday, December 13, 2013

Christmas hat fun

It was really fun to wear Christmas hats and headbands at school today. We took pictures and will share them with our families next week!


Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Room 18 Prize-winner

At the school prize-giving the Room 18 class award was presented to Isabel for her outstanding attitude towards learning. Congratulations Isabel!


Watching 'The bee song' music video

The draft version of our music video is done!  We watched it today and got so excited to see ourselves on the big screen. Tomorrow the teachers will send home an order form for the book and DVD which will be printed next week!


Bee paintings

Yay!  We finally got our bee paintings finished today!  






Watching the broadcast

We watched the broadcast today with Room 19 because they don't have a big tv like us. It was nice to share our things with them. 

Santa letters

We wrote some letters to Santa today...









Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Decorating the big tree

We made some oversized Christmas decorations and hung them in one of the big trees on the top field. 

To make our decorations we used old cardboard boxes and wool. 


Chalk art

We used chalk to draw a massive garden for bees outside our classroom! 

Monday, December 9, 2013

Outdoor lesson

Today we did our Maths worksheet outside. It was much cooler there than in our classroom!  We were doing subtraction using little beetles. Most of us answered all the questions without any help. 


Painting

We're learning to hold a paint brush to paint small details.  It was a bit tricky to get the brush pointing upwards so we could use the tip of it. 

Decorating the Christmas tree

We made some little decorations for our Christmas tree today. It's looking cute!

Friday, December 6, 2013

Sight Word champions

Look at all the children who mastered a whole Sight Words card this week!

Best colouring

Well done to Finn and Trisha who did the best colouring in today!


Official class photo

Look at our official class photo!  Don't we look smart!

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Swimming

Today we had our first swim in our school pool. We learnt that we always walk near the pool, we must keep our hands to ourselves and that we only into and out of the pool using the ladder. When our teacher puts her hand up we must stop straight away and listen to what she has to say.  

We were very quick to get changed today but most of us were very slow to get dressed again!  


Balancing on a unicycle

At lunchtime today some of us got to try balancing on a unicycle. It was quite tricky!  The girls were a lot better at balancing than the boys!




Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Family Night

Family Night was very entertaining.  We sat in the front row and watched the Kapa haka children perform. Then it was our turn to perform!


It was a bit weird because we could hardly hear our accompaniment so Mrs Sadgrove played her guitar and Whaea Lois sang with us while we did our dance!  


Lots of school groups performed and the parent-teacher band played. At the end of the night the Christmas Choir sang to welcome Santa Claus to Arahoe School!


Strongest in the class

We had a contest to see who was the strongest boy and girl in Room 18. The strongest girls were Trisha and Penelope. The strongest boys were Shiloh and Otto. 



Fizz Kids fun

At Fizz Kids today we got to creep through a tunnel, bat tennis balls and practice balancing and rolling. We loved it!