We had a little play with our cars before we put them in the 'garage!'
We thought it would be funny to tell our parents that we ate a car!
Kia ora (hello) and thank you for visiting our blog! We are a bunch of enthusiastic first and second year students who enjoy learning in the Arahoe Learning Hub (Rooms 21 and 22) at Arahoe School (Auckland, New Zealand). We hope you enjoy reading about our adventures at school!
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Edible cars
One of the highlights of our last day of Term 3 was making edible cars from a slice of apple and grapes.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Thank you Ms James
Joanna made Ms James a lovely farewell cake!
We will miss you Ms James! Best wishes for your studies at university. We hope you can come back and visit us in Term 4.
We will miss you Ms James! Best wishes for your studies at university. We hope you can come back and visit us in Term 4.
This is what we told Ms James when we were saying goodbye to her:
Lucy: Thank you for helping us make a volcano.
Liam: Thank you for helping us do our work. Thank you
for coming to our school.
Kingston: Thank you for helping us do our Writing.
Corin: Thank you for helping us make the balloon cars.
Ved: Thank you for making the crown with me.
Alex: We will miss you.
Claire: Have a great day Ms James.
Rowan: Thank you for reading us stories.
Joe: I’m going to miss you too.
Heili: Thank you for making the city with us.
Kaylah: Thank you for helping us read.
Bella: I hope you enjoyed your time.
Sweet treats for the teachers
Thank you Harry for sharing a sweet treat with the teachers today. Xxx
-Athon prizes
We had a great -Athon prize giving this afternoon. Mr Limbrick said that he was excited because we raised just over $15 000 this year!
Our assembly started off with children performing 'E rere taku poi.'
Mrs Hope-Ede did our prize draw.
Special mention was made of Kaylah who raised $350.
Sight Words champions
We have many clever children today who
knew all their Sight Words! Enjoy your special treat today!
knew all their Sight Words! Enjoy your special treat today!
Safe from Harm presentations
This term each class in the junior school created a road safety jingle and a matching t-shirt to spread the message to our parents and wider communities.
We watched all the jingles this morning and loved seeing all the great t-shirt designs!
Here are some photos of the presentations we saw.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Naked classroom
Look! We took down our displays today and Kate has described our room as looking naked!
Holiday homework
We are sending home a bag of books to read during the holidays as well as an adding game. Please return the books after the break.
Cleaning
After we did our Math today we spent time scrubbing our chairs. We loved cleaning and we are glad that our chairs look so much better.
King and Queen of ing
We are kings and queens of /ing/ today. We thought about words that have an /ing/ sound in it, like singing, eating, and swimming.
We made crowns and wrote some /ing/ words on the band.
Can you guess who these little kings and queens are?
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Balloon cars
It was such fun to make balloon powered cars this afternoon! We used pipe cleaners, a straw, bottle caps, a piece of cardboard, a balloon and plenty of tape.
We had to concentrate so hard at threading all the parts together and taping things down properly. It took us two blocks to finish it all!
When we were done, the hard part was trying to blow up the balloon!
We might need your help for that!
If you can help the children to improve the design of their car or make a better one during the holidays it would be great.
A bit upset
While on our morning run today we noticed some older students who didn't use the pedestrian crossing to cross the road. That made us quite upset. We realised that we can take the responsibility to remind older children to be safe! We wrote an email telling students to always use the crossing. Our teacher sent it to all the staff so that it could be read to each class.
After we wrote our email we each wrote our own little story.
We like to read our stories to our friends! They always say, "Well done!"
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Language of size
We thought of words to describe a giant's footprint.
We drew around our foot and wrote a sentence comparing it to the footprint size of an animal.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Volcano in Our Classroom
Ms James brought in some vinegar, baking soda, pink food colouring and a "volcano" structure. Her assistant, helped her to put in the "ingredients" into the volcano.
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