Genevieve's Duffy Certificate

Genevieve got the Duffy Certificate for this week for putting lots of effort in reading. She reads smoothly and fluently. Genevieve got a book about space. (Dictated to the teacher)

           Genevieve said: " I am so happy that a got a certificate at school. 

                                      I like learning about Space."

Israel's Dinosaur's

This week you were learning about dinosaurs and Israel love dinosaurs so he had heaps of fun completing all the home learning tasks and activities. 

Here is Israel's work

This is what he said:

 "Today’s dinosaur work was fun! 🦕🦖
My favourite dinosaur is a Tyrannosaurus Rex!"

My maths

This is what my Nan made for me, she knows that I like dinosaurs.

Genevieve's neighbourhood

This week., our inquiry focus has been about our neighbourhood. The children in Room 18 have been finding out about places and people in their neighbourhood. Part of the home task was to make a picture of our neighbourhood using scraps of coloured paper.

Here Genevieve shows us her neighbourhood.

Aroha's puppet

Mrs. Dwyer had a craft activities slide showing and teaching the children in Team One ' How to make a tube puppet.' Aroha loves art and craft. She enjoyed making puppets at home and wanted to share them with us.

                          

                                                           

Arthur's Class Family

 Arthur and a few other other children form Room 18 and Team One are at bubble school. They are all in Mrs. Shirely's classroom.  Arthur wanted to share with us his " Class Family."

How to make a loud shirt

Faith and Genevieve made their very own loud shirts. This is what they had to say:

For Loud Shirt day we got to create our own loud shirt using different food colouring. We used one of our old white t-shirt, Mum helped Faith by using a string to divide her shirt into 6 diff end parts, then using one colour into each part.

My dad helped me to put the colours I wanted on my shirt, I also wanted mine different from my sister so I folded it in half and then folded it up again, tied the string to make four different part. My dad then put in the colour and then hung them to dry. We were both excited to put it on this morning.

This was extra special as we were also doing this for our big cousin Kaylee Wipani who is hearing impaired. I hope she likes what we’ve done for her. 

Aroha's class family

 This week the children in team one are learning about their role in the classroom. Aroha enjoyed the doing the activities and worked really hard to complete them. In the video below Aroha shares her work and shows us her class family.

Caylee Communities

 We have been learning about the different groups we belong to and here is Caylee's video showing us the various communities that she belongs to.

  

Joscior's compound words

 Part of Friday's tasks was to make compound words.

Here is a video of Joscior's compound word

        

Micheal's Thank-you letter

Yesterday's home learning task was based on a favourite fairy tale called " The elves and the shoemaker."

   Micheal wrote a letter to the elves.

                     

Fireworks

Arthur is really excited about fireworks and he wrote this story about it.

the fireworks are red and shiny in the black sky.

Faith and Genevieve's Loud Shirt

On Friday the 29th October, it was Loud Shirt Day. Faith and Genevieve wanted to dedicate this song to their big cousin Kaylee Wipani who is hearing impaired.

Hope you enjoyed their waiata in NZ sign language.

Aroha's map

 Part of Wednesday learning was listening to story called "Handa's Surprise." One of the tasks involved drawing a map, starting at Handa's house. Aroha had to show the order in which the animals took the fruit. Aroha had to label the animals and the fruit.

This is Aroha's map

Challenging Maths Problems

  As part of out home learning slides the teachers always set some challenging Maths problems to stretch and grow children's minds and they love it. Well we have one smart cookie showing us how it's done.

                                                                    Caylee's Maths

Ten Magic Butterflies

 Paula enjoyed listening to the story "Ten magic butterflies." He watched the video's and put lots of effort in his learning.

 Paula said, "My mum helped me draw a monarch butterfly."

Paula's life cycle of a butterfly.

                                                               

                                                                  

                                                 Paula made a cool hat. 

Micheal's Stop Motion Animation

Last term Ms. West joined our class meet and taught  us how to do a stop motion animation. She made a video so that we could follow it and learn. Thank-you Ms. West.

Micheal created this animation with the support from his family.

Aroha's learning

Aroha is a clever girl and can count forwards and backwards in 5's. She has been practising her handwriting and answering some challenging Maths questions.

A bad case of stripes

 Faith worked hard at completing the home learning tasks for today.

Faith listened to a story of a young girl with a special illness. She felt sad for Camilla because she was treated very badly at school. 

This is what Faith said:

"If I was in her school, I would’ve told her to just ignore all the kids that was laughing a her And would also tell those kids to leave her alone. "

When she got better at the end, I felt happy for her. 

It's Term Four

Welcome back to school and online learning. The children in Team One were excited to see each other online after the holidays. We all thought we'd be back at school but sadly that's not the case and we're " just rolling with it." 

This term our inquiry focus is learning and finding out about all the different groups we belong to. We will be looking at various groups like our family, school, church, sport and community. We will be learning to use our voice to make good and positive choices. We will be thinking of ways of filling our own as well as other people buckets. To find out more please watch our movie.

The teachers in Team One made this movie for our school immersion assembly. We hope that you enjoy it.

 

 

Staying active

Faith's dad has been teaching her how to do a 15 meter beep test. She said, "It was really hard at the beginning but once I understand it I then pushed myself really hard. My time was 9.2, my dad was so proud of me."

After having a good break, they all learned how to tackle. Faith can’t wait to play sports with her friends again.