Term 1 Week 2

We have been working really hard on being able to spell and write our names. 

 We have been learning about patterns and loved making long snake repeating patterns. 

We made these gorgeous rainbow fish after learning about sharing and being kind to everyone. 

This is us during a brain break doing some bean bag exercises. 

2018 Term 1 - Week 1

Talofa lava, Kia orana, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Talofa ni, Kia ora and Hello

A warm welcome back to everyone for 2018. We have had a rather hot and busy week getting back into our learning.

Room 6 have been learning about Storytelling and 'The Little Red Hen'. Miss Patrick performed the story for us and then we discussed the characters and what happens in the story. On Friday we drew our story maps to help us with the order when we are retelling it. Over the next few weeks we will be doing lots of learning and activities around this story. Look in next weeks newsletter to read more about Storytelling.

We had a visit from Poppy the kitten. She was extremely soft and cuddling and Room 6 learnt lots about how you hold a cat, what you feed it and how to look after it.

We made some gorgeous art work of our names. These are up in Room 6 alongside our pictures for everyone to see. 

We love playing alphabet games. We are getting better at finding the letters by their sounds and names. 

We have been learning about each other and everyones whānau. We made these gorgeous pictures of us to present to Room 2. 

On Tuesday we had a whole school water afternoon, it was fantastic to see everyone interacting positively with each other which is our PRIDE value for this week. 

Term 4 Week 8

On Tuesday the Juniors had a Discovery Day. Here is a video of the activities we got to explore. Thank you to all the senior students who came to teach us a range of skills. 

On Tuesday we had Tinwald School perform Kapa Haka for us. We loved having them visiting our school. 

 We have been creating Christmas decorations. We wrote stories about our art. 

Term 4 Week 7

It was great to see lots of parents join us for our whānau PE afternoon. Room 6 showed them our PMP skills. 

We went down to King street to practice crossing the road safely.

We have got 7 new students visiting Room 6 each Thursday. They will be starting next year.  

Term 4 Week 6

We had a great afternoon at Pet Hour last Friday.  We made these pet houses with Mrs McCully. 

We have been trying lots of new things in the afternoons. Here we are creating buildings, making circuits with the Brain boxes and working nicely together on the car mat. 

We love going to Kiwi Can. Today we learnt about feelings and what we should do when we get angry. 

Term 4 Week 4

We have had a very busy week. We went on a Junior School trip to the Ashburton Museum and the Art Gallery to learn about changes in Ashburton over the years. We had a great time. 

We have been learning about healthy eating and brushing our teeth. We loved learning how to brush our teeth and practising it at school this week. 

Term 4 Week 3

We made some gorgeous pumpkin Halloween artwork. 

We love having Miss Stringer helping us. She has been teaching us alongside Miss Patrick and Ally this week. 

 We had a great time visiting Merle Leask on Wednesday. We met some of the new children who will be starting in Room 6 next year. 

Term 4 Week 2

We have been working extremely hard to learn our alphabet names and sounds and to spell our names by ourselves. 

We got a treat for all the great effort we put in on Athletics Day. It was nice to sit in the sun and enjoy our ice creams. 

 We have been learning about directional language. We went up the ladder, across the bridge and then down the slide. We also did some fantastic writing about this.

 On Wednesday we had Room 5 join us. We read stories about Elma the Elephant and created some great artwork. You can see this in Room 6. 

We are great at working on tasks by ourselves while our guided reading groups are being taken. 

Term 4 Week 1

We have had a busy start to term 4. 

On Tuesday we had our Cluster Schools Athletics competition. Miss Patrick was very proud of everyone for trying their best. Thank you to all the parents who came to support us all. 

We have been working really hard. We are loving having Mrs Tew to help us out with all the fantastic students we have in Room 6. 

On Thursday and Friday we had a special visitor called Harold the giraffe come to school. He came to teach us about eating healthy, how our bodies work and keeping our teeth clean. 

Mrs Tew came to school on Thursday with some beans for us to plant. We used the compost from our school worm farm to help our beans to grow. We learnt lots of new vocabulary such as 'bean pod', we wrote stories and are going to do some art work next week. 

Term 3 Week 8

This week we have been learning about growing plants. We love our New World Little Gardens and are taking great care of them by watering them and putting them in the sunshine. 

 We also went out to our School orchard to look at the fruit trees. We are hoping that they grow some delicious fruit this year. We also wrote about fruits and used the Māori words for apple, banana and orange in our writing. 

We had a great time during Athletics playing fun games. We have been using the parachute to learn to work as a team. 

 On Thursday we had a math session outside. We had to show Miss Patrick how good we were at writing our numbers and names. 

Term 3 Week 7

We had a fantastic Whānau Hui consult on Tuesday afternoon. Here is a video showing you what happened. 

Room 6 have been learning about Story Telling. Miss Patrick has been trialling this new learning approach to help support the children to sequence ideas and to increase their oral language levels. This is us on our third practice.