Term 2 Week 10

 This week we presented our production. On Tuesday we had about 60 students come from our local Kindergartens/Preschools and the Netherby senior students. On Wednesday we had over 200 parents and whanau come to watch. We had such a great time learning about recycling and presenting a production about it. 

 On Wednesday our school reports and profile books went home. This is us looking at some of the great work we have done this term. We loved sharing our learning with our Whanau. 

Have a great relaxing holiday everyone!

Term 2 Week 9

Room 6 are extremely grateful for the gorgeous gloves we received from the Red Cross. They are super warm and soft. We love wearing them to school on frosty mornings. We wrote them a special card to show our appreciation. 

Constable Chris came to teach us about Keeping Ourselves Safe. We got to ask him lots of questions and then he took us out to practice crossing the road safely. 

 We have been learning about helping each other out and using kind words to support each other. This is us using the balancing beams to help everyone get across. 

We are getting very excited for our new learning space to be finished. Mr Wheeler thinks it will be ready in another 2 weeks. We cannot wait to be able to work in this lovely new area. 

Wahoooo our production is only one week away. Today we had a dress rehearsal. We are keeping our costumes a secret until the show next week, but here is a glimpse of parts of them. 

Mr Wheeler and our Teacher Aides were very impressed with all the students today. 

Term 2 - Weeks 7 and 8

These are the gorgeous bowls we made as part of our Recycling topic. We got to eat popcorn from our special bowls. 

 As part of our Recycling topic we also made our own paper. These are the steps we used to make it...
1: We soaked the recycled shredded paper in water and dye. 
2: Next we put it in the food processor, which cut it into little pieces. 
3: After this we put a handful of mixture on our mesh frames and sponged all the excess water out of it. 
4: Finally we placed our paper in the sun to dry. 

 Once our paper was dry we added glitter, then photos and turned them into photo-frames to take home for our Whanau. 

 Miss Patrick brought us some new maths equipment. We have been using the penguins to make groups of 5. We have also been using the new blocks to make coloured patterns. 

 We went on a frost hunt. We had a great time slipping and sliding in the frost. 

We made invites to our parents. All our Whanau are invited to our classroom for a shared writing session. This is on Wednesday 29th June from 9 - 10am. 

This week was our last week of hockey skills. We have learnt how hold a hockey stick properly and how to control the ball. 

Term 2 Week 6

We have been making bowls as part of our recycling topic. Mrs Hunt our office lady has been saving us the recycled shredded paper. With this we made these fantastic bowls and decorated them with glitter. 

We are allowed to eat fruit out of them next week. 

We loved looking at all the books that Scholastic has for sale. We had a scavenger hunt through the magazine and talked out our favourite books and why. 

On Wednesday we had a celebration day to show our appreciation for all the support staff we have at Netherby. We had a special morning tea. 

We have been working really hard to sound out our words. Here are Thursdays best writers - they even got a principals award from Mr Wheeleer. 

We have been leaning about sketching. We drew these penguins as part of our production and then used pastels and dye to give them texture. 

Term 2 Week 4 & 5

Miss Patrick has brought us these special necklaces. We have a word and the letter on it that we are learning for the day. When we are in the playground people ask us what we are learning. We love having these and sharing them with everyone at Netherby. 

Room 6 have been learning about recycling. We are trying to have less packets in our lunch boxes, but with the ones that we have we are making gorgeous art work with it. 

Miss Patrick came to school with a special surprise. We had to use the clues she gave us to guess what the surprise could be. After we had completed our story writing we were allowed to go to the staffroom and have some of the massive carrot. 

The junior school are busy learning their lines and songs for our production. We would like to make a massive Thank You to the Bunnings Warehouse in Ashburton for the generous donation of materials for us to make costumes with. 

We were very lucky and had Merle Leask Kindy come to visit us. We loved showing them what we do in Room 6 and meeting the students who are going to be joining our class soon. 

Week 2 Week 3

Room 6 have been outside enjoying the lovely sunshine this week. We have been learning how to go on the obstacle course and how we should talk and support each other. 

We also spent some time drawing a picture of our whanau or the things that we love.

We made a Thank You card for Mrs Swan because she kindly gave Room 6 a massive folder of songs and poems. The song we learnt this week was 'Aroha is love'. 

On Wednesday Harrison came to school with his Nan's dog to show us. We loved patting Dafney and learning about dog safety. 

We wrote stories about our visitor. 

This week we ventured to Chertsey School for our small schools Cross Country. We did Jump Jam to warm up and then raced around the track. Miss Patrick was very proud of us and our persistence. 

Term 2 Week 2

Each Monday we are learning Hockey skills. We loved playing a range of games to help our co-ordination and movement skills. 

On Thursday Miss Patrick and our fantastic Teacher Aides took us on a walking adventure to visit Drummond and Etheridge. This is a store that sells tractors and other farm equipment. We also stopped in at the SPCA and learnt about animals. We loved looking at the cats. We wrote some fantastic stories about our trip, come into Room 6 to check them out. 

Netherbee has been keeping an eye on our class fish while we work. They are called Goldy, Santa and Stuart. 

On Friday it was our turn to present an item at assembly. Our item was based around one of our School Values of "Responsibility". We showed our whanau and peers how we take responsibility in Room 6 to help our learning. Miss Patrick was very proud of us and our performance. 

Term 2 - Week 1

Welcome back to term 2. I hope you all had a safe and happy holiday. We have had a busy week in Room 6. Please make sure you have checked your child's reading folder for the notice about our production this term. 

We have been learning how to manage ourselves during reading time. We are allowed to choose 2 activities from the task board while Miss Patrick takes guided reading. 

 We have a daily poem and above is a photo of us adding illustrations and colour to our poems. We love making up actions and sharing our poems with our whanau each day. 

In the holidays Miss Patrick brought us a new class toy, as our well loved monkey George lost his tail. We now have a giraffe named Gerald. He loves going home with the students in Room 6 and having them write a story and take photos with him. 

We have been learning what numbers make groups to 5 and 10 this week. We made these hands to help us. 

We have been learning how to take photos on the Ipads. We have been keeping a record of the renovations to our cloak-bay and our learning adventures outside the classroom. We had a great time playing in the leaves.

Term 1 Week 9

We have had a great short week in Room 6. 

We had Brooke come and take us for Netball skills. We had a great time. 

 We have been practicing our one to one counting using materials this week. We have also been taking counters away and adding counters on to our sets of materials. 

On Friday we had Buddy Reading with Room 3. They word tested us and made sure we used our finger pointer when reading. 

Term 1 Week 8

This week is a very busy and short week. 

On Tuesday we had Room 5 join us because Mrs Bodie-Rouse was sick. 

We talked about Easter and made some special art work. 

For maths we went outside to find treasures. We had to collect different numbers of different items. We talked about if we had 2 more items how many would we then have. We also put some treasures back and counted them again. We loved learning outside. 

We had been working really hard this week, so we got a wee treat of going into the Staff Room and having Milo's. We also talked about healthy options and how we should drink water and not fizzy. 

Term 1 Week 7

This week we made art as part with our topic 'We All Belong'. The first piece of art we created was Rainbow Fish. Before making our art we read the book, watched the video clip and made the our rainbow fish puzzles. We had a big talk about how everyone is different and that this is a good thing. We also talked about sharing and helping others like rainbow fish did in the story by giving his sparkly scales to the other fish. 

 We also made insects. These were linked into our maths learning with statistics and counting the objects we collected to make the back grounds.

We loved reading and listening to the book Fantail, Fantail. It was a great book to take home and share with our Whanau. 

Mark visited us on Friday to help with our ball skills. We are getting a lot better at having our hands ready for catching. 

On Friday afternoon the school spent their afternoon outside completing a range of activities. We had a great time learning how to work with people we usually don't, how to help each other and try new things.