Term 3 Week 7

Last week Miss Patrick took some more of our student leaders to Stepping Stones. We loved reading books to the children. 

Mrs McCully and Room 6 were on presenting at assembly. They played a song using instruments and singing. We have been learning how to speak confidently in front of people. 

 We have loved getting outside and enjoying the sunny spring weather. We have been practising writing our numbers using chalk. 

We went on a lamb hunt instead of a beer hunt and luckily for Room 6 we found one. We loved being kind to the lamb and learning about them. 

Term 3 Week 5

The New Zealand Marist Colts came to visit us. They talked to us about our School Values. After that they spent an hour playing sports with us. They donated us lots of new sports equipment. 

This week we had our second after school session of Reading Together. Our focus was to support our parents with how to select appropriate reading books for their children to read. 

We painted our self portraits and then made ourselves have crazy hair by blowing dye through a straw. These are displayed in the library. 

We have been learning how to skip count in twos by using our special penguins. We have also been making numbers out of beans. 

At the start of the week we had our poetry presentation. Miss Patrick was very proud of the students who represented our class. 

Term 3 Week 4

Last week Miss Patrick took our Senior Leaders to Merle Leask Kindergarten. They read books and played with the students who are going to be joining our classroom before the end of the year. 

We have been outside practicing writing our numbers with chalk. We love learning outside. 

We went to visit all the fantastic helpers to thank them for coming to school and making cheese rolls. We got to taste the mixture and find out how they make them. 

We have been learning about being part of a team and sharing as part of our olympics learning. We loved playing outside in the water sharing the equipment with each other. 

Term 3 Week 3

We had a great time last Friday playing in the snow. These are some pictures at Miss Patricks house.

 We made snow artwork and wrote stories. 

On Monday we watched the NZ 7's Women's Rugby Team who were competing in the Olympics. We were very proud of them for getting a silver medal. 

Miss Patrick's cousin kindly gave us these new lanyards. We think they are awesome and they will help us to learn our words all around the school. 

We are loving Jump Jam. It is helping us learn our right and lefts and counting the beat. 

Term 3 Week 2

Welcome back to Term 3. Miss Patrick is back from holiday and Room 6 have been working really hard. 

On a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings our whole school participates in Jump Jam, as part of our Winter fitness. We love starting the day of dancing and singing. 

We are loving reading the new books that Miss Patrick got us to our puppets. We have also been trying really hard to learn all the words in our containers. 

In maths we have been learning about numbers before and after. We love having Ally our new teacher aide to help us out everyday. 

On Thursday we illustrated our invites to our whanau to invite them to a programme called Reading Together. This programme is 4 after school sessions to help support our parents to read with us at home. 

On Thursday our letter was 'M'. Miss Patrick took us to the staffroom and we had milo as a special treat for working hard this week. 

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.