Party to Farewell Miss Graham

On Friday we had a party to say goodbye to our College Teacher, Miss Graham.  We gave her two big bunches of flowers from our home gardens to say thank you.  We had fun with Miss Graham and we will miss her heaps because she was a great College Teacher.  We are pleased she has a job in Te Kuiti for next year.
She read us two Roald Dahl books.  For maths we did fractions with playdough.  We made space collages and did drama about space for out topic.  Miss Graham said she will come and see us in the production.
The Middle Team are divided into three groups and are learning their parts for the Production on Friday 13th December, in the Regent Theatre.    It is 11 more sleeps until then.  We all need a costume for it so please check out the note that comes home.
We have a new girl called Nadia in our class.  She came from Christchurch.
Lastly, we almost have everyone with a sunhat at school.  Can we be the first class to do that???

Term 4 Update by R16 children

This week is Character Counts Week.  We have got three golden tickets for three people who show Respect and Consideration and all the other Values.  If you win a ticket you get to go to morning tea on Friday in R11 with Miss Barnett and Mr Galloway.
At Assembly this week someone from each class gets to stay on the stage with Mr Galloway to represent our class when the school gets a special award.
Our Production will be on at the end of the year in the Regent Theatre.  We are going to be doing something about space, gravity, astronauts............. wait and see what we do!
Next Friday it will be Pet Day.  If your pet is not happy to come to school you can bring a photo. Can Mum's and Dad's please bring the big pets in the afternoon?  Little pets need to be in a cage or container with food and water.
Tomorrow is the last day for you to order one of our awesome, epic, gorgeous, cool, colourful, great, creative, excellent, beautiful, cute, fantastic, magic, magnificent, shiny, artistic and amazing calendars!
Please remember that Monday is Labour Day and it is a holiday.
Our lovely College teacher, Miss Graham, will be teaching in R16 for all of November.  She is away looking for exciting things to do with us.

Sports Day Fun

After the Cross Country.

Most people got a personal best - PB - on the day of the cross Country.
We are now getting ready for Sports Day - Monday 23rd September.
We are also preparing for the School Fair on Saturday7th September, with raffle cards, making wrapping paper, and now the cake competition is out!
We have a new Maths topic. It is weight and mass.  we might be able to help you weigh things at home.
Our new Cultural Swap is in R9 and it is Art.

The Cross Country last week.

We loved, liked, enjoyed, raced, jumped hale bales in, were excited with the Cross Country.

12th August.

Our new College Teacher is Miss Graham.  She has already taken us for printing, reading, maths and read a story to the class.  This week we are having some Futsal lessons each day after Playtime.  Nawraa left last Friday.  She has gone back to Saudi Arabia.  We miss her already. 
We are getting ready for the School Fair on Saturday 7th September. We are going to make wrapping paper to sell.  On Maths night last Thursday only five of us were able to come.
Mrs Phillips took down all the sheets of Maori words and turned it into the R16 Maori Dictionary for us to read. 

It is Term 3 already!

We have had our two weeks on holiday.  We had fun at the movies, at Moana Pool, played sports, went to friend's houses, went to Georgies, went to the Museum or McDonald's or the beach, went shopping and bought fun things, played games, did our chores and cleaning, and practised our basic facts for the math-a-thon.
It will be a busy term.  We will do the cross-country in week 4.  We will be training at Fitness time.
At the end of the term in week 9 it will be school sports day.
Come and see R16 on maths night - next Thursday 8th August. 
Tomorrow morning we are off to a show in the Hall - we haven't been told what it is yet!
Also tomorrow we are getting our last College teacher for the year.  Miss/Mrs Graham is her name.
We have had a visiting teacher from Australia looking in our class and other classes.
Today when we arrived at school we had to look carefully to see where our desks were as they had moved.  Was it Mrs Phillips or was it a ghost?

R16 Dictates the Latest News In Our Class.

Have you seen these Maori traditional instruments?  We have!  We saw them at the Museum when we went for a visit.  Come into our room and check on our dictionary to find out their names.  The trip was awesome, fantastic, great, epic, incredible, magical and interesting. We also spent time looking at, thinking about and drawing Maori carvings with manaia, lizards and tikis.
We had a Kaupapa Maori Day last week with a Mihi Whakatu for the Middles, Models, and Juniors.  Kindle 1 was our buddy class.  We loved it.
It was Ice Skating last Friday night.  Some of us went with our families.
The Learning Commitment Presentations have been great.  Come and see our posters/information in the Library Corner.
In Maths Mrs Unahi is teaching us about perpendicular and parallel lines, and shapes.
At news on Fridays we are working in groups of three and one person has to remember ALL of the news for the group so that they can tell the rest of the class!
On the last day of the term Elective groups will be sharing in the Hall.
Marc B has left and gone back to Quebec City in Canada.  We miss him already!  Lucky Marc and his family are having a holiday in Australia at the moment.

June 2013

Tomorrow we are going on a Museum trip to look at some of their Maoris things for our topic.  We are making our own Maori dictionary of words we know.  We have five pages already!
After our great reading Mrs Phillips has changed the reading groups.  Kakapos and Penguins are now Kiwis and Wekas.  The Learning Detectives come to talk to us and get our ideas.  Y2's have gone from large lines to smaller lines in their printing.
We have started our Learning Commitment Presentations on Thursdays.  We have learned a lot already. We are going to learn our mihi for the Mihi Whakatu day.
Mrs Unahi (Hannan-Brennan) will be in our class for the last 3 weeks of the term teaching us.
Y3's have written a "Moment in Time" and will give it as a speech to the class then two will be chosen to be in the Middle Team Speech Day and maybe for the Speech Finals!  Y2's will do a Poem later.

What's new ?

Miss Kelly was here for two weeks.  She did Printing, taught us to make Rakau Sticks for Technology, some Maths, some Reading, learn a Maori waiata and read us stories.  We thought she was a great and fantastic College Teacher.  Tomorrow we are getting a new College teacher called Mrs Hannah-Brennan.
We are having milk everyday at Healthy Food Time, if we like it.  Some of us are still just having our own food.  We all had to go to the Hall last week to see the DVD's about it and to learn how to fold the empty boxes.  The Teacher's helper will be the milk monitor each day then teach the next helper what to do.
We are going to Maori class with Mrs Yeoman each Friday morning.  We were the first class to learn a new song that Mrs Yeoman wrote.  We had to help her teach it to Room 17.
Also on Friday mornings we go to small Elective groups where we have lots and lots of fun making and doing things.
Last week Room 8 had a Bake Sale in the Hall and we bought and ate lots of goodies.  They were raising money for a family who needed help.
Cultural Swap is now in Room 11with Miss Barnett where we use the COW - computer on wheels, with its laptops.
Remember the Winter weather and Winter clothes.  Have you seen our "Shut-The-Daurus"?

Term 2 Begins!

Everyone had a fun, awesome, fantastic, brilliant, cool, ultimate, epic, beautiful, super and the best holiday.  Our two great College Teachers gave our class a great story book and a certificate for each of us when they left on the last day of the term.  They helped us with our Assembly item.  Did you see it?  We were very proud of ourselves and we did very well.
We will have a new College Teacher next week, just for two weeks, then we get another one for the rest of the term.  Our new topic is about The Maori Marae - Te Marae.
Today we went to the "Mana" show.  We learnt about: Polynesian countries, an American Indian hoop dance, Hawaiian dancing,  haka and  poi from New Zealand and were set a challenge to find out about our parents and family by asking them to tell us some of their stories.  We are going to "soar like an eagle" by doing all our challenges and getting them right.
We will need to have a waterproof jacket and a long-sleeved top to wear outside for this term and next term.  If we wear our gumboots to school we leave them by the sink and wear other shoes or thick socks in the classroom.

April Information

Next Friday, 19th April we will be the class of the week on stage at Assembly.  We hope you can come and see us.  The day after will be the start of the holidays.
Mrs Phillips has been away again so we have had Mrs King.  She helped us make postcards for Mrs Phillips telling her about our Easter holidays.  We all had a long, happy and chocolately Easter.
On the week before Easter we had Japanese visitors at our school so we had an International Day when we all dressed in our national costumes.
Last Saturday, 6th April, there was a Kid's Market.  Some of us sold lots of things and made money while others came to buy lots of things.

More swimming photos.

Swimming was fantastic, awesome and incredible!

As you can see we have had nearly two weeks of swimming and it was fun, amazing, cool, super and hot as well.   Everyone in our class can put their head under the water and some of us can even do 14 lengths of the pool on our backs!
Last Friday morning we made "Thank You" cards for the parent helpers at both swimming and the Art Gallery trip.
Every Friday morning from now we are going to Jump Jam and Team Singing.  We love it too.
On Wednesday afternoons we do "Cultural Swap".  At the moment we are going to Room 17 to do Music and Movement (Dance) with Mrs Higgins or Miss Cassidy.
There was a Disco last Friday night that some of us went to.
Unfortunately last week we couldn't change our Library books as the Library computer was not working - we hope it will be this week.
Today we are having a different programme as most of the teachers are off to a meeting after lunch

4th March

Last Monday we went to the Art Gallery.  We looked at portraits and then we painted one.
We have two wonderful College teachers.  They will come on Mondays and Tuesdays until the end of the Term.  They are Miss Te Whata and Mr Milne.
Ms McGregor came on Thursday to look after us while Mrs Phillips did reading with each of us.  She taught us all about insects.
Mrs King was here and we played "Steal the Pirate's Treasure" with her.
Addeena is not in our class anymore because she went home to Malaysia.  We miss you, Addeena.
Y3's stayed in Room 16 on Friday morning to do good listening.  Y2's went to R17 for a story and a colouring sheet and a wordfind.
Last week we finished measuring for maths and we also started printing.  Lots of people got stamps for neat work.

Road Safety Last week

Constable Somerfield showed us his safety equipment, how to sit in the safest seat in a car and how to safely cross the road.  Ask us if you want to know what to do.  We know!

Welcome to R16

Here we are busy at work this week.  We are the happy children in R16.  We will be the best class at George Street Normal School.  We have 24 children, 9 in Y3 and 15 in Y2, 10 girls and 14 boys.
Mrs Phillips is our teacher with helpers Kaye, Kate, Gillian and sometimes Mel.  The value of the term is Responsibility.  We will be talking about Road Safety and Superheroes and going swimming this term.