Market Delights

Great effort from Room 3 today! All hard work paid off. We had a fantastic day. I was amazed by the  team spirit. The children were selling, carrying advertising posters, packaging the goods, thanking the customers and singing our song. Parents helpers were amazing (Lexi's Mum, Keira's Mum and Ethan's Mum). Penny and John were fantastic, too. In fact Penny was traffic stopping, which is a very skillful selling technique. It was evident to see an instant impact the market had on the children. "We only have a few bags of playdough left!" exclaimed Will. After I started making more, he rushed to the stall to let everyone know more was coming and that's without any prompts from me. A great team spirit is contagious! We made the most money, a whooping $450 in one hour! Thank you for all your help, enthusiasm and donations of goods!

We are ready!

Fancy biscuits and cupcakes

Magical paydough

Advertising tools

Anticipation

The interest was growing by the minute

Excited team

The children remembered what goods and at what prices we were about to sell

Buy, buy, buy playdough. Only 50 cents. Squishy, squashy, pokey, poke. Playdough's so much fun!

First customers

Penny and Farhaad off to do some traffic stopping and advertising our stall

The lines were long!

Getting Ready for the Market

It's been a very busy and productive week with our market preparations and swimming!

Disco Moves

We've had a very busy and active week with swimming lessons, market preparations and a school disco on Friday. Plenty of movement and fun to get our bodies healthy and fit!

Dance floor Master-Jazil!

Learning About New Zealand Birds-Kiwi Burrow

This week was a Maori Language Week. Our big book was about New Zealand birds with te reo Maori names. With the creation of a kiwi burrow inside our class the children had an opportunity to explore the concept of nocturnal animals. In pairs they went inside the dark burrow. Their mission: to find some worms and insects for daddy and baby kiwi to eat. We had to be very careful not to disturb our endangered flightless birds. I was impressed with how thoughtful and careful the children were. There were many other birds we learned about like Ruru, Takahe, Piwakawaka and children's favorite: cheeky Kea. It was a busy and a very fruitful week, with the challenges in te reo each morning as well.

Daddy kiwi with baby kiwi

Successful Hunt

Sharing Worms with a baby

Awaiting Kiwis

Off into the darkness

Feeding Time

Counting worms and bugs

K for Kea

Thinking about the initial sound of the NZ birds

When you wake up kiwi goes to sleep

New Zealand Birds

Encouraging Learning

"Good job Musa" said Shauib while Musa worked very hard on his cut up name. The whole group was very focused fixing their sentences. Hearing these encouraging words put smile on Musa's face. It was lovely to see students showing maturity and team spirit. This was worth kindness points.  I kept hearing "good job..." a lot this week...

Working hard!

Fixing sentences

Good job Musa!

D for dinosaur

e and e went on a roller coaster and went "ee" all the way down

Using recycling materials in own designs

Tongan Tapa

Good job George and Rikhil

Prisha and Saffa made a penguin. Good job!

Malo e lelei. Good job Mo'onia.