Winning

Last week we had our Cross Country run. We had two students from our class that placed. James was 1st and Savannah 4th. All children gave their best at running. The children continued to gave things a go and win at against themselves in class.

Reading to a Year 6 student

Evander is sharing his 400 Dojo points with Imogen

Busy making marble tracks and other constructions

NE children engage in handwriting

New numbers and letters stamps

James is our class engineer

Savannah in the 4th place

James is a winner!

Fun writing with toys as prompts

James is writing about his run

Emma is writing about het toy

Zoe is writing about a cat toy

NE children are making their Minion drums

Levi is turning his baby sister's formula tin into a drum

Testing marble tracks

First project in the class for Zara

Finally a drum for Zoe

Drumming Success

Over the last few weeks we've been giving music a go. The school purchased PasifiKa lali drums and a music programme to follow with. The children enjoyed following basic beats and learning more about Pasifika pefrorming arts. After having our turn with the lali drums we started to turn some tins into our class drums. At the same time we started to explore our technology project, Minion planters. The children drew their Minions. From talking we decided to turn our tin drums into Minion drums! Then we decide to label our Minions and write about them. Everyone wanted to make Minion drums so a lego Minion challenge was set. It was clear that Marko was a challenge leader. The Minion craze helped the new children settle in quickly and the whole class had a great week. 

Back to School

We welcomed our new five year old student, who's been settling in this week. It was great to see all the children back with some exciting holiday stories. 

Settling to school with the help of self-directed play

Making posters

Holiday stories

Reading holiday story to Mum

Holiday story

Independent spelling work

Feeling the Beat

Today we celebrated our learning about Pasifika cultures through dance at the school-wide assembly. We learned a Samoan Sasa dance with our buddy class, room 25. It was a great experience for our students to perform at the front of the whole school and our families. Our Pasifika students looked amazing in their traditional clothing. Our class, with Room 25, led a Pacific Greetings song and performed straight after. The whole term was about dancing. Even the teachers were practising a much loved song by the children for the last few weeks and presented their skills at the "Mystery Assembly" yesterday. After the teachers' colourful performance the children in Room 3 requested their teacher to dance with them in class.

More dancing in class after teachers' dance

Only three weeks at school and ready for a big performance in Tongan attire

Our Tongan tamariki

Getting ready

Room 3 with Room 25