Fun in the shade!!

We have had to move our play to the shade this week while we enjoy the very hot spell of weather. Looking forward to seeing everyone for the showcase this evening. Dress for the heat and please bring your child a bottle of water.

Basketball Skills

Building awesome basketball skills!!

Class Smoothie Shop

Making smoothies to sell in a class cafe.

Lots of students spent a long time working out how to make these awesome smoothies. 

Excellent teamwork and collaboration.

Me. Me, Me!

Every week in Room 9 we learn to spell a new word. This week we are working hard to learn, "Me".

Talking about our creations

In Room 9 we have a focus on building our oral language skills. Two of the ways we do this are by retelling stories and poems and by talking about our ideas.

Radii and Foden are retelling the poem Five little monkeys.

Vase, Mia and Jayden are describing their creations, Can you see a dragon in a castle? A dinosaur or dragon?

Room 9 Athletics Day

What a great day!!!!

Room 9 will sleep well tonight after busy day of Athletics and the warm weather. It was so awesome to see everyone taking part and enjoying all the activities.

Problem Solving in Play

Lots of problem solving was happening today!!!

The students were working cooperatively to solve problems.

Making an indoor tent for reading

Exploring how to make the wheel move fast or slow

Creating a Hippo pool with the digger

Making monsters

Making a lasso with a hula hoop

Monster musical chairs

This week to learn about subtraction we have played games of  "Monster Musical Chairs" every time the music stops the monsters have to find a chair and we practise our subtraction.

These are our monsters!!!

Visit from Cottle Kindergarten

Today we had a visit from Cottle Kindergarten. It is a chance for the children at Kindergarten to have a taste of School and for our tamariki to see their friends and teachers from Kindergarten. Our tamariki enjoyed helping the younger children.