This week, Week 3, we have had the pleasure of having a new girl in our classroom
Her name is Madison and she has settled into our classroom so easily. 
WELCOME TO OUR AWESOME CLASS Madison.

In the weekend it was Chinese New Year.
             Miss Weon is from Korea and she was keen to share and discuss
                      what happens at  Chinese New Year.

It is the Year of the Goat so Miss Weon decided to do some hand prints with the class.
This formed the shape of the animal.
The class could choose to do a Goat or a dragon.

Here is Miss Woen doing a demonstration of how to do the printing with the side of her hand.

This was so much fun! Miss Weon and Mrs.M.R. displayed all this wonderful
work on the wall after school today.

Shania is having great fun doing her animal.

  A NEW GIRL IN OUR
CLASS        
Week 3

The Apple of our Eye Booklet 

In Room 16 we have  'The Apple of our Eye'.

This is when a child chooses to be The Apple of our Eye for the week.

A girl can choose one week and then a boy until all the children 

have had a turn.  They bring in a collection of items about their interests and hobbies.

The class asks them 3 questions and makes 3 comments.

They also have an Apple of our Eye booklet and this is for the class to write in 

happy thoughts about the child.  This is our way of Filling our Buckets  

 The children love it :)

In Week 2 Our Apple of our Eye was Isabella.
This is when a child chooses to have a turn at bringing in a collection
 of things that shows his/her  interests and hobbies.
                                          They also have a booklet and in this booklet the class writes lots of positive and kind                                  comments about the person being the Apple of our Eye.
These are 'bucket filling' comments.

It is going to be Lincoln next week...

We talked about the Treaty of Waitangi.
  Then we wrote some facts about the Treaty.
                               We printed out some pictures from the computer and stuck them beside our writing.

We made a book for the class.  Here it is in the picture :)              

Brandon and his  family have  been to the Waitangi Treaty house.
His Dad is a Chief and he is called a Chieftain.
Brandon brought in a copy of the Treaty he bought at the Treaty house.
Thankyou Brandon for sharing. This is so exciting!
.

On the first day of Term the class did a 'Getting to know you'  activity
using balloons.
     We drew our faces on the balloon and then passed it to someone
telling that person something about our selves.   We had lots of fun!

Welcome back to school. 

  

We are very lucky to have a Grad student this year:)

Her name is Miss Weon.  She is originally from Korea.

    Miss Weon is working with us in the class for nearly 3 full weeks

       and then she 'll come in every Tuesday.  

  We love having you in our class Miss Weon.

        I will be teaching Monday -Thursday each week and Ms Noakes will

  teach on Fridays.  Her passion is writing, art  and music. 

How lucky is Room 16 :) :)

We have a busy Term 1 planned.

Our Middle school trip is to Orewa beach on Friday, 13th February.

Our library day is Wednesday 1.30- 2.15 

The children need to bring their library bag each week.

We are also very lucky to have skateboarding every Thursday this Term for 5 weeks.

Children will need to wear shoes.  Thankyou

Miss Weon, Ms Noakes  and I look forward to meeting you all over the next few weeks:)

CHILD VERSUS WILD

On Monday Room 16 and 9 awesome parents went to Titirangi school.

We met up with Mrs. M.R.s friend Mrs Sparey and her class.

We had a Child versus Wild day in the bush. 

The first thing we did was to make bandanas.
We had a long piece of material and we wrote our name and drew pictures on it.

We helped the younger children who are in Mrs. Sparey's class. 

         

We were all so focussed.
Zac said it was the best trip this year.

Veronica was head down the whole time.
She and Annabel loved this activity.

Here is Tia, Symphony's mum.
She has helped to tie Symphony and Breeze's bandana on their sunhats.

This is a child from Mrs. Sparey's class

Then we went into the bush and we had to create a shelter.
Here is Ms Head helping Prajay and Kalanei make their shelter using a tarpaulin.

                                 Thank you so much for coming on the trip with you today.
                                      Kalanei enjoyed it and you were such a great help!
                                    Thankyou MIss Head. We know you really enjoyed it!

We used the leaves and parts of the bush to make our shelter more decorative.

Tai and his Dad Derek had lots of fun together.

Eeshas mum, Ayunita, had lots of fun with her group and they made flower vases,
flower bouquets, able arrangements and much more.
They had a great day:)

Then we had bananas and chocolate cooked in tinfoil.

Nandhini had so much fun with her group:)
She loved her banana. She said it tasted like banana split!!

                                                               We also had sausages cooked on the bbq.  Yummy!!

Manasa and his Dad really enjoyed toasting marshmallows.
Some of our class had never done this before...oh what fun!
Caitlin really enjoyed doing this for the first time.
Finger licking good:)

"What a GREAT trip," said Caitlin.

          THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MARK, TIA, DEREK, JUSTIN, ANAND, MISS HEAD,LISA,
           AND AYUNITA :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)     WE COULDN'T DO THIS WITHOUT YOU.
                                                   I KNOW YOU ENJOYED YOUR DAY:)