We've been practising our throwing skills in PE

Our Junior Athletics Sports are coming up in Week 7 of Term 4 on Thursday 30th November. We were practising our shot put today using bean bags. We had to think about positioning our body in the right place, putting our arm out in the direction we wanted to push the bag and then push the bean bag into the air to see how far we could throw it. We all did really well. Ka pai Ruma Rima!!

Odd Number Song

Even Number Song

Micah's completed his sight words

Well done Micah on completing your sight words. What a star you are!! Your fish has been caught in the net showing that you know all of your sight words. Here you are putting your fish into the net.

The Reading Eggs Trophy for Week 1 of Term 4 went to Jared

Well done Jared for earning the Reading Eggs Trophy. Great work in using Reading Eggs to help you improve your reading skills. Here you are with the trophy.

Our letters and sounds for Week 3 of Term 4 are Ww and Vv

Our Star Rocket Writers for Week 1 of Term 4 were .......

Olivia and Zoe. Congratulations to you both for earning the Rocket Writing Stars. Olivia wrote the most words and Zoe made the moost progress. Fantastic effort you two.

Room 5's Super Reader Cape

We have a new cape for 'Super Reading Power' that Mrs King kindly donated to Room 5. Zoe was the 1st person to earn and wear the cape for the day after her super reading last Thursday. We all thought she looked fantastic and she was feeling very proud wearing it. Well done for being a 'Super Reader Zoe'.

Reading Eggs Trophy for Week 9 was Hunter

Well done Hunter for earning the Reading Eggs Trophy for Week 9. Great job.

We are learning about the Seasons in a year.

We also know that in New Zealand we call 'Fall', 'Autumn'.

Our letters and sounds for Week 9 of Term 3 are Ll and Ff

Room 5 have been helping Room 4 with their Mihi

Miss Lisa and Room 5 have been supporting Room 4 to learn thier Mihi. Room 5 have been modelling what they have been learning. It's great to have Miss Lisa supporting us with this.

Our Rocket Writing Stars for Week 7 were.......

Olivia and Xahria. Well done to Olivia who earnt the Star for writing the most words and to Xahria who earnt the Star for making the most progress. Well done, I'm so proud of you both.

Our letters and sounds for Week 8 of Term 3 are Oo and Uu

This week we are working on the short vowel sounds for o and u e.g. o as in orange and off rather than over and u as as in up and umbrella rather than unicorn or uniform.

We are learning our 'Mihi"

In Room 5 we are learning our own Mihi in order to introduce ourselves. We are also creating a Visual Mihi to support us with this so that we can share our whakapapa with others.

Our letters and sounds for Week 7 of Term 3 are Dd and Gg

Learning new skills in the nit check

On Thursday we had our hair checked for nits. There were no nits in Room 5 - yipee!! Ava was very observant and took great notice of what Abbie was doing. She felt very confident that when I looked around she was checking Lewis's hair. Great initiative Ava and well done Lewis for joining in and letting her. So cute!!

On Friday we had a turn with the 'Beebot'

On Friday we all enjoyed having a turn with the Beebot - a special little bee robot that lives in Room 5. We had a map of a street and we had to programme the information into the Beebot to get the bee to go where we wanted it to. Some of us took the Beebot to the grocers, the park, the bank and I'm sure he even visited the school. There were other places on the map we could visit to. Have a look at some of us enjoying programming the Beebot.

We've been exploring the playground

We have been exploring the playground during PE. We have been learning how to use the equipment that we may not have used before and taking risks by having a go at different things. We all did a great job of participating on Thursday. Take a look at some of the things we did.

The Reading Eggs Trophy for Week 5 of Term 3 went to......

Isla. Congratulations Isla - you have been really enjoying working on Reading Eggs and staying focussed to complete some of your tasks. What a great photo - its just a shame you have your eyes shut!!

Matific - Our chance to win $50 000 in cash and prizes for our school

Today we began the 1st day of our challenge on Matific. We are competing against other New Zealand and Australian schools to earn $50 000 in cash and prizes. Your child will have had their log in and password sent home if they wish to continue earning themselves stars during this time. If you experience any problems with this at home please let us know. The website address is www.matific.com The students really enjoyed working on this today.

The Rocket Writing Stars for Week 5 of Term 3 were ..........

Opal and Ava. Congratulations to the both of you. Opal got the star for writing the most words and Ava got the star for making the most progress - great job. Ava was very excited as she had never had the star before. One of the students said "why do you always get the star Opal?" and she replied with "because I write lots of words at home and I use the word families".

Our letters and sounds for Week 6 of Term 3 are Rr and Mm

The Rocket Writing Stars for Week 4 of Term 3 were.........

Opal and Micah. Great work you two! Opal got the Star for writing the most words and Micah got the Star for making the most progress. Fantastic stuff. Well done to Isla and Micah who both moved to the next umbrella. Your rocket writing is zooming ahead.

Reading Eggs Trophy for Week 4 of Term 3

Well done to Hunter who earnt the Reading Eggs Trophy for Week 4. Great to see you working hard on your Reading Eggs Hunter.

Our letters and sounds for Week 5 of Term 3 are Ee and Hh

Look at the visitors we had in Room 5 this week

We had a few animal visitors to the class this week. Vinny shared his new piglets with us. They were very cute but a wee bit smelly!! One of the piglets even tried to jump out of the container. Thanks for sharing Vinny.

And Luke's Mum brought in their dog Poppy Olive. We thought she was pretty cool too thanks Luke. It was a shame we didn't get a photo of her lovely face.

The Reading Eggs Trophy for Week 3 went to .........

Xahria. Great work on Reading Eggs Xahria. It was great to see that even though you were unwell you were still working on Reading Eggs while you were at home. Well done.

Our Rocket Writing Stars for Week 2 and 3

Opal was our Star Rocket writer for Week 2 writing the most words. Our star for travelling the quickest by making the most progress was Jared. Well done to the both of you. Awesome word writing.

And the Rocket Writing Stars for Week 3 were Opal and Lucas. Opal was awarded the Star for writing the most words and Luke earn't the star for making the most progress. Superb effort to both of you. You should be proud of your achievements.

Room 5 visited the Town Library for the Book Awards

On Tuesday we went to the Town Library for the NZ Book Awards. We listened to the story 'Fuzzy Doodle" and then we got to make a butterfly. We then completed a scavenger letter hunt. We all enjoyed our visit. Many thanks to the awesome parents who came along and helped us and provided transport.

What animal am I? by Room 5

Our letters and sounds for Week 4 of Term 3 are Cc and Kk

Our Holiday Writing

We wrote in a different way about our holidays. We wrote something we didn't do, something we would have wanted to do and something we wished we had done and then finally about what we did do. We hope you enjoy reading them.

Reading Eggs Trophy for Week 2 went to ..........

Micah. Well done Micah for earning the trophy for Reading Eggs. It's a great photo of you holding the trophy too.

Vowel Sounds

Our letters and sounds for Week 3 of Term 3 are Pp and Nn

100 Days at school

To celebrate 100 days at school we were asked to bring along 100 of something. Here's a photo of us holding our 100 things. Unfortunately we did not get a photo of Olivia holding onto the cake with the 100 pebbles. We all thought it tasted yummy too, thanks Olivia.

Jared brought 100 pom poms

Micah and his 100 grains of rice

Olivia and her 100 water balloons

Jahzarn with his 100 buttons

Xahria and her 100 pieces of pasta

Ava with 100 rice bubbles

Isla with 100 pieces of pounamu

Luke with his 100 honey puffs

And Lewis with the 100 sticks he collect along the beach

Well done and many thanks to all of you.