Assembly 30.11.12

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

Today in assembly Vaamaa was presented a certificate for excellence in reading and writing. We are very proud of her. Well done Vaamaa.

Thank you, Room 22

Recycled Gardening Week 7

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

As part of our topic 'Green Fingers' Room 22 is learning to make a plant holder out of recycled materials. We all provided a recycled item to make our plant holder out of. Some items we decided to make our plant holders out of were: a lamp shade, a wooden box, a blender jug, a cardboard box and milk bottles. Today we put soil in them and planted our sweet peas seed. We have decided the seeds need: water, sunlight and soil. For the last two weeks of school we will be looking after our seeds at school. Hopefully they all grow.

 

Thank you, Room 22

Santa Letter 2012

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

In Room 22 over the next week and a half we are going to write letters to Santa. We are learning to write letters in the correct format. We will be publishing the letters on special writing paper and posting them off to Santa. Please come in and tell me if your address has changed so your child recieves a letter back from Santa. Here is the details that are posted on the nzpost.co.nz website.

"Send a letter to Santa

Ho, ho, ho from Santa’s workshop...send a letter to Santa this Christmas, and he will write back.

Hi kids!

It's nearly Christmas time so be sure to write to me and tell me what you want this year. All you have to do is fill in the form below by Friday 14 December and I'll send you a letter through the mail in return! Be sure to fill in your correct address too.

Or, if you want to put pen to paper, write me a letter using your favourite stationery, put it in an envelope and stamp it then post to my postal address below. Don't forget to include your name and full postal address!

Santa Claus
Santa's Workshop
North Pole 0001

Be sure to check your letterbox for my letter closer to Christmas - and remember to leave some cookies and warm milk next to your fireplace on Christmas Eve....yum, my favourite!

Merry Christmas,
Love from Santa Claus"

Thank you, Room 22

Week 7: Trip Writing

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

This week we are publishing stories about our trip to West Lynn Gardens. We are using our knowledge of how a persuasive sentence is structured to write our stories about what we liked on the trip and why. Here is some of our published stories:

 

We hope you have enjoyed reading our stories.

 

Thank You, Room 22

Week 7: Reading testing

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

This week, room 22 is being tested on reading. We will have no books going home this week. Instead for homework you can go on these websites to play spelling, reading and math games that will help with our learning.

Spelling: http://www.abcya.com/dolch_sight_word_spelling.htm

Sight word recognition: http://www.abcya.com/sight_words_recognition.htm 

Math Fact Shoot out: http://www.abcya.com/math_facts_game.htm

Thank you, Room 22

West Lynn Gardens Trip 22.11.12

 Hi Parents and Caregivers,

Today was Room 22's trip to West Lynn Gardens. We really enjoyed the day and would like to say a big thank you to the parents who helped on the trip.

During the day at West Lynn Gardens we had activities to do with the topic 'Green Fingers'. Our activities were:

1. Design and draw a garden made out of recycled materials. We all designed this in our topic books and then presented it to the class. Most of us learnt to use our loud teacher voice :).

2. We went into the butterfly house and had to sketch a chrysalis, a caterpillar, a weed, an unusal flower, two different shaped leaves, and we got to choose one thing we found interesting in the butterfly house to draw.

3. We went on a scavenger hunt around the gardens and find: an ant, a butterfly, a flower bud, a seed pod, garden tools, a compost bin, a garden sculpture, red leaves, yellow flowers, a pine cone, a leaf the size of our hands, a worm, a weed, a ladybug, a pine cone, a feather, a clover leaf, a vine, a daisy, a fruit, The letter w, a bumble bee and a birds nest.

4. Having lunch (YUM YUM).

And finally at the end of the trip we walked back to school. What a good day!

Thank you, Room 22

Valerie Adams Athletics Day 'Tuesday Week 6'

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

Maksis from room 22 was selected to go to Eden Park today to meet the Olympic Gold Medalist Valerie Adams. He got to try out different Athletics activities with her and really enjoyed his day. Here are some photos from the day.

Thank you, Room 22

Colouring Competition Week 6

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

A little while ago Room 22 entered a colouring competition for 'Glover Real Estate Green Bay'. We are proud to say that Kira won first prize in the 'Up to 6 year old category' and recieved a family movie pass and a box of chocolates. Aaliyah got a Merit Certificate in the 'Up to 6 year old category' and recieved a box of chocolates. Well done girls :), we are very proud.

 

Thank you, Room 22

Cultural Experience Week 6

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

Tuesday 11-12. 20.11.12

Today we had the "Korea Royal Marching Band" From Dotong Elementary School, Namwon City, Korea come and visit Arahoe Primary. We got to watch them perform their national dances, music and sports. They invited us up to try their musical instruments and also to dance with them to their national music. We saw T'aekwondo know as (Hapkido) and this was amazing seeing children as young as us performing with such skills and talents. Thank you to the 'Korea Royal Marching Band' for an amazing performance, we loved it.

Thank you,
Room 22

Weaving (Raranga) Week 5

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

We have been learning how to weave (Raranga) in Room 22 as part of our Maori Language Plan. As a class we practised first with paper and in a few weeks we will try with flax (Harakeke). Our final results were amazing and we are proud to display them in our classroom. Below is some photos and an explanation of how Harakeke is like a whanau (Family).

 

Maori Proverb
E hara taku toa, I te toa takitahi ēngari he toa taku tini.
My strength is not from myself alone, but from the strength of the group.

Thank you, Room 22

Class Garden Week 5

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

Today we went out and planted our Sunflowers in the garden. We dug a hole and placed the plant out of our pot into the garden. As a class we are looking forward to the sunflowers grow into big flowers. You can visit the garden which is between Room 24 and Room 14.

 

 Thank you, Room 22

Assembly Week 5

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

We would like to recognise Bonnie who received a certificate in assembly today. She has displayed the value of Excellence in reading and writing. We are all very proud of you.

Thank you, Room 22

ICT Suite

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

Today we went into the ICT Suite. We are learning to use Kidpix to draw sunflowers for our garden signs. Next week we will be going to the garden and planting our sunflowers. We will put our signs beside our sunflowers in the garden.

Thank you, Room 22

 

Athletics Day, Tuesday Week 4

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

Today we had Athletics day. It was so much fun. We got to go around different activites and compete against our class members. At the end of the day our top two girls and our top two boys competed against the rest of the syndicate in running. Maksis came third out of all the first year students. Well done Maksis. Athletics day was so much fun. A big thank you to all the parents and caregivers who helped us out during the day. You were all amazing and a massive help to the Room 22 teachers.

Thank you,
Room 22, Nikki & Kyle.

 Ready to run on the field. Us in the swimming pool enjoying swimming sports. 

 Ball Throwing on the field where we had a competition to see who could throw and hit Mr Hattie.We also had gum boot throwing on the top field. That was fun and Marshall and Gayathri threw their gum boots over 4 m's.

Hurdles on the field. Vedansh raced Miss Watson and he won!

High jump on the front field. Maksis, Shannon, Vedansh and Paige all could jump over 0.52 m's. Well done the four of you, that is amazing.