Wacky Hair Day and Room 3 on Stage

What an exciting day Friday was - Wacky Hair Day and we were onstage for assembly! 

Our Trip to the Marae

Last week we went on a trip to the Araiteuru Marae. Some of our favourites things were....

Making the stars - Lotta

Eating the biscuits - Reagan

Looking at the carvings on the wall - Amy

Listening to the song about the bird - Lewis

Eating the cabbage from the cabbage tree - Mira

Doing all the activities - Thomas

When the lady talked to us about the carvings and the picture of the old Marae - Stanley

Eating lunch - Guy

Having fun - Harper

Going on the bus - Carter + Austin

Saying my mihi - Nikolei

Making the stars - Ziggy

Singing - Aydin

Making the stars out of flax - Charlotte

Thank you to all the parents who came along and helped. We hope you enjoyed your day as much as we did!

A Room 3 Update

Here are some of the things we have been up to in Room 3:

Enjoying Discovery on Fridays - Guy

Getting better at our hockey skills - Lotta

Having fun - Harper

We have had a college teacher Miss O'Kane teaching us all about team work - Thomas

Working hard at whispering at reading time - Reagan

Counting backwards from different numbers. Sometimes we even count backwards from 100 - Stanley

Learning about our left and right - Amy

Making beautiful autumn trees - Lewis

Having fun during our reading rotation - Mira

Using our Nemos (writing goals) at writing time - Carter

Using interesting words in our writing - Charlotte

Planning our writing using a picture plan that is cut into two parts - Mina

Counting - Austin

Trying hard to be caught being good - Peta

Trying our best to work quietly and on task - Nikolei

Listening to the teacher - Aydin

Trying hard to cut out pictures neatly - Lewis

Hockey Skills

We are very lucky to have Anna from Otago Hockey coming in to teach us hockey skills over the next four weeks on a Thursday.

This Thursday we had our first session where we learnt how to hold a hockey stick and how to pass and stop a hockey ball. We even had a go at tackling!