Last day together

At our final school assembly for the year we farewelled our Year 8 friends who are going off to various local high schools. 

There was also a farewell for Miss Lee, Marti, Miss Bland and Joshua.

Room 6c sang some lovely Christmas songs and wished us a 'Happy Maori Christmas!'

We played a fun game using pompons and straws. We tried to get the pompom into our goal!

Lucky us! We had morning tea in the fale!

We played 'Jingle Bells' with real bells. 

We all received a certificate at our class prizegiving. 

Mr V from Kiwi Can brought a special surprise for Malaga! Her name was drawn as the superstar listener at Kiwi Can for this term! Congratulations Malaga!

Our final bit of fun was some bubbles play. 

We have had a busy year and have learnt a lot together, but now it is time for a summer break!

We want to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and a prosperous new year.

Shared lunch

We helped to prepare for our shared lunch today. We made fruit kebabs, iced cupcakes, and made banana smoothies!

Thank you to our mum's who made and bought our yummy food!

Photo by Jonathan

Photo by Jonathan

Tuesday Highlights

Today we illustrated a poem about a Christmas tree. We did a great job with our pictures!

Monday highlights

This morning we wrote our Santa letters. 

We made a nativity scene, and some of us made some cool decorations. 

Parakai Pools

We had such a fun day at Parakai Pools today. We sang all our favourite songs as we drove up by bus. 

More than 900 school children at the Pools today. 

We had a turn on the slides too! 

We came back home very tired.

Prizegiving & more

Several Room 11 children were awarded prizes at our Junior school prizegiving this morning. 

The following students received 100% attendance certificates for Term 4:

Malakai, Cing, Talepita and Maima. 

Malaga received The Birdwood Way award, Luke was awarded Most Improved Student, and Maima was given Top Academic Student. Claryssa was awarded the Chaplain's award for diligence. 

Congratulations to our prize winners. 

After lunch we got to choose a craft activity. 

Getting Christmassy

We are getting Christmassy in Room 11. We have our little tree up, decorations have been hung, and Jonathan has found us some balloons to brighten up our room! 

Our day

It was a hot day today so it was challenging at times to concentrate on our work. 

We had a practice for prizegiving. We learnt how to go on and off the stage, and how to shake hands and accept a certificate correctly. 

After finishing our Reading activities we had the chance to make some Christmas decorations with different lengths of paper. 

Decorating

This morning we helped to decorate our mini Christmas tree. 

Photo by Malaga

We did some more graphing. This time we sorted animals, then pasted them on s graph. 

Before we went home we made some jingle sticks. 

Friday highlights

The We had our last Kiwi Can session for the year. We revised all the things we have been learning, then played a game of 'in the river, on the bank'. 

In Math time we sorted a pile of colours circles and made graphs with them. 

We made a puppet out of an envelope. 

We have started to decorate our cupcake boxes. 

Thursday highlights

Today when we finished our reading tasks we went outside with some chalk and practiced writing words on the ground! Some of us even wrote stories on the ground!

We had an earthquake drill today. We had to quickly find a table to hide under and cover our heads. 

We worked on our cupcake boxes today too. 

Wednesday Highlights

For Math we were learning how to collect data in an investigation. We rolled a die and recorded each outcome as a tally. 

During Music we made our own little guitars using boxes and rubber bands. The rubber bands produced different pitches sounds depending on how tight it was pulled.