The Butterfly House

We went to the butterfly house and spent some time looking at the rather fat caterpillars and beautiful butterflies. We think it is great that we have a butterfly house in our school grounds.

Tui

Outside our classroom is a sign. On that sign is the number one and paintings of a Tui.

Mr Barnes was working in the school grounds when he found a Tui on the ground - He thinks the Tui had been in a fight with a cat. He picked it up and came to show it to us and then he put it in the bush. Thanks so much Mr Barnes for showing us the Tui.

Scooter boards

On Monday we went to the hall and worked with Mrs Pharo. She showed us how to use the scooter board and encouraged us to scoot on the board like superman or superwoman.
Thank you Mrs Pharo for showing us how to use the scooter board and for letting us use your scooter boards - we can't wait to visit you again.

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It was great fun and we laughed and smiled a lot. We found that you can go very fast on a scooter  board!

Blowing Bubbles

Oh the fun we had blowing bubbles. We loved not only blowing bubbles but racing after them and trying to pop them. We had so much fun that after we had written stories about blowing bubbles, we went out again to blow yet more bubbles. Room 2 and 3 saw out bubbles and came out and joined in the fun.

Welcome to room 1 2013

This week has been our first week at school. We are a group of five year old children  and currently there are 11 of us in  Room One.  Since starting school we have been busy getting to know each other and settling into school life.
We have decided that in Room one we will
* Be happy
* Be ready to learn
* Try our best
* Be friends
* Be kind.

Here are some photos of us during our first week together.

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Amanda
Amir
Anna
Ben
Benji
Daehyun
Daniel
Hamza
Hyder
Jamie
Leo
Lily
Maile
Mason
Matthew
Sophie
Thomas
Zavier

The crab by Thomas

Listen to Thomas reading his story. Well done Thomas

The little red digger

Every week when we go to the library we explore books written by New Zealand authors. Over the past four weeks we have read the series of books about the little yellow digger by Betty and Alan Gilderdale.

We had no sooner finished reading all the books in the series when we had a little red digger turn up at our school and work just outside our classroom. We spent the morning working for short periods of time and then racing to the window to watch the digger!!!

 We were fascinated that the man stood behind the little red digger

We watched that little red digger collect dirt and put it carefully on the truck. It was a magical moment in time to watch a class of 15 boys and 4 girls be captured by something happening just outside our classroom!!!!

Road safety posters

We made some road safety posters. We had to make a lot of decisions -

-which way to place our paper

- the size of our title - Big or little 

- where to put our picture and writing. 

The monkey by Benji

Listen to Benji read his story.

The sun by Zavier

Listen to Zavier's information report about the sun.

The juicy bone by Daniel

Listen to Daniel read his story. How did the little dog solve his problem?

The monkey by Anna

Listen to Anna read her story about a monkey that took the zookeeper's banana.