Reminders

Friday is busy with our class having a shared lunch to celebrate Simon's time at George Street and ice skating that night!

Tracking Tunnels

We set our own tracking tunnels around school. trying to track some pests footprints. Unfortunately we didn't have much luck! It seems that there is not many pests around in winter. Here is the link and a video if you would like to make your own one at home. Good luck!

Become a pest detective

Strike-Wednesday 15th August

FYI - Notice that went home today.

Honesty and Truthfulness

Come and read our honesty acrostic poems outside our class in Te Puna Ako. We worked really hard on these.

Science Table Update

We have now got a few things on our science table relating to insects and spiders but we would love some more! Reminder - you can bring in some real bugs or spiders in a container with holes in it so they can still breathe.

Shared Lunch-Friday 10th August

Insect Activities

We had a busy afternoon with a rotation of different insect and spider activities. There were puzzles, count the bugs, living and non-living cards to sort, word finds, cross words and a classifying cut and paste activity.

Football Coaching

We had out first session with the football coach today. This was lots of fun!

Ice Skating Night

Cross Country

Well done to everyone who participated in the school cross country on Monday.

Quote of the Week

Tamariki vs Kaikako Te reo Maori Competition

Miss Dore went to a Maori course during the school holidays and came back to school with lots of ideas on how we can use te reo Maori in our classroom. Each week we will have a competition to see who can use the most te teo, the tamaiki or the kaiako. This week it was the tamariki! Our reward was to have some free time on Friday afternoon. Some of the activities were playing on the monkey bars, slime, epic, lexia, study ladder, ball sports and drawing.

 

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Bug Hunting and Bird Watching

We were very lucky to have 2 people from the Otago Museum come to our class today. We did bug hunting and bird watching with them. This was lots of fun! We discovered that bugs are hard to find in winter. They gave us 2 tracking tunnels. We have hid these around our school, they have ink inside them. On Monday we will check them and see if there are any footprints inside and if there are, we will figure out what animals they are.

International Day

International Day and Cross Country

Reminders:

On Friday this week we are able to dress up.  The theme is of course related to countries of the world.  Children are welcome to dress up and or bring along a toy representing a country of their choice (normally a country that they associate with).

The Cross Country is scheduled for Monday 30th.  In the event that the weather is not good on that day it will be moved to the Wednesday.  Children will need running shoes, warm layered clothing and a named drink bottle.