PARTY DAY

We had a super fun day in Room 1 on the last of Term One.  We celebrated Maddie, Brianna, Ashanti and Mrs Blakesley's birthdays, said goodbye to Miro and Mrs McFadyen (just for a little while) and were really proud of all our hard work during the first term.

We had an enormous parcel to play pass the parcel with and then we all enjoyed a 'party food' morning tea.

What a great end to Term One!!

Our 3 birthday girls ready to get pass the parcel started.

 Miro opening a layer.

Terrell's turn

Ready for the party food!

Yum!

Niamh and Keiarliya 

Hunter, Tyler and Benji

Finley, Jerome and Riley

Reese, Sienna and Maia

Riley, Marcus, Ashanti, Miro and Mana

Mr Brooks' Antarctica Visit

Manuka Hub were really lucky to have Mr Brooks (Jessica's Grandfather) share his Antarctica journey with us.   Mr Brooks was asked to go to Antarctica to help a friend with a scientific experiment/project. He stayed there for 28 days with lots of other scientists to try and film parts of Antarctica from the air. We were able to see lots of images as Mr Brooks explained all of his adventures to us. The kids were very impressed with the small camera plane, which was released into the air by a bungee cord, the ice kitchen, the Hercules Plane that took 8 hours to get there, and a wee group of Emperor Penguins. 

After his visit Room 1 also enjoyed learning a little bit about Emperor Penguins.  Here are some of our fabulous stories.  We worked hard, doing our personal best to publish these to a high standard.

Gooey, Slimy, Slippery Slugs in Room 1's Garden

Today we worked on adding 'wow' words to our writing to describe the slugs and our garden.  Can you spot some?

 Oh, we have some gooey, slimy slippery slugs in Room 1’s garden.  Yuck.  Mrs Blakesley put some slug bait out otherwise they will gobble the seedlings.  At my house there are a lot of snails and slugs.  They look fat.

Written by Sadie

 Ewwy Gooey slimy slugs are yuck.  Some are fat and some are skinny.  Some can eat the plants all up.  Mrs Blakesley sprinkled snail bait around the garden.  Snails and slugs come out in the morning when no one is at school.  They might come out from the yummy strawberries.  They sneak into the garden.  Room 1 went outside yesterday.  I am going to go outside today to check the seedlings. 

Written by Maia

 Oh the slugs and snails are eating and hiding in our garden.  They are slimy and they are munching and eating plants.

Written by Jerome

Look at the slimy spew.  The slugs will eat the leaves.  Room 1 saved the day because we put the slug bait on the dirt. 

Written by Isaac 

Ooh yuck.  There are slimy slugs and snails in our garden everywhere.  They are munching and crunching and eating our vegetables but…we put slug bait so we could make them die because we didn’t want them to eat our vegetables.

Written by Marcus

Wow.  What slithery, slimy slugs but unfortunately I hate slugs because they eat our vegetables so we had to sprinkle out the slug bait.

Written by Finley

PRIDE Awards

A big congratulations to Tyler, Niamh and Benji who received PRIDE awards during March and April.

Tyler - For being a great leader and role model in Room 1.  Well done!

Niamh - Consistent work ethic and being a fantastic responsible helper and leader.

Benji - For always showing Respect for others and consistently being such a hard worker in Room 1.  Super effort Benji!

Who's at the Disco?

Look who's at the disco ! Do you know who's behind the masks?

When I grow up...

When I grow up I want to be a swimming teacher because I am good at swimming.  I am good at doing 1, 2 bubble and breath.  I will teach backstroke, frontstroke and frog swim.
Written by Sienna

When I grow up I am going to be a person who works at a hotel because I want lots of money.
Written by Riley

When I grow up I want to be a tree worker because I am good at climbing trees and my Dad has that job too.  My Dad does lots of cool things with tree work.
Written by Maddie 

When I grow up I want to be a vet lady because I like looking after animals that are really, really sick, like an animal coughing.  I will give them some soup to try to make them better.  I will wear a vet uniform.
Written by Keiarliya

Reading with our Buddy Class

Room 12 is our buddy class.  Today they visited us after lunch and we had an enjoyable time on the grass listening to each other read.

Thank you Room 12 - we look forward to seeing you again next week.

Room 1's Garden

I like gardening.  Today it was super fun planting the seedlings that we liked.  There was silverbeet and celery for eating in our sandwiches.  We will water them.  It was super fun planting them.  At morning tea we will use the hose to water the seedlings.

Written by Hunter

Today we planted some plants.  My favourite plant is the rainbow silverbeet.  It was drizzling.  I like planting plants.  We planted seedlings that were small.  We have got a lemon tree.  I have done lots of gardening at home.

Written by Sadie

Wow.  We did gardening.  We planted rainbow silverbeet and celery.  I like carrots.  I got a turn to plant my own plant.  I dug a hole for the plant to grow.  I planted a gigantic celery plant.  

Written by Benji

What's your favourite vegetable?

The Accelerated Writing Programme in Action in Room 1

All learners in Nga Rakau Iti classes (year 1-3) receive daily additional support in writing by a lead teacher and two learning assistants, Monday-Thursday, for half an hour.  In Room 1 Mrs Sandy McFadyen, Mrs Julia Harris and Mrs Robyn Coombs join us each day for writing.  Our children are very lucky to have such fantastic support!

 Mrs McFadyen working with Raiha, Ashanti, Marcus, Jerome, Mana and Hunter.

 Mrs Coombs working with Reese, Maddie, Miro, Sadie, Niamh and Benji.

 Mrs Harris working with Keiarliya, Maia, Tyler, Sienna and Jorgia 

(plus Erin who is just out of shot).

Mrs Blakesley with Isaac, Terrell, Coby, Finley, Brianna and Riley.