Fantastic Workers!

Congratulations to Hunter, Finley, Raiha and Niamh! 

Happy Birthday Hunter!

Today we celebrated Hunter's 6th birthday at school.  Hunter's mum made some yummy chocolate All Black cupcakes for Hunter to share with us.  We sung, "Happy birthday to you..." and then Hunter blew out the candles and shared his cupcakes with everyone.  Thank you Hunter.  We hope you have a fantastic birthday!

Wonderful Weaving

This week we decided to give weaving a try!  

Lots of us found it really tricky at first but we showed Determination.  We kept on trying and we didn't give up. 

Sadie said, "I found it really hard but in the end I got it because I persevered." 

Personal Best!

Determination!

Enjoyment!

We were inspired by Mrs Mueller's wonderful bag!

Discovey Time in Room 1

Mrs Blakesley was very proud of all the children who came to Room 1 today to make loopy loop rings and bracelets.  

It was amazing to see so many children from different rooms in Manuka hub helping each other and working together.  

Thank you to all of the loopy loop experts who came in to teach others.  You did a fantastic job!!

Thank you to Mr Pope and Mr Blakesley for making our fantastic looms.

So many amazing teachers!

Frosty Morning Fun

At 9.15am this morning the temperature outside was 1.2 degrees and it was much colder overnight 

(-2.8 degrees at 6am)! 

We had fun exploring the frosty morning and then describing it in our writing.

The frost is cold and I went on the white grass.  I saw my footprints and it was crunchy.

Written by Terrell

This morning when I went outside I froze.  It was really, really cold.  I couldn't move a muscle!  It was so icy cold that it felt like I was in an ice cube.

Written by Mana

Wow!  What an enormous frost.  At school we played on the frosty, icy ground.  I slipped on the beautiful ice crystals.  It felt very, very cold.  I think if it was a little bit cooler we would have a big blanket of ice.  

Written by Maddie

What a frosty morning at school.  I was skidding on the icy tracks and the grass was turning back to normal.  I touched the grass and it was freezing!

Written by Jerome

In the cold morning I got out of my home and went to play on the grass.  It was white and crunchy.  I was freezing and I left my footprints all over the ground.

Written by Erin

Slippery, sliding on the lawn at school!  I was ice skating on the icy, white grass.  I licked a blade of grass and it tasted like water.  I left trails of green grass where ever I went.

Written by Tyler

When I got outside I got a shock!  My lawn was covered in white.  I rolled in it.  It was freezing cold.  I froze to pieces and felt like an ice block.  I screamed and ran inside!

Written by Sienna

This morning my grass was white.  Brrrrrrrr!  I was cold in the car and I had brain freeze.  It was hurting my brain.  Oh no!

Written by Hunter

Maia and Hunter's Pride Awards

Hunter:  For your interesting and clever writing Hunter and for always being such an enthusiastic learner with a smile that just lights up the room!

Maia: For working so hard to make your writing detailed and interesting and for striving to do your personal best in all areas.  Keep it up Maia!

Pic Collage

We have some new ipads in Room 1!  Today we were learning how to use the pic collage app.  We had to create a pic collage about ourselves.  Our collage had to include - our name, our photo, a background and some pictures or photos of things we like.  Once we had completed our collage we had to email it to Mrs Blakesley.  We did well learning so many new skills!

Place Value Monsters

We had fun making our initial of our name with the place value blocks.  We had to work out how much our letter was worth by counting the tens and ones.  Then some of us made monsters. It was tricky adding them up!  Miro got to 595!

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.