Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas every one! We only have one week of school left and it's going to be a busy one!
Monday - We have a magician visiting to perform a show to the Year 2 team.
- Please wear your house colours as it's a whole school celebration day! The winning house (red) will have an extra special surprise at lunch time.
Tuesday - At 11am we will watch a performance in the hall by St Albans School children
Wednesday - Meet the teacher for 2012. 9.30-10.10am
Thursday - Miss Moss visits!
- Packing up the class
Friday - Last Day! Final assembly from 11.15 - 12.30 then - happy holidays!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
St Nicholas continued...
Marika has already eaten her lollies!
Aliana and her sister also left their boots at Marika's house and look what they got!
Season's Greetings
When Mrs Simmons calls the roll in the morning and after lunch we greet her using different languages. Today we decided to have a different Christmas saying each morning. The Busy Bees, Learning Ladybirds and Successful Spiders all got together and wrote as many sayings as they could think of. Then we all met and decided which ones we would use.
Here are the winning sayings!
December
Week 7
5th Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas
6th Reindeer rock!
7th Candy cane Christmas
8th Santa Rocks!
9th Good morning Mrs Santa Claus!
Week 8
12th Light the tree!
13th Have a presentastic day!
14th Magical Christmas morning!
15th Move that Sleigh!
16th Happy holidays!
St Nicholas visits Marika
Marika was very excited this morning because she had a visit from St Nicholas last night. She cleaned her shoes and left them outside the front door and this morning her shoes were filled with lollies and she got a new drink bottle - what a great tradition! We looked on the internet and found out more about St Nicholas. We think he sounds a lot like Father Christmas.
In Germany, Nikolaus is usually celebrated on a small scale. Many children put a boot called Nikolaus-Stiefel (Nikolaus boot) outside the front door on the night of 5 December. St. Nicholas fills the boot with gifts and sweets overnight, and at the same time checks up on the children to see if they were good, polite and helpful the last year. If they were not, they will have a tree branch (Rute) in their boots instead. Sometimes a disguised Nikolaus also visits the children at school or in their homes and asks them if they have been good (sometimes ostensibly checking his golden book for their record), handing out presents on a per-behavior basis. This has become more lenient in recent decades.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Our Christmas Grotto
In Room 15 we have busily been preparing a Christmas grotto. The class surprised me by decorating the tree. We have made some cute decorations. Would you like to come and look at our display?
Charlotte the artist
Look at the amazing picture that Charlotte painted! She goes to an art class. Charlotte sketches the picture first and then she paints using brush stroke techniques that her teacher taught her. Well done Charlotte - this is amazing!
Sunday, December 4, 2011
It's Book Week
Yeah! Book Week has finally arrived! We will visit the book display in Room 1 on Monday morning. Have you decided what you are going to wear for the book character parade on Wednesday? Remember to bring along the book too and we will try and read it during the day. There is a quiz in the library for us to enter - yippee!
Friday, December 2, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Run, jump,throw!
What a great day we had today. Great Super haka, awesome children, speedy parents and great weather! I was so proud of all the children. Well done!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Welcome back - spot the gaps!
Welcome back to school for term 4. I hope you all had a relaxing holiday. Can you see a few gaps in children's mouths? The Tooth Fairy has been busy.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Clip'n'Climb Big day Out reminder
Hi Class. Remember our trip to Clip'n'Climb is on tomorrow (Friday). Please wear shorts or trackpants and be ready for some great climbing fun! We leave school at 9.45 and will return around 11.45.
Finished artworks
The korus that the children have been working on with Mrs Brown are finished now. Next term we will paint the other korus that we made with salt dough.
Our free holiday ideas
Today the class had a great time coming up with some fantastic ideas about what they could do in the holidays. The activities had to cost no or very little money. Let's discuss what we did when we are back at school next term. Thanks to Mrs Howison for looking after the class this morning.
Holiday Ideas that don’t cost much money
· Going to a new park – Aliana
· Going to the library – Ben
· Going for a bike ride to McLean’s Island – Jessica
· Going for a drive to Akaroa – Ethan
· Lots of puzzles and reading – Charlotte
· Skateboarding – Jarkwyn
· Drawing a colourful picture with your feet – Jarelle
· Scootering to a friend’s house – Jessica
· Guess the shapes of clouds – Olivia
· Bug searching – Libby
· In line skating – Marika
· Visiting a beautiful park with flowers – Thesara
· Going to the Museum – Eden
· Blow bubbles – Ethan
· Walking your dog (or your friend’s dog) – Jamie
· Make a DVD or watch a DVD – Aliana
· Making a book
· Listening and dancing to CD’s – Aliana
· Making a CD – Jarkwyn
· Going to a friend’s house to play – Jarelle
· Make new friends at the park – Danielle
· Visiting the beach – Thesara
· Making sandcastles at the beach – Marika
· Doing ballet at home
· Playing on the school playground
· Going on a picnic
· Bike to the shop for iceblocks – Olivia
· Watch the World Cup Rugby
Leave a comment to tell us any other low cost holiday ideas that you have.
Holida
Holiday
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Rugby World Cup fun day postponed
Due to the rainy weather we will not be having our Rugby World Cup fun day on Tuesday 4 October. You can still come to school dressed in your Irish colours and we will have some fun with our buddy class, however we will not be doing the sport rotations.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Halswell Quarry - Our native Plants
We had a wonderful trip to the Halswell Quarry. Thank you so much to the wonderful parents who provided transport and looked after groups of children. We were lucky to have fantastic council educators and a park ranger to share their knowledge with us.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Halswell Quarry trip reminder
Our class trip to the Halswell Quarry is on Tuesday 27 September. We will leave school at 10.45. Please wear your school uniform. You will need to wear running shoes and bring a sunhat and a jacket. Remember to bring a big lunch and a full water bottle. Thanks.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Concert practise
We had a great time practising for the concert. Our friends from Room 2,3,and 4 came and watched. The children from rooms 2 and 3 did an awesome haka. Miss Moss and Mara sang together - they sounded awesome! Our singing was great and our friends gave us some great feedback. We all loved looking after Kaahuia
Friday, September 9, 2011
Mara TK (with Benny Tones) - On My Way
Miss Moss' partner Mara TK is a famous singer! Here he is singing with his friends in a recording studio in Auckland.
Mara is coming into room 15 next week to sing with Miss Moss and all the children. We are very lucky aren't we!
And here is a song from Miss Moss' band 'Jessie James and the Outlaws'
ANGILA - By Jessie James and the Outlaws
All Earth's (God's) Critters Lyrics
All Earths Critters
(CHORUS) All Earth's critters got a place in the choir
Some sing low, some sing higher
Some sing out loud on the telephone wire
And some just clap their hands, or paws
Or anything they got now.
Listen to the bass, it's the one on the bottom.
Where the bullfrog croaks and the hippopotamus moans and groans with a big to-do
The old cow just goes MOOOOO
The dog and the cat pick up they middle
While the honey bee hums and the cricket fiddles
The donkey brays and the pony neighs
And the old coyote howls
CHORUS
Listen to the top where the little bird sings
On the melody with the high note ringing
The hoot owl hollars over everything
And the magpie disagrees
Singin' in the night-time, singin' in the day
Little duck quacks, and he's on his way
The possum ain't got much to say
And the porcupine talks to himself
CHORUS
It's a simple song of livin' sung everywhere
By the ox and the fox and the grizzly bear
Grumpy alligator and the hawks above
Sly raccoon and the turtle dove.
CHORUS
Chorus with clapping only
Last chorus with clapping and guitar
(CHORUS) All Earth's critters got a place in the choir
Some sing low, some sing higher
Some sing out loud on the telephone wire
And some just clap their hands, or paws
Or anything they got now.
Listen to the bass, it's the one on the bottom.
Where the bullfrog croaks and the hippopotamus moans and groans with a big to-do
The old cow just goes MOOOOO
The dog and the cat pick up they middle
While the honey bee hums and the cricket fiddles
The donkey brays and the pony neighs
And the old coyote howls
CHORUS
Listen to the top where the little bird sings
On the melody with the high note ringing
The hoot owl hollars over everything
And the magpie disagrees
Singin' in the night-time, singin' in the day
Little duck quacks, and he's on his way
The possum ain't got much to say
And the porcupine talks to himself
CHORUS
It's a simple song of livin' sung everywhere
By the ox and the fox and the grizzly bear
Grumpy alligator and the hawks above
Sly raccoon and the turtle dove.
CHORUS
Chorus with clapping only
Last chorus with clapping and guitar
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Early Polynesian Life
Today Rachel who works at the Canterbury Museum came and visited us at school. She showed us some treasures and we learned how to use them.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Cricket coaching
Today we were lucky to have some cricketers come to school and coach our class. We had to keep our eyes on the ball, hold our hands like a cup and spread our fingers out. If we could catch the ball 10 times without dropping the ball then we had to throw the ball and see how many times we could clap before we caught the ball. Jamie caught a really high throw that one of the cricketers did.
We had a game of cricket. Some children were in the field and others batted. We all had a turn fielding and batting.
All children received a goody bag - yippee!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Library Travelling Roadshow
We had a wonderful time listening to stories and acting out parts of books today with the wonderful librarians.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Clay art
At discovery time today some children made clay tiles. Instead of the flat clay tiles that we made last term, some children decided to made 3D tiles. We are loving making korus at the moment. Check out these great art works!
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