Term 1 Week 4 Assembly Certificate

At today's School Assembly Ashleigh was awarded a certificate.

Ka pai, Ashleigh, it's great to have you in Room 5.

As part of our Belonging topic we are looking at portraits. Portraits are one way of ensuring others know what we look like. We have drawn self-portraits (which are on display in our classroom). We are now learning to draw portraits of our classmates. Today we practised making light, feathery pencil marks on paper. Our next activity was to draw a picture of our own hand. The challenge was to look at our hand and not the paper. This is called Blind Contour Drawing. The next thing we drew was our pencil cases, again looking at the object and not the paper. Then we worked with a buddy to draw each other. The big challenge is to keep looking at our buddy and not the paper. We all did a great job persevering even though it was hard.
Here we are doing blind contour drawings of our hands.

 

 

Next week:

Thursday 6 March: Fish and Chip tea at school, beginning at 5pm. Bring your Fish and Chips and a blanket and enjoy a picnic tea with our CtK whanau.

A Birthday and Other News

Today Zach turned 7. We sang 'Happy Birthday' to Zach and wished him all the best as a 7 year old.







Elspeth, Connie and Nicholas competed at the University Athletic Club's championships last night. Congratulations on your successes.

Uriel's handwriting met the 'Triple Star' standard. Keep up the great work, Uriel.







Tomorrow's assembly will be at 9am in the school hall. 

Player of the Day

Last night Lachlan played hockey. He was named 'Player of the Day' and has a special shirt to wear for the week. Well done, Lachlan.

Principal's Award

Yesterday Sophie read her story to Mr B. She did such a good job that Mr B gave her a Principal's Award. Ka pai, Sophie.

Joe's handwriting was 'Triple Star' quality so it is now on display.

Ka pai, Joe.

Anita visited again yesterday and taught us to throw a discus and a shot put. We had lots of fun.

 

Term 1 Week 4 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Neave.

Ka pai, Neave, it's great to have you in Room 5

Notes for this week:

Tuesday (tomorrow): Run, Jump, Throw with Anita - please bring sports shoes and socks to change into. Girls will also need shorts.

Friday: School Assembly will be at 9am in the school hall.

Term 1 Week 3 Assembly Certificate

At today's School Assembly Sophie was awarded a certificate.

Ka pai, Sophie, it's great to have you in Room 5.

At lunch time Asher's Dad brought a special visitor to school. Eddie coaches the Black Sox - New Zealand's National Softball team. Thanks, Eddie, for coming in and doing some throwing and catching.

Eddie is pictured with Mr B, Asher and Lachlan. 

In Room 5 we enjoy writing. Here's a couple of photos showing what writing looks like in Room 5:

 

Sometimes we share our writing with others. Yesterday we shared in groups of four:

Zach, Ashleigh, Asher and Ephrem

Nicholas, James, George and Joshua

Dance Workshop

Here are some recounts about our Dance Workshop:

Yesterday Leah came in to teach us some dancing. My favourite bit was dancing the solo dance. We did the banana game. Leah was a good teacher. I would love Leah to be our school teacher. 
By Hamish

I like dancing with Leah. My favourite part was the banana dance.  With the banana dance I had to jump up with my hands in the air.
By Ashleigh

Yesterday I came to school. A teacher came. She was a dance teacher. One of the dances was to walk back. But my favourite was the car. I was the driver. It was cool. I drove the car around and around. The name of the new teacher was Leah. My buddy was Bridie.
By James