Welcome to week 8

Kia ora,
We are heading into week 8 - which means 1 week and 4 days of school left for term 1!!!!
Dates to diary!
1) Mufti day for Mrs Regnault: Friday, March 27th.
2) Open day - 1st April
3) Last day of school for Term 1: Thursday 2nd April

Congratualtions to Dylan & Jayden for being our ROOM 7 SHARP STUDENTS. Our SHARP focus for the last 2 weeks has been SAFETY in and around the school grounds. These boys showed responsiblity and SAFETY in helping and supporting a friend who was injured in the playground.
I was so impressed with what they did. Well done boys!

Emelia is leading the class in the school karakia - have a great day!

Now that it is getting colder the children can wear slippers in class.

We have set ground rules - no wearing slippers outside and no being silly with them.

;)

 Sadie with a teacher's certificate for excellent maths help.

 Toby had the pass it on bear for a night - and well done Toby - you did super writing and the bear had fun at your house!

Chinese lessons: Last Friday the children were given their names written by Zhang Zhang. These are positioned on their desks. The children have been practicing writing their name using the Chinese character writing - I WAS WELL IMPRESSED with their efforts.
You should have a copy at home for your child to practice. 

Erana & Angus's names written in Chinese.

 Below are photos of some of the childrens' handwriting and their name written in Chinese. Notice their attempt underneath the yellow card. 

Numbers to 10 in Mandarin. The children also counted to 20 - then up to 100 in 10s.

 

Special visit to room 7 from Uncle Matt & Auntie Amy (Abbey's Uncle and Auntie from England).

The children welcomed them with our school song - Ko Tararua.

Sadie welcomed them to our class by introducing herself in Maori. 

I was impressed with the childrens' willingness to ask questions - we had worked in pairs previously to come up with some good questions.

Amy & Matt talked to the children, we loved their accents.

And I think the children learnt some good information like that it doesn't take 2 or 7 hours to fly from England to NZ (like a couple of the children thought). 

We had a look at the world map and showed where England is compared to NZ. 

Artists just like Picasso!!

I love this saying "EVERY CHILD IS AN ARTIST"

 Riley in the 'caught ya' chair - Riley got to sit here for a little bit on Monday after his name was drawn out on the previous Friday. 

(Below): Riley about to lead the Karakia.

Room 7 have been really SHARP and we are the 1st class this year to win the tidiest cloakbay =)

Look at this SHARP work - certificates to say well done!!!!!

Maths, maths!

We are still working on our place value - adding 10. 

Wow - look what Sadie introduced us to: http://treechangedolls.tumblr.com/

Sadie brought one of the dolls she has repainted - what a difference.

It was quite an interesting topic to discuss with the children. 

I put a picture of Bratz dolls on the big screen - and we had a show of hands which doll the students preferred. We talked about the difference in their faces - big lips/make up etc...to the more natural look (like Miss Burt) haha!

I really love this part of Greytown...

http://wairarapanz.com/see-and-do/greytown-woodside-trail

To end the blog this week look at this treasure chest of photos - some from our bike day a few weeks back - and a lot from week 7, just gone! ENJOY!!