End of Term

 Kia ora everyone,

We've finally reached the end of the year and what a crazy year it has been. I am so proud of all of Room 16 and all that they have achieved. Here are a few pictures of the past year...

Duffy Book Day

EOTC week (Disco room)

Making and eating chips for our 'ch' sound

Making our matau and learning about Maui

Learning about halves and quarters 

Meeting Mr Ward's lamb, Athena

Cross country

Painting our Matariki stars with Miss Izelle's room

Reading time 

Soccer practice 

craft market

And many more! 

Thank you to all the Room 16 children for their wonderful attitude this year and to all the families and whanau for their kind words and gifts at the end of this year. 

Have a lovely summer break everyone 

Love Miss Rayner 

💓

Bees and Honey

 Take a look at our awesome bee experience over the last two weeks. We were so lucky today that Miss Lisa brought in a real honeycomb for us to see and taste! mmm, how delicious! 

Pahurehure inlet trip

 Here are some pictures from our trip to the Pahurehure inlet. Thank you to all our parent helpers and other volunteers. You all made this trip a massive success! The children had lots of fun and we came up with lots of ideas about the things we had seen (which included a lot of pekeko!).

Songs to sing together

 Hi all,

Please see below two videos of songs that the children will be singing this week. Feel free to practice at home!

Tutira mai nga iwi

Tiaho Mai Ra

Cricket

 Wow, what a cool morning we have had being taught some different cricket strategies. We learned how to throw and catch the ball, how to aim at the stumps and how to hold and use our bats. 

Have a look at our awesome cricket skills below!

The Lorax Challenge

 Wow! Check out Boston's Lorax Challenge. 

Boston's nana has sent in this collage and said 

"Today Boston found a nest fallen out of a tree and safely put it back and he saw a bird flying on the wire looking for it’s nest. 

Boston said he is helping the Lorax look after nature."

Awesome job Boston!

Super spotter award

 Room 16 (with the help of some of Room 9) worked hard this week to be the most respectful class in assembly on Friday. 

Every other week in Junior assembly our 'secret spotter' looks out for the class trying their hardest to be respectful and follow our assembly rules. These include sitting up straight, keeping our hands to ourselves, and being respectful to the person speaking.

Here is Room 16 with their trophy for being the most respectful class.

Ch is for chips

 Kia ora everyone,

Over the past few weeks we have began looking at some blends (blends are sounds that are formed with two or three letters like sh, th, oo). This week our blend has been 'ch' so we decided to make some hot chips!

The children have made the chips from start to finish today. I had my helpers on the morning peeling potatoes...

Then we spent some time writing instructions about how we make chips.

Step 1 - peel the potato.

Step 2 - cut the potato.

Step 3 - put the potato in the oven.

Whilst we were writing, a group came up at a time to help with the cutting potatoes into strips to make our chips.

Finally (after the children were very patient whilst Miss Lisa kindly prepped the oven and helped us cook our chips) the chips were ready.

Hooray! 

We made ch ch chips and did and awesome job in our learning and our cooking skills. 

Well done Room 16!

Poetry competition

 We had our practice and our real in class poetry competition in Room 16 this week! Wow - what amazing poets we have.

On Wednesday we had our practice in class and worked hard at being respectful audience members. One person at a time came to the front to try and read their poems to everyone.

Then on Thursday, Room 16 went into the hall with Mrs Corbett for their poetry competition. Miss Lisa and Miss Rayner were so excited to watch everyone whilst they sat in the audience!

Everyone did an amazing job - Many of the children challenged themselves to be able to recite or read their poem, they should all be very proud of themselves!

                                      Awesome job guys!

Online Craft Market- Creating our work

 Kia Ora everyone, 

I hope everyone is having an awesome holidays so far and spending time in the beautiful sunshine when we are lucky enough to have it!

With the deadline for The Online Craft Market Orders drawing near I wanted to show you all the hard work that Room 16 put into making their 2021 calendars. The final versions of the children's pictures actually ended up being the fifth prototype of calendar we made- we spent so much time evaluating it and learning about portraits!

Firstly, we split the class into three teams. Team Laminators (who worked with Miss Rayner), Team Magnets (who worked with Mrs Penny or Mrs Lisa) and Team Labels (who worked independently).

Their first task was to sit in their groups and figure out how they were going to efficiently manage their task. I was particularly impressed with the Magnet Team who decided what length of magnet they were going to be cutting to fit onto the calendar by themselves.

Here are some pictures of the children working on their project. They have all worked so hard and I'm very proud of them for all the effort they have put in!

This project was part of our unit on financial literacy to help the children understand different ways of looking at money. It was also partly a fundraiser for the older children to go to camp and partly a way of brightening up our classroom walls for a bit with all the crazy ideas we had! 

If you haven't bought your calendar yet for yourself or as a gift, and you would like to, hop on over to KINDO and make an account. It's just like doing your normal shopping online (and your child might like to help you press the buttons too!). Here is the link: https://shop.tgcl.co.nz/shop/index.html  

The cost of each calendar is $4. The children decided on this too (the original price they came up with was a million dollars so you've really got yourself a bargain with $4!).

Team Magnets working with Mrs Penny and practicing their taking it in turn skills.

Aquarius always likes to take her artwork seriously and tries her best!

All of Team Label working hard to keep their colourings as in the lines as the can.

Boston and Waris carefully putting the calendar into the laminator.

Lots of the children wanted a turn on the laminator. She talked about how to keep ourselves safe and taking turns.

End of Term 4

 We have had an awesome end to Term 4, with the children  visiting the Glow Show, Show and Tell/Talent Show, tidying our big classroom, and lots of other things! 

Have an awesome break, I hope the sunshine holds out and we all get to spend lots of time outside. 

We will see you next Term!

Maori Language Week

 Kia Ora everyone,

Last week was Maori language week and we loved learning lots of new words and songs in the Maori language. On Monday we created 'Kia Ora posters' (hung outside our classroom for the school to see!) and we also made a big mess! The Room 16 children were very responsible and used the cloths, sweeping brush, and cleaning skills. 

Kai Pai akomanga!

Duffy Book Awards

 Happy Friday everyone!

Today the children were presented with their special Duffy books in the classroom. We watched a video by Whaitiri Poutawa who is a Kapa Haka teacher who also teaches Te Reo and Ma Rakau. We had an awesome time learning about his favourite story and why he loves reading so much.

Here is a picture from when we had been given our books! We are so excited for this opportunity to take the books home and have learnt lots about looking after books and how important they are.