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! 

Successful learners Week 2 of Online Distance Learning

 Everyone has done such an awesome job again this week that I found it so tricky to work out who to give our awards to... lucky for me it means I already have my eye on lots of children for a certificate next week so don't worry if you haven't had a certificate yet! 

Here are two lovely girls who have been going above and beyond with their work this week. 

Waris has been joining in all the google meets as well as the majority of our maths meets. She has also been doing lots of extra work at home with her mum and thinking hard when it comes to her writing.

Our second person is Aquarius! Aqua has been doing such a fab job this week using our home learning packs and coming up with fantastic and creative ideas. She has also been taking part in our science experiments online and trying them out at home.  Well done!

Well done Room 16 for your learning over lockdown. I am very proud of every one of you (and your adults!) for trying your best even though things are a bit different! I will see you on Monday by 8:55 in the classroom. Remember you get to walk through the big gates all by yourself now but watch out for Mrs Futcher who will be there to welcome you in. Miss Rayner will be in the classroom ready and waiting.

Kia Kaha everyone.

Week 2 learning

 I have been so impressed with all of the learning Room 16 has been doing this week, you've been sending me so many pictures I haven't had time to collect them altogether!

Here are just some of the amazing things Room 16 children have been up to this week:

Awesome job developing your understanding of the book 'Oh, no!' Rara. You've really challenged yourself to read it and I'm very proud of you!

Waris has been up to a multitude of things including building her own fort/castle and practicing her 'oo' sounds. She has been joining in with lots of meets as well. Well done lovely!

Robert has been doing lots and lots of work over our online learning. He is so excited to try our science experiments that he sometimes even does them in our online meets! Here is some of Robert's maths work from our maths afternoon session on Tuesday Robert (alongside Waris) helped me to work out how much $4 + $4 would be and what we could buy with it!

Here is Boston's science experiment! He is doing our experiment from when we added food coloring, oil, and water together. It looks like it was a big success, awesome job Boston!

Here is Aqua doing her science experiment at home too. It turned out beautifully and Aquarius looks like she was concentrating very hard. Brilliant job!

I know a lot of you are working really hard at home both online and on home learning packs. Thank you all the adults and lovely children for putting in such a lot of effort and pulling together to make our ODL awesome!

I can't wait to see you all on Monday.

Aquarius' Week 1 work and creativity

 Wow! 

Aqua was so busy last week with all her hard learning. When her mum sent me her pictures on Friday I was blown away with just how clever and how hardworking she had been. Good job Aquarius, I can see you love learning with your mummy and creating lots of imaginative and super things. 

Aquarius has been looking at different coins and counting them and she has been creating her own masks to keep safe!

Will you show us some more amazing learning this week? I can't wait to see what you do.

Here are some pictures from Aqua's last week in her home learning world.

Well Done Aquarius!

We are authors challenge - ideas so far

Kia Ora all.

I am so SO excited to see so many of you online and ready to go. Especially in todays meetings.

I wanted to share with you our very first submission for our classbook: What we did in lockdown. If you haven't seen our challenge then check out my previous blog post. 

This is by the lovely Annabelle's drawing about her day in lockdown. I can't wait to add it to our book!

A beautiful illustration and writing from you Annabelle.

I also wanted to share this lovely piece of work by Aquarius sent in by her mummy about who is in her bubble. Great idea Aqua! 

Aquarius is always showing us in her class her wonderful illustrations so it's lovely to see her creating even more at home. 

Robert has worked so hard on his writing for our book!

Kia Kaha akomanga, 

I will see you all soon!

Cross country

Term Topic: Money

Kia Ora everyone, and welcome back to PCS after a lovely 2 week break. This term we will be looking at the topic of 'money' and developing the children's financial literacy.
If you'd like to be more involved with your child in this then have a look at the ideas below!

- Show your child different coins and currency that you might have with you. What do the different colours mean?
- Let your child hand money to a cashier and talk about the change you get back.
-Look at food receipts with your child and figure out how much everything cost.
-Practice using 'niceties' when shopping such as saying, please, thank you and excuse me to retail staff.

On Monday we set up Room 16 as a supermarket and labelled all of our items depending on how much value the children felt they had. We had some interesting ideas! My favourite was certainly that our classroom television cost only 6 dollars.
We dressed up as shop keepers and customers then shopped around for items in the classroom. We had to make sure we had to right amount of money, and that we were responsible and looked after it carefully!


Check out our pictures  below :)

Matariki and the end of Term 2

Have a look at the pictures of the room 16 children sharing some time with room 12 and creating beautiful Matariki stars together. Thanks for helping us room 12!

LCS Discovery - Maui and the Ika

Many of you will have seen the brilliant matau that the children came home with this weekend. You might remember that a couple of weeks ago we were investigating Maui and the ika- the story of how Maui stuck aboard his brother's waka and caught the giant ika using a matau created from jawbone. It has taken us a while because we wanted to try our best, but our matau are finally complete and you can see the picture of us all holding them below. We are very proud of ourselves!

Well done Room 16!

Reward time: Respect (Manakitanga)

At PCS we look at the 4 key PB4L features. As we settle back into school we have been focusing on the feature of being respectful. The children identified this as actions such as taking turns, listening to each other, not shouting out, and being careful around their friends.

The reward we decided upon was to have a class picnic! We knew we had to be super careful of germs, especially right now, so we had separate cups and plates. We remembered to wash our hands and our teachers and teaching aides helped give us food using gloves.

We were also lucky enough to share our jump jam time with RM15 and their teacher Mrs Andrews. Jump jam is important in getting our bodies moving. Even if we find it tricky we always try our best! Have a look at our pictures of us dancing and enjoying our well earned picnic!
Enjoy the long weekend everyone.
Love Miss Rayner

Maths Madness

Kia Ora everyone,
we have had a great first week back and have had lots of time to discover our new classroom and all of the exciting bits inside of it! This week we have been exploring our maths' drawers which have lots of activities in, designed to further both our maths' knowledge and some of our key competencies such as managing self, and communicating with others.
Have a look below at our super pictures!




Have a great weekend, and I will see you all on Monday.

Love Miss Rayner

Week 5 Day 3 update

I can't believe the amount of hard work being put in by our amazing children. It was so awesome this morning to see so many of you in the Meet. I have also loved all the updates and emails from you all since yesterday's post! I have had lots of contact from you all which has been great, so below is just some of the brilliant work RM16 has been up to. Keep it up guys!

See our superstar's work below:

Luke - Luke has been doing some awesome work at home. He tried really hard to share the fish in this week's small maths session and went on even further to consolidate his number bonds with his mum using coloured rods. Great job Luke!

Waris - Look at the different (and unusual) shapes that Waris has found around the house. Lovely to see  your drawing book featured as well Waris! Fab work!

Aquarius -  How creative have you been Aquarius! I love the rainbow colored Jellyfish you have made. Keep it up!

Te Aupouri - So awesome to see you at the meet today Te Aupouri. I am super proud of the amount of work you have been doing and I'm glad you're having an awesome time at home with your family!

Isaac - These pictures show you have been working hard Isaac and having fun whilst you've been doing it! You're doing amazing!

That's all for now Room 16. We're all going to get to see each other fairly soon which is very exciting, but for now stay safe and happy. 

Lots of love - Miss Rayner

Week 4 Day 5

Wow, the end of another amazing week of online learning. As always the superstars of Room 16 have just blown me away!

Here is work from Aquarius, Rara, and Heidi that has been sent in. I'm also super impressed with all the children who have been joining us every day or who have been communicating via email. Well done everyone, we're a great team!

I hope everyone has a good weekend and we get some lovely sunshine - I'll see you all online again next week. 
Love Miss Rayner

Aquarius - You have been so brave and worked so hard this week to join our meets and do some awesome work! Take a look at Aquarius' work below.


Rara - Rara has been making a dragon with the help of his sister. He has also been assisting with the 'creative direction' of his scarecrow which he and his dad have been working on. Excellent job guys!



Heidi - Heidi has been working super hard on her dragon all week, and mum tells me she's also been doing some awesome reading and really challenging herself! That's brilliant news! Have a look at Heidi's dragon below.

Week 4 Day 3 - Update for Wednesday's work

I hope everyone has had an awesome day! How great that the sun has come out to play and the weather is a little less cloudy than it has been :) Have a look at the wonderful work from today.

Annabelle
Annabelle has been doing lots of hard work in her online learning on the Ipad, but today she has tried really hard and had a really good go at tracing letters onto paper. Mum wrote her letters out first for Annabelle to trace over- good idea mum! Awesome job Annabelle!






Aquarius
Aquarius has been doing some amazing work today, I really love her Lion picture, and all of her 'L' things. Good job Aquarius!