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.

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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 :)

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 2 Day 3 update

Hi everyone! I hope you've all managed to do some fab designs for your pack lunch boxes! I'll be designing mine soon as well to show you in the google hangout tomorrow. :) 

Have a look at this awesome work that Waris has sent in! Also scroll to the bottom to see what Miss Nickie made for our challenge yesterday of using different items to make or draw a sandwich. Wow Miss Nickie!

Stay safe, 
Love Miss Rayner

Week 2 Day 2

Sorry for the late post everyone! Miss Rayner's internet and laptop are being a bit naughty and they keep stopping her internet and moving all the pictures to funny sizes. What sneaky things they are! Fingers crossed that everything works today. See if you spot which picture has gone the biggest!

It's been such a great day for learning, with so many of you joining in with the meet this morning and so many pictures being sent in!
I love how Rara took on today's challenge by making his own sandwich out of crunchy and munchy ingredients like carrots, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, chicken and capsicums.
It was great to hear also how much Waris loved singing along to the routine songs and that Madden is making such an effort with this learning!

Have a look at the awesome images below, and stay tuned for a video of Rara practicing a Hakka! (just as soon as Miss Rayner figures out how to post it!).

Have a lovely day everyone :)

Love from Miss Rayner

Week 2 Day 1 of Online Distance Learning

Hello hello everyone!

I hope you all had a gorgeous weekend and did lot's of super things!  This weekend I spent lots of time outdoors enjoying the beautiful sunny spells we've been having and walking around my local area.
We've seen some super work coming in today from Waris and Luke. I know Mrs Bond also had a really good time this morning talking to so many of you on the meet.

Have a look at the pictures sent in today.

From Mrs Bond and Miss Rayner