Happy Holidays from Room 1

Being creative!!

This afternoon we made cards to celebrate the upcoming holidays with our family. 

We worked hard to be creative and careful with our writing and drawings.  We want to do our best work because our families mean a lot to all our children.

We made cards to share with our friends.  We even made cards for our teacher.  She was so happy.

 We were all very proud of our cards.

Swimming at New Windsor

Fun in the pool!

This week it was our turn for swimming lessons.  We are learning to be safe and responsible in the water.
We are learning lots of new skills such as kicking, blowing bubbles in the water,  and floating like a starfish.
I can see that the children are growing in confidence every day!

The children have been divided into three groups.  The instructors are very patient and work with the children in a kind and inspirational manner.

Education Outside The Classroom Week

A very busy week!!

Rooms one and two worked together on EOTC week.  We had lots of fun learning all sorts of new ideas and different ways of doing things.  We also enjoyed collaborating with our peers and making new friends along the way.  

We began our week learning about our native trees that were on the school grounds.  We focused on Pohutukawa, Kauri, Rimu, Kowhai, Te Kouka and our beautiful Silver Fern.  We sketched them, used our gentle hands to touch them.  We were able to see the native trees again in different surroundings on our bush walk at Cornwallis Beach.

Lots of questions and thinking went on this week.  Being outside gives us a different perspective of our world.

Working with our friends from Room 11

Working with our Buddies

We are lucky to have Room 11 as our buddy class!  They are role models for us.

They help us in our learning and we look up to them!

Today they came to share and inspire us to do our best work in our writing lesson.

We are trying really hard to learn how to write our letters correctly.

Together we are amazing!!