Black water rafting

Vroom! Rustle! Vroom! Roared the engine of my nana’s car! Vroom! Rustle! Rustle!

It was still a LONG drive to the mystery adventure. “Nana PLEASE tell me where we are going!”
I groaned “No! It's a surprise!” I couldn’t stand it anymore. My stomach growled in impatientness

Soon we past Te Awamutu. “OMG! We are so far away from home!” I said to myself in my mind.
Soon we passed some signs saying “Black Water Rafting” I then thought I knew where we were going.
“I know where we are going, we are going to black water rafting!” I said. “No, I'm too old to do rafting,”
said nana “we are going to the glow worm caves!” When we got there we came past this lady with a camera. The lady made us stand by a green screen to take photos of us. After that, we were in a HUGE
lobby with lots of seats. ”1:00 PM tour!” the tour guide announced and we came with him.
In the caves it was super dark. In the cave, there was a boat. When you go on the boat there are
glow worms, it's like a glow worm galaxy. When we got home the house was a hobbit house!

By Eden

Writing about our home

We have been writing about our homes. Our homes are special places and we all have different memories when we think about our homes.

We are learning to write a personal story including our senses. Please leave us a comment or question about our writing.

My house

When I am out of my house I go to the pathway and see what my house looks like.

My house looks green on the top of the roof and it looks white at the bottom.
Then I can see a deck in the front and the back.

When I go inside my house it feels warm and cosy. When I'm inside my house I can see my living room and inside the living room are four couches and one table.

My favourite couch is the black couch because it feels so soft and warm. I put a pink blanket over me and then I have a nice rest and a great nap.

By Fine

Outside summer

When I walk in my house it is shouty. It has two toilets. I like it because there is a mirror, four bedrooms and it has a garden. The garden died, so has the fruit too. The grass feels smooth and prickly. It’s also ticklish. The garden is huge and when I go outside the sun reflects on me. I feel happy because the grass is cozy.

By Hamdi

When you step into my driveway you can see a Rainbow fence. The fence look’s very rough, ‘’scratch, scratch" goes the cat as you walk past.

By Arabella

The New Zealand Shake Out

Today we participated in the NZ shake out. At 9.30 we listened to the sound bite of an earthquake and followed what to do in an earthquake.

We kept ourselves safe by following-   Drop, cover and hold!

We waited out the earthquake and prepared for after shocks. Then we checked to see if people were injured and talked about what we would do after an earthquake. 

This week we have taken home forms to fill in with our families to make sure our homes are prepared incase an earthquake or other natural disaster occurs. 

Operetta Performance

Operetta Practice

Today we had a dress rehearsal. We all wore our costumes and went to dance on stage. 

Some people were really nervous but when we got on stage we were confident and danced happily to our hearts content. 

We wore our costumes to practice for next week, that's why we called it a dress rehearsal. 

Next week our Operetta starts. Our first show is on Tuesday. 

Ko te aha tenei ra?

We have been learning about te wiki o te reo māori.

We are asking and answering questions like these. 

Ko te aha tenei ra?               What day is it today?
Ko Rāapa tenei ra.                   Today is Wednesday.

Ko te aha te ra apopo?           What day is it tomorrow?
Ko Rāapre te ra apopo.              Tomorrow is Thursday.

We are beginning to say these phrases.

Ko te aha tenei ra?     

Ko _______ tenei ra.

Ko te aha te ra inanahi?

What was the day yesterday?

Ko ________ te ra inanahi.

Yesterday was _________.

Ko te aha te ra apopo?

What will the day be tomorrow?

Ko ________ te ra apopo.

Tomorrow will be ________.

Cross Country

 
Yesterday the whole school ran the cross country. 

At the starting line when they said go you had to run as fast as you could. Some of us fell over and we got back up again and carried on with our race.  The first six runners to finish, had a photo at the end together.

Some kids from Peachgrove Intermediate School came to cheer us on and be marshals around the course. They helped encourage us to keep running and trying our best! They were very kind and some of them ran with the Year 0's.







Our parents, aunties, uncles, grandparents, siblings and cousins all came to watch us race. 


We trained hard and are very proud of our results. We were tired after our races. Thank you for coming to support us. 

 









The first three for each race will get certificates in Positive Assembly in week 6- 31st of August. 

Sketching

Pukatea Planting

It was Hine's birthday last week and the Rennie family kindly gifted her a Pukatea tree to plant on the nature trail. We have been doing a lot of work on the nature trail and are becoming experts at caring for it. 

We researched information with Sonja's help about where the best place to plant it in the gully would be. We had a plant guide to see what could grow well around it too. We took the tree to Putikitiki and planted it near the bottom of the gully. Did you know it can grow up to 40 metres tall! We talked about how many Hine's that would be! 

Can you see it when you are on Putikitiki?

Opening Tōtara Block

We have been working in our new classes all term and they were blessed before we started back. 

Today was our special opening to show everyone what awesome spaces we have and to officially open our classes. We had many special guests and families come to see our new learning spaces. Kapa Haka welcomed them down to where we were sitting on the cobbles at middle flat. 

Pippa greeted the visitors.

Kapa Haka performed again.

We planted a special tree in the garden by the top of Putikitiki. 

We proudly showed the visitors our classrooms spaces.

Have you been in our classrooms? What did you like about them? 

Buddy reading

We have begun buddy reading with our buddy class Room 2

We start with some singing and signing. We are learning to sign a song. Watch this space for our very own video with Room 2 learners. 

After singing we read. 

They bring their reading book and read to us then we read them a book from our library. 

Do you have a buddy class? What do you do together?