Two Lunchbox Heroes

This week we had two lunchbox heroes drawn out of the box.  Joelle and Elevina had their names put in the box because they bring healthy lunches and they were the lucky winners.  Joelle chose a bunch of bananas and Elevina chose a box of Weetbix.

Brain Gym

We have been doing brain gym and other exercises in the morning to wake up our body and brain ready for learning.  The children enjoy the different movements and join in each morning to help with their learning.

Rataimore doing an exercise that is rather tricky

Pleased to be Back!

The children were all very pleased to be back at school after two weeks of holidays.

A Lucky Day For Elevina

It was a lucky day for Elevina when she received a Duffy Award and she also had her name drawn out of the Lunchbox heroes box.

Team One Certificates For Week 1 Term 3

Chad and Olivia were awarded the team one certificates for Room 16 this week.  They have both been putting lots of effort into their reading.  Keep up the good work, Chad and Olivia.

Saying Thank You

We have been very fortunate to have Ms Allen helping in Room 16 during Term 2 so we made her a card to say thank you.  We will miss you Ms Allen and it has been so nice to have you in our class.

Rippa Rugby!

On Friday night, Rippa Rugby is starting.  Ms Va'afusuaga came to try on our rippa uniforms and the children who are playing were very excited.   They are really looking forward to being able to play rippa rugby.

Bavin trying on his uniform

Is this what we wear?

Making A Pretend Volcano

A volcano science experiment was something the children enjoyed doing after learning how volcanoes are formed.  They knew that a volcano is usually a conical shape when the molten rock or magma, ash and gases from under the earth's surface escapes from an opening so when we made some pretend volcanoes out of sand, they were able to make a conical shape.  The next step was to put some baking soda and vinegar into the "crater" to make the lava and watch the results.

A Few Highlights from Terms 1 and 2

It was a strange term one and two this year - the beginning of term one and the end of term 2.  We were busy in the second term enjoying being back together after not seeing each other for so long.  Here are a few highlights of some of the things we have done in the first half of 2020.

Team One Certificates

Tone and Taylor both got Team One Certificates this week.  Taylor has been trying hard with his learning and Tone has been helping to keep the classroom clean and tidy even when it is not his mess.  Thank you for your great team attitude Tone, that we all need to help each other.

Tone with his Team One Certificate

Chad's Duffy Certificate

We had a visitor at assembly last Friday and Chad got to shake his hand when he went up to get his Duffy Certificate.  The visitor was Joseph Parker!  He spoke to the children, played the guitar and then presented the Duffy Certificates.  You never know who will turn up at assembly!

Peyton is a Lunch Box Hero

Peyton was lucky to be able to choose something from the lunch box hero cupboard because she brings a healthy lunch each day.

More Maths Measuring

When we wanted to find out who was the tallest person in our class we just compared our heights.  So when we wanted to find out who had the longest name in our class so we wrote our names on a piece of paper then tried to compare them but we found a problem.  Some people wrote in lovely big letters and some had small writing.  This made a long name look small and a small name look big.  What could we do to make a comparison seem equal?  Then someone remembered that to measure two things, the units of measurement need to be the same - if we all wrote in the same size squares then we could count the squares.  It didn't matter if the writing was big or small!  Rataimore had the longest name as she needed 9 squares to write her name.

Bavin pointing out some names looked big and some looked small

Elena counting squares to see who had the longest name

Thank You Genesis!

At Assembly last Friday Cruze and Elena got a surprise gift. Mr Burt was handing out caps and t shirts from Genesis and Cruze was lucky enough to get a cap and Elena got a lovely orange t shirt.  Thank you Genesis for your generous gifts.

Duffy Certificate Awards

On the last day of term Room 16 had 2 Duffy certificate winners.  Both were for reading and Mrs Wilson awarded a certificate to Meria for her enthusiastic sharing of what she had learnt in reading.  Room 16's award went to Chad for the great improvement in his reading.  Mr Burt also gave out some certificates from early in term 1 and Olivia got a certificate for swimming.