Disco Dancing

Today we had our end of year disco for team one.  We celebrated a year full of learning and activity with an iceblock and a disco.

Khyani, Adrianna, Charlotte and Abbey enjoying an ice block.

Ahasi, Marius and Tevita.

Disco Dancing

Charlotte, Abbey, Vika, Hinemoa and Khyani dancing.

A green alien ! No just Tevita having fun.

Moving Dirt

By Adrianna

Fireworks Night

By Adrianna

A Holiday Visit to the Museum

Adrianna went for a visit to the Auckland Museum over the holidays.  Here is her story and picture.

Last Day Assembly

Room 16 made themselves Olympic themed hats to wear to assembly on the last day of term.

Tevita, Adrianna and Jeyda in their hats.

That Flying Feeling.

Adrianna, Jeyda and Khyani felt as if they were flying in their lovely Loud Shirt Day tops.  You do look like elegant dancers.

Adrianna, Jeyda and Khyani.

Loud Shirt Day

In support of the hearing impaired people we had a loud shirt mufti day.  Room 16 supporters had some beautiful "loud" clothes on right down to matching "loud" shoes.

Adrianna, Jeyda, Khyani, Temalisi, Savanah in the front with Jin standing and Tevita kneeling at the back.

Adrianna is her beautifully matched "loud" outfit.

End of Term Treats

We had a special treat for morning tea on the last day of term.   It was fun to celebrate the end of term by munching cookies along with our fruit.

Savanah, Vaha, Te Ao, Jeyda munching cookies.

Jeyda, Temalisi, Adrianna, Marius, Jin.

Our Last Netball Games

We played our last two games for the season last night and won both games.  The girls played so well that it was too hard to pick just one player of the day for the last game.  For the first game Adrianna was great at shooting goals so she was given the player of the day certificate.

Go Lisa!

Room 16 has been watching some of our Olympians preform on the water.  Here is what Adrianna wrote about the New Zealand kayaker Lisa Carrington's gold medal race.

Supporting our Athletes in Rio

To celebrate the Olympics we had a Mufti Day dressing up as competitors and supporters.  We looked like we are ready to help our althletes be champions.  Khyani dressed up as supporter complete with her t shirt, cap and flag.  You looked like a very enthusiastic supporter Khyani.

Room 16 Olympic supporters.

Khyani gets help from Adrianna to fly the supporters flag

Writing to Harold

Harold and Lynn are going to another school to teach more children how to be fit and healthy.  We enjoyed going to Harold's special classroom to learn about what we should do to keep ourselves healthy.  We decided to write and thank them.  This is what Jin and Adrianna wrote:

 

Cake Bake Sale

The junior netball teams had a cake bake sale recently to raise funds for netball.  Room 16 went to the bake sale and everyone had a cupcake for our morning tea.  They were delicious.

Jeyda and Adrianna were able to purchase some yummy goodies for morning tea.

Jeyda and Adrianna were able to purchase some of the goodies for their morning tea.

Player of the Day Week 3

Adrianna was selected as the netball player of the day for the Roses in week 3.  She intercepted passes, defended the goal and was ready to receive passes helping her team to a win.  She had been listening to the coach at practices.  Well done Adrianna.  Adrianna gets to keep the trophy for the week and received a medal to keep as well as a certificate.

Adrianna with her player of the day certificate, trophy and medal.

Roses First Game

Jeyda and Adrianna had their first game of netball.  It was exciting getting a uniform and taking the court with friends from year 1.  All the girls played well and helped each other get the ball passed down the court to put the ball through the hoop.  At assembly on Friday Jeyda was very excited to find she was player of the day for week one.

Adrianna in action on the court.

Team talk by the coach

A very happy Jeyda with her Player of the Day Certificate.

Starting Netball

Three girls from Room 16 - Vika, Jeyda and Adrianna, are in the Year One Roses netball team.  They had their first training session today with Coach Winnie.  With the help of two older girls the team practised ball skills and how to move the ball around the court.  Good lucky for Thursday when the team play their first game up at the Auckland Netball Courts.

Fiafia 2016 Cook Island Group

Cook Island Group from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.
Adrianna and Te Ao were in the Junior Cook Island Group for the Fiafia.  The Cook Island dancers have graceful hand movements and the drummers were amazing.

New Books for a Holiday Read

Raven from Mai FM came to school for a Duffy Assembly.  She told us how important it is to read and how her love of reading helped her study and get a job in radio.  We sang the Duffy song to her then each class got  a box of books.  We were very excited to choose two books to take home and share with our families over the holidays.  We are very lucky to get these books from the Duffy Foundation.

Duffy Assembly.

Adrianna and Tevita sharing a book.

Hinemoa, Charlotte and Vika looking at their new books.

Two more days to the Fiafia!

"Yay, only two more days to the Fiafia!" said all the children in Room 16 when we counted down the days until 7 April.  The whole school is involved in the cultural festival and have spent the last 4 weeks practising their singing and dancing or musical items.  Even the 5 year olds are in cultural items.  They are so looking forward to being up on the stage and showing everyone what they have been learning.

"I am excited to dance in front of my family.  I want to do my very best," said Jeyda.

"My whole family is coming to see me in my special costume," said Adrianna.

 The  Kapa Haka group practising for the Fiafia.

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Ryan swinging into practise for the Rock Band.

Flag Preferences

While the adult population of New Zealand is voting for their preferred choice of flag, our 5 year olds have also had discussions on this topic.  Here are some of their stories they wrote.

"I like the new flag because it is kikorangi (blue) and mangu (black)." By Marius

"I like the old one because of the colours."  By Adrianna

"I like the new one.  It looks clean."  By Savanah

Jarra's choice of the old flag.

"I like the old flag because I like the red stars and the Union Jack."  By Tumanako

Colouring the flags of our choice.

"I like the new flag because the All Blacks wear the silver Fern."  By Tevita

"I like the old flag.  It is pretty."  By Jeyda