Last Duffy Certificates for 2018

Maria and Mariposa were Room 16s last Duffy Certificate winner for 2018.  Well done Maria and Mariposa for your hard work this year

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Christmas Stories

Picture and story by Anne Marie

Picture and story by Maria

Picture and story by Fateh

Picture and story by Chevelle

Picture and story by Nate

Team One Certificates

Feiloaki and Samson have been working hard to get work completed and filed so they were this weeks Team One Certificate winners.  Maggie has been listening to instructions to be able to try new techniques in Art and Maria has been working at learning her numbers and helping her group solve maths problems.  They received their certificates from last week.

Feiloaki, Samson, Maggie, Maria.

A Fonterra Treat!

A big thank you to Fonterra for the treats they gave the whole school yesterday.  Here are some of the children's story which show how much they appreciated their treat.

"I was waiting for the ice block and I liked the kiwi fruit and strawberry bit too.  I collected the rubbish in the rubbish bin."  Story and picture by Samson

"The ice block we had yesterday was yummy.  I liked the strawberry part and the kiwi part.  It was nice.  Thank you Fonterra."  Told to the teacher by Siulua

"We all got an ice block from Fonterra.  It was yummy strawberry and kiwi fruit.  We are lucky because Fonterra also give us milk.  We like the milk too."  Told to the teacher by Tupou

"Yesterday we got a kiwi and strawberry ice block from Fonterra.  It was really yummy and delicious.  We are lucky.'' Told to the teacher by Mariposa

Samson and Anne Marie.

Alexandra.

Anne Marie, Pene and Siulua.

Room 16 and 17 enjoy their ice blocks under the tree.

Maggie says, "Its yum!"

Tupou and Feiloaki say "Thanks Fonterra!"

Maria thinks strawberry and kiwi fruit ice blocks are yummy.

Room 16's Lunch Box Hero

Maria has been bringing a healthy lunch to school and so her name went into the draw to be a lunch box hero.  She was lucky to be one of the 10 children to have her name drawn out and she chose the box of strawberries.  Enjoy the lovely fruit Maria.

More Young Ocean Explorers Stories

"Steve talked about the ocean and he saw a turtle.  He saw a shark and he took a picture."  By Maria

"I saw a shark."  By Pene

Clay Club

The Clay Club were lucky to have a special tutor Jasmine, come to the help the children with their projects.  Maria and Samson were able to join in and experience making objects out of clay.

Maria with the tray of objects and Samson beside her.

Some of the works of art.

More works of art.

Mr Vogt and Jasmine with the Clay club members.

Maria's Duffy Award

Maria knows how to be a good group member in Maths.  She has been helping her group by sharing ideas on how to solve a problem and using her number knowledge to help others with their counting.  She is beginning to feel confident enough to ask questions in her group.  Well done Maria.

A very happy Maria with her Duffy book award.

Niue Language Week 2018

As it was Niue Language Week last week we had children teaching us how to say greetings, the days of the week and how to count on PENN.  The children immediately saw a similarity with te Reo.  On Friday the Niue Cultural group performed for us at Assembly and Maria was a member of the group.

The Niue Cultural group preforming at Assembly

Maria performed with the Niue group.

Maria's Duffy Award

Maria has been trying hard to complete all her activities and has had a good positive attitude towards her work so she was awarded a Duffy Certificate.  Maria chose a Toy Story book which she shared with the class.  Thank you Maria, we all enjoyed the story.

Team Assembly Certificates: Week 3

Maria and Kura were awarded the Team One Assembly certificates last week.  Maria has been getting herself ready for school and arriving on time while Kura has been using her counting knowledge to help her maths group solve problems.  Keep up the good work Maria and Kura.

Our New Duffy Books

The children were very lucky to receive a new Duffy Book each just in time for the holidays.  They enjoyed sharing them with each other and look forward to sharing them with their whanau.

Nate, Joshua, Alexandra and Maria enjoying their new Duffy books

Alexandra, Maria, Chevelle and Alazye busy reading

Samson, Nate, Feiloaki and Logan engrossed in their books

Planning and Constructing A Marble Run

On the last day of term the children had fun using what they had learnt during Term 2 Inquiry to build a marble run.  They were soon busy planning and building, cutting and taping up boxes and bits and pieces.  The fun part was testing out the marble runs and looking at what other groups had made and getting the other groups to explain how they had made their marble run.  It was a fun end to our simple machines inquiry.

Many hands make light work - Chevelle, Anne Marie and Alazye 

Samson busy cutting up cardboard.

Maria making some tubes

Samson's finished marble run.

Anne Marie, Logan and Maggie with their marble run

 Anne

Siulua with her marble run

Testing the marble run

Weaving a Fish.

Room 16 was host to the Mt Hobson visitors as it was too wet to go outside so we made a woven pattern on a fish with our visitors help. 

Samson with his fish

Logan and Maria learning how to weave with paper strips.

Gardening with Mr Vogt

At Makerspace we are learning about respect for our environment.  The garden in front of our class is looking very dry and sad so Mr Vogt suggested we dig the soil over, replenish it with some potting mix and add some "worm food" to see if we can grow some plants.  The children were very enthusiastic diggers and manage to make a good patch to plant some strawberry plants in and make it look more like a garden again.

Happy diggers

Chevelle and Logan

Maria hard at work

Duffy Certificate Winner for Week Three Term 1

Maria has been able to complete her reading activities on her iPad by listening carefully and following instructions.  Well done Maria and thank you for sharing your book with Room 16.  We enjoyed reading about how friends can get along with each other by helping one another.

Going To Makerspace

Room 16 went to Makerspace for the first time this year and made fans.  They were able to decorate them by writing and drawing on them with felt pens. They were both decorative as well as being very useful to try and keep cool in the warm, muggy weather Auckland is experiencing at the moment.

Joshua and Pene.

Tupou, Mariposa and Chevelle making designs on their fans.

Maria concentrating on her design.

Maggie and Nate trying to keep cool.