Peyton's Amazing Reading

 Peyton went to read with Mrs Wilson and did some amazing reading.  She thought about the story and was able to answer the questions about the story.  Great work Peyton!

Thursday Certificates

 Even though we can't get together to have Team One Assembly we have been having our own assembly each day.  Since the children have been working so hard in class, it was only fitting that we continue the Thursday certificate routine.  It was very hard to choose but Peyton has been doing some outstanding thinking in Maths and Joelle has been learning her high frequency words so she can write words in her stories and also recognise them in our flashcard games.  Well done girls!

Joelle with her spelling award

Peyton with her good thinking award

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.

Team Certificates for Term 2 Week 11

Peyton and Rataimore were our team certificate winners this week.  Peyton has been getting on with work and making sure she gets things finished while Rataimore has been trying hard to write down the letter sounds that she hears.  Keep up the good work both of you.

Rataimore and Peyton with their certificates at Team Assembly today.

Samoan Language Week

This week has been Samoan Language Week.  We have not been able to do the activities in the lunch hour that we normally do to celebrate Samoan Language Week but we have had items on PENN and on Friday at our live streamed assembly we did have the samoan group dancing.  In our class we made some cutout paper flowers using a traditional pattern as well as some printed flowers.

Our cut out patterns

Peyton with her cut out pattern

Printed flower pattern

Peyton's Tooth is Missing

Peyton came to school with a big smile - but something was missing.  There was a gap were a tooth should have been!  Peyton said her tooth had come out the night before and the Tooth Fairy had visited and left her some money

Peyton with a gap!

Bubbles

On our return to school we talked about our home bubbles that we had been in with our families.  We drew our families inside a bubble and made colourful edges.  When we were outside blowing bubbles we noticed the rainbow colours on the edges of the bubbles.  We also saw how the bubbles popped when they touched each other so we are now in our school bubbles staying spaced out and not touching each other.

Having fun blowing bubbles

Rataimore with her family bubble picture

Cruze showing the four people in his bubble.

Elevina and her rainbow bubble

Peyton colouring in the outside of her family bubble

Rataimore gently blowing bubbles

Painting Fun

Before the lockdown we were busy trying to get our portraits finished.  Peyton and Tone were busy painting their portraits and colourful backgrounds with their families in the thought bubble.

Making Patterns

 The children had fun this week in Maths looking at patterns and finding different ways to make them.

Chad using rubberbands to make a pattern

Samson copied a pattern to make a great rubberband pattern

Peyton found a different way to make a pattern

Peyton's Story Writing

Peyton proudly showing her story and picture about a visit to the sky tower. 

"I can do it!"

Through the Kiwisport "Get, Set, Go " programme the children have been learning how to balance.  Some of the children have been finding this a difficult skill so we used our Engage skills of relaxing first and listening carefully to the instructions of looking straight ahead, not talking, aeroplane arms and gradually getting our balance on one leg then lifting it off the ground.  Suddenly there was a very excited voice saying, "I can do it!" as Attah listen carefully to the instructions.  Well done, Attah.

Attah (third from left) was excited to find he could balance

Peyton found it easy to balance

Learning How to Use Our iPads

We have had fun learning how to use some of the tools on our iPads by listening hard and following the instructions.  We learnt how to look after our iPads, take photos in Explain Everything, put them into a new document and then close the document when we have finished.  At first the children found it hard to take a good photo but with practise and patience they are now great at making sure what they are taking a photo of is in the middle of the screen.

Peyton lines up her red item to photograph.

Olivia practising her skills.

Eli with his photo up on the Apple TV

Peyton took a lovely centred picture of her classmate after asking his permission.

Elevina manages to put 3 pictures on her page

Attah followed the instructions too.

Having Milk And Fruit

This morning we had milk delivered to our class and the children enjoyed sitting outside drinking a carton of nice cold milk with a straw.  We also had some yummy plums to eat.

Olivia finishing off her milk while Carnita folds her finished carton flat

Bavin is enjoying a yummy plum

Peyton likes the cold milk on a hot day

Chad, Samson, Taylor, Pauliasi, Tone and Cruze enjoying their milk

Tone said, "I like this milk!"

Attah said, "This milk is cool."

New Buddies for Room 16.

We have had 7 new buddies join our class.  They received their book bags at assembly on Friday and proudly displayed.

From left to right - Cruze, Bavin, Joelle, Peyton, Taylor, Attah and Eli