Our October Birthday Buddies

We have 5 birthdays to celebrate this month at school.  Marius, Tumanako, Vika, Jin and Temalisi got birthday certificates at Team Assembly today with Jin and Temalisi sharing a birthday today.

Jin, Temalisi, Marius and Tumanako with their birthday certificates. (Vika was absent)

Our Friend Harold

"We liked visiting Harold.  He told us how to eat good food." By Savanah

"Harold did not eat good food.  He was tired.  We made a healthy picnic for him."  By Khyani

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.

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.

Tongan Girls Fiafia Video

The Tongan Girls danced so gracefully at the Fiafia in their magnificent traditional costumes.  Vika, Gabriella, Temalisi and Charlotte were in this group.  Can you pick them out?




The Tongan
Tongan Girls from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Jump Jam

We enjoyed our Jump Jam session on Friday afternoon.  Watching the video made it easier to follow the moves.  Good following Gabriella, Vika and Jeyda.  You look as if you are enjoying yourselves even though it was hot.  Room 16

Gabriella watching the video carefully.

Using our iPads

We got to write our names on our iPads by listening carefully on how to get into Explain Everything then finding the pencil.  Later we used our iPads for maths and wrote numbers.  It is not easy writing some of our names which are rather long on a small iPad but we soon managed to find a thinner pencil and writer smaller.  Here are some of our efforts.

iPad Excitment !

Today we used our iPads for the first time.  We watched the safety video so we would know how to look after them and then we opened our iPad.  Everyone was very excited and listened carefully.

Charlotte, Khyani and Vika demonstrated the iPad hug.

Listening carefully to the instructions.

Well done Class 16 for a great start to your iPad learning.