Touching The Clouds

Last week we had a foggy start to the day which provided us with a great motivation for our writing.

"I saw funny clouds.  They looked beautiful.  I liked them because they looked soft and fluffy and white.  They were so close I could touch them.  They were wet and cold."  By Charlotte

"The sun touched the clouds and made it all foggy." By Tevita

"The fog was all around.  It covered the slide and made it wet." By Hinemoa

Jin thought the fog "was like when you are cooking and there is a lot of steam."

Tumanako said he felt "the low cloud made things disappear.  When you are running around you feel as if you are touching the sky."

Fiafia 2016 Tongan Boys Group

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The Tongan boys group looked like fearsome warriors when they did their item on Fiafia night.  Maruis, Tumanako, Vaha, Tevita and Saimone were part of this group.

Fiafia 2016 Cook Island Group

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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.

Boom Chicka Rock Fun

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We enjoyed reading about the mice adventures in John Archambault's book "Boom Chicka Rock" with Max the cat.  It had lots of rhymes as well as lots of mice dancing and doing the boogie.  We laughed when Flaminio our gymnastics coach taught us the song and got us to sing and repeat after him in funny voices.

Flex, Balance, Jump

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Room 16 enjoyed learning the 7 fundamental movements in gymnastics in Term 1.  Coach Flaminio demonstrated and helped the children practice these movements.

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.

Duck, Duck, Goose

Our favourite game is Duck, Duck, Goose.  We invited Room 17 to join us for a game on the last afternoon of term.  We made a big circle because there were so many of us which meant we had fun running a long way to get "home".  Thank you Room 17 for joining us for some fun on the last day of term.

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