Home Grown Pizza

We have been growing little gardens in Room 17. Everyone planted their own little pot of goodness.

We decided to put our herbs and veges onto pizza. Jessica has taken these photos of our pizza making.

Thanks to Simon for helping us. They look good enough to eat.

They are good enough to eat!! Yum.

The Gorgeous Kids of 2016

The wonderful kids of Room 17...  Look what Mrs Ward has turned them into!

Parents: we are making photos for everyone to remember an incredible year. You may prefer one of choices below. Email to let Mrs Ward know which you prefer.

Choice A                                                                                       Choice B

To see the faces more clearly click on the pictures to make them a bit bigger.

Making Decorations

Bethany reports on our Christmas tree decorations.

Christmas Concert

Here is Team Waka and the Christmas Concert performance.

Swimming Success

This is the last day of swimming lessons. What progress we have made!

We are Team 17! Yeah!

Ella and Anaru Report

Ella reports on our Rhyming Grug families. We had to cut out a family, colour them in and make up rhyming names for each one.

Anaru shows us how Room 17 made Chinese Dragons during 'Dr' week.

Harold and Healthy Food

We went to see Harold. He has an amazing place! Lights, videos, games and lots to learn.
Watch us visiting with Harold and learning about healthy eating.

Rooms 17 and 13 swimming

Here is the video of the first week of swimming with Room 13. The second week video will be coming soon. We have swim many lengths and are becoming terrific swimmers

Week 5 News

This week Lucas and Megan report for us. We make planes (and fly them) and take a trip to see the orchestra in action. Thanks Mrs Muschamp for inviting us and letting us join in.

Week 4 News Reports

This week is 'sp' week. We made space shuttles and spider's webs.


Space Shuttles: reported by James

Spider webs: reported by Chloe

Room 17 News Report

Oliver is reporting on our sorting out 'b's and 'd's reading activity.

Shared Writing

Room 12 came to visit. Everybody had a number - we had to find the person from Room 12 with the same number. That person was our writing buddy for the day.
We wrote stories together about a little frog who never gave up. It was great fun.

Our Little Gardens

Everyone has planted a little garden. We will watch them grow.

Thank you to Mrs Reese-Jones for collecting lots of the plants for us.

When the Circus Comes to Town

This week our shared book was called 'When the Circus Comes to Town'. We made Big Top tents with a circus ring inside. We drew an audience and added some circus acts.
We also designed fun faces for our clown masks. We used our new crayons and paint pens to decorate the masks, bow ties and hats.

Co-operative Construction

Our 'new' Mason and a construction crew worked together to make this duplo masterpiece. Mason took a photo before we had to pack it up again. Great teamwork!

Where the Wild Things Are

One weekend, in Room, 17 a jungle grew......

Video Stars

This week we been trialling an app that turns us into video stars. We want to record our class song but first we just tried out the different effects. We liked the rainbow effect best. Take a look....

Keep an eye out - we will record our class song for you soon.

Did you see Ethan and Mason our two new Room 17 kids? They look like this....

Baby Salmon

We went to visit Mr Ogston in Room 18. He showed us his baby salmon and told us all about them. He said the salmon can spend about five years out at sea and then find their way back to where they were born all by themselves. We don't think we could find our way back to where we were born!

Room 17 On Stage

We did it! We finished our musical and performed it for our whanau.
We are really proud of ourselves! What a way to finish our busy term.

Fractions

We have been learning about fractions in Maths. We made 'cakes and pizzas' out of kinetic sand and had turns at cutting them in half - making sure the halves were fair - that they are equal shares!
We found out that half means 2 equal pieces or groups.

Developmental

Each Friday we have our Developmental Programme 9-10 am. Each classroom/teacher has a theme for the day e.g. Creative, Maths and Science, Sensory, Construction, Sports etc. The children are able to work in any area. It is a great opportunity for self directed learning and working with children from other classes. At our last school assemble we played this movie showing all the things we do and learn.

Calendar Art

Are you looking for our masterpieces? Scroll down to find them.

Xylophones and Xrays

Not many things start with X but we managed to keep busy during X week.
We made colourful paper xylophones and played real xylophones (actually they were glockenspiels because they had metal keys not wood)...

..and we learned about how xrays work and matched xrays with photos. Bethany was very good at sorting these xrays!

Calendar Art

We have been busy making a work of art for the PTA calendar fundraiser. Take a look at our wonderful masterpieces.

Calendar Art from Annette on Vimeo.

S is for Stethoscope

Dr Chris came in and showed us his stethoscope. We listened to his heart beat and to the pretend heartbeat of Evan's rabbit.

Learning with Miss Gil

We have been very lucky - we had Miss Gil working in Room 17 this term. Week 3 was her last week with us. Look at what we learned....


Ka Kite Miss Gil. We will miss you!

V is for Very busy!

 This week was 'V' week. We learned about the differences between fruit and vegetables. We found out that fruit have seeds -  that makes tomato a fruit!
We made vegetable soup, a volcano and folded amazing flowers for a vase.
We read a story about a boy called Oliver that didn't like veges. He only wanted to eat chips until he picked vegetables from his Grandfather's garden and found out how good they are.
Watch us read our stories about Oliver.

  
Starring: James, Oliver, Megan, Evan, Ruby, Bethany and Sarah.

Starring:Te Aroha, Lucas, Ella, Jessica, Chloe, Wiremu, Emilia, Deaming, Mason, Anaru and Ashton

Our classroom was filled with the delicious smell of soup. You can almost smell it from here.....

A very big thank you to Bethany's mum who not only made us buns but rescued us when the hot plate we had arranged for cooking on didn't get delivered. She raced home and brought in bench top elements to cook with. On top of that she stayed to help us make the soup! Ka Pai.
(We also tried using a slow cooker - true to its name it was too slow - but that did mean we had soup on Friday as well for those who wanted it.)

V is for Volcano
We made volcanoes with vinegar and baking soda. We tested white vinegar and brown vinegar. See which one was best.


We coloured beautiful vases and then made pretty paper flowers to put in them.

...and... we even found time to paint some scenery for our musical. We are working on learning all our words, songs and dances.

Term 3 Teamwork

We are practising our teamwork skills. With our Inquiry topic about the Olympics starting after Firewize we thought we should get in some teamwork practice!
Here we are working together sorting, measuring and making!

Imagination and teamwork were needed to make this design. Well done Megan and Bethany.

P is for Puppy

Evan brought his puppy to school for P week. We learned that pets need food, somewhere comfortable to sleep, toys and lots of love; just like people.
Stella, the puppy, found Ashton who has just started in Room 17. Can you find Ashton in the slideshow?

Did you find Ashton? Here is a clue....

Sir Peter Blake

We learned about a very famous New Zealander and wrote stories about him. First we drew a picture plan to organise our thoughts and then wrote our stories. Here are some of our picture plans and stories about Peter Blake.

Chloe's picture plan

Peter Blake was racing the yachts and he won the trophy. Sara

Peter Blake saved the sea and he got the trophy for the whole of New Zealand. James

Peter Blake is winning the race. He is having a race and he is picking up the rubbish. Chloe

Peter Blake was a good racer on a ship and people liked him. Peter Blake was a good racer, good leader. Mason

Oliver's picture plan

Peter Blake is a hero. Peter Blake got shot and he is wearing his red socks. He is brave and he died. Evan

Peter Blake was a hero. He won the New Zealand race. He won the red socks. He was going to pick the rubbish up. He is winning the yacht races. Sadly Pirates shot him. The pirates’ ship was brown and black and white. The pirates were sailing Peter Blake‘s boat. Oliver

Sir Peter Blake was sailing on a big yacht. He won the New Zealand trophy and the New Zealand red socks. He has to race seven times and he was so brave. Deaming

Peter Blake is winning the race and picking up the rubbish. Te Aroha

Sir Peter Blake has won the race. He is picking up rubbish. Ruby

Ella's picture plan

Peter Blake was driving a yacht around the world. Then he saw a pirate. He had to run away. Bethany

Peter won the race. Lucas

Sir Peter Blake won the race. He was killed by pirates. Ashton

Sir Peter Blake is sailing his last yacht race. Wiremu

Peter Blake is sailing the yacht to New Zealand. Ella

Emilia's picture plan

The pirates killed Peter Blake. Emilia

Peter Blake saved the sea. “No more rubbish,” said Peter Blake. Then the people listened. Jessica

Peter Blake is a hero. He goes on a yacht and he was going faster and faster. A pirate went on Peter Blake’s yacht. Peter Blake died. Megan

Peter Blake is sailing around the world. Anaru

Some of these stories were read out a special assembly for Year 8 student, Avalon Te Haara-Barr, who won a Sir Peter Blake leadership award. We were very proud of Avalon and our famous Room 17 writers!

Cultural Journey Day

On Thursday we tried some food from different countries. Thanks to Wiremu and Anaru, Mason, Jessica and Sara, we ate Tongan caramel dumplings, an Aussie food platter, Chinese savoury dumplings and Scottish shortbread.
Parents - you can be very proud of the children who gave all the food a try. Many came back for seconds and thirds!

Cultural Journey Day from Annette on Vimeo.

Also, many thanks to Rebeckah and Alrina who helped serve up and did our dishes!

Goodbye Hamid and Adib

I like Hamid and Adib. From Chloe

I will miss you both. From Evan

Bye, bye Adib and Hamid. From Deamimg

I like playing reading games with you. From Mason

I don't want you to leave. From Ruby

I like playing with you on the logs. From James

I like you when you try to tag me and laugh and run. From Bethany

You are getting good at writing. From Wiremu

I hope you have a good time at your new school. From Megan

Making Noodle Necklaces

This week we threaded colourful noodles onto wool to make noodle necklaces. It took a lot of concentration to thread some of the trickier noodle types. The hard work was worth it - the necklaces looked great.

Comparing Heights

We have begun our maths topic of Measurement. We estimated which children in our class were taller and then checked by comparing heights.
Next Wiremu and Oliver had to order everyone in one long line from shortest to tallest. It was very hard to do when we didn't stay standing tall and straight! At last they had us all sorted according to size.

Wiremu and Oliver

Here is Rua

Rua has joined our class. He had a very busy first day. Look at some of the things he did.

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Whale Prints

This term our art topic is print making. We learned who to draw whales, pasted them onto foam and cut them out to make whale prints.
We wrote stories about rescuing the tohora (whale) that was stranded on Waimairi Beach. Come in and read some of the stories on the wall display.

Making Ws

We found out we could make 'w' letters with 4 children!

... and with 4 fingers....

Meet Miria

Here is our newest class member....

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Special Visitors

Today we had some police officers and 2 police dogs visit.
We learned how to call 111 for help. We learned that we should know our address - please help us learn where we live.
We went in the dog handler's truck, put on armed defenders gear and patted Wookie. Then we watched Jagger chase a pretend 'baddie'.

Welcome to Raj

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Walking in the Jungle

This week our shared book was called 'Walking in the Jungle'. We made one of the characters from the story.
We are learning to be independent workers while the reading groups take turns to read their books with Mrs Ward.
Watch us make our jungle crocodiles all by ourselves... then take a walk in the jungle with us!


Thank you to Sara who took the last photo for us.

This is James and his first day

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Friday Lunch

Mr Walker had us all dancing on the back field - he had an outside disco after we ate lunch. What fun!

All About 'i'

This week we made an iceberg and floated it. There was more ice under the water than above - just like a real iceberg in Antartica.
We also made iceblocks and ate them. Thanks, Mrs Lock for taking the photos of us tasting them.

First day boys

Two new people started in Week 2 Term 2. Welcome to Louis and Lucas.

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Developmental

What a way to start Friday....
Sport, water play and a room full of sensory experiences made for a fun developmental session.
A lovely end to a very busy week 1 of Term 2.

Welcome Oliver

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Term 2 Begins

The start of Term 2 and the start of school for three fabulous 5 year olds! Meet Emilia, Isiah and Ruby.

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ANZAC Poppy Fields

We listened to a story about a puppy who went to war with some ANZAC soldiers.
We wrote stories and created posters of the poppy fields our soldiers saw when they were so far from home.

Our stories based on the book called "The ANZAC Puppy".

Bethany

Ella

Evan

Cross Country

We have been practicing for ages. Finally the big day arrived. Look at us run.

Kite Technology

We thought about what a kite needs to fly. We decided that they need:-

1. sticks for a frame
2. a flat area
3. string
4. a tail

Our buddies came to help us design and make our kites. Look at them fly.

K is for Kittens

Sara brought her kittens for us to write about. We all got a pat before the kittens wandered around and watched us writing our stories.

Crazy Hat Making

We are making crazy hats...

Drawing a Helicopter

On Tuesday we had 6 new children come to visit. We drew helicopters and wrote about how helicopters can help us.

Ella

Sara

Anaru

Deaming