Thankyou Kathy!!

Room 5 worked with Mrs Overend to create an amazing card to say thank you to Kathy. Kathy has created an amazing moa for our performance today at 2.10. Students in Room 5 all drew a moa to put in Kathys card and then they sung some songs.

2016 Aroha Cruise In Creative Artwork Competition

Room 5 have been very busy this week! We have completed our calendar art, started work on our entries for the A & P show and completed our entries for the Aroha Cruise In Creative Artwork Competition- WHEW!

The Cruise In is on the 1st of October for more details click on this link Aroha Cruise In

Little Garden Tractor colouring competition

Room 5 have all received a picture to enter the Little Garden colouring competition. We have been working on these when we have a spare moment. The prize is a cool pedal tractor.

I will send these home when completed. 

To enter the competition, please see the link below Little Garden colouring competition and please read the Terms and Conditions.

Good Luck!!

Room 5 shows off their artwork

On Friday Room 5 had a chance to show off their cool cat art work . We created this after reading Slinky Malinky Catflaps. 

First the children practised drawing the number 8. We then drew ears and tails on to our cats. To finish off the cats the students decorated them with pastels. 

The amazing Kathy helped us to design the amazing background that we stuck our cats to. If you have a close look you can see each student 'peeking' over the fence in the artwork, next to their cat.

We will have this on display in Room 5 very shortly.

Well done to the Room 5 students who sat up in front of the whole school during the first part of assembly and to those brave students who told the school how we made this amazing piece!

Missing Jersey

Hello lovely caregivers and parents, could you all please check your childs' uniform jerseys as we have a student who is missing one. The jersey is named on the tag. If you find this at home, please drop it in to Room 5. 

With the warmer days coming up it is also a good time to check that you have all of your childs uniform items named.

If you are missing any pieces of clothing or property, the lost property basket is located in the uniform room.

Letter Superstars!!

These fabulous four are our letter superstars for the week! Victoria,Tennessa,Marcus and Dane all now know 26 lowercase and 26 uppercase letters!! 

To celebrate they all received a special teacher's award and were allowed to choose a prize from the prize box. 

Special mention also goes to Lucas who learnt 9 new letters in just over a week! 

Learning to listen and think

A couple of weeks ago I (Miss Williams) went on a course to learn more about oral language. One of the things that I learnt , was how much children learn from listening to stories. They not only learn about the art of story telling, the impact of different tones and voices etc, but also to listen. 

When Room 5 come in from lunch we lie down to listen to a story . I introduce a story, without showing the pictures, because I want to see what they come up with while they are listening, it also creates great conversations. When the story is finished we talk about what we saw in our head, characters we heard about, how the characters were feeling and what we thought they might look like - are they big,small, angry etc. The conversations after the story are just as important as listening to it as it gets students to recall what they heard and make suggestions based on the information given, and use the language in the story to create a character in their head.

The other day Mr Spicer came to visit Room 5 and took this photo of us all. Thanks Mr Spicer!

Kapa Haka Showcase

This Thursday Stanley Ave will be hosting the annual Te Aroha Kapa Haka Showcase. A range of Kapa Haka groups from around Te Aroha will be coming together to perform , including our Kapa Haka group. The event is being held in the rec centre from 1.00 - 2.30. 

The junior syndicate was lucky enough to go and watch our group practise their routine today. Here are a couple of photos of their practise.

Room 5 visit the Life Education van

This week Room 5 was lucky enough to have 2 visits to the Life Education van. We got to discuss and learn about how we are all unique and what makes us special. We were also lucky enough to meet Harold! Though we did have to wake him up from his sleep . He also told us a funny joke, maybe you could ask the Room 5 students if they remember it and get them to share it with you.

Have a great weekend!