Baking Christmas Goodies

Today we made LOTS of Xmas Goodies with our buddy class - Ruma Korimako.


We had different stations that we moved around making sugar and spice cookies, chocolate and raisin balls and lolly balls. We also had an art and craft station where we made cards and decorations for the tree.

We had so much fun and had so many xmas goodies to share with teachers and Mums and Dads!

We also found out that Miss Collins loves glitter - thanks for a fun day Ruma Korimako and to the Mums who helped us.

Athletics Day in the Juniors

On Friday on a day not too hot, nor too cold the Juniors held their Athletics Day.

We started with some running races and then held some tabloid events that the senior children helped us with.

Then we had a shared lunch and handed out some certificates.

It was a great day!

Let the good times roll...

On Thursday Hannah's Dad took a photo of Hannah and Ms Copping together.

Here are the two photos he sent through... the first one...

And then he sent this one through ... this will be an app that Ms Copping will waste many hours on and can't wait to get snapping and juggling! Thank you Hannah's Dad! We love learning about funky apps.

Face Juggler!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Sharing our learning about the World

For news over the next two weeks we are sharing what we know about another country with each other...

This has been so exciting. We are learning about what other countries there are... where they are... what countries are next to them... and something that makes them special or unique.

Lachlan has told us about France and a very important cycle race they have there.

Melissa told us her Nana went to Switzerland and gave her a bell like the ones cows wear. She told us why the cattle wore bells in the mountains.

Ashlleigh told us about Austria and that she is 1/4 Austrian.

Summer told us about Spain and their colorful fans.

We are collecting all our news on our world map display.

Lachlan and Melissa

Ashleigh

Summer

We love learning about Earth!

We have been amazed to see that some countries have no water around them!

We have also been amazed that Switzerland, France, Spain and Austria are near big footed ITALY!

Amazing Authors...

Melissa

Jessica

Summer

Annelise

Noah

Jonte

Saoirse

Lachlan

This week in writing we have had a few goals we are working towards...

On Monday we wrote about our weekend and thought carefully about using conjunctions to write compound sentences. We know that by writing these types of sentences we add more interest to our stories. We highlighted the conjunctions so when we shared with our writing with our buddy we could talk about our conjunctions.

Then on Tuesday and Wednesday we wrote about a trip into space. We explored the idea of good writing starting from a fact or true idea and then adding our imagination. Joy Cowley does this. Her Greedy Cat books started from the fact she has a fat cat and then she added her imagination to it.

We took some facts about Space and added our imaginations so that when we visited Mars (who has the highest mountains) we slid down them on rubbish bags!

Some of us shared our writing with Mrs Nicholl and Mr Reid!

We simply love writing in Ruma Ruru.

Happy Birthday Annelise

On Monday Annelise turned 6! She had a party on the weekend and here are a couple of pictures of her with her cake - can you guess what kind of cake it was????

Happy Birthday Annelise - from all your friend in Ruma Ruru! Annelise you can be very proud of all your achievements since turning 5 and starting school. Can you name some of the things you have learned to do while you were 5?

Exploring in our Community

During the year we have looked at Reaching Out to Animal Shelters and we made designed animal carriers to transport rescued animals in.

Well... in the weekend Max and his whanau rescued 11 ducklings and they have been using his animal carrier as a 'safe haven'. Max then added in his hungry chicken he made at school yesterday.

Max, what an explorer you are out in the world - it makes us so proud to see you reaching out to rescue these ducklings. We are sure you are helping Mum!

Hungry Chicken with her ducklings...