Minoh House

Today we went to Minoh House. We went to experience some Japanese culture as part of our topic. Ikumi taught us to use chopsticks and we practised picking up little marshmallows. I think most of us need a lot more practise as it was very hard!!

We also learnt to sing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' in Japanese. We are going to practise it at school.

We made lanterns which we thought was pretty cool to do.

It was a lot of fun at Minoh House and we think it would be a really good idea to go there with our families on September 27th for the Spring Festival.

This character means 'Love'

A very pretty kimono

Our clever chopstick user!

                                 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Ruma wha's assembly

Today we had to run assembly. As it has been 'Te Wiki o te Reo Maori' (Maori Language Week) every class shared something they had learned this week. We had presentations about things in a kitchen, a playground, counting, proverbs, parts of our body, and more.
Mrs Morgan was very proud of us as we spoke some maori as we introduced the items.
Ruma wha presented a slideshow about names for parts of our body.

'100 Days at School' fun

Today, we have been at school for 100 days this year.
We have been counting the days since the beginning of the year.

We decided to have a fun day of activities based around the number 100.
When we got to school, we found there were some balloons in our class. When we counted them, there was only 50.
Mrs Silcock invited us to share the day with her class, so we decided to share our balloons with Room 6 children. When we got there we found they had 50 balloons as well!
Clever us - we counted them and found that 50 + 50 = 100
We shared our collections of 100 and there was a big variety  of things in our collections. We had leaves, beads, cars, stickers, things, macaroni, grains of rice, raisins,  and many more things. We think Sarah had the smallest collection - she had 100 little pieces of copper in a very small jar.
We made crowns and wands.

 














We also painted a big 100, put 100 stickers on a chart, iced biscuits and sprinkled 100s on them,  and made 100 out of a carrot and 2 pieces of cucumber.

We also joined with Rooms 1 and 2 for fitness. We had 10 different activities and we had to do 10 of each activity.
10 groups of 10 make 100.

What a Fun day we have had. We all worked really hard on all our activities.

Thank you Mrs Silcock and Mrs Morgan.

Whanau Groups

Today we were in our Whanau groups and we made some more stars and feathers for our display in the hall. We wrote things we are good at and things we hope we can do, on them. It was fun working with our buddies.

Fractions

We are using a fractions game to practise sorting fractions. It is called Fraction Sort. It is fun.

100 Days Celebration

Dear Parents

Our junior team have been counting the days we have been at school this year and on Monday 27th July it will be 100 days.

We are going to celebrate this event by doing some activities centred around 100.

One of these activities will be sharing collections of 100 objects. We are asking each child to bring a collection of 100 items e.g. hairclips, stickers etc in a sealed container. We look forward to sharing a wide variety of collections (we know you are all very creative!).

Thank you

Sue, Ann, Faye and Brooke