2016-Welcome back

Welcome back to school for 2016. We are all  excited to be back ready for some great new learning in 2016

Maths

Look how focused we all were in Maths today! Learning about fractions is engaging stuff!

Over the last week we have been learning about 1/4, 1/2 and 1/3 of a shape or a set. We have learnt to identify the symbols and words for the fractions. We used play dough, magnets, string and pegs, folded paper, whiteboards, farm animals and pizza shapes to practise with.  Each day we have had some model students to copy who were sitting up and focused at mat learning time...guess who Mrs Anand spotted today??

Self Portraits

Over the last week the children have been working on self portraits. They were started by Ms Hirzel and the sketching and colouring has been completed by Ms Fenner yesterday and today. They are still a work in progress but they are looking good!

The children were quite impressed by the portraits they saw on MVTV that the Intermediates had done in Term 1. They really liked the bold patterns they used to fill in the background. So we might have to investigate that a bit further and find out if they were painted or coloured....and what we need to do next????

ANZAC Assembly

We had a very special ANZAC commemoration assembly today. The Intermediates read a poem and the choir sang an awesome song especially written for ANZAC day by Mrs Sinclair. We all remembered that lots of people have fought in wars to help keep NZ a safe and free country. 
Did you know that some miners from NZ went to France and dug huge tunnels for the soldiers under the ground? They made some tunnels to join some caves together, they had hospitals, kitchens and bathrooms all under ground. We read some very interesting stories about what happened in the war.
We hope everyone has a safe and special ANZAC holiday with their families.

Little Chicks

We had some fun today making little Easter Chick baskets with Room 5. We had no written instructions. We looked at an example and had to figure out how to make our own. We had yellow cups, different eyes, beaks, pipe cleaners, feathers and feet. We got the idea from Eun Seop's birthday baskets from last year.

And don't they just look super cool!!  Thanks Eun Seop!!

Constable Lorena

We joined in with Room 5 to listen to Constable Lorena tell us how the Police help us in our community.  We learnt lots of interesting things. The police can help keep us safe using helicopters, police dogs and they even have a police launch.  Next term Constable Lorena will come back to teach us Road Safety and Car Safety.