Anei Ra Te Kura

Tomorrow we will have a whole school Powhiri after the 9:00 roll.
Here are the words to the song we all sang today.  We sing this song to welcome visitors to our school.  You might feel like a practise at home.

ANEI RĀ TE KURA

Anei rā te kura                                                

Hato Opani                                                      

Hei maharatanga                                            

Ki ngā tīpuna                                                  

Mihi atu mātou                                               

Ki a koutou ra e                                              

Ki te whakangahau                                        

I te minenga                                                     

Haere mai rā, haere mai rā                            

E ngā iwi, e ngā iwi                                         

E ngā mātua                                                    

Haere mai                                                       

Te manaaki                                                      

Ki a koutou                                                       

E ngā iwi katoa                                                

Haere mai!                                                            

Athletics Fun

The children all had a fantastic time at the Athletics Sports.  It was wonderful to see the children participating, having fun and giving everything their best!  Thank you to all the parents who managed to come and have a look  (and the parents who ran in our Room 9 race!).

Getting ready for the relay.  Room 9's relay team did an awesome job.

Go Lexie!

Keep it up Isabella!

Fantastic work Lexie and Matthew who both won the six year old spring finals.  An extra big thank you to Matthew who was running the last leg in the relay race.  He managed to help us get first equal with a massive sprint to the finish.  After we dropped the baton two times it was not looking too good for us................until speedy Matthew raced to the finish!

Little visitors to Room 9

Room 9 were very excited when we had some little visitors come to our class last Wednesday.  Lily's Dad brought in their baby chicks to show the class.  Everyone got to have a touch, ask some questions and write about the chicks.  Thank you Lily!

Heart of Achievement

Congratulations to Brooke for getting the Heart of Achievement last week.  What a star!

Week 4 Certificate Winners

Last week Lexie and Avi were the lucky certificate winners.  You are both such super workers and you  always show all our school values.  You are fantastic!  Keep up the super job!

How to make a Pirate Hat

Today we followed a set of instructions to make our own Pirate Hats.  We know that instructions have key words such as: First, Next, Then, Finally and Last.  They also have action verbs such as: Mix, Fold, Cut, Stir.  We are enjoying learning to write our own instructions and also following instructions carefully.

MONSTER EFFORT FOR OUR MONSTER FAIR!

WOW - what a fantastic Monster Fair to be a part of!  A massive thank you for all our donations of face paints, nail polish, brushes, sponges, glitter, posters.  We would like to say a special BIG thank you to all our amazing face painters and nail painters on the day.  The children went away so happy with their designs and we even had a customer who was 93 and thoroughly enjoyed having her nails painted.  We showed so many of our school values and we know the school fair was fundraising for such a fantastic outcome - fixing our school pool! THANK YOU!

Week 3 - Writing Instructions and Certificates

We have been learning to write instructions in Room 9.  We had a lovely time making jelly and writing about it.  Well done Room 9.

Emma and Isabella received our class certificates.  You are very clever girls!

Georgia's Halloween Party

Thank you so much to Georgia and Hayley for putting on such a neat Halloween Party.  All of you looked fantastic dressed up in different costumes.  What a lot of fun!