At 12.15 on Friday afternoon we are having a presentation to farewell 3 members of room 25, as well as to celebrate how hard we've worked this year. Parents and siblings are invited ..read more

You might have noticed your child coming home a little more messy, tired and with more to talk about the last couple of weeks. We have been doing play based learning, where the children are allowed to follow their own curiosity and create their own activities instead of being always directed by the teacher. The teacher is there to support and extend their ideas (as well as provide normal reading, writing, maths, science, art, etc instruction). Here are some activities we have been engaged in ..read more

We have been trying out the Osmo games for ipads this week and have been having so much fun. The great thing about these games is the level of interaction it requires- children have to draw, read, write, create, move and best of all-think ..read more

See the little shoots beginning to burst out of the seed? Watch what happens as it grows ..read more

Today we learnt about how to keep safe in the water. We practised using life jackets- floating on our backs, linking arms and saving our energy. It was super exciting putting the life jackets on and feeling them keep our body afloat in the water.  ..read more

On Monday we went out to find some different shaped leaves and learning how to do some leaf-rubbings and observational drawings. We noticed the veins in the leaves and some of them had stalks- connecting them to the branches of the plants they came from ..read more

We had our first athletics skills session yesterday- learning how to throw a 'sock-put' in readiness for learning about shot-put throwing. It was quite tricky trying to keep the sock-put by our chins and push, instead of throwing it like a cricket ball, but we tried our best and did a great job ..read more

We have a frog visiting this week - we think it is a Southern Bell frog. We have discovered that it will eat cockroaches, moths, spiders, flies and crickets (but only if they are alive). So if you find any live insects at your house, feel free to bring them in a jar for our frog to eat ..read more

On Monday afternoons we have been busy planting seeds. Now they have started growing! We are excited to watch what will happen next ..read more

We have been learning the names of colours in Te Reo Māori. On Friday we had a colour-treasure hunt to find the pictures around the room. Then we had to match the names of the colours to know which colour to make our pictures ..read more