Week 10

This is the last week of Term 2. We are looking forward to the holidays. We have all got lots of fun things planned. Teresa is going to sleep in. We are all good readers at school and we are going to keep reading in the holidays.

This week we are learning the word 'said' and the sounds for 'h'; 'ai'; 'r'; and 'j'. At maths we are learning to skip count in 2's. We are also learning to skip with a skipping rope. It is hard work but fun. We are getting better at this.

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Room 10 Stars of the Week

At Kowhai Syndicate assembly Jonothan and Aidan received certifiactes because they are really good readers. Congratulations Jonothan and Aidan, we are proud of you.

We are getting excited because there is only one more week of school before the holidays. We are ready for a holiday because we have been working very hard and learning lots of new things.

Matariki

Today we celebrated Matariki, the Maori New Year.

We made putiputi with Teresa and Susan. Then we went to Room 11 and we painted star pictures with silver goo with Tracy. After that we went to Room 12 and made stars with Caroline.

We had to work hard to do all these things. We had lots of fun.

At lunch time all the children from Kowhai Syndicate ate their lunch together in front of the hall.

We are learning to use Tux Paint and Kidpix to illustrate our stories!

Students of the Week

Ben and Sam received certificates at Kowhai assembly today.

Ben's certificate is because he is a good reader. Sam's certificate is for settling into the Room 10 routines and being a good class leader.

Congratulations Ben and Sam, we are proud of you.

Week 8

We are now into Week 8 - the holidays are coming up fast.

This week we are learning the sounds for 'p', 'n', 'u', and 'l'; and the words 'for' and 'and'. We are getting good at recognising our sounds and using them in our writing. We are also good at recognising words in our reading books and poems.

Today four children and two teachers from Campus Corner came to visit us. Willem went to Campus Corner, and he still goes there after school, so it was nice for him to show his friends his classroom. We read a story about a cat and a dog being friends then we made a dog. Our dogs were very noisy! We enjoyed the Campus Corner people visiting us.

Room 10 Stars

Room 10 Stars

These are first day photos. There are 14 children in Room 10 at the moment. We are all stars!

Week 7

This week Quinn started school. We now have 10 boys and 4 girls. Nina is still in Japan so there are 3 girls at school each day.

We have learnt the days of the week.

We are learning how to be a good friend to the other children in Room 10.

At Kowhai Assembly Katie got a certifcate for being a good role model and for taking responsibility for her own learning. Congratulations Katie.

It has been raining all week and we have had to stay inside. This has made it a long week. Today we went outside at lunch time to look at the river which is over the ford. The road is closed. We got worried that the water might come up to the school.

Week 7

We are now in Week 7 of Term 2. There are 13 children in Room 10, but Nina is in Japan until next term. On Tuesday Quinn starts school. We are not expecting any more children to start until next term.
This week we are learning the sounds for 't', 'i', 'g', and 'o'. Our words for the week are 'look' and 'the'. In Maths we are learning to say and read the days of the week in the right order.
Today we had a whole school assembly. Samuel got a Principal's Award because he is doing really well with his reading. We are proud of Samuel's efforts.
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Yesterday we ran in the cross country race. We had fun. We did our best. We had to run two laps and we didn't stop. This is how we felt at the end of the race:
tired and puffed, Theo
tired and puffed, Katie
good, Willem
puffed, Jonothan
puffed, Samuel
puffed, Ty
good and proud of my efforts, Charlotte

Our mums and dads and grandparents and friends came to watch. They all cheered for us. This made us smile and want to run faster. Thanks for coming to watch us.

Thank you Sheryll for organising the race.

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