Monday, 31 October 2016

Mary's Month

Gosh, it's the 1st November already I don't know where the time goes.  We have been learning about the mana and tapu of Mary.  This morning we were hard a work in R.E. finishing off our pictures of Mary and Jesus.

Friday, 28 October 2016

Sports with St Johns


The boys from St John's have been teaching us sport skills as part of their NCEA level 2.  It was great fun.




Saturday, 22 October 2016

EOTC Day 4

Our last trip today was another huge success. Well done Room 4 you walked really safely and we friendly and polite to all the people we met on our walk. At the park we enjoyed lots of fun activities. My favourite were sketching in the Chinese garden and cricket.












Thursday, 20 October 2016

EOTC Day 3


DAY 3

What an amazing day to visit the show. Well done Room 4 you were all so responsible.  I know we all enjoyed looking at all the great things at the show.







Wednesday, 19 October 2016

EOTC Day 2


DAY 2
What a lovely fun filled day. Mr Clarke brought in a tractor and showed us how to make shelters. After morning tea we looked for mini beasts, did some leaf rubbing, played rakau sticks and created a huge crab. After lunch in our shelters we used a map of the school to find hidden clues.


























EOTC Day 1


DAY 1

What a fantastic day we have had learning about what lives in the bush and sand dunes. We created our sculptures of what we had seen.













Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Term 4

Welcome back to Term 4. We have started with a bang and we are getting ready for our exciting E.O.T.C. Week. 

Friday, 23 September 2016

Look what we made 😀

Wow - Mrs. Clarke and Mrs. Costello are so proud of your models - check them out.

Ruruvai's Claas Tractor
Tom's Combine Harvester
Tori's Baler
Florence's JCB
Logan,s Amazone sprayer

Skyla's Amazone Ripper

Clinton's JCB

Farm machinery

For the show some of us are making models of farm machines. Mr. Clarke gave us some books to look and decide what to make.


Measuring

We JWe have been learning to measure using different units of measurement. We used 10s rods to measure how tall we were. We then found people who were the same height, smaller and taller than us.  It  was great fun.



Crossing the Road

We have been learning how to cross the road safely with our Year 8 road patrollers.