Brr it's cold.... Let's discover winter

It really has been cold lately!  Jack Frost has been visiting us quite frequently and gumboots, jackets, hats and gloves have been a morning necessity!  Today's poem was titled "Jack Frost".  The children did really well being word detectives and finding all the pairs of rhyming word in the poem.  Please take a moment over the weekend and enjoy this fun poem together.

We spent some time today discovering about winter, creating winter-themed creations.  We also had a go at doing "scribble drawings", we even made a giant scribble drawing on one of the tables and we all had a go at colouring it in.  It was fun creating a piece of art together!

 A Lego Snowman!

Ice tray with ice cubes

 Giant Scribble Drawing

Rocket

Busy Creating!

Showing off our creations

Hard at work, working together

School Disco

A great time was had by all grooving away at the school disco tonight!  It was fantastic seeing everyone with such happy smiling faces.  There was certainly a lot of excitement in the room!

A massive thank you to all the hard working members of the PTA who put in a huge amount of time and energy into making this night such a success!

Here are some photos from the night.  I tried to get everyone, apologies if I missed anyone!

Song of the Week - Week 11

This weeks song of the week ties in with our recent maths learning - It's about 3D shapes and is called "3D Shapes I Know".  It's a pretty funky song! I hope you enjoy singing it together!

 Here is the link:

   

Song of the Week - Week 10

The song of the week for Week 10 of Term 2 is Geronimo by Sheppard

Here is the a link for a You Tube clip with lyrics.

Song of the Week - Week 9

This week's Song of the Week is "The Mummy Song"

Here is the link:

Dog Safety

On Thursday afternoon we had a visit from the Christchurch City Council Animal Control Team and their dog Baxter who taught us about how to be safe around dogs.

We learnt that if a dog's on it's own we leave it alone.

We also got taught how to use our school bags to help defend ourselves if a dog ever came up to us aggressively.

We also learnt how to be responsible dog owners.  Part of this involves picking up the dog's poo and disposing of it the right way, making sure dogs have enough exercise, are kept safely enclosed and that they have food, water and shelter.

The last thing that was talked about was how to pat a dog if we saw one.

- Stand back at a safe distance and ask the owner if it is ok to pat the dog

- Listen to what the owner says

- Approach the dog with our hand formed into a rock

- Move our hand to the dog's chest and open our hand up to pat the dog

Matariki

We have been learning about Matariki - The Māori New Year.

This year Matariki will be on Thursday 18th June.

We have been looking at how it is celebrated and the stories behind how Matariki (a constellation of stars) were formed.

Check out the video we watched that told one story of how Matariki was formed




We also had fun checking out this neat interactive

http://www.wicked.org.nz/Interactives/Te-reo-Maori/Matariki

Song of the Week - Week 8

On Thursday we are having a visit from the Dog Safety team at the council.  Our songs of the week this week are therefore doggy themed!!!

The first song of the week is Bingo




The second song of the week is Who Let the Dogs Out?

Song of the Week - Week 7

This week's song of the week is "Best Day of My Life" by American Authors.  Below is a link to a YouTube clip with the lyrics.  Happy singing!!!