Active Post: Hockey

Today we had day 2 of learning skills relating to Hockey.

We were introduced to a new game called 'Cats and Mice.'

After a while we then introduced the hockey stick in and used 'sticky' and 'tap tap' to get the hockey balls from one end of the court to the other. 

We have two more days of working with Rhonda from Active Post. We can't wait to see what we will be doing next.

Certificates for Week 6

Congratulations to Chaytah who was awarded the 

Principal's Award for Week 6.

Chaytah with his Principal's Award

Our PRIDE Certificate winners for their use of Perseverance, Respect, Initiative, Diligence and Empathy

TeKapua, Dorian, Keegan, Jordan, Luke and Donna 
with their PRIDE certificates

Miss Carlson

We would like to introduce Miss Carlson to Opunake Primary and Room 15: Totara. 

Miss Carlson is a trainee teacher all the way from Canada and will be in our class until the end of the term. We look forward to working with Miss Carlson to complete some great things in Room 15: Totara.

Active Post: Hockey

Today we had Mark from Action Post come to work with all of the classes in the school. He spent 30 minutes with each class learning skills relating to Hockey.

Today we focused on getting back into the activities that Mark taught us last year. 

We have Mark in school again next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Kitchen Garden

Today Room 15: Totara spent the day with Mrs Mourie and Mrs Sinclair at Kitchen Garden.

The class spent part of the day outside painting rocks and pallets to put in and around the garden. 

We also had a chance to do some cooking. We cooked some Zucchini fritters with some ingredients from the school garden. We then got to eat the fritters at morning tea and lunch.

Thank you to Mrs Mourie and Mrs Sinclair for working with us. We really appreciate having some great people to teach us about working in a kitchen and outside in the garden.

To view all of the photo taken from our time at Kitchen Garden please view our video below:

Certificates awarded for Week 5

Congratulations to Lexus who was awarded the 
Principal's Award for Week 5.

TeKapua, Rylan, Keegan, Mahlee and Zoe
with their PRIDE Certificates.

Kitchen Garden Notice

Dear Parents/Caregivers

This Wednesday, March 12^th, Room 15:Totara are doing Kitchen Garden.

To help with the costs of ingredients your child will need to pay $1 to their classroom teacher.

The ladies taking Kitchen Garden are requesting some help. If you are able to assist on this day please let me know.

Thanks for your support.

Magazine Strip Silhouette Art

Here is the artwork that the class have been persevering to complete over the last two weeks. They have been working diligently to complete their work to share with their parents.

Making a Mirage

This week for our Shared Reading we have been reading a story called 'The Dance of the Air.' 

The story talks about the shimmer and wobble that you find on a hot road in summer. 

After reading the story we made their own mirage in a bottle. 

Please view our video to see how we made our mirage.

Meet and Greet Art Exhibition

The Art work has been complete and is ready to be viewed in the Learning Centre.

Come along and meet the Teachers. 

See the awesome artwork that the students have completed.

Art - Getting ready for Meet & Greet on Thursday

Step One - Complete

Step Two - Complete

Now to see how these two steps will join together 

to complete our art. 

Tuesday 4th March

Day Two:

Skip Counting on the Number Line

Day One of Skip Counting on the Number Line

Today we were introduced to the activity: 

Skip Counting on the Number Line.

We had to use our number lines to help us skip count in twos.

Throughout the week we will be persevering to skip count higher and higher. We will also skip count in our fives and tens.

Certificates for Week 4

Congratulations to this weeks award winners.

Karome and Luke with their Principal's Awards. 
Awarded for their perseverance and diligence in Maths.

Dorian, Nicholas, Donna, Jaunte and Milly 
with their PRIDE Certificates

Opunake Primary made it into the Opunake & Coastal News

Photos from Camp

Maths: Place Value Houses

Watch our video of us reading larger numbers

Nicholas                                   Jaunte and Ria

Cameron                                             Luke

Rescue: Hansel and Gretel - Maths Activity

 These are some of the work we have completed for our Rescue: Hansel & Gretel Maths Unit. We had to include Hansel and Gretel's house, the witch's house, a forest, path, and a pond with a swan.

Luke

Rylan

Ria

Ethan

SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS Acrostic Poem

For the last week we have learnt all about Successful Learning.

We have learnt how we need to be a MOVER and not a BLOCKER in our learning.

Below is an Acrostic Poem that we created that relates to Successful Learning.

Tuesday 18th February - Poetry

For Poetry this week we have been looking at Acrostic Poems. As a class we made one together before going and creating our own. Here is what we came up with.