What Wonderful Merrin Families!

What a great day we had this Sunday at the school working bee!

 Thank you to all those amazing parents who came to school to garden and paint. 

What a tremendous difference it has made to our school.

We gathered up all the old furniture to be painted.

 Saya came with her Dad and sister. Rick was very busy gardening along the front face. Gee it looks great.

 Will helped Erin and Nathan to paint the furniture. Will got painted red as well!

 Sharyn, Jonathan and Katelyn helped out. Thanks for all that painting Sharyn. 

Jonathan was very good at rounding everyone up for morning tea!

 Here are our busy helpers. Thank you also to Danielle and Inmi who was busy around the back weeding!

 Rohit was very busy sanding and painting furniture. Maybe he could come and work at school every week!

 The Sutton family all came along. We got to see Jessica's newly pierced ears! Thanks Garth for all that hard work.

Look at our school furniture now!

Our special thanks to Rachel from the P.T.A who organised the working bee. 

Thank you for your time and effort Rachel.

We love your pukeko footprints leading up to the library!

The Pencils Writing Group

On Monday the coaches from 'Kelly Sports' took Room 1 for some games. Today these children wrote about their afternoon. 

 Matthew wrote: I like playing basketball.

 Isha wrote 2 sentences by herself: I like playing hockey. I got the ball in the net.

 Bobby wrote: I like playing soccer. It was fun because I got to kick the ball.

 Here is Jessica's story: I liked the basketball. I liked the hockey because it was fun.

 Katelyn wrote: I liked the basketball game. At Kelly Sports I played with the ball.

Samantha wrote: I like Kelly Sports. I liked basketball.

Samantha read her story to her big brother's class in Room 2!