Wheelie Day-Tuesday 3 December

Room 1 is invited to bring along their scooters and rollerblades for Tuesday's 'Wheelie Day.' All children need to have their helmets please.

Children are able to be out on the court area from 12.45-1.30.

A week to say thank you...

We would like to send out a HUGE thank you to the amazing parents on the FAIR COMMITTEE!

Wow...the fair was fantastic and we really appreciate all the hard work that you have put in for weeks and weeks and weeks!

 On Thursday we has a visit from Tilly's mum Emma. She works as a dental therapist and she came to talk to us about keeping our teeth healthy.

 Emma told us we have 20 teeth and we will have 32 by the time we are adults. Teeth are the hardest thing in our bodies.

 Emma showed us a short DVD about looking after a teeth and Tamai had a go and showing us how to brush them carefully.

 Thanks Emma for reminding us to brush our teeth twice a day!

 Eni made a gorgeous cake for Hannah's birthday. It was beautiful to look at and delicious.

Her decorative cakes are in the school newsletter this week. Thank you for sending one to school!

Tyler's Birthday...yipee!

Thanks you Tyler, Tracie and Rod for such a great party.

Here is the Birthday Boy!

 Gosh it was hot. Playing on the bouncy castle with water was a great way to cool down!

 Warren had a Ninja Turtle painted on his arm!

 Here is Klaudia with a unicorn painted on her face.

 Tracie and Rod had plenty of cool drinks to keep us cool.

 Oska and Cara got matching dragons painted.

 Wow...look at the detail on Thomas's dragon!

 Jacob was so busy playIng he hardly had time for a photo!

 Look at the size of that banana cake....but wait...there was a chocolate cake the same size!!

We were blown away with your hospitality and kindness. 

Thank you to ALL the family for your hard work.

Happy Birthday Tyler!

Welcome to Term 4!

We hope that everyone had a refreshing holiday -free of chicken pox!

On Monday we had 'Buddy Time' with Room 15. They came to help us with an experiment called 'Volcanic Canisters'. We tried it last term when we did our Inquiry on 'Bubbles' and the experiment was a real fizzer!

Room 15 had done some research for us and they suggested that we try putting two 

alka seltzer tablets in the water, instead of one.

We put the lids on the film canisters very tightly.

The lids exploded sky high! Thanks Room 15 for your help.

At 'Fiona's Fabulous Cafe' we made fairy bread. We enjoyed it so much that we are going to make some more at 'Discovery Time' on Friday.

Jordyn has a new puppy called Odyn. As you can see he is very excited. He is a rescued dog and very loved!

On Thursday we had a visit from Michelle who works at the ASB Bank. She came to talk to us about money.

Sometimes Michelle is a super hero called 'Cashtastic"!

First we discussed the values of the notes. We were able to name the people who have their picture on these notes.

Next we looked at the different values of the coins.

Michelle was very pleased to hear that we have been talking money during our maths sessions.

She taught us a jingle that says, " Speed to your needs and wait for your wants." That means that we can't always buy the things we want. We have to save our money for them.

Charlotte was chosen to do a role play with Michelle. She pretended to be a little girl called Aroha. 

Aroha was good at putting her pocket money into to 3 jars. The jars said 'saving', 'spending' and 'sharing'. Aroha saved enough money to buy a spotty scarf.

We really enjoyed having Michelle visit. She was very funny and we hope that she comes back to Merrin another day.

Don't forget that we need our swimming togs for next Wednesday!

Wheelie Day

Room 1 had a great time at our 'Wheelie Lunchtime!' 

The children were well organised with their helmets safely secured.

Wow...they can do some great tricks on their scooters!

 Ashlyn was great at turning corners!

 Tamai the birthday boy, wore his new helmet!

 Wow...Ethan can get down really low on his scooter!

 Emilie's super purple scooter goes really fast.

Check out some more photos in the school newsletter.

Talent Quest 2013!

Congratulations to Allie and Warren for their success in the Merrin School Talent Quest.

Allie won the dance category and Warren won first place in the singing section.

We are so proud of you!

Keeping Ourselves Safe Progamme

On Thursday we had a visit from Constable Richard.

 He talked to us about different ways that we can keep safe at school, home, at friends and at the park.

 Constable Richard reminded us that we should never go with any person unless we have talked about it first with our Mums or Dads.

 He showed us some video stories so that we could think about keeping safe.

 We practised saying "No'" to people when we are not feeling safe.

We are looking forward to Constable Richard coming back next week.

Thank you to all those families who have been working on their home tasks in the children's 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' books.

Cultural Festival Wednesday 28 August

Thank you to those who have returned their permission slip for our trip to the 'Cultural Festival.'

 If you have not done so it would be great if I could have these back by Friday 23.
Thanks!

It's Always A Good Time in Room 1!

Thank you to you all for such a great week! Hopefully you have had a chance to see this weeks newsletter with our children's stories about the Kahurangi Dance Group visit, our' Kids Can Cook' lesson on Monday and our dance show tonight!

 A reminder that you can order your own DVD of the show if you wish.

 Our thanks again to Carolyn Yang and Annie Redman for sewing the girls' skirts.

 The children made up all their own dance moves during our lessons last term.

 We had a number of children away with illness and it was great to see how the other children could fill in the gaps!

 Gee those boys are groovy break dancers!

 They did a fantastic job of remembering all the moves they had created.

Well done to Penny, Jordyn,Ethan, Klaudia and Annabelle who sang in the choir.

Thanks for coming along. I am very proud of the children.