Buddy Time with Room 19

Room 19 has asked us to be there buddy class! Becky Harris is their lovely teacher.

They came to meet us for the first time on Wednesday. We spent some time getting to know each other. Rooms 1 and 19 are going to meet every fortnight.

Maddy and Caitlin enjoyed talking about their favourite foods.

Here is Amelia with Woojin. They found out about each other's favourite colour.

Stella is buddied up with Aaliyah and Riley. 

We interviewed our buddies and they help us to write down the answers.

We are making these pages in to a special book.

Our buddies are very friendly and they can help us with our school work!

We look forward to doing all sorts of exciting activities with them. Next time we are going to work together on the ipads.

This week we were studying the letter 'c' and the 'ay' word family.

Here we are having "c c c cupcakes". Thanks Ange!

Term 2 Assembly -Celebration Photos

If you would like to see our photos from the end of term assembly, please follow the link below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhgHY5WRF0c&feature=youtu.be&safe=active

Fendalton Library Visit

On Thursday 19 June the Year 1 classes visited the Fendalton Library.

We were very excited about travelling on the bus!

 Here are Mia and Liesl looking for somewhere to sit!

 Amelia and Oliver knew to sit back in their seat.

 This is Room 1 arriving at the library.

We were very pleased that Vanessa and Andrea could be our Mummy helpers.

 All the Year 1 children sat on the mat to share some stories.

 Margo the librarian sang us a welcome song. She told us we can take out books, CDs, videos and magazines. The library also has these cool 'take home bags' with a selection of reading materials already packed up ready to go!

 Kevin, Brendon, Caitlin, Lola. Sophia and Lexi acted out a story about a kingdom covered in ice.

 Liesl did a great job of thanking Margo.

Room 1 thought that they would like to visit again soon.

P.S Thanks Vanessa for the great photos!

Red and Black Day

Thank you for supporting our 'Red and Black' Day. You looked fabulous!

The children really enjoyed receiving their shields from 'The Press.'

Go the Crusaders!

The Week of Wild Weather

This week we have spent plenty of time inside. Thanks to the P.T.A we have some great inside games to play with!

On Thursday we had a special Whetu Assembly to thank our support staff.

 We invited the Office Staff, teacher aides and our caretaker to the hall for a surprise.

They do a wonderful job of helping us all.

 We gave them all a card, balloons and chocolate. Room 1 made some special paper flowers for them to keep.

 We sang them 'Reach For The Star' and 'They are Jolly Good Fellows.'

 Here is Ethan presenting Mrs McKenzie with her flowers and chocolate.

 That afternoon we also had a visit from Couplands Bakery.

 They gave us a free loaf of bread to take home. We thought cheese toasties might be yummy for afternoon tea!

Thanks for visiting Kirsten and Mark.

Kahuna Education

At Friday's Whetu Time we had some special visitors.

Mr Cullinane and Ishbel from Kahuna Education, came to school to share some of their stories and songs.

Jim Cullinane is a primary school teacher and children’s songwriter and author, who brings a digital approach to the children's learning.

Some of the children tested out buttons on Mr Cullinane's laptop, to make sound effects for one of his stories.

The sound effects made us laugh!

Mr Cullinane gave us one of the books that he has written. It is called 'The Great Pumpkin Puzzle.'

Thank you Kahuna Education. Your stories and songs have such a great message!

New ipads!

Last Friday a special parcel arrived for us.

 We had fun guessing what was inside. We thought it might be lollies, a toy motorbike or even new felt pens!

 How great are presents!

 Jacob opened up the box for us.

 Liesl and Jacob were very excited to find new ipads!

 Who will get to work on them first?

 Mrs McKenzie has downloaded some super aps for us to try. Thanks! Here is Oliver practising his handwriting formations.

Caitlin is showing the boys how to play Reading Eggs.

Thank you to Ms D.R and the Merrin School Fair Committee for our new ipads.

We can't wait to get more....hint! hint!