Friendship Group at St Chad's church

Today Room 9 and Room 10 walked down to St Chad's. We performed for them. The choir sang. The Culture Groups sang too. After that we followed Santa and his moa out on to the lawn. We had a lolly scramble.

Making Boxes

The Year 4 children are making gift boxes with the ladies from the Rainbow Trust. The Year 5 children had their turn yesterday.

Beach Education at Waimari Beach 2.12.13

Today we went to the beach to learn about keeping safe in the water.  We had so much fun! We went on boogie boards, swam, had races and all sorts of cool stuff. We learned heaps too. Did you know that you should never swim alone? Also grown ups should be in the water with us and not watching from the beach.

Tuahiwi Marae

On Tuesday 5th November the Year 4, 5, and 6 children visited Tuahiwi Marae. It was a really hot day! It is a flash Marae. It is very new. But it is sad because there are no carvings and no tukutuku panels. We had so much fun playing tahi, rua, toru basketball, doing rakau and making poi. We did heaps of waiata . The ladies in the office said that we sing as we'll as the children at the Tuahiwi School!

Felicity Strikes Again!!!

Felicity went to the karate competitions in Cromwell over Labour Weekend. Our clever classmate came back with three medals. A 1st place for kata (patterns), a 2nd place for fighting and a 3rd place for team kata. 

Keeping Ourselves Safe

We are learning to use the proper names for the parts of our bodies. Mrs Geal drew around Marty and Felicity and then we stuck labels on the bodies to show the parts.

 The girls

 The boys

Swimming at Aquagym

Today was Aayush's first day in Room 9. It was his first day at Linwood North!  What a cool way to start school by going swimming at Aquagym!

House Colours Day

The colourful children in Room 9 are busy creating beautiful cards for Mrs Ogilvie. We are all very sad that she is leaving us. But she is going to have a baby. That is so cool!

 

   

Turbo Touch Game

On Monday we had our last Turbo Touch session. We played a game. Everyone played. It was fast and fun.

Books In Homes

Room 9 are eating apples, drinking milk and really enjoying their new Duffy books.

Room 9 news!

Sheaden is the most valued player in his team at Papanui Rugby League.

Room 9 busy at Art time.

We have been making printing 'blocks' out of cardboard. We will print them when they are finished.

Room 9 Art
"This year we have been doing unique art" said Marty.
We learned to weave harakeke (flax) into puti puti ( flowers). We added them to the F.L.A.X posters that show we are
Focused
Learners who are
Achieving

eXcellence.


We have drawn 3D pictures of our hands. We only used a pencil.
"Everybody needs a helping hand sometime"






Now we are using a photo of 1/2 of our face to draw a pencil self portrait.

Today we saw the Duffy Show

Today we are trying to transfer our Blog from the old 2012 page to the new 2013.

We have been having fun finding lots of ways to use our computers and ipads to do our Inquiry. We have a student teacher in our class. Her name is Miss Shamy ans she's going to teach us all next week.

We have a new boy in our class. Heis called Xavier. That makes two Xaviers now. We have been learning about healthy classrooms.

We had our first culture afternoon today. Maaka taught us some new songs and talked about tikanga. Did you know that tikanga is like rules and Respect and Responsibility? We sang our old songs too

Making putiputi

Today mrs heal showed us a video of how to weave puti puti. She didn't know how to do it but she watched the video and learned. It was hard at first. Some of the boys gave up. It was so fun and the puti puti are cool.

Room 9 have named our new lake RotoIhutai (Lake Linwood)