Jack, Enzo and Connor received the Room 6 end of year certificates.  They have worked so hard all year and I am so proud of them. They have been excellent role models to everyone else in Room 6. I wish them well as they move into Room 7 next year.   

What a star!

Connor carefully followed the instructions in his reading book to make his racing car. It looks exactly like the one in the book. What a star you are Connor.

Garden Update

Room 6 love watching the progress that their vegetables and herbs are making. We measured the progress last week. We have only a couple of plants that for some reason did not grow. The others are looking great. Hopefully some will be ready to take home when we leave for the holidays.

Hamilton Gardens

These smiley faces tell it all.  We had a fabulous day on Wednesday at the Hamilton Gardens. It was a great way to end our unit on Planting and Growing. The kids loved seeing the vegetables and herbs and we hope that our school garden will produce big healthy plants like we saw at the gardens.  

A big thank you to all the parents who came along to help on the day. 

Room 6 & 7's busy morning.

We had Room 7 visit us this morning. They helped us with our activities and with our reading. Kathy snapped some of the action.

Garden Update 11/11/2016

It is very exciting to watch our plants growing. Emmie and Oceane will soon be able to take some lettuce and radish home.

Happy Birthday, Sophie

Big Planting

Today we started to plant some of our little plants into the outside garden. We are looking forward to watching them grow and hope that they do not get eaten. We have covered them with milk bottles to protect them from the slugs. 
Next week we will plant the rest of them. 

Livestock Day

Charlie and Blake had a very successful day with their animals at Livestock Day today.  They had to work very hard to get them ready for today.
Here they are with their animals.

Room 6 have new fish

Karez 

Sophie

Worms, worms, worms

Today we had a visit from Kathy from Zero Waste. We learned lots of new things about worms and how important they are for our plants. She even brought along a container of worms that Room 5 are going to use to start the worm farm. We had some good "worm" stories after her visit. 

Room 6's garden

Today we starting planting our little garden. Each of us had a vegetable or herb to plant. It was quite exciting watching the soil tablet expand when we poured water on them. 

We are going to sit our plants in a sunny place and water them every day. Watch this space as our plants grow. We will transfer them into the school garden when they are big enough. 

Pop in to see how we are getting on. 

Room 5 & 6 buddies.

Room 6's top readers having been going into Room 5 to listen to a buddy read at "Nothing but Reading" time. This is going very well. 

This is what the Room 5 children have to say about their Room 6 buddy.
Oceane is filling my bucket because she is helping me to read.
Jackson helps me find the words.
Jack helps me if I get stuck.
Kayley is nice to me.
Oakley tells me the words and I tell him that I know the words myself.

Life Education

We had the Life Education classroom here this week. We were learning about how we are unique and how to be a good friend to others. 

Cross Country

Some of the 5 year olds in action during our recent Cross Country.

Room 3 & Room 6

We had a fantastic morning with the big kids in Room 3. They taught us how to use our new chrome books, without a mouse. We will use these chrome books as part of our learning in Room 6.

Thanks to the PTA who bought them for us. 

Bruce Potter

Stanley Ave were very fortunate to have Bruce visit this week.  He is a very talented  author and illustrator. Bruce entertained the children with his doodles and funny stories. 

Maths with Mr Moody

We had a great session on measurement with Mr Moody. He carried out a series of hands on, exciting activities with two groups. 
In this lesson, the children couldn't believe that the yellow container could hold more water than the coke bottle. 

Room 6 for Term 3

Room 6 have 24 children this term. Welcome back to you all and to our new members of class. 

Tuakana Teina

Rooms 5 & 6 love having "Tuakana Teina" time with the BIG kids in Room 13. This week we shared reading and then Room 13 taught us a new game called Dying Ants. 

Special Assembly

We had a special assembly on Friday to celebrate success across the school. The junior, middle and senior school put on performances followed by the school band and kapahaka group. 


Oceane, Trilese and Sahara received the Room 6 awards for achievement and striving to succeed. They have worked very hard to achieve these and should be very proud of themselves. 

Sahara's writing

Sahara is very proud of her writing and picture about the animals waiting for the plums to ripen.

Wig Wednesday

Today Stanley Avenue School children collected $650 to go towards kids with cancer. This is what Oakley had to say about Wig Wednesday.

"Today is wig Wednesday to help the children to feel better. The money is for them to buy some medicine and new stuff." 

Shay

Room 5 & 6 are  very lucky to have Shay with us every Wednesday. Shay is a student from Te Aroha college who would like to be a teacher when she leaves school. The children love having her help them with their work. 

Matariki Celebrations

Some photos of our Matariki/Hangi Celebration activities.

Hangi Time

Tonight we are having a hangi to celebrate Matariki. We talked to Paityn's grandad who told us how to put the hangi down, what is going into it and how long it is going to take for the food to cook. 

Room 5 & 6 assembly

Miss Williams and I were very proud of our children as they performed for assembly today. It was great to see the whole school join in to support the little ones. 

Room 6 writing

Room 6 enjoy using "Silly Pictures" for their writing. Oakley was very proud of himself because it was the first time he wrote a whole page. Well done Oakley, you are a star writer.