Swimming

It now feels like summer and Room 6 has been enjoying getting outside with all this nice warm weather. This week the pool was opened and we got to have our first swim. We were all very excited and had lots of fun in the water!

Christmas art

It is getting closer to the holidays with only two more weeks to go! Room 6 are getting very excited and wish all their friends and family a very happy Christmas! Enjoy the break!

Performance writing

Jayde

Jade

Ruby G

Dylan

Lucas

Jack 

We did some fantastic writing about our performance at assembly on Friday.

Assembly performance

Last Friday Room 6 had their assembly performance. They shared some great writing, artwork and a song about Giraffes as we had been reading the picture book 'Giraffes Cant Dance'. They did fantastic singing and should be very proud of themselves. Thank you to parents and caregivers who came to support the class. 

Junior Athletics

Last week the Junior team had their 'big day out'. This was a fun day for the juniors to participate in activities such as long jump, water relays, sprints, jump jam, the parachute, ring toss and a puzzle race. We were very lucky to have such nice weather! A big thanks to John Muir for supporting this day, the senior kids who helped and the parents who came to support their children.

New learning activities

Room 6 have been very lucky in getting new learning activities.  These include sentence dominoes, making chained links, creating words with blocks and stringed alphabet,Te Reo puzzles, and creating patterns with beads. We have been enjoying using these during our reading tumbles. 

Goodbye Whaea Arna

Last week was our last one with Whaea Arna. We loved having her in our class to teach us lots of fun things like making gingerbread men, skip counting and all about community! A big thanks to her for all these great lessons! Room 6 will miss having you.

Community Helpers

Room 6 have been learning about community helpers with Whaea Arna. We have been learning about our class community, where we had to work as a team during some challenging activities and get to know all our classmates. Following on from this we talked about our school and the Te Aroha community.  Thanks to Whaea Arna for teaching Room 6 during the last 3 weeks.The kids will miss having you!

Road Safety

This week the junior team had a special visit from Ruben the Road Safety Bear.  We have been learning how we can keep safe around roads and traffic.  We need to remember to..

• Seat yourself right, buckle up tight- It’s safest to use a booster seat until you’re at least 148 cm tall
• Helmets on right and tight- Wear your helmet every time you ride your bike or scooter
• Look out for sneaky driveways- It is safest to play in outdoor areas that a fenced and away from driveways and vehicles
• Stop, Look, Listen and Link- Choose the safest place to cross the road
• Be bright, dress bright- When wearing bright colours you are more noticeable to other road users

Gingerbread Men

This week Whaea Arna took a group of the older children for a language experience, where they made some gingerbread men. The group said they had lots of fun following a recipe, tasting different ingredients and creating shapes with the mixture. The rest of the class were able to decorate their own gingerbread man and eat them for morning tea. 

Our Room 6 bakers

Term 4

Welcome back Room 6 for an exciting and very busy term 4! This week we had Tuakana Teina where the senior kids came into our classroom and worked with us on some art. This will be going up in the office foyer. We displayed some great team work!!

Silly Clowns

Last Friday we read a story about a clown then created our art piece, turning ourselves into silly clowns. We then wrote some exciting stories! Don't we look funny!!

Ena

Holly

Ronnie

Amelia

Ruby G

Jayden

Aaliyah 

Junior presentation

This week Room 6 were very excited to show off their Irish dance for the junior presentation. Everyone worked really hard and loved getting all dressed up for the show. Miss Romeyn and Mrs Trebes were very proud of the class for giving their best. We hope everyone enjoyed it! 

Bear Visit

Room 6 have been reading the story 'We're going on a bear hunt', so we could do a fun drama lesson with Whaea Arna. We received a letter from mama bear asking for our help in solving the bears problem... Baby bear is hiding in the cave, he is feeling lonely and has no friends to play with. 

Baby bear came into our classroom and we were able to ask him lots of questions to find out about his life and how we could help him. We had lots of great inquiry questions from the kids:

• Why are you sad?
• What do you eat? 
• Why did your best friend move?
• Do you hibernate?
• Why don't you live together?
• Do you hunt?

We had lots of fun completing this lesson to solve how we could help baby bear's problem of feeling lonely. We even learnt some new interesting facts about bears.

Ugly Bugs

Our artwork is based off the story we read called 'The Very Ugly Bug'. We had to give our bugs HUGE big boogly eyes, a really odd wibbly, wobbly shaped head, a horrible hairy back and wonky purple legs. We had lots of fun and they all turned out very different from one another. Come check them out on display in Room 6.

Card Making

This week we have Fathers Day coming up and so on Friday we were busy making cards to someone special in our lives. This could be our Dad, Stepdad, Granddad, Brother, Uncle, Mum or anyone that is special and important to us. We hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

Fun filled week

This week Room 6 were very lucky getting to do lots of fun activities with Mrs Spencer and Mrs Horan. This included puzzle time with lots of cool Disney puzzles, in which the students worked so well as a team, the ugly bug artwork, and the rainbow fish art, both from stories the class had read. From reading the Rainbow Fish we learnt an important lesson that we need to share our things with our friends. The kids had lots of fun making their fish with cupcake holders. The fish on display make our classroom look nice and bright!