Discovery Time

This morning Room 10 hosted Discovery Time...which is a time for the rest of the Otakaro children to come and participate in some hands on activities (such as playdough, water trough, soccer balls, sandpit, computers, art, doctors and nurses etc).

Miss O'Neill arranged for her own parents to come and help. Mrs O'Neill (Mum) helped with the toast and jam activity, and Mr O'Neill (Dad) helped with the water trough, chalk drawing and blocks activities. We hope they had fun coming to Discovery Time, because we really appreciated their help.

(Miss O'Neill's Dad)
(Miss O'Neill's Mum)

The Nails and Hair Gel corner proved a hit again. Thank you Olivia (Hunter's Mum) for coming in to paint nails and style hair.


Thank you to Paha (Jahkwon's Mum) who came to help also. She supervised the children kicking soccer balls and playing in the sandpit.

Don't forget...the more parents helping at Discovery Time...the more fun it is for the children.

Here are some children playing with the blocks.

If you ever need any medical assistance...just contact Dr Rajnai...he is an absolutely brilliant doctor!

Power of One

Today we had two actors come and perform a show to us. It was called Power of One and it was about 'Bullying'. We learned that standing by and watching someone being bullied is just as bad as being the bully.

Some children were able to help in the show.
Dominic (from Room 9) got to play a Superhero character.

Addition Bingo

A wee while ago we played addition bingo. The children had to partner up, so they could help each other add the numbers when playing bingo. Here are some photo's of these gorgeous children adding...

Maths...

We have been lucky to have Mrs H teaching in our classroom for the last couple of weeks. Mrs H is a student at university and she is learning how to become a teacher. Here she is teaching the SQUARE maths group.

Kelly Sports with Adam

This post was dictated to Miss O'Neill by Jackson.

This morning Room 10 went up to the cricket pitch to spend some time with Adam. Adam showed us how to throw the ball. I am pretty good at throwing the ball.

Mr Bojangles

Our classroom teddy bear has a new uniform - thanks to Piper's Granny. He has shorts, a Wairakei School polo shirt and a Wairakei School Sweatshirt.

Mr Bojangles loves his new uniform. Thank you, Joanne.

The Easter Bunny!

Today the Easter Bunny came to our class to collect the Easter Eggs. Everyone brought some eggs for wearing mufti to school today...these eggs go into the raffle prize.

Can you see who the Easter Bunny is?


Also, today was Niina's last day at school. She and her Mum are off to Japan on Sunday. Good bye Niina...we miss you already! Keep in touch.

Here is Niina in between Caitlin and Piper (on the bus to the beach!).

Music

We had music today with Mrs Emuleus. We sang some songs and played some music! What fun!