Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Mr Halkett has been reading Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus...it is a really funny book!  This afternoon for art, we decided to change the title of the book.  Here are our ideas.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

New chairs in the library!

When we visited the library on Friday we discovered the new chairs!  We think they are pretty snazzy!

We Work Hard

We have been working hard in Room 10.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

We remember...

Today was the anniversary of last years big earthquakes on February 22nd.

Like a lot of other Cantabrians we decorated our orange cones with flowers.



As a class we talked about the anniversary and swapped stories about where we were at the time of the earthquakes.  Some children remembered being on the monkey bars, on the flying fox, and others remember  still being in the lunch area eating their lunch.

We talked about how scary it was, our feelings, and we agreed that we felt safe at school because there are people around who can help us if it happens again.

At lunch time some of the children joined me at 12.51pm under the big Oak Tree to observe the 2 minute silence, a wee chat and some reassurance.

Kia Kaha, Room 10!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Art depicting our School Vision

This afternoon we made small groups and practiced working together to create some art. We decided to collage lots of coloured paper from magazines to make each symbol from our School Vision.

We worked really well together to find our colours and paste them onto our art. Some of us even found colours for other groups - what great thinking!
Warren and William

Raynelle and Lyric

Daniel and Jesse

Maia and Martina

Charles and Alura

Lleyton and Connor


Saturday, February 18, 2012

Student Teacher

A big welcome to Mr Joshua Halkett who is joining us for seven weeks. Mr Halkett comes from the Graduate School of Education and is on his first placement.

He tells me that he has had an awesome first week in Room 10. Yay! We hope you enjoy the rest of your time at Wairakei School.

Here he is playing 'shops' with Daniel.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Discovery Time

Today we had our first Discovery Time...what a brilliant day for it too!

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Vision Launch

In the first week of the term we launched our absolutely brilliant new Wairakei School Vision. One aspect of our vision is called WE CARE. We made the following movie with our buddy class (Room 6) about what WE CARE is all about.


Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Days to celebrate


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As it was a wet day today, we decided to make the most of the extra time and make Valentine Cards. Hope you liked yours!

Some birthdays this week too!




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We would also like to welcome Mr Halkett to Room 10. Mr Halkett is from the Christchurch Graduate School of Education...which means he is learning to be a teacher! We look forward to having Mr Halkett in Room 10 for the next seven weeks. Photo coming!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Mr Bojangles


Mr Bojangles has been to a few homes already. He even had to be rescued from Kody's big dog called Kage one morning!

Rosie took him home on Tuesday night and had a lot of fun playing dress ups with him. Check out the slideshow made by Rosie and her parents!


2012

Welcome back everyone!

Well, it's been a week already and what a week! We've launched our new Wairakei School Vision. Have a peek!