Orana Park iMovie

Here is the link to our awesome iMovie about our trip to Orana Park on the last Thursday of Term 1.

Click here to see our Orana Park iMovie

What's Up in Term 2

We will soon start Term 2 and a new journey of learning. We will have a number of our current class 'graduating' to Room 8 in Week 2 to join our newest junior school teacher, Whaea Jo Peters. We will continue to work closely together in many learning areas, so even though some children will have a new teacher, they will still come back to Room 7 to take part in learning activities.

We will be learning about Transport as our Programme of Guided Inquiry during term 2.
In PE we will learn about Invasion Games and take part in Jump Jam.
We will continue to build a sound foundation for literacy including alphabet, high frequency words as well as building on our numeracy!

Transport!

Early Transport!

We hope to take small groups to visit the local pre-schools and kindy's as well as visiting the Aranui Public Library!

It's going to be a fun term.

New Blogs for Aranui School! Teachers working hard in the holidays.

Today Mrs Derrick and the rest of the teachers spent the day creating blogs for each class and learning area, as well as learning more about iPad apps that we have on our school set.

Take a look at the following links to each classes blog!

Room 1: aranuiroom1.blogspot.co.nz
Room 2: aranuiroom2.blogspot.co.nz
Room 5: aranuiroom5.blogspot.co.nz
Room 6: aranuiroom6.blogspot.co.nz
Room 7: aranuiroom7.blogspot.co.nz
Room 8: aranuiroom8.blogspot.co.nz
Room 9: aranuiroom9.blogspot.co.nz
Room 10: aranuiroom10.blogspot.co.nz
ESOL: aranuiesol.blogspot.co.nz
Akonga: akongaaranui.blogspot.co.nz
Teacher Aides: aranuita.blogspot.co.nz
Reading Recovery: aranuireadingrecovery.blogspot.co.nz
Mr Allen (Principal): principalaranui.blogspot.co.nz 

End of Topic Study trip to Orana Park

Our fantastic Zoo School Teachers!

To consolidate our learning this term for our Programme of Guided Inquiry (POGI) topic, the junior school visited Orana Wildlife Park (http://www.oranawildlifepark.co.nz/) on Thursday. The children were extremely excited for the entire trip, especially when we were able to see many animals so close to us. We saw a number of animals including Meerkats, Lemurs, Lions, Tigers, Zebra, Spider Monkeys, Cheetahs and Rhinos. We were lucky enough to be able to feed the Giraffe and Roldo the Llama!
Thank you to Carol and her team at Orana Wildlife Park for an unforgettable experience.

Feeding Roldo the Llama

Going on a lion hunt!

We loved our Shuttle Ride around the park.

Feeding the giraffes!

The amazing Lions came very close to us!

We watched the Tiger get fed some morning tea!

Final week of term 1!

We have had a fantastic term one!
Our class has grown from 6 students on day one, to 17 awesome students. Some of our original class will be 'graduating' soon to Room 8 with our new junior school teacher, Whaea Jo Peters. Whaea Jo will be visiting us all this week to get to know the students and see how we learn at Aranui Primary. 

This week we are also going to visit Orana Park. This will finish and consolidate our learning about Animal Habitats and Survival. We are looking forward to seeing the tigers, giraffes, meerkats and other animals. 

The junior school held a Mufti Day and Ice Cream Stall to help fundraise for our trip. A huge thanks to Ms Togiaso who was the chief ice-cream scooper! We will post pictures from our trip on our blog!

Interaction between APS and local Early Learning Centres

Today Mrs Derrick visited some local pre-schools and kindy's around Aranui to take them some copies of our Aranui Primary Junior Learning News. 
Lots of the teachers want to spend some time at our school as they can see the awesome work all of our children do at Aranui.

We are hoping to host some small groups from the local kindy's and pre-schools in Term 2 and go to visit them as well!

If you would like a copy of our learning news please email Mrs Derrick at e.derrick@aranui.school.nz and she will send you out this terms copy!

 

Please check out Room 10's blog entry - Little Creatures

Room 10 - Aranui Primary School Christchurch, New Zealand: Term 1, Week 8 - Little Creatures: This week Mrs Togiaso bought in some swan plants that had monarch caterpillars on them. On Monday one of the caterpillars changed in...

Inquiry - Playdough Birds nests

This afternoon, at the end of a busy day of learning, we made playdough birds nests.
We have been learning about where animals live (their habitat) and what things they need to survive (shelter, water, food and warmth).

We are going to visit Orana Park in 2 weeks to consolidate all of our learning this term. 

Here are some of our creations.

KidsCan Raincoats

Yesterday we received some super new winter raincoats from KidsCan.
They are lined with warm fleece and have the Warriors logo on them!
We think they are flash and are going to keep us warm and toasty and dry this winter.

Our cool raincoats from KidsCan

 

KidsCan Shoes!

Last Friday Room 7 were lucky enough to receive a new pair of school shoes for each member of our class.
These are perfect for us coming into winter. Thank you to KidsCan who supplied our new super black running shoes. These will also be perfect for our upcoming Cross Country Race!
Go to: http://www.kidscan.org.nz/for more information on how KidsCan support children throughout New Zealand.

Room 7 proudly wearing their new shoes from KidsCan