Samoan Language Week Performance

The junior school performed Le 'Aute and O Le Pepe at the Aranui Library as part of New Zealand Music Month and Samoan Language week.
The senior boys also played some acoustic songs.
Thank you to the audience who watched us perform.

 

We are Smarty-Pants!

Our shared book this week has been Smarty-Pants by Joy Cowley.

We turned ourselves into a Smarty-Pants by using collage, a photo of ourself and watercolour paints.

Here we are:

 

Counting to 6

This term we have been learning how to count forwards and backwards. We have been using shells and natural objects to count one to one up to number 6.

Room 7,8 & 9 on Campbell Live!

Today, members of our classes were filmed for a Campbell Live news piece. Watch and see if you can spot us!
http://www.3news.co.nz/Helping-Aranuis-kids/tabid/367/articleID/297776/Default.aspx

The Monsters' Party

Our shared book this week is The Monsters' Party by Joy Cowley.

Learning about shapes!

We have been learning about shapes in numeracy.

Last week we went on a treasure hunt around the school and found lots of shapes all around us including squares, circles, triangles, spheres, cylinders, cubes and cones.

Here are some cones near where the painters

 were.

We found a big Cube (Container!)

Our basketball hoop has a circle and a square.

The hopscotch is made up of squares.

Our playground has a huge cylinder-shaped tunnel.

David found a triangle shape in the ladder.

This bike wheel is a circle.

To Town, by Joy Cowley.

Our big book this week is 'To Town' by Joy Cowley.

We have been practicing reading it and even wrote our own versions on how we could go to town during writing.

Here is the link to us reading it! CLICK HERE