Our trip to Broad Park

On Friday we were meant to be going to a performance, but some of the cast members were sick so the teachers decided to still take us out for lunch and a play at an awesome playground at Broad Park which is near Waimairi Surf Club.
We really enjoyed getting out and about with the rest of the junior and middle school. Everyone had so much fun.
Here are some pictures of Aranui Primary students at Broad Park. Thank you to the teachers and staff who let us come along - and to Fulton Hogan and the Salvation Army, who helped us with buses for this trip and for the A&P show.

Summer and her friends climbing high

Azayiah heading down the flying fox with help from Ms Mackie

Briley and Bella with a friend hanging out on the fort

Everyone having fun with the different play equipment

How many Aranui students can we fit on the spinner?

Room 7 sings Nga Tae (The Colours) waiata

This term Whaea Sally and Mrs Derrick have been teaching us this song! We filmed ourselves singing it the other day!

Click here to see our video on Vimeo

Here are the words so you can learn it too!

Ma is white,
Whero is red,
Kakariki is green,
Pango is black, mangu is too,
A E I O U

Kowhai yellow,
Parauri brown,
Kikorangi blue,
Parakaraka is our orange,
A E I O U

C is for Cat

Our letter of the week was Cc.
We have made some beautiful pastel cat pictures.

Taurean

Azayiah

Nicol

David

Tua

Briley

Lesley

Sammy

Bella

van Gogh inspired flowers

Look at these amazing pastel drawings based on artist van Gogh's famous sunflowers series.
The children took lots of time and effort to create these great pictures.
I think some of our 5 year olds could be the next van Gogh!

Lesley and Taurean

Vanessa and Summer

Bella and Briley

Tua, Azayiah and Caleb

R is for Rainbow Weaving

In week one, one of our letters of the week was the letter Rr. For our Friday craft, we did rainbow weaving.

Don't they look good?

Term 3 Art Project

We have been busy working all term on our contribution to the school art project - we started with draft pictures of 'Anything' pictures, then 'Present' pictures and finally 'Future' pictures. We then painted our 'Present' picture of us at school onto the wood panels that we spent an afternoon sanding, then oiling. We helped Whaea Alice with stripping the harakeke flax a few weeks ago, and she will be carefully hanging all of the panels with Steve in the next week so the Art can be unveiled on Thursday at a special dedication in the hall.

Our art journey!

Welcome Azayiah!

This week Azayiah started in Room 7! Happy 5th birthday Azayiah and welcome to our classroom.

Making patterns

Today we explored patterns in numeracy.  Have a look at some of the patterns we copied and continued.

Caleb made a blue and black pattern.

We used multi-link cubes.

We had lots of cards to follow.

Salem copied this pattern.

Toreka made and continued this pattern

We are learning to recognise and continue sequential patterns.