Clifford Wind Socks

In week 2 our big book was 'Dog'. We also read a Clifford story and then we made these Clifford wind socks. We took them outside in the wind and tried them out. You can now see them hanging up in Room 7.

Blowing in the wind!

Dad's snore - retelling with stick puppets

Our shared book this week is "Dad's Snore" by Heather Lovich. We made stick puppets of Dad and one more character of the story and then performed a mini-puppet show to each other.

Exploring Patterns in Numeracy

This week we are learning about patterns in numeracy.
We explored different kinds of patterns today and recorded this video. Look at all of the different kinds of pattersn Room 7 made.

Caught Being Good Awards - Term 2, Week 5

Congratulations to Bella and Abby who both received a Caught Being Good Award in assembly today!

Triangle maths group doing Fly Flips

We have been learning to use imaging to solve addition problems to 10 

Space Disco

On Thursday night our school 'Space' disco was held. Some children from Room 7 came along and enjoyed themselves!

P is for Penguin (and lots of other P words!)

Our letter of the week is Pp

We made some Penguins today because Penguin starts with the letter P

Other words that begin with Pp are:

• pirate and panda - Sebastian
• pig and popcorn - Lueqis
• pizza and princess - Bella
• potato and parrot - Masi
• peas and pen - Samantha

Fun friends - making our houses using natural materials

We have been talking about how although we are all different, we do some things and have some things that are the same as others.
Here are the houses we made using things we could find under the big tree by our playground. We all have a roof and a mailbox, some of us have a tramp and a garden.

Room 7 Flower Petal Counting

We are learning to match symbols and words for numbers in the range 1-10 to objects in a set.
Here we are doing the Flower Petal activity.

First day of school 2014!

Welcome back!
We had a wonderful first day back at school. We welcome our two new students Lueqis and Masi who had a great first day at school.

 

We read 'David Goes to School' by David Shannon and made a list of things we should do and should not do at school. Then we made pictures of David with guided prompts from Mrs Derrick. We practiced on the white boards first then did another copy in coloured pencils. Check them out here!

 Here is the final result:

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

Athletic Sports Day

We had our school athletic sports day today. We took part in the junior rotation. We did Jumping for length and height with Mrs Derrick, Relay's with Mrs White, Throwing for accuracy with Mrs Togiaso and Throwing for distance with Whaea Heather.
We tried really hard at all of these things and had a lot of fun. At the end we had sprints and moonhopper races.

 

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?

Welcome to Room 7 Vanessa and Bella

In week one we have welcomed Vanessa and Bella to our class.

We hope you enjoy your school days!