Welcome to 2014

Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Hello! Welcome back to Room 7!
We are starting back at school on Wednesday 29th January at 9am. School is open from Monday 27th January so if you need anything from the school office you can come in and see Mrs Scott between 9-3.

Please make sure that you have the correct school uniform and your stationery. Our required stationery is as follows (this can all be purchased from Warehouse Stationery in Linwood - make sure you mention that you are purchasing for Aranui School and help our school earn rewards.

Stationery List:

New Entrants Room 7	Number
1A5 Exercise Book	5
Scrapbook	1
20 page Clearfile	1
Learn to Write/JL2W/JWB/LWB	1
My Writing Book One –Clever Kiwi   Company	1
Clever Kiwi Company – Topic Book	1
1A8	1
Journal Bag (Reading Folder)	1
$5.00 to cover the cost of pens, glue sticks, whiteboard markers, highlighters – to be paid to the teacher.

I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday and hearing about your summer holidays.

Mrs Derrick

Big Day In!

Bad weather meant that we had our Big Day Out to Thomson Park changed to a Big Day In at school.
We had a great time with a gigantic obstacle course from Bibbidi Bobbidi Bounce, fun trying out all of the different Pedalmania crazy bikes, scooter/skateboarding on the courts, movies in Room 4, moonhoppers, sports gear and a yummy Cheeseburger and sausage sizzle at lunchtime using the ASB Community BBQ. A big thanks to the Red Cross Grant that enabled our whole school to have a fun day at the end of a long year.

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 Cynric and Summer!

On our first day back of Term 3, we welcomed Cynric and Summer to Room 7! 

We have started a small netball unit which is being coached by Amy from Canterbury Netball over the next 5 Monday's. Today we learnt how to land with 2 feet apart to give us more stability.