World Teachers Day

Today we made hands by copying our hands and arms and colouring them in with patterns. We went outside and took photos of our hands for learning. The school did it.

Brass Band

The local band came and played us some songs. They played the Cancan and the banana song. We got to try all of the instruments.

Week 9 Student Led conferences

Well done to Room2 on your student led conferences. I was very impressed with the information you were able to tell your parents about your learning.

Books

Last week a class came from Westland High School to interview us. They asked us questions about books and what we liked. They are now going to make a book for us. We are very lucky.

Library Week

Today we went to the new library. The mayor read us a story and Dean Hetherington sang us some songs while we clapped along to them. We got to go upstairs to the teenager's section and there was a playstation 3. We got library bags to take home. We felt it was cool to go upstairs we are not allowed up there when we go by ourselves.

Where are you?

Hi Room 2 Mrs schroder is lonely on the blog by herself. COme on in and make a comment.

We are off to the library today because it is Library Week.

Character Writing

We have been doing some character writing.

Kirk plays ripper rugby and helps on the farm. Kirk drives the tractor on the farm. He has blonde hair.
by jakeb

Gretta's off to America

Hi Gretta we miss you already. We look forward to reading your comments on our blog.
Have fun.
Mrs Scroder and Room2

El Grego's Magic Show

On Tuesday the whole school went to a magic show. I liked it when El Grego made birds appear out of blankets and scarves. But the coolest was when he made the bunny go flat.
By Caitlyn

El Grego

Book Character Day

Today is book character day and some of us dressed up as our favourite book characters. We were allowed to dress up as whatever we want. It was cool to dress up.

The Magic Flute

We went the Magic Flute at the High School. It was an opera and it was so much fun. They had costumes and props and the story was funny. We liked Chantelle the princess.

Mucking In

What did you think of the Mucking In day? Add a comment.

Cross Country

Well done to all the runners. You guys were great and all of that training paid off.

Go Aimee.
Well done to 6year girls Klaudia 1st, Leila 2nd, Shanae 3rd. 6 year boys, Kirk 1st, Makaira 2nd and Brayden 3rd. 5 year girls, Aimee 1st, Alexandra 3rd and Tom 2nd 5 year old boy.

Student Led Conferences

For the last two nights we have been having Student Led conferences. We tell our parents and caregivers what we have been learning and what we need to learn next.
Here is Gretta showing one of our learning pathways.

Homework: Go onto the blog and make a comment on what you and your parent thought about your conference.

The Disco

Last week we had a disco at school.

Robert said he liked the smoke machine.Some of us liked the strobe lights. Mrs Schroder and Ruby thought they made them feel sick. Shanae liked dancing at the disco. Klaudia and Ocean liked the colourful lights. Gretta liked Avril Lavene singing.
Mrs Schroder was taking photo upstairs and fell down and sprained her ankle.

Mums birthday

This week it's mum birthday.she is turning 45. I Love you Mum, Love Leila

Grouting our tiles

We needed to put the grout with water. Then we mixed it and put it over our mosaics. We used a sponge and slowly sponged the grout down.

Term 2

Term two has started and we are all up to the grouting part of our mosaics. You have all made a great job and should be very proud of yourself. We have our pathways up and running on the wall for our writing and the words we know. We will be planting our bulbs on Friday out in the garden in front of Room 2 so the parents will be able to enjoy them in the spring when they come to pick you up.

Week 2 of the holidays

Hi everyone
I am back home in Hokitika with my daughter. I have done lots of kilometres so thank goodness for my new car. Today I am working on our homework sheet for next term and writing my plans for the term.
In Week 3 we have student led conferences and in Week 4 it is cross country. A little bit of training each day will make the cross country easier so get out there and ride your bike or run around the back lawn.
Hi Caitlin I'm looking forward to finishing our mosaics as well. We will get back onto them on the first Monday.
Enjoy your last week.

Holidays

We are now in the middle of holy week and it is Good Friday. I am over in Christchurch so I can visit Kodi regularly. I hope you have a good holiday and don't eat too many easter eggs.

Hey Room 2
I am missing you guys at the moment and wish I could be teaching you however my daughter Kodi is sick in hospital at the moment and I need to be with her. Hopefully I will get a chance to come in and finish the mosaics with you before the end of term but if I don't we will do it first thing next term.

I hope you enjoy the week and I will put some new posts on our blog for the holidays.

Mrs Schroder

We miss you Ocean

Ocean we hope you are feeling better soon. I hear that you were very brave and showed lots of courage. We have been thinking of you at prayer time.
Mrs Schroder & Rm2

Rock Melon

Mrs Schroder bought a rock melon and everybody tried it. I think it was yummy. By Makaira

Our Mosaics

Today we wrote our names on our rocks. By Jakeb.

We put our rocks away and I choose a love heart one. By Caitlyn

We are going to start breaking our plates with a hammer underneath a towel so it doesn't hurt anybody. We have put a note in the newsletter asking for tiles. We would like lots of colours.
This afternoon we are going to look at designs for our mosaics and practise our drawing in our art book.

Neve is in the magazine

On Saturday me and my cousin got our photo taken and we got our photo in the magazine. I thought it was cool the magazine was called Lucky Break. My cousin is called Panaiah. I said yay it was so cool.

Hi Tom's Grandma

We hope you liked our blog and what we have been up to. It was great to hear from you all the way away in Christchurch. Have a nice day. Rm 2

Harold

Some of us got to give Harold a hug.

Digital microscope

Mrs Scroder has purchased a digital microscope for the school. We have been looking at bugs and things up close in Rm2 this afternoon. It is portable and we can take it outside with a laptop and explore.

Get well Gretta and Ruby

Hope you get better soon.See you tomorrow. Enjoy your pumpkin soup.

Asking questions

You ask questions to find out more information. We have been learning about questions using who, what, where, when, who, and how. We are also talking about fat questions and skinny questions.

Today we are going to ask questions to find out more information about this picture.

We found out it was near Tonga in the Pacific OCean. It runined a bird paradise. It was an underwater volcano. By Leila

Good night from Mrs Schroder

Hi everyone
I have really enjoyed reading the comments. It was great to see Brody and his Mum on tonight as well as Kirk, his Mum and Todd. Tomorrow we will write about our second day with Harold. Thanks to the parents that have offered tiles etc.

Courage Goals

Room 2 have made courage goals this week.

I like the way everyone tried to have a courage goal. I especially Like Libby's goal because she has never done it before. Her goal is to share her news. By Leila

Going to Harold's Trailer

We liked watching the movie and when Harold came out we laughed at all of the funny things he did. By Caitlyn

Harold tried to keep the books in his mouth and I had to tug them out. By Leila

Harold was really funny and when he came up he tried to wear his underwear on his head. By Neve

We learned about the human body in Harold's doll Tammy. By Ruby M

I don't know when we are going to see Harold's friends I think it is going to be tomorrow. By Robert

When Harold stared at Makaira we all laughed. By Aimee

The movie was fun. By Ocean

We learned about safety. By Shanae.

Week 8

Welcome to week eight and boy hasn't it gone fast.
This week we will be having Life Education on Monday and Tuesday for 50 mins each session.
In the last two weeks I would like to do Mosaics with the class so if anyone has any tiles or old plates etc that we can break could you please bring them in.

Vist to the Jade Factory

Today we went to the Greenstone Factory. We got to touch the greenstone and put water on it. It felt smooth and nice. Then we went to see how the greenstone is made.

They had diamonds on the saw to cut the greenstone. You find greenstone in the lake and the beach and in the river. Special people carve it. We got to look around the shop at all the different things they made. At the end they gave us little parcels with our very own special pieces of greenstone.

On Tuesday St Mary's school went to the high school for athletics.First we sat on the concrete and Mrs Payne explained what we were going to do.Our first event was the long jump. We ran and when we almost got to the sand we jumped. Some of us liked the long jump because you got to run. Some of us didn't like jumping.Next we went to softball and quoits throw. After that we had luch and then we did running races 200m and 60m. Maggie won and Leila came second in the girls. Kirk won the five year olds and Brayden won the six year olds. Jakeb and Robert were really proud of themselves because they got past Makaira and Jack. We had a go at the high jump too.At the end of the day we walked back to school and played on the playground. We were hot and exhausted. Some of us went home with our Mums and Dads and Grandmas.