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.