Junior School has Athletics!

On Friday 15 November, R2 joined the rest of the school for a fun athletics day... We had lots of fun!!!!

GALA DAY

 

 GALA DAY CAKE STALL

Don't forget the Junior team are having a cake stall as part of our Gala on 16 November.
We are asking each family to supply some baking and will send home a paper plate on Wednesday. Please drop off cakes etc to school on Friday morning or by 9am on Saturday .
Thank you for your support.

Happy birthday Braythyn

Braythyn turns 6 years old

Earthquakes

My daughter Anna lives in Wellington and they have had lots of earthquakes there lately. I am in Auckland at the moment but I am going to town to buy her a combination torch, radio with a handle to charge the battery. That's one of the reasons we need to learn about science!!

Our Buddies in Room 10 helped us make an ebook.

• Click to view my tale.
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Room 2 is on the move again.

We are very excited to be moving back to our old classroom on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. It will not be so far for parents to walk and we'll be much closer to our Junior playground.

Seed planting in room 2.

We planted some seeds.

We planted three silver beet seeds each. We put some seed raising mix in a pot made from recycled cardboard. When our seeds sprout and grow into small plants we can plant them in our garden at home. We will need to water them and make sure they have sun and light.

Whaea Jodene's last day.

Whaea Jodene was our student teacher. On her last day, we made Matariki Star biscuits. They had icing and sprinkles on them and they tasted nice.

We are celebrating the winter new year. Matariki are stars in the sky. That's why we did stars.

We also did exercise with her, we ran around the field, we went on the confidence course and we played soccer.

In the photo Whaea Jodene gave us fried bread with jam and cream. It was yum!

Science Fair- "fun day with the parents and grandparents"

We all had a wonderful educational day during the recent science fair day- we let a hot air balloon go high in the sky; made soda volcanoes; electrical currents using lemons; and made our own lemon syrup. We all enjoyed showing parents and grandparents these amazing experiments. 

Check out our hot air balloon video!

An Interview with Mr Upston

Mr Upston is the student teacher in our class this term. He is learning to be a teacher and is practising his skills in our class for 5 weeks.

We think he is really cool!

The interviewers and camera operators are Natalia and Nikau. This is their first attempt at interviewing.

"It's raining in Room 2 ."

We made rain in Room 2 today. We put some water in a bowl and heated it up just as the sun heats up the water in the lake. We put a plate with ice on it on top of the bowl to represent the very cold clouds. We waited for a few minutes and watched. Very soon the warm steam rose up and hit the cold cloud and condensed into rain drops of liquid water. We saw some drop back into the "lake" below.

Lava lamps in Room2

As part of our science studies we made a lava lamp in Room 3. We learned that oil and water don't mix.

Mother's Day in Auckland

Here I am in Auckland spending Mother's Day with one of my daughters and one of my sons as well as the grandchildren. Lovely presents this morning and morning tea. Off to the cafe called Catroux where my granddaughter works to have a coffee before I hop on the bus to go back to Rotorua . See you all in Room 2 (14) tomorrow!

Netball Practice

A few of our Room 2 girls are playing netball this year for the Malfroy Mystics. Here they are practising with Whaea Tuini.

Our new temporary room... Room 14

Poor Mrs Collie has sooooo much to do!

ROOM 2 IS ON THE MOVE!

Over the last few weeks, Mrs Collie and Room 2 have been sorting, and cleaning, and reducing and recycling, to get ready for our move with Room 1, to Rooms 14 and 15.

Our class is looking really bare!

But we are still doing all of our learning like normal!

Here is Bryana, Nikau and Stasia at 8.30am practising our writing.