Tiritiri Fun Day with Kelly Sports

Today we had an amazing day of fun to celebrate the end of the school year. 

We had turns at 8 activities with help from the Kelly Sport coaches. 

We bounced on the bouncy castle and zoomed down its slide. 

We raced sponges full of water and tried to fill out team's bucket at the Water  Race. 

We threw different balls into a basket at the ball throw. 

We jumped hurdles like bunnies. 

We escaped crocodiles at the Crocodile Pit. 

We carried the Olympic torch at the Olmpic relay. 

We practised our soccer skills. 

We threw gumboots at the Gumboot Throw. We aimed to get them in the hoop. 

Meeting Harold!!

Today was our second and final session with Harold the Giraffe and Harriet in the Life Education van.

Harold gave us instructions to get to a nice place for a picnic. We used our imagination and walked to some music along the footpath and crossed the road. 

Harold met us under a shady tree. 

Harold even sang us a song about food. He likes "Variety". 

Harold was hungry so we said we would share our lunch with him. 

We talked about the places we get food from. 

• Ground (Trees / Plants)
• Animals
• Mixed ingredient food

We sorted our picnic food into the groups of where it comes
from. 

Cameron knew that an avocado grows on a tree and he moved it to the Ground foods. 

Rosalie knew that an orange coloured drink was not from fruit and was mostly sugar. She put it in the mixed ingredient food. 

We made choices of good food for Harold's lunch box. We chose food that would help our body and brain.


We chose a fruit, a vegetable, and 2 from the animal group. We also chose him some porridge for breakfast. 

We loved the stars. 

Thank you Harriet and Harold!!

Kiwi Valley Farm Park

Today, Room 9 had a fantastic trip to Kiwi Valley Farm Park. 

Farmer Chloe welcomed us to the Park and taught us about her job as a Farmer.

Then we were off for a tractor ride. We spotted a nanny goat, a billy goat, some horses and a donkey.
             

Next we were lucky enough to feed some animals. We started off with ducks, geese and a beautiful peacock. We learnt that it is the boy peacocks that have the amazing tails.
        

        

Each of us were given a bag of food. We were allowed to feed any animals, except the pigs. We kept our hands flat and they animals nibbled the food from us. We fed sheep, lambs, alpacas, donkeys and goats.
   
   

Next we all got to have a pony ride. Liam got today's bravery award for riding the horse even when he was scared. Awesome Committment Liam!
 

The favourite activity for many of us was visiting the nursery where we were allowed to cuddle different baby animals. 

Georgia is cuddling a 4 day old baby pig and Loren is holding a soft rabbit. Jacob held a young chick while Ethan gets to know a rat.


Liam has help holding a small guinea pig.

We loved our day at Kiwi Valley. A huge thank you to our parent helpers. We couldn't do it without you.

Black-Out Day

On Friday we had a black out day to show our support for the All Blacks before they played in the Rugby World Cup Final on Sunday.

The school performed the haka and sent the video to the All Blacks.

It must have worked!!!!

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Contraction Surgery

Our topic this term is "When I grow up, I want to be...."

Today we tried being surgeons. We were operating on words. 

We had to make sure we had the right tools: gloves, mask and scissors. 

We were given a piece of paper with two words on it. We had to find the contraction that matched. 

We looked at the two pieces of paper to find which letters were missing in our contraction. 

We made a cut to take out the letters that are supposed to be missing.

Then we stuck the words back together with a plaster. The plaster shows the place of the apostrophe. 

We put our finished contractions on the wall.

The Big Shake Out

Last week we participated in the New Zealand Shake Out. The Shake Out was a nationwide earthquake drill.

We read stories about earthquakes.

"Quaky Cat" is the story of Tiger, a cat who runs away and gets lost during the first Christchurch earthquake. We talked about how we would feel during an earthquake.

We also read Ana's Earthquake story.
http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Shakeout2015/Anas-Jelly.pdf
The story taught us what to do during an earthquake.

We learnt to:

Drop

Drop to the ground and crawl on your hands and knees.

Cover

We cover ourselves under a solid table and curl ourselves into a turtle shape.

Hold

We hold on tight to the table so it doesn't move away with us. 

You can find more information, and resources for keeping your family safe, at the link below.

http://www.shakeout.govt.nz/index.html 

Writing about the Variety Sho

Here is what some our class thought about our first Variety Show performance, the matinee.

Jacob: 
In the Variety Show I did good at singing at my parents. Tonight I want to put the microphone down for Todd. I am Venus too.

                                               

Koji:
When I was in the Variety Show I was good at singing loudly in the microphone and maybe I need to work on no elephant feet when i come down and no shouting in the microphone.

Holly:
In the Variety show I was outstanding at singing in the microphone. Tonight I will try to be better at looking at the audience. 

                                                       

Here are some of the other things we wanted to share with you.

Deon:
At the Variety show my family came to watch the solar system song. They said it was amazing.

Cameron:
On the Variety Show I saw my mum. She took some video.

                                                          

Brodie:
In the Variety show my favourite part was spinning the planet. My mum was there.