Goodbye Amelia

We farewelled Amelia as she returned to her home in Japan. One of the last things she showed us was how to make origami dogs for letter Dd.  We will really miss you Amelia and hope to see you again next time you are in New Zealand.

Discovery

This week we had a very large box to create with.  Children voted to turn it into a bus.  They put the chairs in and took turns making tickets, waiting at the bus stop and then going for a ride.  There was even a booking office to take phone enquiries!

Bernard Mangakahia, Mana - The Spirit of Polynesia

On Tuesday we attended a performance by Bernard Mangakahia.  We all enjoyed this immensly, it was an exciting and inspiring show. There was much laughter as the audience participated in the dances and our eyes widened as Bernard performed a hoop dance with 7 hoops!  I suggest you google him and watch some of his clips on YouTube.  This was one of the best shows I have ever seen!

This week...

Group effort

Tilly-Rose, Britta and Anissa worked really hard together on this numeracy activity!  Great co-operation girls, you have H.E.A.R.T!

Discovery

As Amelia was pulling this laptop apart, Elih was providing encouragement by chanting "Go Amelia, go Amelia."

Puzzles

Elijah loves completing puzzles and was very busy on Friday!

Principal's Award

Congratulations Amelia for receiving the principal's award, Amelia was also showing H.E.A.R.T. at assembly, well done!

C is for cookie

We listened to Cookie Monster!  He was singing a song about cookies.  We made lots of cookies!

Busy children

Yesterday was our first wet lunchtime in quite a while.

I was very pleased to see the children working well on their chosen activities.

Well done Shining Stars!

Special visitors

Jayne (Amelia's Mum) and their friend Karin came to talk to us this morning.  We learnt how to play "Paper, scissors, rock."  In Japan, lots of things are decided this way, for example, who will have the first turn, who will have the last apple.  Jayne said she has even seen it used to decide who will be on the PTA at school!  We practiced playing this...

...it was lots of fun!

Then Karin and Amelia showed us some origami.

We made a little dog!

Then Karin showed us some more complicated origami...

We had lots of fun learning with Amelia, Jayne and Karin.

Thank you so much for visiting our class!

A new Shining Star

Welcome Elijah!