Halswell Quarry Trip

What a wonderful, sunny day we had at Halswell Quarry last Wednesday. It was great learning outside in the park, especially having Park Rangers to teach us about the environment. Our activities were...

• Take a blinded folded friend on a tree walk and describe the tree
• Bug and insect hunt with a microscope
• Tree and insect game with our parents
• Puppets and story - learning about keeping the park clean

Thank you to all the wonderful parents for helping transport us all over to Halswell Quarry and helping out with the groups!!

Congratulations!!

Week 9 Certificates

Phoenix - Heart of Achievement

Sophia- Achievement

Emily - Values

Congratulations!!

Week 8 Certificates

Javahni- Achievement

Cole - Values

Athletics Coaching

Over the last two weeks a group of university students have taught us some athletics skills - Jump, Throw, Run. This has been an exciting way to begin our school athletics training. We are all looking forward to our school Athletics Day in week six term four.

What Clever Readers!!!

Outstanding 125 Nights Reading

Three Digit Number - 100 Nights Reading

Congratulations 50 Nights Reading

Congratulations!!

Week 7 Certificates

Krystal - Heart of Achievement

Isaac- Achievement

Sophia- Values

What Clever Readers!!

Amazing 125 Nights of Reading

WOW 100 Nights of Reading

Congratulations 75 Nights of Reading

Christchurch Museum Came To School

Have a look at what we did when we had a visit from the Christchurch Museum. We learnt how to use some treasures from Early Polynesian Life. We were also shown some of the damage that was done in the museum when the earthquake happened in February and June. We are all looking forward to visiting the museum now as all the things have been repaired.

What a Sporty Class!!

In term two we focussed on a range of different skills for winter sports in hockey, basketball, soccer, netball and not forgetting ball skills. We applied these skills in simple games. For the first part of term three our class are learning new skills in soccer.

Lachlan has become the teacher because he has been playing soccer for a long time and has many skills to teach us. Today Lachlan has taught us how to dribble with the right technique, making sure that we use our sides of our feet and not to go too fast so we have control of the ball. We all look forward to him teaching us new skills in the coming weeks.

Congratulations to Jake who is the Player of the Year for his rugby team in 2011!!

Cricket Coaching

We had fun learning new skills in cricket, even though it was freezing outside.

Shared Book

Last week our shared book was called 'Fearless Phil' Written by Jill Eggleton and Illustrated by Raymond McGrath. Jill Eggleton writes lots of different stories which we read in class. We all enjoyed reading 'Fearless Phil' and there were some tricky words too which we learnt. Our class are working on reading together, reading without mistakes and reading with expression (pausing in all the right places). Have a listen....

Outstanding 100 Nights Reading

Amazing 75 Nights Reading

Wow 50 Nights Reading

Library Show

Today we had two librarians read us lots of stories. We all enjoyed acting out, taking part and listening to the stories.