Thank you to everyone who has returned the permission slip for our walk to the Woolston Club next Friday.
Thank you to the parents who have offered to join us!
We are looking forward to seeing all the Gardens.
There are 12 schools in the Competition so please invite friends and family to come along to vote for the 'People's Choice Award'.

What's on this week .....
Monday
Junior Assembly
Tuesday
Coffee & Chat
Swimming
Wednesday
Swimming
Thursday
Home Learning due
Friday
Year 3 sport begins - a notice about this will come on on Monday
Library

All  permission slips for our walk to the Garden Show need to be handed back please.
The Show is open to the public 11th, 12th & 13th March. Please encourage friends and family to go along to the Woolston Club to vote for the 'People's Choice'.

The school picnic was a pleasant way to finish off the week.

We had a busy and hot week!
The children enjoyed our Chinese New Year themed Discovery on Friday.

Room 7 & 8 enjoyed noodles for morning tea

Sally came to join us... she was a tricky visitor!

We hope you have noticed our plants on the porch.

They are going to be part of our Garden Display.

The children have been looking after them carefully.

Our seeds need a lot of water in the hot weather.

We planted these seeds on Friday!
The barley is the faster at the moment. Wheat and oats are not too far behind.
The grass looks very thin beside the barley.
The mystery seed continues to be a mystery.

We are amazed ... some of our seeds are up! There are some late starters so we will plant some more in the next few days so we are ready for the Garden Display.
Thank you to everyone who has returned the Permission Slip for our walk.

We have appreciated having Monique in our class this week. She is with us until 1st April so we are very lucky.
This week the children prepared their containers for planting AND then they planted their choice of seeds from a selection of oats, barley, wheat, peas, grass, linseed and some seed marked 'mystery'. We are hopeful that some will grow....soon. Our planting is to represent the river bank for our school garden display.
Permission notes for our walk to the Woolston Club to see the Garden Displays were sent home on Friday. It will be a real adventure for the Year 2 & 3 classes!

                                        Congratulations

We are very proud of Lucia as she has been selected to play her violin in the CSM Junior Symphony Orchestra. Well done, Lucia.

What's happening this week....
Letter of the Week   T
Watering our seeds  Every day
Swimming   Tuesday and Wednesday
Home Learning   Thursday
Library   Friday

Happy 7th Birthday Eileen. 
We know you had a GREAT day.

Please remember to complete the basic maths facts sheet and bring home learning books on Thursday. 

Today we had a school earthquake drill.
We had planned to practise the drill one day this week. ...
The events over the weekend reminded us again how important it is to be prepared.
You will be pleased to know Room 8 managed themselves very well.

We are busy planning and thinking about our contribution to the school garden competition.
The children have decided to plant 'the river bank' so we need clean milk cartons please - one per child would be just right.
Thank you.

I hope everyone had a pleasant (mostly) weekend.
You can rest assured that we will calmly be revisiting what to do in an earthquake tomorrow - when in class, when outside at break times etc. Your child's safety and well-being is very important to us.

This week we welcome Monique Barker from the NZ Graduate School of Education.
Monique will be with us for 7 weeks. She will be working with small groups of children as well as whole class activities. We are lucky to have an extra teacher in our class.

L is the Letter of the Week.
Remember swimming on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The basic facts sheet in children's Home Learning books needs to be completed by Thursday please.

The children were eager to hear if we had any emails from China.
We did!
Helen and Jim answered the children's questions AND sent some more photos.
We are making a scrapbook of the emails and photos and this will come home to families to share when it is finished.

People were swimming in the outside pool - even though it had ice on it!

Looks like bumper cars.

Cool playground.

Our morning started with a Mihi Whakatau to welcome the new staff and students to our school.

Sally with members of the Student Council.

Some of our Senior Kapahaka girls.

The Senior Kapahaka girls welcomed the new people - Chelsea is Jasmine and Noah's sister

The visitors

Shevaun greets Matua Hemi

Sally greets Vadim, Beau's brother.

We finished with kai

Today at Discovery Time the children made very pretty messages to share with  Mums, Dads, or grandparents on Valentine's Day. Ask the children how the magic writing worked.

Shopping is always popular.

Sharing and taking turns with the equipment.

Some budding designers for the Garden Show

Hammering!

Happy Birthday Caezar. We hope you have a great day.

Helen and Jim are in China. They have sent has some videos and photos of the Chinese New Year celebrations.

I hope you have all enjoyed the long weekend.
I'm sure you had a super birthday Cesar!
Please remember it is swimming on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The 'Letter of the Week' is Cc.

Reading interchange starts this week so children will start bringing home books to share.
Home Learning books will also be given out.

We are a great bunch!

On Thursday and Friday we went for our walk down to the river.

The children took clipboards and recorded what they saw.

We have discussed some of the things we could create for our Garden Display. 

Hopefully the children have been sharing their ideas with families.

Rubbish in the mud

We all enjoyed Discovery Time on Friday. 

It was a great opportunity for sharing, taking turns and asking to join in.

Artemis created a flower - check it out in the cloakroom

The dough was popular.

The transport vehicles were also popular.

The woodwork table provided good opportunities for hammering.

Lincoln and Kadin did a lot of throwing and catching with the tennis ball.

Demolition Derby.