Wahine Walk

The Kereru syndicate went for an awesome walk to the Wahine memorial today to launch us into our hands of time inquiry. Thanks a lot for all the parents who came to help out. The students had a go at sketching the foremast and the surrounding area. Watch this space to see how they did!

Basic facts practice link

Kia ora whanau,

Below is a link to the website we will be using for our basic facts home practice starting next week.

https://maths.prototec.co.nz/

Room 15's Musical Talents

Well done to Olly and Rose for delivering some wonderful musical shows. Was fantastic to see how engaged everyone was when they were playing! Tau ke!

Sphero coding

Today Room 15 spent some time coding spheros in the library. Over the coming weeks we will try to increase the complexity of our block coding and hopefully learn some cool new things!

Growth Mindset!

In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have had these qualities.

Here is a wonderful story, featuring the teachers, illustrating what a 'Growth Mindset' is all about...

The Tortoise and the Hare

The students reacted to the video today, and here is what they got out of it. 

Home made lava lamps

Today Room 15 did an experiment to learn all about how density can be manipulated to make cool home made lava lamps. Check these out!

Week 3 Principal Award Winners!

A huge ka pai to Luca Marshall and Lachie Belliss for getting the year's first Principal Awards! What a great start to the year!

HOWIE Value certificates - Week 1 and 2

Ka Pai to Will Hobbs, Rose Peddie-Burch, Jayden Bietje (absent) and Eleanor Nelson for picking up our value awards for the first two weeks! Well done for showing the values of respect and kindness!

Introducing Room 15s Kereru Leaders!

Introducing Curtis Caughley and Isabelle Buchanan! Our Kereru leaders from room 15! Ka pai to you both and to everyone else who applied.

Adverb Dancing!

Today Room 15 learned all about adverbs through dance. We combined an adverb and a dance move to make a short dance routine. We thought about HOW adverbs change a verbs meaning, and how they explain how something is done. Ask your child about some of their dance moves they came up with.

Danish Rounders with the neighbours

This afternoon room 15 faced off against room 16 in a game of Danish Rounders. Both teams played awesome, and next time it might even be a cup game. Well done Room 15!

Buddy Time!

 Today we got to meet our buddy class! This year, Room 15 will be with Room 5 (Michelle Hollard).

We will aim to meet weekly on a Friday. This is an amazing opportunity not just for juniors to make some big-kid friends, but also our Kereru students to be leaders and role models.

It was a blast hanging out with you Room 5! See you next week!

Parachute and Detective

Today Room 12 had some fun with the parachute!

We focussed on building teamwork and working together and had an awesome time.

We also played some fun drama games to get to know each other a bit more too. Tau ke!