St Jame's Day and Grandparents Day

We had a lovely time of Friday combining our Feast Day with Grandparents Day. We celebrated with a liturgy and a shared lunch, followed by an amazing show case of Talents organised by Mrs Cawood. We shared the dance we had been learning with Dean. We loved our special day! Our Feast Day and Grandparents Day on PhotoPeach

Our Takahe on PhotoPeach

Fast Recall of Facts to 10

Addition Rock!
As part of our basic facts learning we have moved onto fast recall of Basic Facts to 10.
We found this cool song on youtube to help us learn these facts!  This is our 'Home Learning' focus for this week.



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We love learning about the Kiwi.
We planned our report using a is, has, lives and does model.
We are all trying hard to use facts and information to keep our writing interesting.

A Kiwi is nocturnal.  It has a long bill.

By Callum

A Kiwi has a long bill and whiskers that protect their eyes.  A Kiwi lives in a burrow.

By Niah

The Kiwi is a native bird.  The Kiwi has a long bill.  The Kiwi lives in New Zealand in burrows.  The Kiwi does walking in the night time and sleeps in the day time.

By Charlie

A Kiwi is native to New Zealand. It is a bird.  It is nocturnal.  A Kiwi has a bill and protective whiskers.  They live in burrows.

By Nate 

The Kiwi is a nocturnal bird.  It has  a bill.  It lives in New Zealand.

By Jeremiah

A Kiwi is a nocturnal bird.  A Kiwi has nostrils at the end of its bill.

By Samuel

Kiwis can walk in the bush.  Kiwis can’t fly.

By Taydom

Kiwis find bugs in the ground to eat.

By Bianca

Kiwis wake up at night and sleep during the day.

By Poppy

Kiwis can’t fly but they do have wings.

By Monique

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Holy Spirit

We are learning about the Holy Spirit.  Today we talked about water and how it reminds people of the Holy Spirit of God.
We talked about the way the Holy Spirit is like water: it gives us life, it helps us grow, it fills us up no matter what size we are.

Here are some of the prayers we shared this morning:
Loving God,
Thank you for the water that we can drink and it makes us feel better
Thank you for the water in the river for the fish to swim in
Thank you for the water in the sea that we can play in
Thank you for the water that we can wash in
Thank you for the water that we can be baptised in
Ame

Mount Bruce Trip

Basic Facts

We are trying our best to learn our basic facts to 5. We have been practicing these as part of our 'Home Learning'. We know that if we reverse the two addition numbers, the answer will be the same. Mum and Dad, can you help me practice these at home please! 1+2 4+1 3+2 0+1 2+0 3+1 2+1 1+0 2+2 2+3 0+4 1+4

Mrs G made this Photopeach slideshow of our Mother's Day cards. We also had to write about why we love our special Mums. We hope you enjoy these images.

 

Our First Discovery Time

We had an incredible middle block at our first Discovery Time on Friday. We made toast by ourselves, made paper dolls and our own books, did construction, used equipment to develop our gross motor skills, gardened with Mrs Edwards and painted! We were very good at managing ourselves and participating. We loved our first Discovery Time and can't wait until next week!

Football with Shane Rufer

This term the Junior school are developing their football skills on a Friday. Today we practised our football skills. 

Here we are dribbling. 

Shane thinks we are very clever!