Lizzie's Research

Wills ended up here twice, here is Elizabeths effort

Tui Reading Group Research Assignment

The Tui's reading group have completed a project on frogs. They would like to share this with you. Our thanks to the wonderful Room 1 students who came in to teach us how to import photos to Explain Everything.

Doubles and halves

We have been learning about patterns of doubles to ten, and halves. We talked about doubles meaning getting a group the same size and half making our counters into two piles of exactly the same size. Cody is able to make the pattern of double three for six. Using the pattern he can show half of six is three.

Symmetrical Gingerbread

We made ginger bread with Mrs Smith. We iced them in a symmetrical pattern. Symmetrical patterns are the same on both sides. These are our results. Yum!!

Fireman Dan's Visit

Fireman Dan and a few of his friends, Craig, Jon, Peter and David, came to see us at Kaniere School. Their visit fitted in with our Disaster Unit, "What's the Plan Stan?". They taught us basic fire safety rules. After talking in class we realised that not everyone knew where their safe meeting place was. We had talked about this when discussing earthquakes. Has your family got a safe meeting place?

Fruit or Vegetable

What makes a fruit a fruit and a vegetable a vegetable? How do we tell the difference? Is it colour? Is it taste? Is it where it grows? What is a tomato? What is pumpkin? How about beans, strawberries, or bananas? Which are fruit and which are vegetables?

Learning about the Food Groups with Harold

Life Education Visit

Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday we are visiting Harold in the Life Education van. Today in class we were talking about treats. Could you please talk to your child about what a treat is e.g.something special, and how often it is appropriate to have treats. Is it once a day, one a week, once an month?

Help Us Win a $5000 garden from Mother Earth

Happenings at the Westland District Library

Doubles and halves

We have been learning about doubles and halves. Here is a wee reminder about how we double and half numbers.

Reports for Term 3 and Home work

These went home today. Please check your child'd bag. .If I haven't reported on your child this term I will in Term 4. It is certainly pleasing to see the progress they have made. I would also like to apologise for the irregular appearance of hime work over the last two weeks. With Tattybogle practices and not being in the classroom last two Frida's I haven't been getting the formal testing completed. But rest assured we have been making progress. I have decided to leave testing until next term, apart from word rockets. there will continue to be reading every night until the end of term.

Happy Fathers Day!

What a busy day. First we had assembly and we sang one of our Tattybogle songs. We are all so looking forward to the performance. We can start counting down the sleeps. There will be a newsletter about costumes on Monday. Because we were so busy today with our special surprises for you know who we did not get testing done today. So we will do Word Rockets on Monday and just keep the same words for next week's spelling. Enjoy Sunday with your family!

Supporting Ms Barrow and Mrs Schroder to buy Harold hay

Kaniere School had a muftil day to sponsor Ms Barrow and Mrs Schroder for the Polar Plunge at Karoro Beach on Sunday. Funds raised are going to the Life Education Trust. We think Harold needs more hay or perhaps some trees to eat!

Supporting Ms Barrow and Mrs Schroder to buy Harold hay

Kaniere School had a muftil day to sponsor Ms Barrow and Mrs Schroder for the Polar Plunge at Karoro Beach on Sunday. Funds raised are going to the Life Education Trust. We think Harold needs more hay or perhaps some trees to eat!

Rocket Champions

Esther is our Queen for Week 2, and Sone the Princess. Will took out King of the Rockets with Liam close behind. Taylor and Elizabeth recorded personal bests, so well done to both of you!

Our Trip to the Library

We went to the Library with Room 5 to mark New Zealand Book Awards Week. Lauren, the Children's Librarian, read us 'Finding Monkey Moon' and 'Stripes or Spots'. We went on a treasure hunt around the library looking for clues to find Monkey Moon and decorated animals for the fashion parade in a mixture of spots and stripes.

Thank you so much to those parents who provided transport and to the library staff for hosting us.

Patsy Came For A Visit

On the last day of term Taylor brought her rabbit to school to show us. Pasty is a Flemish Giant rabbit. We all had a chance to give Pasty a pat. Taylor told us that Pasty can't eat lettuce but she loves carrots!

Cross Country 2016

We are extremely proud of our cross country champions, all those children who put one foot in front of the other to make it all the way around the circuit. Special congratulations go to Will, Liam, and Leon, who took out the Year 1 boys placings and Esther, Sone, and Taylor who took out the Year 1 girls places.

Gymnastics with Helen

At PE on Monday Helen taught us some gymnastics moves. We learnt how to do a pike, a tuck , stretch, and a straddle. look at our great moves!

Will is doing a beautiful straddle

The boys are doing a stretch

Lizzie's lovely pike

Word Rockets Week 5

Wow, our Word Writing Champions have been running hot! Our Queen for this week is Esther and Sone is her delightful princess. King for this week is Will and Liam is prince. We do have an increasing number of children are writing more words tan they have written before which is really pleasing to see. There must be lots of practise going on at home. Well done for achieving personal bests: Esther, Iziah, Liam, Luca, Summer F, Summer W, Taylor and Theo.

Word Rockets Week 4

We have new word writing rocket champions. There were six children that recorded personal bests. SO congratulations to Ali, Leon, Luca, Victor, and Summer W. Our new king is Will and the prince is Liam, our Queen is Sone and we have Princess Esther.  Well done to you all.

Will and Sone also completed their last sight word fish on Friday, this is awesome news.

Lost teeth

Esther lost her tooth in class today. Well she didn't actually lose it, but it did fall out! So we decided to count how many teeth have fallen out in Room 4. Some children had no new teeth, others had four or five! When we added up all the lost teeth the tooth fairy has made 22 visits to children in Room 4.

Word Rockets Week 3

King of the Rockets last week was Liam, and the trusty Prince, Will. We have a Queen. Queen Sone has the beautiful Princess Elizabeth at her side. Both Victor and Elizabeth had personal best. Well done to all those who gave it their best effort.

Kapa Haka

Each Tuesday we are lucky to have Paula come and tech Kapa Haka. We meet in the our new library space and learn waiata for 30 minutes.  The seniors stay on to practise their action songs for special occassions.

King and Queen of the Rockets

Word Rockets are a test of how many words we can write from memory and quickly. We are given 10 minutes to write as many words as we can while Mrs Hickford prompts some words we can write word families,  change the final sound, change the vowel to make new words., or write spelling words and other words we know. Things that help us write more words are: knowing the letter sounds, being able to quickly change first, middle and last sounds, being able to form our letters quickly and correctly. Words are counted only once and if a letter is reversed the word counts only if the reversal is does not make a different letter. So p/q and d/b are common confusions and words wont count if they are written the wrong way. others like 'c' and 's' the words will count.
Week 2 Queen is Esther, her consort is King Will. Courtiers for this week are Prince Theo and Princess Sone,  well done.  Next week I look forward to write all the personal bests into our blog as well. These are children who write more words than they a have written before.

Learning about patterns

In Maths we are learning about patterns. Today we discussed how many items were in a pattern. If the pattern goes triangle, circle, triangle, circle there are two items in the pattern, a triangle and a circle. We looked for patterns in the days of the week, and months of the year. Patterns are everywhere. Tell me about your child finding a pattern.

Remember when we start looking Maths is everywhere! Can you find the hidden maths in books?

My Mum

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Room 4 wrote some great stories about their mothers. Follow the link to read them. We also made fantastic Mother's Day cards to give Mum on her special day.

Room 4 show off their great Mother's Day art

Hedgehog Fun

On Friday we made hedgehogs with Room 5. Room 4 received a $25 Fruit and Vege Department voucher from New World. We decided to share our luck with Room 5.  We Made one fruit prickle and one vege prickle. Look for our stories later this week. Thank you to the kind person who put our name on the back of their docket and put it in the bin.

Rhys form Room 5 adds to our vege hedgehog , Will looks on.

Smiley's Visit

On Wednesday last week Mrs A bought a special visitor to Room 4.

We had to be very quiet so we didn't scare Smiley

Smiley was very curious 

Mrs A told us all about Smiley and how she is came to live with her

Some of us were a bit shy when Smiley came close

We feel very privileged to have touched a real kiwi

Welcome to Summer F

We have another Summer in our class. We would like to welcome Summer Fortune who has joined us from Hokitika Primary. Welcome to Room 4 Summer, we hope you have many happy years of learning at Kaniere School.

Swimming

We have been having a great time at swimming.  Look at all we have been learning.

Elizabeth and Taylor showing their floating skills

Esther

Luca and Victor getting wet

Theo practising bubble blowing

Summer loves swimming

Oscar in his element

Iziah floating on his back

Cody, Elizabeth, Taylor and Will

Who Am I?

We have been writing descriptions. On our wall are the owls we made they have clues on them about us. Can you guess 'Who Am I?' from our descriptions? You can check to see if you are right by opening the owls wings.

Geometry

We have been learning to identify two dimensional shapes. We looked for shapes in the playground and created pictures using shapes. I wonder how many shapes you can find at home?

Welcome Oscar

Welcome to Oscar who has joined our class this week.

Welcome back to school 2016

It is great to be back at school. We have had a great first week at school, getting to know each other. It is very hot so remember to put a water bottle in your child's bag.