Kelly Sports Day

Yay! Monday again and we start our day with Kelly Sports.

Sophie has another fun warm-up organised we are calling it 'Uppy/downy cones'. We have cones turned up and down all around the hall. We split into two teams - ups and downs - and they have to turn the cones up or down. The winning team is the one with the most cones. We love this game.

Next we played passing the football - using the sides of our foot to kick the ball to a partner. This was a really good skill and control exercise.

Next we played a game in two teams. The hall was split into two with a line of dots and at each end there was a line of cones. The aim of the game was to kick balls passed the cones on the other team's side; using the side of our feet.

Another fun session - thank you Sophie!

Disco Time!

Ahoy there, me hearties!! A pirate and some fair maidens....

A gorgeous Princess...

...and some super, scary pirates ready to dance the afternoon away.

Week 8 Already!

Goodness it is Week 8 already - I can hardly believe it! The term is whizzing by...Spring is here, the sun is shining and the flowers are blooming.

We have started our week off well with the lovely Sophie teaching us Kelly Sports. We love it; it is a great way to start our week.

We started today by warming up with one foot on the ball and the other foot on the  floor then we did a quick swap with our feet. The warm up continued with us moving around the room with the ball: dribbling the ball but keeping within the boundaries. Next we did the same thing but high fived each other: a challenge designed to get us to look where we are heading whilst dribbling. The first game today was 'candlesticks' but with footballs. When we were tagged we had to pick up our ball and hold it at our chest. We could ‘save’ each other by kicking the ball under the candlesticks legs. To increase the challenge Sophie picked two teams. The second game of the day was 'Octopus' but with balls. The taggers having to kick the player's ball out of boundaries to get them out. It was a fun take on the the games we all know very well .

Yay! A day for visitors in the classroom; this afternoon, Mrs Wetere visited us and after a lovely Maori story time we practised our tititoria.

We have to be quite gentle and be careful not to knock holes on our floor!

We work with partners to practise...

 ...and then we put our tititoria routines to music. We love it, it is really good for our focusing and listening skills.

Holiday Time For Harvey!

Harvey is having a wonderful time away in Australia and he has written us a letter to tell us all about it...

Hello room 3 

Hope you are all well.

This is a picture of Carlos and I at the moon house.

We call it the moon house because it is very close to the moon. It is nanna and grandads beach house and it’s right by the beach in Surfers Paradise.

We are having a great time with my family.I loved going to the beach, the spa, pool and riding on the dodgems at Timezone.

I have also been eating lots of my favourite Australian donuts.

See you later next week when we get back.

Have fun,

Harvey.

We are looking forward to you coming back, Harvey!

What a Rubbish Day!

 Rubbish pick up day has arrived at last - after all our thinking, planning and ideas about how to go about our task.

 We all got into our teams of two children and one parent. Sahara and Nicholas and Mrs Grace were one team, here they are picking up rubbish from their patch.

 We made it to marker number 2 and just look how much rubbish we have!

"This bag is getting heavy, Mrs Grace!" said Sahara.

Back at school we empty all the rubbish onto a big tarp  in the pool and then wait for everyone else to return with their bags.

This pile is getting big!

Oh my goodness! What a lot of rubbish! 

Still more to add to the pile...

and more...

Unbelievable! 

We are astounded at how much rubbish we have collected.

Now we have to sort it into piles, plastics...

paper... 

metals... 

other materials.... 

glass...

 

That was one very big clean up. We could not have done it with out all the wonderful parents and grandparents that came to help us - thank you!!!

Kapa Haka Performance

Our wonderful Kapa Haka group gave a performance for the school today.

They looked splendid and sounded superb. They have an important performance on Thursday which we are sure they will do very well at. 

Being part of the Kapa Haka group is something to look forward to when you get higher up the school, Busy Bees!

Mrs Wetere

Every three weeks Mrs Wetere comes to to do some Maori language, songs and games with us. We really enjoy this time because Mrs Wetere makes it lots of fun. Today she read us a lovely story called 'Kei te pehea koe' (How do you feel?).

We had a lot of fun working with titi torea this afternoon.

We can't wait till Mrs Wetere's next visit!