Room 9 has been practicing hymns. Our favourite time of the day is prayer time when we sing loudly to God.

Room 2: Our Family Taonga / Treasures.

Recently in Room 2 we have been talking and writing about our Family Treasures or 'Taonga'.

A family treasure is anything that is special to our whole family. It will have a story about it and it may hold memories of people who we love. It can be something old that has been passed down to us from our parents or grandparents. Or it could be something special that has been given to our family recently, and that we may even pass on to our children and grandchildren.

The children have been bringing in these treasures on their News Day to share with the others in the class. It is so interesting seeing these Taonga and hearing the stories attached to them. Everyone brought something in to share and talk about.

Thank you so much families for entrusting your treasures to us, so that we can get an understanding of what treasures, or Taonga, are.

Here are slideshows showing each child, their treasure, and a short story about it.
Enjoy.

Some Highlights in Room 5.

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Room 5 have been learning about the Holy Spirit and change. We performed an experiment on changing colours with milk and water, it was amazing to see what happened.

Room 4 planted some cress seeds. Would you believe that the seeds germinated in ONE DAY!

We worked with God to grow food to eat. Thank you, God.

Room 3

We are lucky in Room 3 to have Jay-mi visit from Room 4 and he and Blake created this amazing building today. They are so proud. And rightly so. It took them half an hour and the other children were very impressed.

HOCKEY FUN - Room 1

Wow! It's been a really busy term so far and on Monday, 30th May, Room 1 were at it again, out on the sports field and having a great time.

This time it was a totally different ball game, with a new set of rules ... NO HANDS AND NO FEET ON BALL!!!

Hockey was the name of this game and boy did we have fun. Our coaches, Bevan and Mac were awesome and taught us some great skills. It didn't take long for us to get the hang of what we had to do and in no time at all, we were pushing, trapping, dribbling and tearing up and down the hockey turf with our sticks and hockey ball.

Check it out ...

SOCCER SKILLS - Room 1

Room 1 were the first out of the blocks for soccer skills with Owen on Monday, 9th May and we had a ball!!

Number one rule ... NO HANDS! FEET ONLY - that's why it's called football!

It took us a while to warm up but once we got into it, there was no stopping us. First, Owen put us into teams and we had to put on different coloured training singlets. We told Owen they were too big ... Owen told us we were just too small. Then we grabbed a ball each and practiced dribbling with both feet, keeping our heads up so we could see where we were going, and moving into space.

The games were really cool too. We played Stuck in the Mud and Owen was the Monster Muncher. Every time he trapped our ball, we had to stop and put the ball on top of our head and stand still. We could only move when a team mate came along and kicked a ball through our legs. Our last game was Rob the Nest. That was alot of fun. All in all, we had a fantastic morning and Whaea Jacqui was really happy because everybody had a go!