What we have been up to in Term 4 so far...

We have been learning about Probability - Chance for maths. We had to think of events for each of the keywords that determine the chance of an event; Impossible, Unlikely, Likely and Certain.

Here is our book of "Impossible" things.

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We have also been learning about celebrations and festivals. As part of this, we have been learning all about the Rugby World Cup 2015. We have been so excited following the tournament by watching the highlights in class, learning the countries' flags and writing about the RWC. We especially love watching the All Blacks play!

We are also learning about Diwali. Room 1 did a play about Diwali and we acted out the parts of Sita, Rama and Ravana. It was so fun!

Here is our Diwali wall, we created the beautiful Rangoli patterns by collaging coloured paper.

Miss Fok has also taken some awesome photos of our classroom. Check them out..

Notices:

Thursday 5th Nov -  Class photos

Friday 6th Nov - Bring a Can Mufti day

Wednesday 11th Nov - Diwali Dance off and Diwali dress up day

Thursday 12th Nov - Junior sports afternoon

Friday 13th  Nov - 

Thursday 26th Nov - Market day

Friday 11th Dec - Christmas Whanau Day

- Room 1 and Miss Fok

2015!!

Hello there!

Wow it's already 2015 and we have a brand new set of 5 year olds in room 1! Room 1 has started with 9 children, but this number will definately grow as days go by! Today was their first day of school and we had a great day (even though the temperature was 27 degrees!).

Here is our first class photo!
Here we are practising our fine motor skills by threading and making patterns!

PARENTS FYI:  Children will be sent home with their book bag and notebook this week. Inside the notebook will be a alphabet sheet, word sheet and number sheet. I would appreciate if parents could help children practise these at least 3 times a week.

- Room 1 and Miss Fok

Thank you to the whanau that made it to our PCS open morning!

A big thank you to the parents and whanau that made it to our PCS open morning. We really enjoyed having you here and showing you how clever we are! 

We read a shared big book called "Monkey's shoes". We then had to colour a monkey, design his huge shoes and write about our favourite part.

Here are some of them that are displayed on our wall. 

Reminders: 

- Children were sent home with raffle tickets to sell. If the money could be back ASAP that would be great! 

- PTA mufti day is this Friday (7th Nov). Children need to bring either a gold coin donation or a can of food donation.

- Room 1 and Miss Fok

Diwali!

Namaste all!

In room 1, we have been learning about a festival called Diwali. It is a celebration that many children in room 1 celebrate. Diwali is also known as the festival of lights.

To celebrate, we have been doing many fun things including drawing our own mendhi designs, making Diwali star craft, reading the story of Diwali, rangoli patterns and making Diya lamps. 

Here are a few photos of us making our awesome star decoration and Diya lamps.

Our Diya lamps

Reminder: We have our Diwali or book character dress up day on Friday 24th October. Children are allowed dress up in Diwali clothes or as a book character. Also this week is the last week to purchase your child's calendar/diary art. 

- Room 1 and Miss Fok

Super Fale Art

Talofa

We have come to the end of our Samoa topic unit and have almost made it to the end of term 3! Here are our fale artwork pieces that we have made. A fale is a a Samoan house. It has no walls, windows, doors, rooms or beds!

Here we are gluing our sticks on the roof of our fale.

Here are the finished products!

- Room 1 and Miss Fok

Coconut dance song and pasifika showcase reminder

Hi all,

Here is a photo of us in our leis that we made and here is the coconut dance that we did for our whole school assembly last week. Unfortunately it is only the back view but still enjoy!(If any parents have a video of the front, please let Miss Fok know. Thanks!) 

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4W6dy5dCLg

REMINDER: Come and join us at 9.15am on Friday 19th September 2014 for our junior school pasifika showcase. Afterwards enjoy looking around the classrooms at the pasifika displays and then you can spend morning tea time with your child.

-Room 1 and Miss Fok

Daffodil day!!

Hello everyone

Today was Daffodil day! We had such a good time donating money to the cancer charity, as well as making daffodil head pieces to wear in the Daffodil parade! 

Here are some photos of what we got up to.

Here we are hi-fiving the audience and showing off our creations. We felt like super stars! 

 

Here is a photo of us smiling, with our beautiful daffodil flower head pieces which we made ...

...and of course we had to do a silly one. We do like to Monkey around sometimes!

Things to remember:

- Our trip to the Stardome observatory is next Friday (wk 7).

- We host our whole school assembly on Monday 8th September at 1.15pm. We would love it if parents and whanau could attend and watch us perform!!

- Room 1 and Miss Fok

Zoo trip sneak peek!

We went to the zoo today and we all had so much fun!  Thank you to all the parent helpers who came on the trip with us, we really liked having you! 

Here is a sneak peek photo of our trip.  We will post some more photos later on, so check back in a few days :)

- Room 1 and Miss Fok

Week 7 - Our beautiful NZ Kea bird artwork

Kia ora,

Here are some photos of our beautiful pieces of artwork that we have been doing.

Native New Zealand Kea Birds

Primary coloured butterflies

Race Relations Day- 
Here we are celebrating the cultural diversity we have in NZ by wearing our cultural clothes

- Room 1 and Miss Fok