cute visitor in Rooms 2 and 3

We had a cute little visitor in our room this morning! Thank you Isla for sharing your new puppy with us-he is very cute and fluffy.
Well done to all our wonderful learners in Rooms 2 and 3, you have all been awesome and have made a fabulous start to your learning journey at school.
Ms Morgan, Mrs Haines and I will miss you all very much over the holidays.
Make sure you pop in to see us when you come back next year as big year 1's.
Happy holidays, and don't forget to keep reading over the holidays so you can fill out your holiday reading logs!

Farewell Miss Presland, Ms Best and Whaea Tori

Today at assembly we said a very special farewell to Miss Presland, Ms Best and Whaea Tori.  We sure will miss them!  Can you guess how many roses Whaea Tori has in her vase?  21! One rose for each year she has been teaching at Owairaka School!!!

Hello little chick!

Mrs Johns took us to the Fale and we met the little chick that is living with Mrs Johns in the cottage.  We talked about what a little chick needs to be happy and healthy.  We were able to pat the chick (if we wanted to). It felt so soft!

The little chick followed the mother chicken.

 We learned that the chick needs food to eat and water to drink.

We were all able to gently pat the chick if we wanted to.

Isla. Havana, Jack and Emme patted the chick and thought it felt very soft.

Shahid and Richard told us all about the life cycle of a chick.  They showed us a picture from their learning journal.  Thank you Mrs Johns, Shahid and Richard for bringing the chick to visit us today.

Green Day

Well done Raika and Jack who received certificates at our special Green Day assembly.   

Green, green and more green!  We had a lovely Green Week celebration today and came to school dressed in green.  We also farewelled our wonderful student teacher Miss Campbell!

group work

We had fun this morning working on our repeating patterns. We worked in teams to make a repeating pattern with our coloured card. We worked really well doing team work and solving problems together.

working with clay

We read a story about Diwali. During Diwali little Divas are made to hold candles. We made our own little divas out of clay. We then painted a pattern on the outside. We love our little divas!

Rolling the clay into a ball was quite tricky as the clay was hard!

We dipped our fingers into water so that we could smooth over the cracks in the clay.

We made a hole in the middle of the ball with our thumb.

More fun with repeating patterns

We rolled different coloured plasticine into a repeating pattern.