Year 1&2 Assembly

On Friday it was Room 1's turn to organise the Year 1 & 2 assembly. Blaine and Sarah were our wonderful presenters! Esme, Amelia L, Florence, Ben,Harriet and Petra presented a play called The Ant and the Grasshoppers. Artemisia and Harry talked about our Slinky Malinki artwork. Well done Room1! You all worked very hard and I was very proud of you all. So were all the mums and dads who came to watch!

Conservation Week Clean Up!

Several junior classes went down to the beach on Friday to check out the shoreline for litter. The children worked in pairs - one was the 'spotter' who pointed to the litter and their partner, wearing a disposable glove', was the 'picker upper'. Most of the litter was paper wrappers but we were sad to find some plastic rings that could get caught around the necks of birds or other animals.
We had to be careful not to step on plants growing in the dunes too!

Gingerbread Man

"Run,run,
Fast as you can
You can't catch me,
I'm the gingerbread man."
Room 1 love creating multi media artwork!

Slinky Malinki

Our current art topic is Multimedia Art, where the students use different materials in sequence to create a layered piece of art. Mr Laird worked with Room 1 on these Slinky Malinki creations.

Rugby World Cup!

The whole school dressed up in the colours of the team they support today.
What a lot of All Black supporters and lots of other countries too!
Blaine even had a mini All Black in his lunch box!

International Literacy Day today

September 8th is International Literacy Day. In Room 1 we shared favourite picture books with our Room 11 buddies. Joe and Abby are holding gift packs with a picture book inside that all babies born today in Wellington will be given. It is never to early to enjoy books! Mrs Chao and Mrs Ryan are delivering them today for the Wellington Literacy Association, of which they are committee members. At lunchtime Mrs Chao and Mrs Ryan read stories in the school library.

Magnetism - Science and Technology!

Our Science inquiry last term involved magnets. This term in our inquiry we are using magnets as part of a technology investigation.

We are exploring ways we can use magnets and will design our own fridge magnets using different materials. The fridge magnet we make must meet a set of criteria - especially the one that says it must be strong enough to hold our reading or spelling rockets onto our fridge at home.

Making magnetic fishing games gave us the opportunity to experiment with the strength of magnets. We enjoyed sharing them with our big buddies.

2012 Calendars

This week Room 1 have been busy creating their artwork for the Muritai School calendar fundraiser. The children have used felt pens and dye to draw their families. We hope you enjoy them! Later in the term orders will be taken for calendars, greeting cards and diaries. Artwork is on display in Room1.

The Gingerbread Man

In room 1 we are learning to write a recount of a fairy story. First we draw a row of brainstorm sketches in our writing books to get the events in the right order. Next we write a sentence about each sketch, trying to use some WOW (interesting) words to describe what is happening. Some of us are even learning how to use speech marks! We hope you enjoy reading these published stories. They are displayed on the wall
in Room 1.

Spelling and Maths Basic Facts

Friday is testing day for Maths Carriage Basic Facts and Spelling Rockets in Room 1!
Everybody works at their own pace and moves on to the next level when they are ready.
Well done Room 1. You are all working so hard!

Extra Opportunities: Rippa Rugby

Muritai School students are lucky to have many opportunities to extend themselves in a variety of activities. Last Saturday morning the Under 6 Rippa Rugby team played in the school grounds. This team has students from Rooms 1, 2 and 3. I was so impressed with the way they worked as a team to score! Great skills boys! Well done coaches! I hope to check out some more sports over the next few weeks.

Tane and the Stars

Room 1 have been enjoying listening to Mr Laird read some some traditional Maori legends. Here are our drawings of Tane throwing the stars into the sky from his basket.

Welcome to Mr Laird!

Teacher trainee Mr Jono Laird has joined Room 1 for the next seven weeks. The children are enjoying his input already and especially enjoy his animated story telling!

Welcome to Term 3!

Welcome back to Term 3 in Room1. We have been very busy this week and are back into the swing of learning already!
New Basic Facts Maths Express and Spelling Rockets will come home each week and will be tested on Fridays.
Reading Rockets continue to be tested any day of the week.

Last Day of Term 2

Today we could come to school dressed as a book character in exchange for a coin donation as it is International Literacy week. We are raising money to buy books for a school in Nepal. It was also Calvin's last day as his family are moving back to South Carolina. His mum Sherry brought some cupcakes to share and everyone got treats his grandparents brought from America. Thank you Calvin, we loved having you in Room 1 and we will miss you!

Well done for a great Term 2 everyone!

Welcome Harry!

We welcomed Harry to Room 1 today. Harry has made lots of new friends already! He enjoyed reading stories and playing soccer with his class mates best of all!

Maori Language Week.

This week has been Maori Language Week. Room 1 have been enjoying practicing counting, greeting each other and singing our favourite action songs!

100 days of School!

100 decorated biscuits!

Our row of 100 biscuits

Room 1 have been at school for 100 days this year!
We are 100 days smarter!
We celebrated by having a maths day focusing on number 100!
We made lots of collections of 100 objects and estimated then checked how far a row of 100 biscuits would stretch across the classroom. We iced and decorated the biscuits and shared them with our Room 11 buddy class. We can all count to 100!

Physical Education focus: Folk Dancing

Every Monday afternoon all the year 1 & 2 classes meet for folk dancing in the hall. It is a great chance to work cooperatively together across the syndicate. Room 1's favourites are Carnavalito, Jibidee and the Birdie Dance!