Rooms 1 and 2 have been experimenting with toys, old and new. They have been playing outside games, as well as inside ones. Room 1 and 2 had puzzles to solve, a fire station to play with including some trucks, barbie dolls and cars, My Little Pony figures and a mat with cars and a telephone box. They also have wooden trucks, trailers and cars, water games, sandpit shovels and equipment, duplo blocks, drawing to do, balls to play with, alphabet pieces to put together and they had lots of fun while doing it! Room 1 and 2 would greatly appreciate it if you could please donate toys to them to experiment with if you are cleaning out stuff, become too old for your toys or simply just want to see kids have fun with toys old and new!

By School Reporter Emily (with photo contributions from Mia)

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Room 8 has been doing some wonderful artwork on the themes of birds, sun and night time. They have been making birds out of paper and they made some poem stories to share with other people. Room 8 has also produced some beautiful turtle art.

In writing they have written memoirs in bottles from lockdown to brighten up lockdown! Room 8 has also written stories about toilet paper roll people!
 
By School Reporters Jodie and Marley.

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When we visited Room 6 (our newest and youngest class) they had done some spring bouquets of flowers, cats and crowns. They had also created some bubbles and had written some wishy washy muddy animal poems. 

All around their classroom was jellyfish art with confetti strings on it. They also coloured in a J to go with the jellyfish because this is one of the letters that they have been learning. 

For Maths they made some magnificent monsters with circles and rectangles. They had drawn some monsters from the story ‘Lost’. For Maths and Art they had also found out each other's favourite ice-cream flavour. 

 By School Reporters Isla & Melanie

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When we visited, Room 14 had made these cool kiwi masks to share with their families. They had also made some Olympic art with paint and circles. Ms.T (Room 14’s wonderful teacher) was making some stick figures to show the class for their art lesson today. In writing they drew and wrote about their shoes. For Matariki they made star constellations, which they also wrote about. For Maths, Room 14 have been using Numicon to help them understand the value of the numbers 0-20. They have also been learning to use clocks and read the time. In Art they did some sand art and Anzac pictures that were pretty cool.


By School Reporters Jodie and Abby

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This term Matakana Pod is focusing on Maori Gods. As part of this, when we visited Room 23 they were doing some Maori God art and Matariki activities.

Room 23 has been successfully growing beans in Science. They have also been learning about the 4 Zones of Regulation and identifying their feelings. Room 23 had made some kiwi art with facts about the kiwis.

Keep up the good work Room 23! 

By School Reporters Isla & Mel

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In Room 13 they have been working on a lot of Art such as ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ rhymes and under the sea art. At the start of the year they also created jumpers and their Pepehas. Room13 has a class treaty with some expectations they follow. They have also made some colourful lanterns, Anzac art and Tongan art. 

When we visited they were cooking food for Matariki. They cooked fried bread, potatoes and kumara. Delicious!

By School Reporters Isla & Mel

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When we visited Room 4 we took lots of pictures of children playing outside on the fantastic new equipment in the Junior playground. Room 4 has been learning about the human skeleton and bones in our body. They have also been creating art work about turtles, seahorses and little Kiwis in the dark. They then wrote about their art work.

By School Reporters Kaida and Abigail

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Room 3 has been doing art that is associated with the things happening around them, such as painting poppies for ANZAC day and ocean dioramas for sea week, as well as cultural art such as painting about the Maori legend ‘How the kiwi lost its wings’. 
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The class has also been learning about the difference between sharks and dolphins using venn diagrams.

Room 3 is a friendly environment where students can learn through play and have a positive learning experience.

By School Reporters Elsa and Gail

At the beginning of the year, Room 9 made a treaty to make their classroom safe, friendly and kind. So when new people come in they know the expectations in the class. Room 9 read a book about a giraffe that can’t dance and they made giraffe pictures. They also made 3D cubes with Mrs Armstrong, then they wrote their initials in the 3D cubes. During our visit the class were making origami kowhai flowers out of paper. Room 9 is also one of the few classes to win best class in the library this year - well done!

By School Reporters Nick and Chance.

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