Week Seven Term Four

Wow things are really starting to get busy for the end of year.

We have begun our concert practice and it is great to have costumes starting to come to school.  The theme this year is Animal Kingdom.

It has been wonderful having Mrs Pollard and Mrs Knapp help out with swimming.  Everyone is making great progress with some children reaching or passing their expectation for their year level.

We have been making paper mache insects as part of our inquiry on Minibeasts.  The children had to choose an insect and then using paper mache create their chosen insect.

The children have created a fotobabble on their own blogs about their insects.

Only TWO weeks left of the school year!

Week Five Term Four

It was great to have Mr Pirie teaching on Friday of week four and Monday of week five.
On Tuesday we had Mr Esler come into our class and talk to us about Mini Beasts.  He had some bugs he had collected to show us, some photos of mini beasts and he also dressed Liana up as an insect!

We have been swimming twice a week now and we are lucky to have Mrs Pollard share her skills and swimming knowledge with us also.  It is also great to have parent help so all the children can be in the pool at once.

Our MVP this week for showing our school value of Self Control is Olivia.

We also had some more children pass their learning goals and Amber got the Tidy Kiwi Award this week.

Week Five Term Four

Wow! What a busy week it was this week.
Pet Day was on Tuesday and it was a great day with everyone coming to see all the animals, fruit and veg, baking, models and inventions.  All Team Tui did a fotobabble on their individual blogs about pet day, so make sure you go onto your child's blog and have a look.
Here are a few photos from Pet Day.

Mini Olympics afternoon was held on Wednesday to fundraise money to help support a former Edendale pupil - Mathew Caldwell who is representing New Zealand and the Special Olympics held in Australia and the end of the month.  It was a great afternoon of games.

Week Three Term Four

This week we started swimming!!!  We will be swimming on Mondays after lunch and on Thursdays after morning tea from week five on wards.  You will read about swimming on your child's individual blogs during week four.
During reading we have been creating paper mache insects and these will be finished by the end of week five.  Keep a look out for some photos of these.
On Friday at Celebration Time we had two students from Team Tui win the Tidy Kiwi Awards for the week.  Congratulations Emma P and Hannah.

Week Two Term Four

This week we had fun on a 'mini beast' hunt around the school looking for all the different mini beasts.  Then we came back and sorted them into their correct categories or groups they belong to.

We were on Celebration Time this week and shared our reflection art.  These are on the children's individual blogs for you to see.
Harm was our writer of the week.  He had his description about his cousin Josh read by Mr McKenzie.

Libby was our MVP for demonstrating our value of Persistence

Week One Term Four

Welcome back everyone to term four!
This week went really fast but we covered a lot of new learning.
For maths we are focusing on Transformations and this week we have looked at reflection, the line of symmetry and rotation.  We reflected our names.  Here are a few of them for you to see.

We are excited to be able to visit the Library again on Wednesdays and get a chapter book out to read at home.
Our inquiry this term is all about mini beasts and why they are important to our world.  This week we looked at the different categories of mini beasts and had to put some mini beasts into our own categories.

As we learn new knowledge about mini beasts we will eventually know the different types and categories they belong to.