Each year a very special and thoughtful gift makes its way from the UK to NZ for our Te Kākano tamariki.
My wonderful mother-in-law, Maureen - aka 'Nanny Maureen', hand cross-stitches and creates a unique tree stocking for each of my lovely children in class.
We then pop a little something inside as an extra gift from us :) This year it was a Candy Cane pencil, a winter themed finger puppet and a peppermint smelly sticker.
Each year you hang it on the tree it's easy to remember the Christmas love from 2020 x
Yup! Get the glitter out (edible so good for the planet!)
Let's deck the halls with boughs of holly and fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la!
Thanks to our super helpers who could make it to support too - Yay!
Wreaths, Christmas Puddings, Stars, Trees, Santa's, Snowmen, Colouring, Festive Stencilling, Mini Christmas Pine Cone Trees, Paper Chains and much more!
Ho-Ho-Hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and New Year!
We just love our class trips and for all of us this was our first official class trip!
We enjoyed a family-based trip to the amazing Tūranga Library where Emily showed us around. We went into the 'Back Room' to see how books are returned and all the machines that help to sort them - way cool!
We explored the library, got to try on dress-ups, had story time and played with the awesome LEGO! We all loved the slide in the middle of the library too!
Kate found a picture of her Great-great Grandad on the historic files and had a photo taken with her mum too!
When we finished up in the library we wandered over to the Margaret Mahy playground for lunch and some serious play time with TK2!
Ho-Ho-Hope you love the performance as much as we enjoyed presenting it!
Our wee guys have been making their own instruments and costumes, learning their song and performing NZ Sign Language along with their movements! Not bad for 5 year olds right!
SUPER PROUD :) Love from Mrs T and Mrs V
Monday 7 December 2020
TK2 goes on an Expedition!
We have been finding out about insects since Term 3, so on Friday 27 November we went on the bus to find our more about them.
When we arrived at Travis Wetlands we were met by Pete an educator from CCC Learning through Action and some friendly feathered locals.
We learnt about how birds all sound different and to make their calls. Do you know which birds make these calls?
1. 'Kuku'. 2. 'Cheet cheet' 3. 'Scree Scree.'
We also went on a hunt for minibeasts, we found slaters, spiders and millipedes.
In pairs we found out that all trees feel different from each other.
Then by dressing up as birds and insects (the parents had to be trees!) we found out what happens if we do not look after all the parts of a forest and what lives there.
After our time with Pete, we explored Travis Wetlands briefly, we think everyone should go there. There is lots to learn in the information centre and there are lots of birds to see and places to walk.
Here we are on the bus ready for the next part of the adventure - meeting our Te Kakano 1 friends at Margaret Mahy Playground for a picnic. They had been exploring at Turanga, the wonderful Library in town.
We found different ways to play on the same equipment.
The daredevils among us tried the giant slide and the flying fox! "Weeeeeeee!!"
It was an awesome day and we got back to school just before the rain!
If you would like to know more, please ask us in the comments!
ALSO: If you know the answers to the question about the bird calls write that in the comments too!
Ms Lange asked us on Monday, "So for most of you that was your first Pet Day. What did you think about it?"
What TK2 had to say about Pet Day:
"It was fun being able to bring our pets to school," said Layla.
"It was cool making our pet rocks. I enjoyed using the paint and vivids," Carter thought.
"I loved putting flowers in my sand saucer, I really tried and it looked beautiful,"
added Emrin.
"I liked Pet Day because we got to bring our teddies. And we got to make pet rocks," answered Cyriss.
Lilly offered "It was interesting that we got to see a lot of different animals."
"People got to ride their horses and I loved the horses and it was really great that they came," replied Ollie.
"It was fun making sand saucers, we got to put flowers in them." commented Braxton.
Lynda brought Wes to school Pet Day.
He must have liked Braxton, because he gave him Lambie.
Casey and William agreed, "We wished we came. It sounded great."
If you read carefully you might work out something else we have been talking about. Please comment below and if correct, we will let you know!
Mrs T and Mrs V loved our YMS Pet Day too and we asked what TK1 had to say about Pet Day:
We thought it was really great to bring our dogs, cats, guinea pigs and chooks for Pet Day! Agri-Sports was so much fun and it was good to do so many farm things! Pet Rocks and Sand Saucers were good fun to create too!
Nixon: I loved every animal and my favourite animal is 'Shadow' my guinea Pig :)
Gus: I loved doing the training with my dog 'Bilco' for Pet Day! I made a Pet rock too!
Darcy: I loved taking 'Locksie' outdoors with me! Sack Jumping was fun!
Tiago: I loved looking after my little dog called 'Brown' The tractor tyres were enormous to roll!
Kayla: I loved taking my PJ bear outside - I liked milking the cow in my house team sports'
Ethan: I liked mummy's cat called Merlot and he was smoochy!
This week Jeff came from ASB Getwise to teach us all about being careful with money.
Gus got to be a shop owner and we watched Jeff The Super Saver spend all his money at the shop on a a lollipop and a teddy bear.
We also found out about Notes and Coins and how they are all CASH!
Saturday 14 November 2020
How to Be a YMS HERO
This term we have been revisiting what it we have learned about being a YMS HERO.
We have been watching some fun videos with important messages - thank you Sesame Street!
'Superman' and Elmo taught us about respect, this is part of the 'R' in HERO - being responsible and respectful.:
While we made ourselves pink t-shirts for Pink Shirt day ...
we talked about what it means to stand up for others, when and how to be brave and do the right thing. We also discovered that people who bully often don't not feel good about themselves.
So we have been thinking about ourselves and how amazing we are. When we have finished this work we will post it too.
This is our whakatauki from Week 2.
We are small but we are treasures with lots of talents.
Week 3's whakatauki was all bout the 'O' in HERO - being Open-minded, keeping on going even when it gets hard, which we thought would be really important on Friday for Athletics.
This Hikoi happened in October 1975.
We could also remember this when trying to be an Enthusiastic Learner.
When we learn something new it can be hard and frustrating.
We need to remember to keep trying, keep going and not give up!
What is something you have found hard to do but you kept on going and were successful?
