The TK BLOG Kit!

Our awesome Leader of Learning, Mrs Spragg, has given us some really cool resources to help us get even better at Blogging!

We have set-up our own TK Class 'BLOG-Kit' so we always know where to go for ideas if we get stuck!

Thanks heaps Mrs Spragg it is awesome :)

Junior Hui at YMS!

We meet each week to share and celebrate the successes of our Junior learners.

Here are our amazing certificate earners for this week 

Ka pai!

Our Awesome First Leg of the YMS Marathon

We are all working together to run an entire marathon because we are all HEROs!

We are signed up to run 3 times a week, 3 times around the Big Field for 11 weeks - all recorded and all totalled to make a Marathon!

The Kidsmarathon will commence on Wednesday 5th June. Students to enlist by Friday 31st May.

Dear Parents/whanau/tamariki at Yaldhurst Model School,

We have the great privilege and honour of being offered the opportunity to host the Rod Dixon Kidsmarathon at Yaldhurst Model School this year. 

This fun event encourages the children to commit to running or walking 3x per week ( Monday, Wednesday, Friday) 3 laps of our field for 10 - 12 weeks until they have covered the full marathon distance.   

They will be walking or running with friends, laughing and chatting as they go, whilst becoming fitter, healthier, confident individuals. 

The motto for this event is" Winning is Finishing and Finishing is Winning". A great adage to be reinforcing with our tamariki.

The children that enter will be issued with a run card. Each time they complete 3 laps of the field they must get this stamped as this will clock their kilometres.  We will have 1 - 2 adults out with the children so they will be encouraged along the way. 

Any parent volunteers would be so appreciated.

If your child decides to take part we will be encouraging them to stick with it!  As the feeling of satisfaction upon completion will be enormous for every child that takes part. 

The whole school and community will be invited to come out and watch the final kilometre being run or walked and celebrate the athletes success.

Please encourage your child to take part in this great event.

Regards

Gabrielle Lange and Sarah Dods

Mrs Wishy-Washy Writing

Kia ora,

Here in Te Kākano we have been reading an awesome Big Book called 'Mrs Wishy-Washy'.

We have been discussing how hard her job must be and would we like to do it?

Have you read it?

Well, Mrs Wishy-Washy lives on a farm with a cow, a pig and a duck.

They keep getting really dirty in the mud and Mrs Wishy-Washy has to scrub them in a tub to get them clean.

BUT...they go and get dirty again!  Poor Mrs Wishy-Washy!

We have actually created our own Mrs Wishy-Washy books so as authors and illustrators we have had to think about our stories from characters to problems to solutions.

Hope you like our writing display!

The Power of Flight!

We are working with our class buddies in Te Pihinga for our Technology unit and we have started to discuss flight this week!

What do we already know?



What do we want to find out more about? Thrust, Balance, Take Off, Direction and Downdraft!...



What are we making at home with our whānau?

Mrs T shared some 'How to make simple paper planes with your children' videos on Seesaw so we could practise together before we do it ourselves next week!

Lest we forget...Real Heroes from our own Whānau!

We are so proud of every brave soldier who gave their life then to ensure that we were safe and secure today!

Lots of our forces personnel sacrificed so much for our future generations and many did return home to their whānau always remembering the friends they lost in battle.

One of our class has one of those Great-Great Grandfathers who were incredibly brave and lived to tell the tale.  Mr David McCormick - 2nd Lieutenant, was a very brave man indeed.

He was a decorated soldier and his medals were brought in to class today to admire.

The Cross is called the 'Military Cross' and is awarded for extreme bravery.

Thank you for sharing these incredibly precious medals with us today.

Lest we forget...

ANZAC Day is very important because it is a chance for us all to remember the very brave soldiers who went to war to fight and did not come back home again. 

They did this sacrifice so that we could be safe in our wonderful country - thank you.

We thought about you all when we made our field of poppies in class.