Earth Hour 2013

This Saturday, 23rd March at 8.30pm, is Earth hour. 

Watch this video and see what you can find out about Earth Hour.

What does this mean for our planet? How can you help?
Add your ideas in the comments box below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2UywrjnOaUE

This website below gives you information about how many days, hours and minutes there are left till earth hour. It enables you to add your email address and be counted on the day. Ask your parents first though!

http://www.earthhour.org/

There is more interesting information on this website too. I wonder if you can find some of the places in the world that are mentioned in this article?

http://www.earthday.org/2013/about.html

Kauri Team Swimming Sports

What a fantastic day we had! Thank you Matangi School for giving us the opportunity to enjoy our Kauri Team Swimming Sports at your pool. We had so much fun and all of us achieved our goals.

Parents, there will be certificates presented at Positive Assembly this Friday morning to all the children who came first, second or third in their races. We hope you can make it.

Mihimihi

We are learning to introduce ourselves in Maori by saying and sharing our mihi.

Here we are practising with our learning buddies.

Please leave a comment or a suggestion to help us with our learning.

Swimming in Room 10

We love swimming! This term, nearly all Room 10 children have been swimming
every day. Ms O'Neil is so proud of your enthusiasm for swimming and your achievements.

We are looking forward to swimming sports on Thursday 14th March!

Week 6 Reflections

This week .......

We’ve been working hard to build the chickens their coop.

We’ve been up and down with the wheelbarrow getting woodchips for the floor – Jayden

We had to redesign and remake the door because the first one wasn’t straight and it didn’t fit the gap – Christopher

We’ve been putting the roof on the house. We used bamboo to hold the rubber tiles and punga leaves were put on at the end to make the house look glamourous – Lacey

We put shade cloth on the side and at the back. We did this by sewing it onto the frame – Emily

We also had to make one big wall for the coop, which we made out of bamboo and shade cloth – Chloe

We are focusing on swimming sports by fine tuning our swimming techniques. We have chosen our races and we’re ready to race – Oliver, Lacey, Jayden

We are still working on our self portraits and yesterday we sketched the giant sunflowers outside our classroom. – Namrata and Emerald

We visited our garden. We discovered lots of  vegetables growing in the garden. We harvested some more beans – look how many we have now! Jayden

We’ve been learning about place value and how to count our numbers – Elvis 

Our reading topic has been based on ‘swimming’. We have learnt how to summarise and add illustrations to our work – Lackhlan, Hamish and Lacey

Cricket – we have been learning new skills…like using 3 fingers to hold the ball – Ruia and Oliver.