What do we get up to on Wednesdays???

Our classroom teacher Debs doesn't work on Wednesdays, instead we have some other fabulous teachers to help us with our learning. Meet Miss Stephens. She teaches us music and measurement. Mrs Hadley takes us for Literacy and Mrs Reid takes us to the library in the afternoon. We love Wednesday...it is a day full of fun learning. 

 Our Boomwhacker Orchestra

Miss Stephens shows us how it's done

Our Precious Neighbours

Room 3 students wanted to get to know their school neighbours. First we made some invitations and then we walked up Greenhill Road to deliver them to our neighbour's letterboxes. We were really excited to get 9 replies to our invitations. Next, we had to make some muffins with the help of our lovely mums and Mrs Hadley. After that we decided what we would want to find out about our neighbours and wrote down some questions we could ask them. Finally the big day arrived. We greeted our neighbours one by one and got to put names to faces. We practised being good hosts as we made them cups of tea and offered them some of our delicious muffins. We had lots of fun getting to know our neighbours and some of the history of Ngatimoti. Some of them had brought interesting things to share or show us like honey comb and kiwi feathers. All and all we had a great afternoon making some new friends. 

Keep your eyes peeled for the biography we have almost published, called 'Our Precious Neighbours'.

Dana, Amy and Jacob interview Pat Shortley

Ruby and Samantha record some interesting facts about Coralie Grooby

Paul and Leslie Hadley show Jordan and Cayla where Paul is from

Peter Laufkotter is tempted by one of the delicious muffins we made

John Crick entertains Zack, Akeisha, Sam and Tawn with his stories

One last shot before we say goodbye!

Winter is here

Check out the view we get to enjoy from our classroom each day. It's been chilly out there lately. Luckily our awesome caretaker lights the fire for us before we get to school each morning.

Ee!

This week's sound is 'ee'.

Click on this link for a catchy song and story.http://www.starfall.com/n/long-e/le/play.htm?f

Pets!

Hi Room 4,
I would like you to meet a very special friend of mine called Moss. Can you guess why I want to introduce you? That's right, it's almost Pet's Day!

I am really looking forward to coming back to school because we are going to learn all about pets and how to care for them. If you have some photos of your adorable pet, perhaps you would like to bring them to school to add to Our Pet Wall. I can wait to meet all of your fury friends. Or perhaps your friend has scales?

See you soon from,

Debs:)

Rotoiti

The sun graced us with it's presence on the last day of school for Term 3. Some of us arrived in cars, other's by 5 star coach! Lake Rotoiti was as beautiful as ever with the clear day allowing us to spot Room 1 high  up on Mount Robert.







After we ate our morning tea and spotted eels from the jetty we headed into the forest accompanied by our DOC guide, Pita. Pita told us about the work she and her team do around the lake controlling pests such as rats, stokes, feral cats and wasps.

Walking along the Honey Dew Track it was obvious why the wasps find it such an appealing place to live. The Beech trees were dripping with honey dew and as I tried to stop the kids from licking the whole tree clean of the sweet sticky bug poo it dawned on me that I had introduced a new pest to the area....Room 4 and 5!

You see, honey dew is an important food source of native birds in the area and with so many wasps
 (and Ngatimoti School children) stripping the trees of this rich food source it doesn't leave much left for the birds to survive on.

The track continued weaving it's way through the forest. A few compulsory quiet moments along the way allowed us to hear some of the bird song from Tui, Bellbirds and Silver Eye. A bright purple mushroom was spotted and captured by our group's photographer James England. The sharp eyed children of our group caught a glimpse of a Kaka, one of our  native parrots tearing bark from off the trees and flashing us with the bright red feathers from the underside of it's wing.


Tired and satisfied we reach the lake were we devoured our sandwiches before being whisked back to school so we could begin our holidays.

Cross Country

Last month we had cross country. I came fifth place in my age grouup and second with girls . I  am 

looking a forwad  to  next  year. We ran  through the  reserve and on the school  grounds . I  was puffed.

By Jasmine