Room 13 Lean with Dean

We are right into America's Cup fever in Room 13, watching the races on our Activboard with enthusiasm and it has to be said, some disappointment.  The children and I are keen to win a prize on the lean with me website and this is the photo we are sending in.  Go Team NZ!

Superhero readers!

Wow! We have some fantastic readers in Room 13 and recent testing has shown that some of our readers are already reading at National Standards for 1 Year at school.  I am so proud of all the children and would like to celebrate the success of these super hero readers....

Dylan, Aarav, Max and Maiah are already reading at National Standards for 1 Year at school.  WOW, CLEVER! 

Making Kebabs

Last week Whaea Tania made kebabs with the children as part of their Procedural writing unit.  They had to learn a process, practice it then write about it using a particular format.  The children loved making and eating the kebabs and have cleverly explained what they did to achieve the desired outcome - YUMMY KAI!
Here are some pics.....

Lots of concentration needed here - Saya and Kennedy.

First a marshmello, then a grape.....

Putting the kebabs together, Ella and Molly.

Jayda enjoying her kebab.

DJ's Dad

Last term DJ's Dad came to school and showed us his cool Navy uniform.  He also told us lots of information about his job on the ship and we asked him loads of questions.  It was so nice for DJ to have his Dad with us at school and we enjoyed learning some things about what it takes to be a Navy Sailor.  We have been thinking about what we want to be when we grow up...perhaps some of us will be in the Navy like Darren.



Planting Pansies

On Friday we were lucky enough to have Lou, Imogen's Mum, come and plant pansies with us for Golden  Time.  What a cool time we had, painting our pots, planting our pansies and completing a fun worksheet which ordered the tasks we had completed.  Room 13 are sooooo lucky, we have the best parent helpers in the whole school.  Here are some pics of what we did.....

Cross Country Race

We finally held our Cross Country Race on Thursday, in freezing conditions.  After all our practice, it was awesome showing our amazing running talents.  We had some place getters in Room 13 and everyone did their very best.  Mrs Russell was so proud of us!

It was a freezing day and we were worried that the cold might stop us running fast, but not Room13.  Everyone gave it their best go and we all ran the whole way without stopping.  Yipee for us!

Baking Bread

We had an exciting week last week with bread making, cross country running and then Mass on Sunday. Thank you to all the parents who brought their children to Mass.  It was so lovely to see and Father Mark agreed it would be so nice if the Church was full like that every Sunday.

We were lucky enough to have Claudine Bradley and her whanau in last week to make bread with us.  Bread making is a family tradition handed down from Molly's Nana and we used it as an introduction to Matariki and Maori language week.  The children had a ball and enjoyed a delicious lunch of hot bread, butter and jam and hot soup.  We are so grateful to Claudine, Whaea Tina, Whaea Andrea and Molly's cousin who also helped for giving up their precious time to spend some special time with us at school.  What a super whanau you have Molly.  Ka rawe!





It was pretty busy in the kitchen.



It was fun kneading the bread.  We got flour everywhere!





We enjoyed getting our hands in the flour.





We made a bit of a mess but it was such fun.



We waited patiently for our yummy, warm bread.