Congradulations Bella!

Congradulations to Bella who recieved the Hayward's Perserverance cup for always trying hard. Keep up the great work Bella!

Helping with Phonics

Days of the week

Welcome Back!

Kia ora all!! Welcome back to Room 9! I am very excited to be in Room 9 again and we have a fantastic year ahead of us. We have decided to be called the Clever Kiwis this year and are in the process of making a class handshake and maybe even a class song! Please have a look around our blog and make comments wherever you like. We are having parent blog sessions every second Monday if you would like to come along and learn more about using our blog,
Hope to see you soon,
Miss K :)

Moves and grooves to practice for our item!

Hayward Perserverance Cup

Well done to Ashan for receiving the Hayward Perseverance Cup for always trying hard with everything she does. Congratulations Ashan, you deserve it!

Term 4 swimming and Camp fee reminder

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Room 9 are starting swimming this week on Tuesday 16th.
Our swimming days are Tuesday ,Wednesday and Friday.

A reminder that the $50 camp fee for our Wellington trip is due on Friday the 19th.

Thank you for your support.
Miss Kirkwood

The Giraffe

Rose and Jordan have been researching giraffes. They have found lots of interesting facts on giraffes and had a practice drawing one on sketchcast.

Our first whole class practice with sketchcast

Spirit day!

Week 3 discovery

Myspace Countdown Clock

Wellington Zoo animals

Helping with doubles

Superstar kiwi's gym trip

We went in cars to the gym and we got to do lots of fun stuff. We learnt how to do a motorbike jump. We learnt some other stuff like balancing and trying to do a flip. It was hard. The gym lady was nice her name was Michelle. From Storm and Chloe.

We made bowels!

we had to put lots of newspaper around when we made our paper mache bowls. YAY we've finished them! We had to paint and decorate them. Can you find my one? From Dharmik

Another week of discovery learning

World Peace Day

On Tuesday it was world peace day. Room 9 and 10 decided to celebrate the day by planting a white magnolia by the junior playground. This was to remind us to be peaceful when we play. We also had a minute silence and voted for the most peaceful people in our class. These peaceful people worked with Mrs Meade to make a handprint using plaster of paris. The others worked with Miss K and made doves with lots of words about peace on them. It was a very fun and peaceful day!

Loud shirt day!!

Today it was loud shirt day and we were raising money to help deaf children. Here is a couple of our funky outfits!

The chipmunks reading group

We are getting really good at reading in the chipmunks group. Here we are reading a book cald our dog Sam

Our koru artwork

Check out our koru now! It's taken us a lot of practice to get our koru patterns looking right but we have done it! I am so proud of you superstar kiwis for persisting at your Maori art, it looks awesome. Im really looking forward to putting them up around the room. Miss K :)

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Wondering Wall

Maori Art

Hey guys and gals, found this clip of some very cool Maori art that might help you or give you some ideas for your designs.

Parts of the brain

We have been learning all about our brains this term. We are learning how they work, the different parts and how to look after our brains because they are very special! Here is a funny clip with all the parts of the brain.

Discovery learning

We have started doing discovery learning in Room 9 and are very lucky to have some Mum's helping us and Mrs Gordan. We did all sorts of fun things in discovery this week, take a look at our slide show!

maths

Room9 is learning to use place vaue blocks to make numbers to 1000. It is easy for me.We all have fun doing maths and i love maths. FROM ASHAN

art work

In room 9 we are making paper bowels. They are made from paper mache.I am painting my bowel pink on the outside and purpel on the inside. I am going to give it to my nana because she has only got 2 bowels so thats why im going to give it to my nana.
from Adrienne

art work

We are making bowels made out of paper mache. I am painting my bowl yellow. I dont know what i am going to decorate it with yet.
from cody

maths

In room 10 we hav been learning to count on from 20 to 40 and make 10 and it is easy for me. We have challeges to make 10.
from Te Awa

Cross Country!

Our yummy vege soup!

Room's 9 and 10 are heading to Wellington to go to the zoo in term 4! This is very exciting for us and we are needing to fundraise some more money towards our trip. We have been selling homemade vege soup and toast every Friday for $1, what a cheap and healthy lunch!
Thank you very much to Laugesens for donating the veges, to Countdown for donating bread and Hawthorne Cafe in Havelock North for the coffee cups!
Remember the soup and toast is every Friday so help us out and buy some of our yummy homemade soup :)

Jaida's writing

Yay Jaida has also written a story with all her sentences right! Jaida's story is about Officer Tanya coming to teach us about road safety. Good on you Jaida, keep up the great work!

Road safety video

Stepping out

Our inquiry topic over the next few weeks is called stepping out. It is all about being safe on the road and knowing what do do to keep safe. Officer Tanya came to talk to us about keeping safe when crossing our busy road outside our school. We got to hear the police car sirens, hear officer Tanya talk in her loudspeaker and even hop into the police car!

A new member of Room 9

We have a new member in our class this term. His name is Logan and we are really happy to have him in Room 9! If you see Logan make sure you take the time to say hello and make him feel welcome at Carlton School :)

Charlee's fantastic writing!

This is the first time Charlee has written a story with all her sentences right! Have a listen to what she has written, well done Charlee!

Roses amazing chinese dragon!!

Check out this wonderful chinese dragon that Rose made at home and brought to share with the class! We have been learning about chinese new year and loved seeing a paper mache dragon that looked like the ones we have been looking at on youtube. Well done Rose, you've done a great job!

Helping with teen numbers

Helping with skip counting

Our paper mache art

We have been observing and drawing containers this term and decided it would be fun to make our own containers out of paper mache. These are photos of our first step which is using newspaper and paper mache paste to make lots and lots of layers so our container will be nice and strong.

Junior fitness.

Every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday morning from 9-9.30 the whole junior school go to the hall for fitness. In fitness, we are learning to listen and watch the teacher carefully so we can follow the moves and keep the rhythm.

We love the library bus!!

Every Monday afternoon at 2.15 we are very lucky because we get to go on the library bus and choose a book that we would like for the week. We love going on the library bus because there is a nice comfy seat at the back that we can sit on and lots of bright and colourful books to choose from. Here are some photos of us on the library bus.