Busy little Room 16 elves!

The children have been busy with Christmas crafts this week and with making gifts!

Don't forget your togs!

                                             

imovie Book Trailers!

Look what the kids did today!

BFG from Naomi on Vimeo.
pumpkin soup from Naomi on Vimeo.
horrid henry from Naomi on Vimeo.
Harry potter!!! from Naomi on Vimeo.
Grandma Mcgarvey from Naomi on Vimeo.
Animals from Naomi on Vimeo.
The Twits from Naomi on Vimeo.
The magic faraway tree from Naomi on Vimeo.
Roald Dah Esio Trot from Naomi on Vimeo.
bad guys Tom Tri trailer from Naomi on Vimeo.
captain underpants from Naomi on Vimeo.
Scarlet and ivy book trailer from Naomi on Vimeo.

Safe Kids

Today we had a visit from Kathryn Halstead from St Johns for the Safe Kids programme. She reminded us about how to dial 111. Here is a perfect example of what to do.


111 from Naomi on Vimeo.

The children also got to practise putting on a bandage and putting someone into the recovery position.

Surprise!!!

Wow what a lovely surprise there was waiting for me today, when we came back into class after our fitness game at 12.30....a shared lunch! Thank you to all the lovely children who organised it by sending out secret invitations and made me cards and a beautiful canvas painting by Jemimah! (Also thanks parents for sending in food!) You guys really made me feel appreciated today - THANK YOU!!!

Things my mum says to me....

Today for our Quick Write the children wrote a list of the things that their mum says to them. They then chose the one that they would like published in the blog!

Dan:        Help Ollie!

Aysha:     Did you have a good day?

Jack:      Clean the dishes.

Sophie:    Go to bed!

Hannah:      I love you

Zoe:     Come on Gillian!

Triyambak:       Sharing is caring!

Tom:      Don't shoot your Nerf gun at your sister!

Manea:   Help your sister

Lilly:     Don't annoy your sisters!

Lucy:     Unload the dishwasher

Jaimie:    Hurry up!

Jemimah:       Reading time is up.

Luke:       Go Lukie Luke!

Will:       Maybe..........

Ella:      Clean your bedroom!

Koby:    No more Chocolate!

Harris:    Time for dinner!

Ryan:     Don't tackle your brother!

Izzy:     Put your guitar in the car before you forget it!

Saffron:    That looks beautiful you sausage fluff!

Jazmin:      Homework time

Amelia:       Fold the washing!

Ryo:         Goodbye

Only rain in the drain!

Today Anna Crowe visited us for our last session about our local rivers and streams. She told us about where the water ends up that goes down our sinks and drains. We were pretty surprised to learn that the water that goes down the drains in the roads, goes straight to the river and then the sea and does not go to the water treatment plant in Riverlands. Anna told us that that is why nothing except rain water should go in the drains, because anything else is causing harm to our rivers and to the life that lives there.

Landscape Sketch

As we didn't manage to get our Landscape Sketch done at Pine Valley (it was hard to see the mountains through all the cloud!) we made the most of the beautiful Marlborough blue sky day, to take a trip to Harling Park with our sketch books this afternoon (plus hats, sunblock and water bottles!) We will be turning these into Landscape Art later this week.

St John Superstar :-)

Congratulations to Hannah for coming first place in HEAPS of competitions at a St John day last weekend, including First Overall!! Room 16 are really proud of you :-)

Ukulele!

Mrs Joshi took Room 16 for a Ukulele lesson on Friday. She has promised to teach me too!!

Back to business...!

Wow the kids have been amazing this week! You might think that they would be unsettled after the events on Sunday/Monday, but they came in on Tuesday super calm and settled and ready for school! We have spent the last few days just getting back to a normal routine after all the camp/earthquake disruption and trying to finish off our Pine Valley study. The children have also been busy writing thank yous to parent helpers and to the experts who visited us on camp - Anna and Brigid. Oh, and we also had a new student to welcome on Wednesday: Brucie - who has come from Hamilton.
Here are some of the wonderful letters:

What a fantastic camp!

We had such an awesome time on our Pine Valley camp, despite a little bit of rain! 

The kids were amazing and of course it wouldn't have been possible 

without the fabulous parents who came along :-) 

Here are a just a few photos. 

I have shared the rest with the children on their Drives.