Ball skills

This term we are learning some ball skills when working with larger balls (basketballs, netballs, rugby balls, soccer balls). Today Miss Costello took us for a catching and throwing lesson.

Swimming starts tomorrow

Swimming starts tomorrow - Wednesday the 1st of March and goes every day until Friday the 10th of March.

Children need to remember - togs
                                             - goggles
                                             - a towel
                                             - a jacket
                                             - sensible shoes

It is helpful if children bring these in a swimming bag (or plastic bag) and that clothing is named.

Girls, please remember to wear your hear tied back. Thank you.

Homework Sites

Here are the quick links for our homework this week.

https://e-ako.nzmaths.co.nz/

There is also a link to this alongside under the good website list. This will stay up for the remainder of the year.

Our math website of the week is 'Alien Addition'.
           
                                                         http://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_AlienAddition.html

Assembly Awards

It was the first assembly of the year today. Room 11 did a great job of presenting their messages about Road Safety. At this assembly, Saydie and Samuel got a Principal's Award. Well done for being the first people in the class to receive one of these special awards this year.

Letter of the Week - P

Once again we had an amazing range of projects brought in for our optional extras this week.

Milly brought along her very cool owl pillow - that she made herself!

Samuel brought his model of a British war plane (called a Phantom) that he had made, and he told us a lot of interesting facts which he presented in a great powerpoint.

Anna taught us all about Panda's. It is so sad that they are endangered!

Dominic brought along some juicy, healthy pears and taught us some facts about them.

Ewan told some interesting facts about Pugs and we learnt all about his special pug Mili.

Sam taught us about Portugal - a country in Europe. We can find this continent on the map after our continent mapping skills that we did in class!

Lucy found out some interesting things about pineapples. She chose an interesting way to display her facts - on a pineapple that had been cut out of paper!

We also had some fabulous powerpoints by Hannah and Evie. They taught us about the platypus and penguins. It was clear that they had put in a lot of effort when creating their presentations.

Swimming Parent Help - Updated 21.02.17

Thank you so much to those parents that have volunteered to come and help when we walk down to swimming. I have attached the timetable below for you - I will send a paper copy home, as soon as the days are all filled in.

We have adequate helpers for Wed 1st March, Friday 3rd March, Monday 6th of March, Tuesday 7th March and Friday 10th March.

We are still looking for helpers for the following days;

     - Thursday 2nd March (1 parent)
     - Wednesday 8th March (2 parents)
     - Thursday 9th March (2 parents)

If you are able to help, could you please e-mail me. Thank you.

Math website of the week

Room 9, here is the link to our website of the week for maths.

               Jet Ski Addition Site

Also, I have placed the 'Spelling City' link on the sidebar, under the 'Good Website' list.

PTA Facebook Page

The PTA (Parent Teacher Association) have asked that we share the name of their facebook page with you all. Please look up 'GSNS Friends of the PTA'. It will be a good way of getting regular updates about happenings in the school.

The PTA are a wonderful group of parents that do a lot to support our school. I know that they are looking for helpers this year, as our bi-annual school fair is coming up. Please do all you can to support them. Thank you.

Our first homework

Mrs Wood was so excited today because most of the class remembered to return their homework books on the right day! What a great way to show that we are responsible.

We had some fabulous optional extra projects that were shared with us. The letter of the week was...

Samuel made a wonderful mobile that taught us all about whales.

Lucy became a designer and created a wonderful wedding dress for her doll model.

Sam taught us some facts about 'Windy Wellington'. They were presented so neatly!

Dominic taught us some interesting facts about watermelon.

And Anna baked a delicious treat ...Windy Rock Fudge Brownies!

What a great start to our homework!  Your teacher is proud of you all for the effort you put in this week.

Meet the Teacher

Thank you to all of those parents that came along to Meet the Teacher last night. We had a great turn out. I hope that you found it informative.
For those parents that were unable to make it, the information will be sent home today in a booklet. Please check your child's bag for this today.

Have a great weekend everyone.

W for Waffles

Evie brought in her homework today. Waffles - which everybody got to taste!  Evie even told us some of the history behind waffles. Delicious!

Measuring for maths!

For math at the moment we are doing a unit on length and measurement. We have been using rulers to measure in centimetres and metres.

Milly's Wonderful Slice!

Today Milly brought her homework optional extra project to school. Our letter of the week was W. So Milly and her Grandma made their 'Wonderful Chocolate Slice'. The children were very impressed with Milly's baking skills - thank you for sharing your delicious treat with us all!

THANK YOU!

Room 9 would like to say a great big thank you to all of the adults that came with us on our trip to the Art Gallery today!

Road Safety

Today we had another visit from Constable Summerfield to talk to us about Road Safety.  He showed us some of the equipment that he uses, to keep himself safe when he is out on patrol (especially when he is in traffic). Louis even got to try on some of his special uniform!

We visited the art gallery!

Today we visited John at the Art Gallery. We looked at paintings of landscapes, and then we created pictures of sunrises over the Otago Peninsula. We have put some examples of some of them below. You will have to come in to visit to see the others.

Our spelling site of the week

Today we got our very first homework sheet of the year. On this there is an address to the spelling site that we will be using this week. You may like to click the link below, rather than type it all out!

Here is the address for our spelling site this week.
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html

This site spells encyclopedia this way - encyclopaedia. It can be spelt this way, but most commonly in New Zealand we spell it like this - encyclopedia

Constable Summerfield Visits

Today Constable Summerfield came to talk to the Middle Team about Road Safety. We learnt some interesting facts. Mum's and Dad's, ask us what we found out about.

Aliens have landed!

We have been creating aliens from our names. We wrote our names cursively, and then reflected them. This left a shape which we then drew and coloured, to turn it into an alien.

Come on in for a visit and see if you can work out who the aliens belong to!

Meet Room 9

Aren't we a good-looking bunch!

Over the last week, we have been getting to know each other. We have had a lot of fun meeting new people.

Sport Teams

There have been notices sent out this week for children to join either Rippa, Futsal or Flippa Ball teams.

         - Rippa Rugby notices are due back tomorrow - Friday the 3rd of February
         - Futsal is due back on Tuesday the 7th of February
         - Flippa Ball notices are also due back on Tuesday the 7th

All children will be notified shortly about their teams for the relevant sports.

Upcoming dates for the diary!

Here are some important dates of events that are coming up this term.