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Room 12's Deep Understanding has included "Where and What is Treasure". Their directional knowledge is improving so much that they did find some treasure (they still like the golden type).

Friday 25 November - Several of the children remembered to bring their small personal treasures to school to share. Look on their individual pages to see what they brought.

Wednesday 2 November Zebong the Storyteller came and entertained the Kowhai children. They were enthralled for an hour. Children and teachers helped him with his stories. Zeebong shows how each square tells a story and the Wicked Fairies really enjoyed themselves ||  ||
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 * Leo helps choose the next square story and Laine is really gutted he couldn't marry Mrs Hilton ||  ||

Mrs Cowan gets electrocuted on the power line

Kowhai enjoy cross country 29 September 2011


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World Cup Rugby comes to Waiau Pa Opening Ceremony || Phil Kingsley Jones inspires || Bagpipes for Waiau Pa's chosen 2nd team || Children dress up in Scottish costumes || What a real treat when the Wheelblacks came to show us how to play wheelchair rugby. The children just loved Barney Barney on the right. He sure could move and really did some big hits on the other players. Tipped his wheelchair up at one stage. ||  ||
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Room 12 are learning to care for each other (look under the RICH button to see how they are going to show Care)

2.9.11 - Congratulations to Jesse who received Mr. Williams' special RICH reward at assembly for showing Care. 2.9.11 - Rylan and Zara received special awards in Assembly for being Powerful Learners  1.9.11 - Carmen and Rylan had their names in the newsletter.

Friday 19 August - We had a good day today doing Jump Rope for Heart to raise money for the Heart Foundation. We all wore red today. 

We have a student hero, Daniel helped his great-grandmother when he was only 3 years old. He was famous and here is a copy of the page that was in the New Zealand Women's Weekly. We are proud of you, Daniel. Sorry for the lapse in communication - teacher was off the radar for a while - let's get back on track! This Term we are studying 'Past and Present'. Our visit to the Howick Historical Village was an excellent introduction to this topic. The children, and parents, looked terrific in their costumes.

We had a terrific Grandparents' afternoon Week 9 (27 June to 1 July) Kaide was Caught Being Good (CBG) today (Wed) when he helped Rylan after Rylan fell over. See him with his special certificate under his button (Students). Assembly awards went to Jacob for Taking Risks and Tremayne for Asking Questions. Mr. Williams gave the RICH reward to Emily for displaying good manners when she goes to the office. Our performance of the Funky Monkey song was boisterous (to say the least) but the children did have fun. Most of the photos were too blurred to show but here are a couple of their conga lines. WISH children this week were Kaide and Violet, well done guys. The children had fun moving Quinn across the court using rollers, they worked it out really well. Check out the photos under the Deep Understanding button. New children to welcome this week are Oscar and Zara. You can see their photos under their house button. We are all looking forward to the Wonky Donkey show on Wednesday, if you haven't sent in your $5 yet please try to do so soon. We'll also put up a class photo soon, now we have quite a few new people.
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Week 8 (20 June to 24 June) We had a good week last week with visits from two new children, Oscar and CJ. Welcome boys to yellow and blue house. Our WISH children for Week 7 were Daniel and Oliver. Did you see the photos under our Deep Understanding button? Several Powerful Learner cards were given out last week. I will begin to list these under the Powerful Learner button for those who are unable to pop in to see them.

Week 7 (13 June to 17 June) Our WISH celebrities for Week 6 were Gracelin and Carmen, well done! Welcome to Chelsea and Kaide, who both started on Tuesday. Handwriting is improving with many of the children really persevering to form their letters correctly. Remember you can help at home by using the chart you were given when your child first visited. Keep up the good work with the reading. The majority of the children are making excellent progress. This week should be a normal one but let's hope we don't have the kind of weather we had last Friday, the children really hated being stuck inside all day (so did the teacher).

Look at our cars under our Deep Understanding area

We read the book 'The New House' and then built a house ourselves. Week 6 - (6 June to 10 June) Super Star - Quinn Hope you all enjoy your Monday off and celebrated the Queen's birthday in style. The teachers are dressing as queens on Tuesday so look out for them. The children are enjoying finding educational games which are fun on the knowledge adventure site. Look it up and enjoy with them. Have patience while I tidy up the left hand menu this week. Week 5 - (30 May to 3 June) Super Star - Shakira Assembly Rewards - Chanel and Quinn WISH - Emily and Quinn Oops! What happened to week 4? We welcome more children into Room 12 and have now reached 16. Welcome to our new parents too. The older children are helping the newcomers learn to operate the computers and find their way around the classroom. Week 3 - (16 May to 20 May) What an awesome time the children had with the Circus Challenge. Look out for some photos to be posted soon. There are definitely some potential circus performers at Waiau Pa. Michelle Gregg will be taking the class on Friday of this week and Monday,Tuesday of next week while I am at a conference. Week 2 - (9 May to 13 May) Hopefully, this will be a 'normal' week with no unexpected experiences. Remember, library is Tuesday. We welcome Mrs. Hilton back this week from her awesome trip. We have missed her help in the Kowhai Syndicate. Our Deep Understanding is based on Forces this term. Kowhai are looking at Balance (pushing and pulling) with an Enduring Understanding of 'All objects move as a result of a push or a pull). Week l - Term 2 (2 to 6 May 2011) Welcome back everyone. We now have our notebooks and the children are doing well learning how to use them. Turning them on, getting them going, names and passwords is challenging but some are coping really well. Sometimes it is hard to believe these children are only 5!   Message from Mrs. Burke Hope you are having a great holiday everyone, at least the sun is shining. Look at all those red dots we have now!  Week 11 (11 - 15 April)
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 * Share my Learning Evening - come anytime from 4 to 7 - Tuesday
 * Tuesday Library visit
 * Friday 2pm Worker of the Term Assembly

Week 10 (4 - 8 April)
 * This week we are working on our water safety song for Assembly on Friday - please remember to bring your togs
 * Remember your library book on Tuesday
 * Keep practising your words and Jolly Phonic sounds in the little booklets you were given on your visit day

media type="youtube" key="Nmf3ygqN-Nk?version=3" height="390" width="640" What a fantastic time we had on Tuesday. The children took so many risks especially when working on their swimming safety activities. The instructors at both the Gym and the Aquacentre were awesome.

February

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