Perfect Attendance in Room 5!

Perfect Attendance!

In Room 5 we have been Attendance Warriors!

 We have won the Trophy 3 weeks in a row 

for Term 2.

 We have written some letters for you about what we have done to make sure we have been at school everyday! 

Dear Yendarra,

We have won the Best Attendance Trophy for 3 weeks in a row by coming to school everyday. We wear the correct uniform to school everyday especially our black leather shoes to keep our feet warm and dry! When our feet are dry, we stay healthy and we don't get sick. We don't stay at home and we come with our jumper to make us warm and to help us be here everyday. We come to school to be the best we can be and to learn. The best thing to do is, you must eat healthy food like brown bread, fruit and drink water everyday to stop you getting sick!

From Ivalani.

Dear Yendarra,

We won the Trophy because we come everyday to school! You have to be at school on Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. School is good for you. You have to be here at 8:45 because that is when the bell rings!

From Amelia.

Dear Yendarra,

We have won The Best Attendance Trophy for 3 weeks by coming to school everyday. We wear the right uniform and wear covered shoes. We like school! That is why we are here everyday. We come to school on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

From Talia.

Dear Yendarra,

We have been the Attendance Warriors! We had the Trophy for three weeks. Everyday we come to school and that goes into the attendance booklets! 

From Xialo.

Animal homes!

In room 1 we have been learning all about animals and where they live. 

Did you know that animals live in different places called habitats? 

Animals are specially made so that they can survive in their habitat.

Firstly we did lots of research on our iPad's to find what habitats there are in our beautiful world.

Then we got into 5 groups:

Rain forest

Desert

Wetlands

Tundra

Ocean

Lastly we looked at pictures and recreated our own versions!

Here we are creating and designing the habitats as a team!

The finished products!

 Desert

Ocean

Tundra

Rain forest

Wetlands

What habitat do you think a snake might live in?

What animal might live in the Rain forest?

Come and visit room 1 to see them in real life!

Grow Me Well!

Grow Me Well

What is healthy kai?

In Room 8 we are learning to answer questions.

Room 8 have healthy kai everyday.

We know that making healthier choices

is better for our brains and our bodies.

What’s in your lunch box?

LJ said, "I have real fruit in my lunch box".

What do you like eating?

Budgie said," I like eating apples, it's good for my teeth".

Toavalu said, " Bananas are healthy".

Taunuuga said, " I have sandwiches in my lunchbox".

Hayzell said, " I have an egg sandwich".

Samuel said, " Celery is healthy for me".

How can we stay healthy?

Here’s Room 8’s brainstorm.

* eating fruit

*eating vegetables

* excercising

* getting enough rest and sleep

* washing and drying hands properly

*  visiting the dentist-looking after our teeth

*drinking water only

Colin said, "Water is the best.

Eat healthy so we won't get diabetes".

We are an only water drinking school!

We would like to say meitaki maata, malo aupito, fa'afetai lava and thank you to our whanau for making our healthy lunches to bring to school everyday.

Water is best for our brains and bodies

Oh yea, yea, yea, yea

NO FIZZ!!!!!!!

Music Making on Pink Shirt Day

Music Making on Pink Shirt Day

May 19^th was Pink and Red shirt day to raise awareness for bullying.

On Pink and Red shirt day our class were making some wonderful instruments.

We used colourful straws to create our own

Pan flutes!

We then used our flutes to join in with some of our favourite songs.

“My flute makes awesome sounds!” – Diamond

“I like the colours of my flute and the noise”- Honi

We love the sound of 

our awesome flutes!

Room 23 Authors!

   

Haere Mai Nau mai

Welcome to Room 23

We have been learning to be authors and

we did  a lot of writing in term 1.

Easter Writing.

Here are some of our different stories.

We brainstormed our ideas as a class, we watched videos, looked at photos and learnt songs and 

our teacher helped us with our writing.

Easter Story Writing

Hayzell - Easter is about love, new life and forgiveness.

Sarai & So'o- Christians celebrate Easter by remembering what Jesus did on the cross.

Easter Art

We ended our learning and writing on Easter with our own version of a stainless glass window with the Cross that represents Jesus dying on the cross for us.

All About Me Writing - I AM IMPORTANT!

Samuel -Hello! Kiaora! Malo e lelei! 

My name is Samuel Kau.

I am a boy and I am part European, Maori and Tongan. I am special. I am important. I am unique. There is only one me.

When I grow up I want to be a policeman.

Pauline- Malo e lelei! Talofa lava!

My name is Pauline Laiseni. I am half Tongan and Samoan. I am important and unique.

When I grow up I want to be a doctor.

 Yendarra Seniors go to Polyfest 2016!

Cultural Performance Writing.

Our Brainstorm:

colourful costumes, smiling  performers,  moko on chin, designs on faces,  guitar playing, ukulele playing, drum beating,  flowers in hair,  white feathers in hair,  sticks moving,  beautiful girls,  pretty girls,  boys doing haka,   piupius moving, titis on Cook island girls,  fast & slow music,  singing songs. 

Kia ora Talofa lava Malo e lelei Fakalofa lahi atu

Kia orana

Chehoo!!!!!

Malie!!!!!

Atamai!!!!

Tahi tasi taha ta’i

Here's Teremoana & Budgie's writing

Budgie Karaka- The costumes were colourful. The dances were amazing!

The seniour students looked beautiful! The musicians played a guitar, ukulele and a big drum.

Teremoana-The Kapahaka group had designs on their faces.

The Tongan group wore white feathers in their hair.

The girls in the Samoan and Cook Island groups wore beautiful white flowers in their hair.

The performers were smiling. They were all amazing!

More photos we looked at to inspire our writing.

We hope you enjoyed reading our stories.

Have a great week!

We better get back to work!
Blessings from Mrs Tu’ikolovatu & Room 23.

                   

Animal Learning in Room 3!

Here in Room 3 we have been so excited to learn all about the Animal Kingdom!

This week we have learnt about 

Mammals and Reptiles. 

"A mammal has warm blood and a reptile has cold blood." - Moses

"A lizard is a reptile" - Honi

"A giraffe is a mammal because it has warm blood" - Diamond

We then sorted our animals into the right categories.

 We are super animal sorters!