Jump Rope for Heart

What a great afternoon we had! Lots of laughter, students smiling and encouraging each other. I really loved how the older students worked with the younger ones at my station.

My favorite shot of the day...




Madeleine sure can jump high!


Enjoy the video from my station

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More photos from harakeke weaving

Thank you Nicci for coming and sharing your knowledge with us!








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Harakeke Weaving

Today Nicci came to school and taught us how to weave using harakeke (flax) We had to listen and follow instructions and be patient when we needed help. Thank you to all the parents who came and helped.

Harakeke Weaving - slideshows

Very excited...

I have collected all the flax - harakeke. Nicci Glanville has confirmed she can be there. I am really looking forward to weaving the harakeke tomorrow!

Fun in the Snow...

What fun things did you get up to on Friday in the snow? Emily-Jane and Sophie have sent in photos. If you have photos you want me to put up on the blog then get Mum or Dad to email them to me carolyn.aberhart@allenton.school.nz Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow

Sophie relaxing after playing in the snow.

Snow day

Snow day!

Finally enough snow to have to call school off for the day. We started the day, and then down came the snow.


Ripena has never been in snow before. It doesn't snow in Samoa!






Ruby on her way home.



What have you been up to in the snow?


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SNOW

Well school was open for half an hour today. Just enough time to get some of our snow poems published. I loved the way we looked at the camera more today!

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Rain Poems

Whoops forgot to add the video!

Rain Poems

Have a listen to our rain poems. We recorded them ourselves. Our next step is to work on presentation and keeping the I pad still!
Great poems though.


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Snow!

But not enough to close school today! 😞

Keep safe out there coming to school today








What do you think about the snow today?

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Welcome Miss Turpie

We have Miss Turpie from Canterbury University starting in our class next week for 3 weeks. We hope you enjoy your time in our class




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Rakau

Today we started learning how to do rakau. This is our first day - we will be practicing to see how much better we can become

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Reduce Reuse Recycle

This is a great song about Reduce Reuse Recycle

Worm dance

Today we went out and did the worm dance with Sharon from Wastebusters. Watch our video to see the fun we had! (Sorry parents about the state of our shoes!)

Tell us about the worm dance.



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Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Sharon from wastebusters has been visiting us to teach us about reducing, reusing and recycling.

Tell us what you have learnt about reduce, reuse, recycle. Why is it important?




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Matariki time lapse video

This is a short time lapse video of our time with Allenton Kindergarten

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Celebrating Matariki with Allenton Kindergarten

Today Allenton kindergarten came to celebrate Matariki with us. Below are some videos of our sharing time.

 

Room 14-16, Room 12-13, Room11 and Room 5 share their items

Sharing Kai (food), Room 10's item, Kindys item and some singing

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Yarek at Oaklands

If you would like to see a picture of Yarek in the uniform of his new school click on his name below. His new classroom has a blog as well!

Yarek


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Matariki celebrations

Tomorrow the children from our local kindergarten are coming to school to celebrate with us the Maori new year - Matariki.

Last week we made them pictures of the group of stars known here as The Seven Sisters or Matariki.



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Matariki Pictures for kindy

First we colored a piece of paper and maked shore that it did not have any white spasis. Then we panted over top. Then we scratched out star shapes on it. Then we put it into a laminator. Then we were done. By Theo


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Netball

The girls from Room 10 warming up for their netball game.
They are doing a dance routine.

Good luck for your game today.

Matariki

Sharing what we have learnt about Matariki from our reading books this week.




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Welcome back Emily-Jane

We are loving hearing about all of Emily-Jane's adventures. We think she was very lucky.




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Yosemite national park

Yosemite falls
4th tallest waterfall in the world

Flying to Canada