Monday 21st of July.

Today was the first day back after the holidays. We are now in term 3!  First thing this morning we logged onto our Plateau School website, the Ultranet page had been updated and was all new. 

We all got into a circle and had REALLY long news, everyone had loads to share about their holidays but we all managed to listen very well and enjoyed the stories from our class mates.

By the time our news had finished it was nearly morning tea time. Mrs Brattle let us have our morning tea a bit early.

After we ate our morning tea some people did the Twister dance.

When we came back from morning tea we did writing, we added some more to our neighbourhood maps and wrote in a new story. 

Then we did some author circles, these are a new way of sharing our ideas and work with our peers.

Some people had mentioned in the morning that a lady overseas had made a dress out of loom bands and sold it for enough money to buy a house! This sounded very interesting, so for reading we searched on the internet and found some news articles about this loom dress. Here is the article we read.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/loom-bands-exclusive-designs-drinks-3885372

These girls spent their lunch time practicing a dance to show us. We were very impressed with their moves, well done girls.

After lunch we had some games in the hall, it was good to have a run around and stay warm. Then it was back to class to tidy up, get our reading logs and pack up for home time. Before we went home Mrs Brattle shared a postcard with us. It was from Riley and her family, we were so excited to hear from her and receive our postcard from Hong Kong. 

What a great start to term 3, I wonder what tomorrow will bring?

Morning roll

Morena, Kei te pehea Koe? Kei te pai.

Good morning, How are you? I am fine.

Kiwi Room have been practicing our Te reo at morning roll time. Check out the clip below to see how well we are doing.

Morning roll 4: http://youtu.be/WsvPhB-cPhg

Art with Kirsten Herd. 21/05/14

Today we were very lucky to have Kirsten (Tessa's Mum) come in to help us create some art work that shows our faces and the different expression that express our emotions.

Here we are working on our faces to show our different emotions.

Kirsten showed us some famous artists and their work, we practised making our different faces and looked at some artwork on our interactive whiteboard.

We had to work very hard and follow a lot of instructions, but we think you will all agree the finished product was well worth it.

Thankyou so very much Kirsten ,we were super lucky to  have you come and spend time with us in Kiwi Class.

Award winners 17/6/14

Congratulations to our kiwi award winners.

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Merit points award winners.

Congratulations to Madeline, Blake, Nikau, Liam and Harrison for earning their Iron awards, 25 merit points well done. Yasmin has received her Bronze award, which is 50 merit points. Continue the great work Kiwi Room, there are a lot of people very close to getting an award.

First week back for term 2!

What a busy week we had for our first week of term 2. It was so very nice to see all the smiley faces and to  hear of the wonderful adventures the Kiwi Room members got up to in the holidays.

Wednesday saw us take a trip to Te Papa along with the senior classes. We saw some amazing sites and learn't a whole heap of information that will help us with our topic this term.

We also managed to pick up class of the week at assembly, which was a marvelous way to start to term.

 Here are our award winners for week 1. Harrison and Danielle for their drama acting last term. Belinda for positive choices and great behavior and Renee for being a ray of sunshine in Kiwi Class.

Well done everyone, have a safe and happy weekend.

Drama performance.

Last term we were very lucky to be treated to a drama performance after lunch. Watch these videos to see the show. Kiwi class were all very proud of our members and their acting talent.









These are only a sample of the performances, but I hope you get the general idea and enjoy watching them.