we have discussed how we can show respect to each other and how to be honest, we brainstormed as a class, below is the list we came up with so that we can have a nice classroom environment:

this term for strand maths we are learning about statistics. Today we did a class survey about family members at home. We discovered if we added mums and sisters together the most family members would be girls!! so looks like girls rule for now!!

this week we participated in our first round of snag golf! there are some buddying Lydia Ko's and Tiger Wood's amongst this group. So good to see everyone joining in and having fun.

yesterday we had room 10 come and join us for the day, we spent the afternoon making 3D hands for art!! these are coming along nicely, we hope to have these on display by the end of the week!!

MEET THE TEACHER EVENING:

Next Tuesday 23rd Feb we have meet the teacher evening at school. Please come along at 5pm for a free sausage sizzle followed by some words from the Principle.

 You will have an opportunity to talk with me about any of your concerns or questions, I am happy to answer any queries you may have, I am also looking forward to meeting all the parents.

look forward to seeing you all 

Mrs Ewen

On Friday we were lucky enough to get our brand new chrome books!! We were So excited. These chrome books are going to help us become future citizens and have really good technological skills, we will also create a paperless classroom which is good for the environment. We have to look after our chrome books. Here are some snaps.

our writing focus for term 1 is narrative, as a class we have discussed what a narrative is and come up with our own success criteria, these are the things we need to see in narrative writing.

we have done some artwork around using our imagine and make believe, this ties in with our class chapter book for the term James and the giant peach! which also links in with our science topic, all creatures great and small. Our first art pieces are imagining ourselves as something else!

Room 9 has had some fun with their basic facts, who said maths was boring!!

Room 9 had art day yesterday, the room was a hive of activity, lot's of mess but lot's of fun! these will look great once they are finished and on display.

 

This term we are swimming everyday, we are lucky enough to have Swim Magic come and teach us the basics for the first 3 weeks! Looks like everyone is having a lot of fun and making great progress!!

 

We have had our first assembly for the year, a big Happy Birthday to Javarn and Bernadette who had birthdays over the holidays!! I was also officially welcomed to the school community and the kapa haka group put on a great performance. thanks so much for a great few weeks so far.

welcome room 9 to a new year and a new teacher!! I am really excited to have started here at Glen Innes School. Our first day we spent getting to know one another, asking questions about our families and the children helping me to get to know them. We were lucky enough to have a jumping castle on our first day to ease ourselves back into school!