Today the junior school got together to honour all the hard work we have put in this year.
We gathered together in our outdoor space Te Kapua for a livestreamed prizegiving so our proud parents could watch us from home.
Well done to our Room 13 winners. Aita, AJ, Athena and Leylah. You are amazing.
Later Team One got together to receive lei from their teacher and a yummy treat from Mrs Lal.
Tino pai e hoa.
Congratulations to all our friends in Team 1 that play netball and rippa rugby. We had a special assembly and Ms Va'afusuaga came with certificates for everyone who played and some for the people who showed great sportsmanship and improvement.
Well done everyone
Our classroom elf has been causing lots of fun and laughs in Room 13 this week.
On Tuesday he tried to eat a candy cane from our tree and got all sticky. On Wednesday he tried to wrap up our whole classroom in Christmas paper. Luckily he got trapped in the sellotape and could only do our door.
Today he brought us a snow globe and he was in one too!
Oh No!
Our classroom elf had a sticky time on Friday after we left school. He got into the letter stickers we were using to make baubles for our tree.
We made our names and words that we think of when we talk about Christmas.
On Friday Elf brought us a magic letterbox to send letters to Santa.
We decided to make Christmas cards for Santa and to put them in the letter box so he knows that we are thinking about him.
We choose some Christmas paper and a coloured envelope. Then we wrote our messages. We remembered to address the envelope to Santa.
We had a big surprise on thursday morning. Our classroom elf delivered a Christmas tree to Room13!
We were so excited to see and smell the beautiful tree, He told us he had got stuck in the tinsel and asked us to help him decorate it.
We made ourselves into elves and hung them on our tree!
It has been very hot at Pt England School and that made us all think about ice cream.
Leylah said it is very refreshing and we all agree! This week we have done ice cream maths, ice cream reading, ice cream writing and ice cream art! Finally we got to make and eat some berry ice cream.
We hope you like our movie showing all the fun we had and great learning we did.
We have been playing games to grow our self-regulation. We can race each other and hold bodies still so that we don't drop our balls.
We have to stay calm so that we can move carefully and quickly. It is so much fun that Mrs Dwyer plays too!
We have had a great week back at school. It has been awesome to see our friends and we have had lots of fun experiences.
Alexis blew some beautiful bouncy bubbles.
Today Dothan worked on our learning slides and she learnt how to add numbers to 20!
Wow great job Dothan it is great to see you on our meets too.
Today is the first day we will be back in our own classrooms.
Blue Bubble wanted to share some of the fun times we had at bubble school with our friends and let them know its good to have them back.
We hope you enjoy our movie.
Finishing it off properly is one of our School Korero. We know that it means to keep going until the end and give your best until your work is a good as it can be.
Room 13/15 students have been doing this at home.
Athena has been working hard at home and is coming to school next week. Great work finishing off your distance learning.
Dothan has been working on her reading and maths AND she has been creating wonderful art projects.
Room 13 has been busy today.
Athena has been working on her maths and writing. She practised skip counting in 2's. 5's, and 10's. Great job Athena, skip counting is a great way to learn about multiplying numbers.
Dothan wrote out words with the "ee" sound. She watched the video that Mrs Lal shared and then copied the words out to learn how to spell them. Amazing Dothan.
At bubble school Ruth, Alexis and Caylee spent lunch time zooming around on scooters. It was heaps of fun to be out of in the sunshine.
Ms Hockly has challenged team one to draw an interesting picture of something from nature. The blue bubble went on a nature safari today to see what we could find for inspiration.
We went out onto the school field and took photos with our ipads. We found a beetle, a worm, a moth, buttercups and daisies. When we went back inside we drew pictures and wrote stories about what we found.
Ruth wrote about the worm.
Blue bubble made the most of the sunshine today and took the learning and fun outside. Then we wrote about it.
Caylee had a great time making delicious items to service in the cafe. Arthur and Ruth were the customers. Then we wrote all about it.
Everyday Athena works at home to make her handwriting perfect.
She is very careful when she writes and makes sure that her letters and numbers are the right size and shape.
She has also been practising counting in tens and ones. She knows that 16 is 10 and 6 more!
Awesome work Athena.
This week our creative challenge was to draw a self portrait and share it with our friends in Team 1 at our friday meet. It was amazing to see how creative everyone was.
Athena made a great job of her portrait and she coloured it in beautifully. Well done Athena. We love the stars on your jumper.
Ms Squires tested our memories today with a fun game in our class meets. We really enjoyed it here in the blue bubble.
It was hard to get the colours in the right order so we all had to concentrate hard! Boston was a star at this game.
Today we listened to the story of the Elves and the shoemaker. Aita then pretended she was the shoe maker and wrote a thank you letter to Elves for all their hard work.
She also wrote about the role she has in her family. Aita is a big sister and is always helping out!
Awesome Aita.
The maths muscles in your brain must be growing so fast!
Athena has been learning how to make different words by changing the first sounds/letters of words.
Here she has made the words black and stack, sack and snack. Awesome work Athena.
Today at bubble school we finished our Inquiry art projects. We coloured and painted a bright background for our pictures. Then we cut out and glued on our thoughts.
Alexis made a colourful background of flowers and leaves.
Athena has been sending her work to her teachers every day. She has been learning and growing every day. We are very proud of you.
Great G's Athena!
Dothan has been working hard at home to finish the activities on the learning slides. She has been writing, reading and learning about numbers.
She has been having fun with numbers by playing a game with her sister. Learning is fun!
She made an awesome house with paper - well done that looks tricky.
Aita and Athena have been working really hard to learn their letter sounds and so that they can spell words. It is also super important to know our letter sounds to help us read new words.
Blue bubble was working hard today on the learning slides that Mrs Dwyer planned for us.
Here is Alexis practising writing the letter Dd. She watched the clip on the class slide and then wrote lots of letters in her book. Well done Alexis.
Caylee and Serena made booklets about their families. Each page has a different member of their family.
Kia ora e te whanau, Friday is assembly day at Pt England and we are continuing to celebrate our school and our community with online asse...
