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At lunchtime we checked out the planting some of the other classes did for Matariki.  Room 3 planted potatoes!

We love the wombat books!

We did some netball skills at sport today,  Eyes on the ball, hands spread on the ball, step forward and chest throw. We catch with hands in the ‘target’ position.  It was fun but we definitely need to practise some more.

Then there were three… we have three year 1 classrooms now – Mrs Tomich has the NE/year 1 class in Room 3 (Mrs Tomich is also our Koru team leader), Mrs Turner is in Room 4 and of course Mrs Brown has Room 5.

On the Fridays we don’t have a school assembly we will now have a year 1 Hui where we share some work we have done for that week.  This week we shared our Matariki projects.

Then we all decorated feathers as we are going to make a collaborative year 1 Maori cloak.

Our feather cloak will be a bit like our super hero cape.

Look my coffee cup matches my top!  Thank you Scarlett for your RAK thoughtfulness.  Your ‘random act of kindness’ made my day.

For the next week we have an extra super hero role.  It is Mrs Brown’s super teacher helper which comes with a spinny chair and a super hero cape.  You get a choice of three capes for the day – O for Outstanding (thanks Sarah Tanner for that match up), ST for Super Teacher Helper and G (for great student).  Our little family went to a super hero party a few years back – O for Olivia, G for Georgia and I got given a Super Teacher one.   Pleased we can make them work in little room 5.  Finn has launched us into the new role today.  We still have our three super stars of course.

In the intermediate the children are currently doing big science projects and they need to present their experiments on big science boards.  Guess what has taken over our house?  Guess what is due Monday?  Science fever has hit our family.  Olivia has been working on her apple experiment for weeks.  It is a quite a big deal and takes a lot of planning.  You have lots to look forward to.  We will hopefully get a chance next week to go and have a look at all the boards displayed up in the intermediate – it is always lovely for our little people to see what the older children are doing.

We have finished the five PicknMix events now.  Tomorrow a form like in the picture will come home with your child to show how they did.  We don’t really need this form in year 1 as all your children were amazing and earned maximum credits in all the events they entered.  So if this little piece of paper gets lost in your child’s bag tomorrow please don’t worry, because the real form we need back is the yellow one.

You can bring in your money next week into Room 5 with your yellow form, (or you do have until Tuesday 24 July).  I find it easier to do internet transfer so I do that and note it on the form.  Cash is fine also.   Let me know if you have any questions.