International Literacy Day

We went to room 22 today to share some of our writing with them.

Josiah was lucky enough to buddy up with Tamati and Matthew to read and write a story! 

Bingo

The dog was running around the farm. He was messing up the farm and the house and the basket. The cow was walking on the road. 

The End

By Josiah, Matthew and Tamati

Planning our story

The book that helped us

Tongan Language Week - Monday's Challenge

Malo e lelei

Busy Bee Farm Trip!!

On Friday 22nd August the Busy Bees were lucky to go on a farm trip to Ambury Farm!!

The Smart Seahorses had such a fantastic day!! We got to see a cow being milked and a sleep being crutched!!

We were so excited we even went on a farm walk and got to feed the goats, pigs, chickens and lambs!!

We were all pretty tired by the end of the day!! 

In the Barn getting instructions for the day

How does the wool feel??

Feeding time!!!

Taking a walk through the paddock

Can we get across the creek?

Cook Island Language Week

Final Challenges

Cook Island Language Week - Challenge 3

COOK ISLAND LANGUAGE WEEK

MONDAY'S CHALLENGE!!

Welcome back to Term 3!!!

It has started off with a bang! What a busy first week we had! Busy Bee Games were definitely a highlight for the Smart Seahorses!!

We are so excited to be supporting Scotland in the Commonwealth Games over the next coming week! Watch this space for updates as we learn more about the Scottish culture.

The Smart Seahorses

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How we listen

Mindful Award

Rhythm Interactive

This afternoon we were lucky to go to rhythm interactive. This is what some of that Smart Seahorses had to say......

We have been drumming in the hall. - Bailey

The man showed us how to drum. - Kara

We were drumming with the people and teachers. - Josiah

It was fun. - Janaiah

The drums were loud. - Heaven

Working together and using prior knowledge

Enjoying discovery time with the Mighty Minions!!!

We love retelling stories

The turtles read the book called 'The Goats Beard' 

The goat went on the road - Jovan

The goat went on the tree - Heaven

The goat was stuck on the rock - Kara

We worked really on drawing pictures to retelling the story!

Fia Fia

The Smart Seahorse's are getting really excited about the Fia Fia and the Popcorn Stall we are having!!!

We are going to be getting busy on Friday and popping popcorn. 

TEDDY BEAR'S PICNIC

We had a fantastic day at the Botanic Gardens with our Teddy Bear's!!

The Smart Seahorse's played lots of exciting games and taught their Teddies the games too!! 

Our favourite part was going on a bear hunt in the children's garden! We even got to go looking for the bear in the tunnel! 

WOW week 6 writing was amazing

On Thursday we had Mrs Tui and we talked about the robots coming to life in the classroom at night time!!

Welcome to the Smart Seahorses!!!

What a busy first 4 weeks it has been. We have been busy branding our classroom, creating our seahorses, handshake and song!

We have enjoyed exploring the sandpit and getting to know our Smart Seahorse classmates

Here are some photo's of our first few weeks :) 

Keep checking back to see what we are getting up to!!

 Getting busy making our pirate boats during discovery

Making our Seahorses for the hall display

Introducing Sam our class Seahorse