Bike Riding!

We have been learning how to ride bikes this term and a little of last term. We love using the bike track and riding on the bump tracks!

A trip to the Zoo!

On Wednesday 8th November, the Junior School went on a trip to Auckland Zoo. 

We all got to school early so that we could catch a bus to the zoo. It took ages because we got stuck in traffic. 

Once we got to the Zoo we were greeted by the Zoo staff, after they talked to us about what was happening for the day we had morning tea. 

We then all got into our groups and off we went! We saw so many different animals. It was so much fun walking around with our friends and discovering new things. 

Thank you to all the parents and families who joined us at the Zoo! 

The kids absolutely loved the day! 

Diwali !

Last week we learnt all about Diwali...

Diwali is known as the Festival of Light... It is celebrated in India. They light lots of lamps which are called diva. They also light fireworks at night time. There's lots of yummy foods and sweets that they share with their friends and family.

To celebrate we made our own diva and decorated them.

Pyjama Day!

Today was PJ Day! 

The junior school was trying to raise some money so that we can get some new things for our classes o even go on a trip!

We got the whole school involved and told them to dress up in their PJ's and come to school! 

Even the teachers dressed up :P 

Here's some photos of us in our PJ's

Rugby in the sun!

The weather was perfect today! So we decided to go outside for a little bit rugby fun!

Golden R certificates!

We're so proud of these kids for showing their Ranui values everyday at school! 

Here are some of the kids from kereru 3 who got their 50 sticker certificates and Healthy badges! 

... and this here is miss Fern who has received 75 GOLDEN R's! and she has earned her harmonious badge!

Well done to these students! Hopefully in the next few weeks we will have a lot more of us in Kereru 3 that will be getting up in assembly to receive our Ranui badges!

....cos i'm a lady....

The Junior School hosted this weeks whole school assembly. We did a whole lot of performances like dancing, showing off our poi skills and singing! 

Here's a video of our dance to our favorite Jump Jam at the moment, 

the Smurfs song (I'm a lady)

Best Class Award!

Kereru 3 are the Best Class for Week 4!

We won best class in the whole school assembly this week! 

Next assembly we get to sit on the special chairs and choose another class who will get the guitar trophy... 

We're so excited that we are the first junior school class to win the rockin' guitar!

Kids Can - Crazy Mufti Day

Last week Friday we had a crazy mufti day at school! Everyone had to come dressed up in crazy clothes and have crazy hair! 

Some people had their clothes on the wrong way. Some had super crazy hair with glitter and colourful paint. Some even had different types of shoes!

Our class had such crazy looking kids!! 

Attendance Award!

Kereru 3 came in third place for attendance week 2!

Great job to all the kids who have been coming to school everyday! It is important that everyone comes to school so that we can do lots of learning and have fun!

Next time hopefully we can win the trophy with the most attendance!

This is us with our bronze medal

Sliiiiiiime

One of our Passion Projects was learning how to make slime....

We did lots of research like watching videos of different ways we could make slime, seeing what (safe) ingredients we could use to make slime and even making our own slime!

The first time we made slime we use flour, laundry detergent, glue, food colouring and a little water... This slime was very messy!! But we had so much FUN playing with it!

The next time we made slime was with Borax 

(Whaea Delishia didn't let us touch it with our hands)

We were lucky and had expert slime makers from Tui and Kahu come and help us make Borax slime.  

For this slime we needed Borax, glue, water, food colouring and to make it extra special we added glitter!

Whaea Cyrah

Meet Whaea Cyrah! 

Sometimes when Whaea Delishia is busy Whaea Cyrah comes and teaches us...
She loves to read our big book with us. She even makes us look for letters and words in the story... sometimes we even look for full stops and speech marks. 

Thanks Whaea Cyrah for helping us with our reading!

We made crystals!

In inquiry we are doing Passion Projects, the children are able to choose what they want to learn about. I gave the children a few ideas of things that we can learn about and they choose to learn about crystals. 

So we looked at pictures of crystals and watched videos of how to make crystals. 

This is how you make them: 

How to make Borax crystals

What we need:

    - Hot water

    - Borax

    - Pipe cleaners

    - Skewers

    - Food colouring
    - Bowl or cup 
    - Spoon 
    - String

What we did:

1. First, you have to make a shape with the pipe cleaner. Then tie some string onto it and then tie it onto the skewer.

2. Next, get some hot water in a bowl or a cup, mix some Borax into the water until it becomes cloudy.

3. Add some food colouring if you want and mix it.

4. Dip the pipe cleaner into the mixture a few times then put it in the bowl/cup.

5. Leave it for 2 days.

6. After 2 days take it out of the mixture and you should have crystals!  

Swimming Sports and Cross Country Awards

Look everyone!
We got certificates at swimming sports and cross country!

Elizabeth, Fern, Lupeiala, Temilo, Vatau, Cyrah, Lia, Karese and Brian

BUBBLES!

Last Thursday with Whaea Holly we had some fun with bubbles. 

We used our 5 senses to describe what bubbles are.

First, we smelt the bubbles....

Then, we listened to the bubbles....

Next, we looked at the bubbles....

Then, we touched the bubbles....

We couldn't taste the bubbles, so we tried to imagine what it would taste like.

Some of the words we came up with that describes bubbles are: colourful, beautiful, tingly, POP, soapy, pretty, good, wet, slippery, quiet, clear, like a ball...

Cross Country!

Today was cross country, the Junior school ran around the bike track at school.

We decided to make some masks, we had ponies and batmen running around!

Here are some photos of us running!