SPORTS DAY

After having to postpone our Athletics Sports twice in the last few weeks we were fortunate to strike a beautiful sunny day for the last day of term 3. We all travelled by bus to the Caledonian Sports Ground and participated in a range of sporting activities. The Year 1 and 2 children enjoyed obstacle races, gumboot throws, spud and spoon races and many more fun games. The Year 3 students participated in traditional athletic sports such as high jump, discus, hurdles, long jump, relays and sprints. Thank you to all the parents/caregivers who came along to support us!

JESSICA'S SPECIAL VISITORS

Today Jessica's three lambs came to visit our classroom. It was very exciting. Check out the movie to see how much fun we had patting and feeding the lambs.

POOR OLD LIAM!

Poor Liam twisted his ankle on the way back to the classroom to get a drink. He had to keep an ice pack on for 10 minutes. He found out later that it was broken!

THE BIG SHAKE OUT in Model 2B

Today we pretended there was an earthquake in our classroom. We remembered to DROP, COVER and HOLD. We stayed under our desks until Miss B said it was safe to come out. Then we had to go and line up on the tennis courts. We made special posters to help us remember what to do.

A FARM IN SPRING

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SHAKE OUT

Today we practiced for the big 'Shake Out' tomorrow at 9.26am. We know that if there is an earthquake you have to DROP COVER and HOLD. We will show you in this video how to do it.

SPORTS DAY ON FRIDAY

Don't forget that our Athletics Sports Day is on this Friday 28th of September. Remember to bring your packed lunch, warm clothing and your running shoes!

YEAR 1 & 2 POETRY FINALS

--> Today three lucky children from Model 2B were chosen to read their poem in the Junior Poetry Finals.  All the children shared their poems with confidence and we were very proud of them.  You can listen to their poems on the videos below.

TWO TIMES TABLES FUN

We have been learning how to skip count in groups of two and how to do our two times table. Watch this great You Tube clip and sing along!

MODELS SPEECH FINALS

Congratulations to our Year 3 children, Ethan, Nova and Alexandria who were chosen to share their speech in the Models Speech Finals.  Check out how clever they are below!

SPELLER OF THE WEEK

Congratulations to Naomi who was this week's Speller of the Week! Well done to Naomi and all the other Model 2B children who got all their words correct this week.

FIVE TIMES TABLE & SKIP COUNTING BY FIVE

We have been learning how to skip count in fives and do our five times table. You can practice along with this cool You Tube clip.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU FROM DOG RESCUE!

Today, Michelle from Dog Rescue came to drop off a special surprise to the kids in Model 2B. She had a goodie bag for everyone to say thank you for supporting Dog Rescue and raising so much money for their charity. Inside the bag there was a frisbee, lollies, chocolates, a gingerbread dog and an activity book. Everyone was very excited!

SCIENCE FUN FOR LIAM AND ETHAN

On Tuesday afternoons Liam and Ethan D work with Mrs Maw and complete many interesting science activities. They have been busy making sugar crystals and checking their growth. Today they were making rainbow colours using sugar water and food colouring.

RED NOSE DAY CLOWN ART

Have a look at our amazing Red Nose Day Clown Art!

SPELLER OF THE WEEK

Congratulations to Faris who was the lucky person chosen as our Speller of the Week. It was great to see so many children in the prize draw this week - keep up the great practise at home!

LOLOMA IS A SPY!

Lucky Loloma has been going to Reading Recovery with Mrs Loretan. He got to dress up as a Spy and he read a really cool book to us. Keep up the great reading Loloma!

CRICKET FUN

Today Model 2B was very fortunate to meet sporting hero Suzie Bates. Suzie is currently the captain of the Otago Sparks and plays for the New Zealand White Ferns. Suzie is an accomplished athlete and not only plays cricket at an international level, she also plays basketball for New Zealand as well. Suzie and her assistant Sheldon, helped us to practice our cricket skills and introduced us to a fun game called "One Ball Smash".

TEN TIMES TABLE

Do you want to find a fun way to practice your ten times tables? Try this fun song:

MULTIPLICATION

In Model 2B we are learning how to multiply. First we are learning to skip count and make groups of objects. Once we are really good at that we use our fingers to skip count and work out multiplication equations. We are getting pretty clever. See the different ways we showed 10 x 3 using maths equipment.