Haere ra Rees

It was Rees' last day on Friday. Liam spent a lot of time making Rees a card. He drew lots of pictures of Rees' friends and things he likes, like Captain Underpants. All of the kids in the class signed it, and added their own pictures. Liam and Kate said goodbye speeches, and we watched "The Secret of Nimh," even though we hadn't quite finished reading the book.

Liam took these pictures of Rees dancing.

Rees

It's Rees' last day at Raumati South School tomorrow. Rees is moving to Australia with his family. We are very sad that he is leaving, but happy for him because we know that he will make lots of new friends. Rees might comment on things we put on our blog if we're lucky. He'll be able to look at our blog when he's in Australia.

Our Garden

Jordan and Jacob did some work in our class garden today. They did some weeding and planted some pok choi, spinach and coriander seedlings. Jordan and Mrs Turner took some photos while they were gardening.

Road Safety

We had our first session with Constable Amanda today. Constable Amanda is a Police Education Officer who is teaching us about road safety. Today we talked about how often and how far we travel every week. We worked out that we travel more than we did when we were younger. Constable Amanda showed us how to make a travel map showing: where we travel; the distance we travel and the number of times we make each trip in a week.

What's The Time Mr. Wolf - Southside of Bombay (Real Video Clip)

We're still enjoying NZ Music Month in our class. Today we read the lyrics and sang along to two of the songs we listened to last week. This is the video for one of the songs...

Basic Facts

Yesterday we looked at the Woodlands School website and had a go at the Magnetic Fun activity as part of our Numeracy Warm-up. The Mammoths tried out the mixed facts activity and some of the timed tests. Ms Leishman added the link to the site to the Multiplication And Division page of our blog. We've also been practising skip-counting in 2, 5, 10s and 3s.

Skipping

Ms Leishman and Emma Y. took these photos while our class was skipping today.