Water confidence

Kowhai class love swimming every day after lunch. It is super hot like a lava volcano at the moment and we like to cool down in the school pool. Mrs Case brings her togs and swims with us too. We love doing 'Ring-a-ring-a-Rosie', 'Fishies in the water' and the 'Crocodile song'

We are learning to:

• be brave and go under (submersion)
• collect rings off the bottom of the pool (submersion)
• float like a starfish (personal buoyancy)
• gliding and kicking using a flutter board (propulsion)

 

Overnight Camp

Kowhai class had a brilliant camp. They cooked damper over a campfire and ate it with butter and jam. The kayaks and life jackets in the pool were a new experience for many. Sleeping in the tents at night was exciting and we learnt about the native trees on our scavengar hunt to find Kowhai, Pohutukawa, Rimu, Totara, Kahikatea and Kauri trees (just like our classroom names). A big thank you to all parents who made this possible. 

Thank you for looking after me at camp when Mum was milking. My favourite was having fun in the pool. I love the pool because it was fun in the pool. I like sleeping in the tent and the marshmallow biscuit.
Love from Isla

Dear Mrs Case

Thank you for camp day.

My favourite was putting up the tent.

Love from Korawit

Dear Mum Debby

Thank you for doing the pizza and getting me to sleep in the camp out. My favourite was swimming and kicking in the kayak. It was a bit sad when my Mum was a sick dog. I really, really wanted to have breakfast at school. Love from Ariya

Dear Dad

Thank you for camping at school. My favourite was swimming, I couldn't believe we had so many swims. I slept in the tent with Dad and Echo.

Love from Raven

Dear Mum 

Thank you for helping with the pizza. My favourite was playing beyblades with Koen in the Rec Centre. I don't like the other people were noisy when I was trying to sleep.

Love from Aaron.

Dear Mum and Dad Thank you for coming to school camp. My favourite was the pool, I did cannon balls. Love from Jakob

Dear Mum

Thank you for sleeping at camp with  my sister and me. My favourite things were Mrs T reading a book, the damper was delicious, I liked diving under the kayaks and playing beyblades with Aaron's arena.

Love from Koen

Dear BJ Mum

Thank you for making the chocolate chip biscuits for Kowhai class. My favourite was swimming in the pool and going under with my green goggles.

Love from Ryan.

Dear Mum

Thank you for coming to camp and playing with me in the kayak. My favourite was in the pool and jumping off the kayak and the damper was nice to eat.

Love from Alana

Dear Deb

Thank for doing the ukelele. My favourite things was jumping off the kayak in the deep end.

Love from Ava

Dear Mum

Thank you for coming to school camp and looking after me. My favourite is swimming in the pool because I like swimming and I like the kayaks.

Love from Olly.

Dear Mum
Thank you for the little cake and for rolling the damper around the stick.

My favourite was everything! I liked diving under the kayak. I liked the damper and wanted more than one! Mrs T was pretty awesome and I like reading and singing the hokey tokey with her.

Love from Ryden

We are learning about the magic 'e'

A magic 'e'at the end of a word changes short vowels into loooooong vowels.

Check out our magic 'e' song we are learning.

Counting in groups of 10's

We love number time after lunch. Here are some of the songs we sing to get our brains ready for number brain training!!

Number time looks like this in Kowhai.....

We are counting groups of ten to put in each egg cup holder to help us "see" what counting in ten looks like. It is faster to count in 10's than to count in 1's all the way to 100.

On the left our newest Kowhai kids are working together to make the tallest tower with lego. The tower kept falling down but they did not give up and decided to hold it so it wouldn't fall down.

Athletics day

Athletics Day was a busy day - in the morning we had long jump, high jump, vortex throw, shot put and games (egg and spoon and sack races).

For the rest of day we had middle distance races - 2 laps around the field and sprints!!!!!!!!

We wore our house colours - yellow, green, red and blue.

Thank to all the families who came to cheer for us.

Go girls.....
  

Go boys.....

   

Ag day

On Tuesday we brought our Ag day animals and pets to school. We had to lead our animals, call them and answer questions the judges asked us. There were ribbons - red, blue, yellow, green and light pink. 

      

  

       

You could bring your pet - there were chickens, turtles, cats, fish, guinea pigs and a parrot.If you didn't have an animal or pet you made flower saucers and vegetable animals.Mrs Case had her pet lamb - Lamby Davis Junior, and we were allowed to play with him and feed him his milk. We had a fun parade at the end of the day and trophies.

We told Mrs Case about our pets and she typed it on her computer. We told her what our pet looked like, what it eats, where it sleeps and how we look after our pet. We made a poster about our pet and learned about how to glue our words on straight and chose colours for the pattern in our border.

  

  

  

  

  

  

Granparent's Day

We had a wonderful day sharing stories about toys and games with our Grandparents and families at school.

Thank you to everyone who came along to play marbles, knuckle bones, hula hoops and other games. We have learnt how much fun you can have with hand made toys and games instead of devices.

Old toys and games

 





We wrote a thank you letter together to Alan at Mystery Creek. He explained how Mystery Creek got its name and how to play the old games - skittles, tug of war, stilts, throw the horse shoe and hoop and stick.