Remember Monday 2nd June is a holiday for the Queen's Birthday.

The Fonterra day with the Highlanders was: magnificent, amazing, fantastic, epic, fabulous, lots of fun, cool, great and super.  We didn't have pizza, we had Pitta Pit instead.  We also had the two big milk tankers.
On Monday is was icy and snowy so we got a holiday.  On Tuesday it was still icy so we had a late start.  We hope all our Mums and Dads have seen the newsletter with the information about what to do when it is snowy.  It is also on the school website if you missed the newsletter this week. Come and see me or other staff if you want more information.
Electives start today (Friday 30th May). Yeah! We are all looking forward to them and feeling very excited - we call it tino nanawe in Maori!
We really liked getting a comment on our blog from Rosa.  She told us she had been to Disneyland and was now in Italy.  We were going to email her back but don't have an address.  If you read this Rosa, send Mrs Phillips an address.  We hope you are still having fun, we do miss you.
Our fish topic is going well.  Tibs is still here and Mrs King made fish with us last week.
On Tuesday a show came to school.  It was called Rap-unzel.  We thought it was amazing and hilarious.
Mrs Phillips had another great time listening to us read.  She has turned the five reading groups into four.  She thought our reading was incredible but we still need to work on our comprehension to answer all the questions.

Fonterra and Highlanders Assembly Last week

This is very funny, isn't is?

Leo's Goldfish Visits

 Leo had help from his Dad and his brother to bring in his goldfish for a visit.  It is so old they cannot remember his name so we called him Goldie.  He has a much bigger tank at home but he liked this tank for the day and we put him beside Tibs who is still here.
We are enjoying having Miss Penwarden in our class.  She is here for four weeks.  She is very helpful, kind and nice.
The Fonterra milk people are going to give us free lunch this Friday.  We are getting milk, pizza and fruit.  The Highlanders, the Mayor and the

T.V. people are all coming too.  We will have a competition to see how fast we can fold milk cartons. 
There are more clubs and activities at lunchtimes this term.  We particularly like Mrs King's choir and Construction Club.
Electives will be starting soon.  We were able to choose three things from a list.  We will find out our groups soon.  It is very exciting.
For Cultural swap we are going to Room10 with Mrs Spencer and we do Drama.  You sometimes have to talk, act without talking, or move around.

Have you met Tibs yet?

Toby's family have let Tibs the goldfish come to Room 16 for a holiday.  We are enjoying watching him swim around in his bowl.

Term 2 Already!

We all had a great holiday.  We went to the movies, to the pool, to the beach, to the park, out of Dunedin, to visit family and friends, to places like the Art Gallery, the pool, the Gardens, the Museum, the Ice Skating Rink, the shops, played all kinds of games or slept in!
We have a very nice boy called Giac in our class.  Phoenix will not be back as he is now living in Auckland.
Mrs Phillips moved our desks in the holidays and put up the "Shut-the-daurus" to remind us to keep the doors closed so we don't get cold.
We have a new topic.  It is about "Fish".  If you have any information you can share with us about it, please let Mrs Phillips know.
Our new College Teacher, Miss Penwarden, starts tomorrow.