Holiday Time Soon. Yeah!

Easter will begin on Friday when we are on holiday.   On Sunday it is the chocolate day!
Last Friday was International Day.  We dressed up in our national costumes or colours from our country.  Lots of our class are from New Zealand so we mostly wore black and white.  At Maori Mrs Yeoman taught us the Maori names for the countries.  We had a parade just before lunch.
This week you can buy a poppy for ANZAC Day which is in the holidays.
Last Friday it was our last time at Maori with Mrs Yeoman so we had a Maori team singing time.
Two Fridays ago is was the Disco.  It was: amazing, epic, fun, loud, magnificent, awesome, smokey, great, exciting, fantastic and brilliant!

Assembly Aces!

 Last Friday Room 16 were on the stage at Assembly.  We thought it was fun, exciting, epic, amazing, loud, awesome, great, some of us were shy, and magnificent.  Mrs Phillips is very very proud of us!
Here is the food pyramid we showed and talked about and some of the Art gallery pictures that we also showed.  Lots of children chose to speak and had a turn at the microphone.
Last Monday we had a holiday for Otago Anniversary Day.
Cultural Swap has started and we go to Room 9 to learn Italian with Mrs Woods.
We have finished Healthy Eating with Richard and Harold the giraffe and are now doing the Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme with Constable Sommerfield.  We have learned a lot so far.
Our lovely College Teachers take reading groups, read stories and take fitness with us and we are teaching them how to be teachers.  Next week they will each take a maths group.

 Swimming started last Tuesday and goes until this Thursday. 
On most wet days we get a bus and on dry days we walk. 
We go at playtime so we have our healthy snack and morning tea together during reading time.  We get back at lunchtime.
We are lucky to have parent helpers to come with us.

Swimming is: fun, hard, lots of arm strokes, time when we work in three groups, sometimes diving

learning to kick your legs, learning to kick on your side and learning lots of other new things.

We have three new College teachers for this term.  They will come on Tuesday mornings.
We met Mrs Tunoka and Mr Williams last week and will also meet Mr Straight this week.

We have changed reading groups because Mrs Phillips had everyone read to her last week.  Mrs McAuslan came to look after us.

On Adventure and Camp week we didn't have Assembly because the Y5's and 6's were away so there was Assembly last week and this week.  It was also very quiet in the playground when they were away and we liked that.

Art Gallery Fun

Drawing Ourselves

Yellow Forest

We are good artists.

Last Monday we went to the Art Gallery.
We had a great time looking at all the pieces of art, even playing in some of it.
We were able to run through the Yellow Forest and bounce on the Mountain of Doom.
In the classroom we made our own Art Gallery with us in front of the pictures. Come into R16 to see our pictures.
Thank you to John for having us and thank you very much to the mums and grandmas who came with us.

On Friday last week and Monday this week we went to the Life Education trailer to visit Richard and Harold.
We talked about the food pyramid and which foods to eat lots or some or a little of.
We know you need a variety of foods.
Harold showed us Jocko's party.

There have been some visitors to our class.
Mr Pye and Mr Foster came to learn about being a teacher.  They were still very keen after a day in R16.
Mrs King came when Mrs Phillips went to teacher meetings.
Mrs Stowell and Mrs McAuslan were teaching in R17 and came to say "hi" to us.

Mrs Phillips reminds mums and dads to read the R16 booklet and ask the children or email her if you need to know more.
Can the swimming helpers return the notices by Thursday so Mrs Phillips can put out a list on Friday?

Welcome to Room 16 in 2014.

We have been busy already in our new classroom. 

In our photos we are working on booklets about ourselves and our families, and sorting for statistics in Mathematics.

Last week we had class and individual photos taken.  You will be able to purchase these as soon as they arrive.

We decorated the name tags for our desks.

We have been for walks around the school and are learning where all the new places to play are.  We did find it was hard to hear the bell when you are at the top of the adventure playground so we have to watch and listen carefully at the end of break times.  We went to the Office to see where the notices go and where you go if you are sick or hurt.  We met Mrs Duke, Mrs McNeill and Mrs Young.

At Assembly Mr Galloway reminded us of how to behave and taught us the Respect Song for our value of the term.

Dates for this term to remember:

17th Feb: Art Gallery trip - notice sent home last week
20th Feb: Meet the teacher night - see school newsletter for details
4th-13th Mar: swimming - in pool 11.30 - 12noon, help notice soon
24th Mar: Otago Anniversary Day - holiday
26th & 27th Mar: Learning Commitment interviews - see school newsletter for details
17th April: end of the term