Cultural Unity Day

What a wonderful day of sharing and learning about other cultures. We started the day with an assembly where some of our class represented their cultures by greeting the school in a language other than English. Oliver - Swiss, Hiwatt - Ethiopian, Vibhore - Nepalese, Rajveer - Indian, Sakina - Pakistani and Teddy - Swedish.

Teddy, Rajveer and Hiwatt waiting for their turn to speak.

After assembly there was time for us to play lape (lah-pay), a Samoan game which is a mixture of dodgeball and rounders.

Oliver's friend Petra, and his sister Zoe, visited our classroom in the middle block and showed us how to spin a coin in a bowl to make Swiss music. Very skillful!

Petra showed us a video clip of how the bowls are used.

Shared lunch is a special time for us to share food from our own culture with other children.

After lunch we finished off the day making origami, Japanese paper folding. It was challenging but we persevered, and everyone that finished was able to help those of us that were stuck. 

Another wonderful day of learning!! Thank you to all our parents and caregivers for supporting us today with your amazing food and for helping your children dress for the occasion. We are looking forward to the next special event.

Reminders for the Upcoming Week

Tena koutou, talofa, marhabaan, malo e lelei, namaste, kia orana, yeoboseyo, fakalofa lahi atu, welcome to week 7.

Class Swimming is on Tuesday and Thursday.

Lunchtime swimming is on Monday and Wednesday.

Friday is Cultural Unity Day. You should have received a note about this day last week. Another reminder will be sent home this week. Friday is a day of celebration. Please encourage your child to dress in a national costume or in clothes that reflect a culture eg a lavalava or sports uniform. We will also be celebrating with a shared lunch. Check out our ideas we posted last week.

D is For ...

D is for ...
Dungeons and Dragons, Dr Seuss, DNA, dodos, dancing dragons, deep sea, dreams, dolphins and diamonds.

TERM ONE GREEN DAY

Today we had green day. Here are some photos.

We made masks of our seabirds for Green Week.

This is our slide for assembly.

             Hiero got an award for biking to school.

I got our class award for being a waste free champion all week.

Sakina got a flower for the wrapper free lunch draw.

                     This is a photo of Room 21 wearing their masks with Mrs Fletcher.

This post was created by Oliver and Maria.

Cultural Unity Day Ideas

Here are some ideas for finger food, 

for our shared lunch next Friday, 

that we came up with:

pikelets           sushi            spring rolls       hot dogs
cucumber sushi     sausage rolls    french toast 
Dutch gingerbread    fairy bread  Swiss bread
burritos     Ethiopian injedda     palusami   
pineapple pie   taro   meatballs    dumplings
Indian bread rolls with potato in it   rotis   pizza
tacos   quiche   bacon and egg pie   asparagus rolls
cheese rolls    date scones   fish fingers   Maori bread

       

Green Week

Have you seen this notice?

SWIMMING THIS WEEK

We have class swimming on Monday and Wednesday this week. Please remember to bring your togs both days so we can practise our water safe skills.

Lunchtime swimming is on Tuesday and Thursday.

C Is For ...

C is for Cicadas, carrots, caterpillars, cucumbers, Christmas, cars, camouflage and cats. Here is more amazing information from home learning this week. 

Keep reading everyone! Big shout outs to Hiero, Libby, Oli, Vibhore, Teddy and Aysha for reading from Monday - Thursday (4 nights) and recording your reading in your reading log. 

Swimming Update

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B Is For ....

This week lots of children chose to research topics beginning with B for their Home Learning. Here are a few ...

Bees by Hiero

Bees by Mackenzie

1. Some bees are really fat

2. Bees are really clever because they have special jobs

3. Some people are really allergic to bees

Bees make honey.

Bees eat nectar.

Bees pollinate flowers.

Bees have a queen.

By Aysha

5 Facts About Battle Royale by Jarvis

1.In a single weekend this February 3.4million people were playing battle royale at the same time.

2.Epic games made fortnite battle royale in September 2017

3.A win is called a victory royale

4. 2 billion people play fortnite battle royale

5. Epic games has made more than $1 billion since battle royale came out.

There are other fantastic projects on display in our classroom. Feel free to pop in and see them.

Swimming this week

Hi everyone!
We have no class swimming this week BUT
you do have a lunchtime swim on Tuesday and Thursday.
Maria