Being Respectful: Welcoming New Pupils

A BIG welcome to our new pupils in Room One!  

Welcome to Lourdaz, Terina, Tyler and Fatai.  

Misty, Izzy, Kyra-Leigh, Emily and Levi have been superstars taking care of our new students!  Tino pai rawa tamariki!

We love having you in Room One!  

Welcome to Linwood North School!

Being A Learner: Room One is OPEN!

Today Room One opened with five students.  We have had a busy morning settling into School.

Learning to Mix Colours and Being A Learner

As part of our Painting we have been learning to mix primary colours together to make secondary colours.  Miss Collins gave us a blank fish and we had to paint the head starting with yellow and then add a little bit of red each time until we reached the tail which had to be red.  

So far we have learnt that...

RED + YELLOW = ORANGE

and

BLUE + YELLOW = GREEN

Here are some photos of use learning how to hold a paintbrush like a pencil, add a little of another colour and how to correctly apply paint onto paper.  We were painting superstars!  

Here is Lucas adding red to his yellow.

Cody is holding his paintbrush like a pencil.

Mualijcia is trying to add more yellow to her red to make it lighter.

Lupe is taking care with her painting and is painting each fish scale.

Micheal took care with his work.

Lorenzo held his paintbrush like a pencil.

Tredestiny is taking care with her work.  

Lupe carefully dipping her paintbrush in the paint.

We enjoyed working together at one table

Tredestiny is adding a little red each time.  

Muslijcia's finished fish!

Let's Go Fly A Kite...

This week we have focused on writing poetry as part of our writing programme and School Wide Literacy Week.  The Teachers and students have enjoyed exploring how to write different poems.  It was lovely to see students sharing their poetry at the Kakano Poetry Slam last Friday.

We concluded our school week with a combined Literacy Week and Inquiry celebration.  The whole school made kites, which had pictures of our family on them.  As a school we went and flew our kites with our buddies.  It was an absolute to see the huge smiles on our learner’s faces as they flew their kites.  I could see the children focusing and thinking about their kite and taking risks to see how they could get their kite higher in the air.  

Pasifika Time with Latu

Today we had our second Cultural lesson with Latu from Niu Preschool.  Latu bought some of the older students from Niu Preschool to help us learn the new songs.  It was a fun time  together learning new hiva (Tongan for song).   

This term Rooms One and Five are having Pasifika time together each Friday afternoon and Rooms Two and Four are having Kapa Haka with Stacey, Cane and Jonathan's Mum.  In Term 2 we will swap over.  We look forward to sharing our learning with our whanau later in the year.  

Latu and the Niu Preschool children

Alex and Mrs Sutherland singing the alphabet song

Niu Preschool children sharing their learning with Rooms One and Five

Our Butterflies Hatched!

In the holidays Miss Collins bought Room One a swan plant.  A swan plant is the special kind of plant that the Monarch Butterfly lays hers eggs on.  A Monarch Butterfly laid eggs on our plant and they hatched into caterpillars. The catterpillars ate ALL of our swan plant and got really fat.  Then they hung upside down like the letter J.  After a wee while they went into a chrysalis.  We have been waiting a long time for our butterflies to hatch and today the did!  It was very exciting!

Here is a link if you want to more learning at home: 

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarch_butterfly.htm

This is us watching the butterfly hatch from the cocoon.

This is the butterfly flapping its wings to dry them so it can fly away and lay some more eggs.

This the butterfly flying away to look for another plant to lay its eggs on.

Wonderful Room One Linwood North Learners

Wow!  We have finished our second week of school and what a great week of learning we have had.  Room One LOVES Reading!  We are superstars at pointing to each word.  Miss Collins and Mrs Tizzard are very excited about the cool books we will be able to read soon.  

Room One have made a great start on their Home Learning and it has been awesome seeing the Room One students reading nights adding up in their notebook.  Both Teachers are looking forward to giving out the first 25 nights certificate!  Keep reading!  

We thought we introduce the first 2015 learners in Room One...

This is Izzan and he started this week.  Izzan enjoys reading and likes our class fish Ma and Karaka.

This is Micheal and he is a pointing superstar.  Micheal enjoys fitness and can run really fast.

This is Dupree and he does everything with this wonderful smile.  Dupree is a super messenger.

This is Naomi and she enjoys drawing.  Naomi is great friend to the other children in Room One.

This is Justine and she loves School.  Justine is the most amazing dancer and loves to take risks and try new things.

This is Mitchell and he is a confident LNS learner.  Mitchell is a superstar at writing and enjoys writing stories.

This is Jaedyn and he loves to draw pictures.  Jaedyn is a superstar at thinking of ideas to write stories about.

This is Aurora and she is a great friend to others.  Aurora enjoys exploring the Learning Centre.

This is Zivan and he loves coming to school.  Zivan is great at getting ready to start the day and at packign his bag at the end of the day by himself. 

This is Ferishta and she is a superstar at getting her work finished.  Ferishta loves learning new things!

This is Rahnui and Miss Fraser.  Rahnui is a special member of Room One and loves being read to by other children.  This children in Room One have been making Rahnui a special feelie book.  Rahnui loves music and responds with lots of laughter and smiles.

Welcome Back to School Powhiri

Today we started school with a Powhiri to welcome all of the new people to Linwood North School.  We welcomed two teachers and about 20 children.  It was wonderful to see so many parents stay on for this special occasion. Our Kapa Haka group performed for us and Ms Smith and Mrs Leatham both did a great job of calling us on and replying.  

Our lovely parents

Mrs Leatham being the Kaikaranga

Mrs Tizzard walking on with our new entrants

 Our 2015 Kapa Haka group

Ms Smith welcoming the school

Making Salt Dough Fossils and Bones

Miss Collins made use some salt dough at home foe us to make bones and fossils out of.  First we had a play with the dough and some of us found that it hurt the little cuts we had in our hands.  Then Miss Collins handed out the dinosaurs and we pushed them into the salt dough to make a fossil.  We had to be careful not push a hole in the salt dough.  After that we pinched and rolled dough to make a bone shape.  We looked at dinosaur skeletons to get ideas.  After school Miss Collins cooked them for us and made them go hard.  Next we will tag them like real scientists.  

The Discovery Room

After our Museum lesson we went exploring in the Canterbury Museum Discovery Room.  We loved it!  We were able to wander and explore different things in this room.  A big thank you to Rahel (Elshadays's Mum, Lin (Abby's Mum) and Paula (Larissa's Mum) who came on our trip to help.  

Billie, Mraz and Drake in the butterfly room

Bug drawers!

Sophie and Levi looking at the nest, the eggs, the hedgehog and rat

More investigating the nest

Looking for fossils

Learning to use the microscope

Susie with the bird display

Mraz in the sand

Our class!

John on the computer