Merry Christmas Everyone....

So long, farewell, goodbye Mrs Church. 
We will miss you in Rata Block.

End of Year

Meri Kirihimete ki a koe me te whanau

  
  Merry Christmas to you and your family.........

A BIG thank you for your support throughout the year. 
We have had an awesome time sharing our learning with you. 
Thank you for the comments you have posted. 
We look at our blog every morning and read all the wonderful comments. 

But now it is time to celebrate Christmas and relax and enjoy a well-earned holiday.

Have a fun holiday and take care.

See you on the 4th of February 2013.

Love from Mrs Foster and the Rata 1 Super Stars.

Today we made some yummy Christmas biscuits....
Christmas biscuits on PhotoPeach

Whanau Fun Day
Thanks to the Whanau Leaders for organising the awesome activities. We had so much fun.

Today we walked to the Aotea Lagoon. We played on the playground, had a picnic lunch and then a very special person arrived...

Aotea Lagoon trip on PhotoPeach

Awesome Work Rata 1.....

Well done to all those who have earned Mathletics certificates this year.

A special congratulations to Liam Vaea for earning a 
GOLD certificate. 

Mathlete of the Year 

Christmas is coming.....


 

Today was our Run, Jump and Throw fun day.

Thank you to everyone who was able to come along and watch us. It was loads of fun.......

until it rained!!

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Grasshopper Tennis on PhotoPeach

Orkut Scrap Toys

                                                          

Our Author of the Month is Giles Andreae. 
We have read lots of his books but this book was our favourite.

                         

                   

                   

                   

                            

Do you have a favourite Giles Andreae Book?

We are learning skills for athletics with Run, Jump & Throw

Today we went down to the bottom field to practice. 

Jumping

Running

Throwing

Ready

 Set........

  

GO!

Today we started our Health Unit, 
Keeping Ourselves Safe.

Please check in the front of the Communication Logbook for the homework activities. 

Doing these activities with your child is an important part of the programme. Thank you.

Building Update.......

Going Global

Quad Blogging begins soon...... I am so excited to be part of this global connection -
quad blogging. 

Quad Blogging is where four classes spend time learning about different classes from around the world through their blogs.

Classes take it in turns to have their classroom in the spotlight for a week. During that time the other three classes visit and leave comments.

Our Quad Blogging buddies are from the U.K and the U.S.A

Welcome to the best place to BEE...

Our School Assembly.....


Assembly on PhotoPeach

Today Mark Kairua came to Rata Block to teach us the actions for Haere Mai.

We all had a go. We are going to keep practising. Thank you Mark.

This week are have been learning to count backwards from 20






 Now try counting backwards from 17 then 13.....

You are invited............

School Assembly this Thursday 22 November at 2.00 p.m. 
Rata Block will be sharing an item.

It will beeee amazing!!

Also we will be welcoming the following New Entrants.......

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Haere mai, haere mai                             Welcome, welcome
E nga iwi e haere mai                             all the tribes welcome
Ki runga o te marae                                onto the courtyard
Hui mai tatou katoa                                all of us gathered here
E hine ma, e tama ma                            Young women, young men
Hapainga to mana Maori e                      uplift your Maori prestige
Kia rewa runga rawa                               to float on
I a ha ha                                                 I a ha ha
E nga iwi e                                              All the tribes
Haere mai, haere mai                             Welcome, welcome

Welcome and Happy Birthday Will

Wow Work

Star of the Week
James

Great independent writing
Riley

Great spacing
Tawera

Fantastic illustrating
James

Love your picture
Bella

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

This morning we  saw the moon moving across the sun.    It is called a Solar Eclipse.  

Mr Robinson gave us a special pair of glasses so we could look at the sun.

This is what we saw.....