Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali celebrations to all

Look at how beautiful Tejaswini looked in her cultural outfit. 

Look Who Came To Room 9a!

Look who came for a visit to Room 9a on Saturday!

Mrs Burge's dog, Bonnie!

Bonnie practiced being the teacher on Mrs Burge's chair!

She practiced sitting on the mat but she couldn't cross her legs!!!

She had a play in the Koru Courtyard!

She even met Orlando, his Dad and Rex the dinosaur!!

Cheeky Bonnie!

Assembly Certificates

Annie and Tejaswini received a certificate in assembly on Friday for demonstrating the empathy GEM

Well done girls - keep up the hard work.

More photos from the zoo trip

Zoo Trip for Room 9 and Room 9a

Koru Whanau visits the Auckland Zoo

Thursday 17th October

Leaving school on Fordyce Road in one of the 5 buses,  We enjoyed singing along with Mrs Burge.  Our bus driver even joined in with the "horn on the bus goes beep beep beep" so much excitement.

Service September

Andrew and Matthew have been working hard at home to do chores to help out at home.

Matthew above and Andrew below, making their beds.

Matthew helping with brushing up the leaves and helping dad.

Anna - Learning to ride her bike

Anna has been working hard to learn how to ride her bike without the stabilizers!

Well done Anna! There will be no stopping you now!

Character Book Week Rm 9 and 9a

Finishing off Term 3 with lots of FUN in Rm9!

Mrs Jackman read us some books for Literacy Week.

Ms Driver shared a couple of her favourite picture books.

We had Chinese Cultural Day.

Look at Room 9s character book dress-up outfits.

We had grandparents come in to read with us.

Here is Laela's Nana, Dianne.

Poetry Festival

What an amazing accomplishment for our students that represented Room 9 and Room 9a at the poetry Festival.

Mathew

Paris

Sophie 

Vienna

Ben

Arianna

Character Book Parade Koru Whanau

Principals Award for Arianna 

Look at Mrs Edmonds and Miss King dressed up for the character parade.

Service September

Service September

How fantastic to receive an email from a proud DAD who enjoyed our Service September activity.

Rm9s Orlando is helping his papa, George change the engine oil on the car!

Wow Orlando, what a fantastic skill to learn and some wonderful time shared with Papa!

Service September

Blake has been helping out by cleaning out his Grandparent's cars.

He also helped mum in the garden.

Keep up the hard work Blake.

Service September has been such a fantastic way to show Leadership!

Pirate Day Writing

Following our Pirate Day, we all wrote about a Pirate and we drew some pictures of Pirates.  Here are some examples of our Pirate Writing and Artwork.

Come into Room 9/9a to see more.

Literacy Week - Grandparents Reading

On the last Friday of Term 3, we were so lucky to have some grandparents, parents, aunties and uncles who came into Room 9 to read to the children.

Thank you to everyone who came. The children loved it.

Literacy Week - Snail and the Whale

One of our books written by Julia Donaldson was The Snail and the Whale

We wrote about the snail or the whale and we made some Snail and the Whale pictures using vivid, crayons and dye.

Come into Room 9a to take a look at all of our amazing Snail and the Whale pictures.

Literacy Week - Character Parade

Mrs Burge and Mrs Edmonds were dressed up as Teacher 1 and Teacher 2 inspired Thing 1 and Thing 2 from The Cat in the Hat.

How hilarious, we had so much fun together!

Everyone in Room 9a and 23 looked awesome dressed up as a book character.

Mrs Knofflock, Ms Driver and Mrs Venville looked fabulous dressed as the three fairies from Sleeping Beauty.

What a wonderful day we had.