Term 3 Week 5

Poetry Competition
Congratulations to Holly, Noah and Brooke M who will be representing our class at the Year 1 and 2 Poetry competition next week. Riley and Thomas also received Highly Commended certificates.

Great Readers
Well done Thomas and Alannah who received stickers in their reading logs this week. Keep up the great reading.

Book Week

Thank you to Mrs Pelham for organising this. The children have enjoyed visiting the book fair and listening to stories from other teachers this week. We also had a surprise visit from Clifford the Big Red Dog on Friday.

On Monday we came to school dressed as our favourite book characters. Everyone looked fantastic! Lily and Coco represented us in the Year 2 finals and Lily won first prize for her Mary Poppins outfit. 

Amelia as Thing 1 from The Cat in the Hat

Neo as Harry Potter

Nick as a character from Ninjago

Ruby as Little Red Riding Hood

Vianca - White Bear

Thomas - Meet the Creeps

Shiako - I Never Want to go to Bed

Ruby - Smells

Rosa - 3D Shapes

Riley - Down on the Farm

Noah - A Shark is a Pet

Nick - 3D Shapes

Niamh - Old Mother Hubbard

Neo - Motorway Madness

Matthias - 3D Shapes

Lily - The End

Lexie - Spider Work

James - My Robot's Misbehaving

Holly - The Drain Goblin

Hasini - You're a Smart Kid

Ella - A shark is a pet

Coco - Sausages and Custard

Brooke M - Steve the Superhero

Amelia - Onomatopoeia

Alannah - Swimming

Brooke N - Spider

Poetry Competition

This morning we had our class poetry competition. Everyone did a great job and Mrs D is very proud of us.


I felt nervous standing up in front of all those people - Alannah.
I was proud of myself for getting up even though I felt nervous - Amelia.
I really, really want to get into the finals - Brooke M.
I was nervous about the poetry competition because I don't like speaking to large groups of people - Brooke N.
I am happy that I tried even though I was still a bit scared - Coco.
I was glad that I didn't have to stop in my poem - Ella.
I was shy when I had to read my poem - Hasini.
I hope I get into the semi finals - Holly.
I heard some great poems - James.
I was nervous when all the mums and dads were watching - Lexie.
I was pleased with the class because we all did well - Lily.
I wasn't very happy that I got the giggles but I managed to carry on - Matthias.
I was glad that mum could make it - Neo.
My mum wasn't there, but I still tried - Niamh.
I was really excited - Nick.
I felt sick when I saw the audience but I'm ok now - Noah.
I felt nervous when I got up and at the end I felt happy when everyone clapped - Riley.
I was really nervous at the start but happy at the end - Rosa.
I was really nervous when I got up and I cried afterwards because I was still nervous - Ruby.
I was very very nervous about the audience - Shiako.
I was really nervous about the audience - Thomas.
I felt nervous about the poetry - Vianca.

T3W4 update

The highlight of our week has to have been making sock puppets to practise our fabric & fibre skills and to use in the class puppet theatre. Thank you to all the parent helpers who came along on Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday to help with the stitching and gluing - we couldn't have done it without you.
Everyone is very excited and the puppets look amazing. Noah was our papparazi this week and took some great photos of our sessions.

Congratulations to Neo, Lexie and Amelia who were awarded certificates at Assembly on Thursday and to Neo and Niamh who have earned their next stickers in their reading logs.

Special Visitors in Room 19

There was a lot of excitement in Room 19 this afternoon when we were visited by two of the Canterbury Rugby Team - Marcel Cummings-Toone and Belgium Tuatagaloa. Nick did a great job of welcoming them to the classroom and Riley, Brooke N, Neo and Brooke M had the opportunity to play a game of touch with the guys.

T3W3 News

Congratulations to Ruby and James who were awarded certificates at assembly on Thursday. Well done, we are proud of you.

Congratulations to Amelia, Lexie, Coco and Lily who received stickers in their Reading logs this week. Keep up the great reading.

Reading at home

Our focus this term is on traditional stories. Check out the links on the Reading Tab at the top of this page to enjoy some stories from around the world. If you know of other links relevant to your heritage, I would love you to email me the link so I can include these too.

If you have some books of these stories at home that you would like to share with your classmates, you can bring them to school - but make sure they are named first please.

T3W2 Round up

It was wonderful to see everyone for getting involved in Wacky Hair Wednesday. You looked really WACKY! The school raised just over $619 for the Child Cancer Foundation which is a great result.

Congratulations to Brooke M, Riley and Noah who received certificates at the Year 2 Assembly on Thursday. We are proud of you.

Well done to Ella and Noah who have received stickers in their reading logs for great reading.

Ruby brought along a skirt she made out of plastic supermarket bags - we loved the way you recycled materials to create an interesting looking and sounding art work. Nick also shared some interesting headgear he got in Bali that used fur and feathers.

T3W1 Roundup

We have had a couple of changes to our classroom this term. Matthew has shifted to Auckland and Thomas has also moved on. Have a great time at your new schools boys. The photos went home last week and orders should be lodged at the office. What a great looking bunch of kids!!! Thank you to everyone who has started bringing in sewing equipment for our kits, puppets and costumes. Basic fact home learning for the next couple of weeks will be to work on the Maths-a-thon facts that were sent home on Thursday. Spelling and reading will continue as normal.

Congratulations to Hasini and Shiako who received certificates at assembly this week.

We also had some great readers over the holidays. Well done Matthias, Brooke, Niamh and Rosa.