Week 4, Term 3

Lately our time has been full up with lots of work on our inquiry into 'Our Community'. We have been visiting places in our community and greater community with our trip to the new Oral Health Clinic, the Suter Art Gallery and of course, Trafalgar Park! Thanks to all our helpers for these trips, we really appreciate your help. Check back later this week for some photos!

We also have many new faces in Room 5 these days. Welcome to Anup, Klara, and soon to start, Duh Duh. We are loving having you in the class already Anup and Klara, and look forward to you starting Duh Duh. While we welcome our new friends, we have said, "See you at lunchtimes!" to some old friends. Cem Pi, Lexus, and Jack have all moved on into Room 4 and we know they are having a great time learning all the things 'almost-6-year-olds' learn! We miss you and love your visits, friends.

Next week we are looking forward to continuing our trips with a journey to the museum in town. This is happening on Tuesday and we look forward to you joining us if you are planning to. 

Week 1 Term 3

Welcome back! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday. We got straight into it this week with some exciting things happening in Room 5. We read a book about bubbles so thought we would have a go at making some bubbles ourselves. We were lucky enough to borrow Room 1's special bubble maker and made some stunning massive bubbles!

We also had a visit from Janice Oliver who taught us some rugby skills. We started small with running tips and had tricky game to learn. Room 5 did such great listening and watching that we all learned it very quickly and we had great time. Thanks Janice!

Run Jack!

We also had some sad news at the very beginning of the week. Kap Cin and his family have moved to Australia so we had to say a hurried good bye to him on Monday. We will miss you Kap Cin and we hope you keep in touch. It is with sadness we say goodbye to you and your lovely family. 

As we loose students in Room 5 we also gain new ones. Be sure to say hello to our new friends May May, Wiremu, and Bailey. 

We had some other changes in Room 5 over the holidays. Our tadpoles underwent some big changes and are now all frogs! We now have the problem of their living arrangements. We did consider releasing them into the creek but we couldn't get down to the water. What else could we do? This took a lot of thinking......

They have become very 'hoppy' and jump out of their little bowl at every opportunity. In the end, Miss Taylor took them home to make a special home for them. This is all set up now and they will be back in class soon. 

They look very happy in their new home.