August/September 2016.

Link to children's wiki pages.

http://riversleawhanau.wikispaces.com/Miharo   

We are still learning and being involved in lots of activities. Our Inquiry has been about the Rio Olympics 2016. We learnt a lot about different countries and different sports. We each had our own country at the Olympics. Harmony’s country USA came first with the most medals. They got 116 medals ( 43gold, 37 silver, 36 bronze).

Te Orihana came 2^nd with Great Britain who got 66 medals. Kadyn had NZ who got 18 medals (4gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze).

We also watched some of the ParaOlympics which made the students aware of different disabilities and how people use ways to overcome them to win medals eg Blind cyclists and runners and swimmers with only 1 leg.

We had our own school Olympics which the students loved. They also got medals. Participation for the tabloids and Gold, Silver ,Bronze for the age races. It was well supported by whanau.

All students have made great progress, some being a year above in Reading and 6 months above in Writing and Maths.

This term Room 1 has also been involved in a NZ wide programme for Junior classes called #NZReadAloud. We connect with other classes around NZ (10 in all) from Auckland to Dunedin and share our ideas, art work, writing etc on a blog. It is all related to a common chosen book that we are all reading to our class. It is called A Booming in the Night By Ben Brown , a NZ author.

As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games. This Term we are learning about Cooperation (Whanaungatanga) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass.

We have had ‘Getting started’ again T3 with a council funded programme on fitness and coordination skills. We have had Whaea Toni and Matua Julian this term.

Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday has continued. Some of us go and read to them for 15 minutes each. They help sponser our Duffy books. We had a Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger (storyteller) and Peter Charlton-Jones (musician) and got our Duffy books for the Term.We also had 2 Role Models form Karamu High come to talk to use about being leaders.

We were lucky to have Mr Kevin a Preschool Teacher volunteer time 2 days a week for most of the term. He fixed all of our school bikes for us. The children are loving being out on the bike track again.

Whaea Monique (Student Teacher from last year) also volunteers in the classes 2 days a week. It is great to have her skills and empathy with the students.

Another highlight for the students was a visit from 2 Magpies Chris Eaton and Matt Garland. They talked to the students about being role models and then took them for games. They loved the Touch Rugby.

                                                   

                                      It has been another awesome term for Miharo (Room1).

                                                   June/July

June and July were also busy months with 2 weeks holiday in July for the end of Term 2.

We are all still making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry.

Some students have gone up several levels in Reading

and they, and others, moved up stages in Maths and Writing as well.

In Inquiry we are learning about the Olympic Games in Rio in Term 3.

We loved our Inquiry about Flight and learnt a lot.

We always have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings.

We have fun finding out the information.

As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games with Whaea Cass and Matua Rocky.

We also have Kapa Haka with Whaea Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings.

We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday.

We just had a Duffy Theatre performance about Time Travel and got our Duffy books for the Term. It was great fun.

We also had lots of learning with our class buddies and our school buddies too.

We had Irene Van Dyke a famous NZ Netballer come to speak to us. She was very tall (6ft 3 inches).

She gave us all a bag from Netball Hawkes Bay and some balls for our PE gear.

Paora came from the Council to help us set up a new worm garden. We got to hold the worms. They were slimy.

We also had Todd and Nathan from the Army come and teach us how to march and do push ups.

We are Miharo too.We are awesome

Learning  Buddies

Bubbles for Flight

Worm Farm

Marching with the Army

Duffy Theatre

Inquiry- Flight T2

April/May 2016.

What a busy 2 months it has been with 2 weeks holiday in the middle.

We are all making awesome progress in Reading, Maths, Story-writing and Inquiry too.

In Inquiry we are learning about Flight and how it effects people, animals and insects. We have some great questions to find out about in our wonderings. They are up on our Inquiry wall for everyone to keep looking at and thinking about.

As usual we are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games. This Term we are learning about Resilience (Taikaha) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass.

We love Kapa Haka with Whaea  Manaea and Matua Justin on Thursday mornings for 40 mins. We are learning lots of waiata.

We like Grandparent’s reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday. Some of us go and read to them for15 mins each still. They help sponser our Duffy books.We had a Role Model Assembly and got our Duffy books for the Term.

We also had a visit from Harold and the Life Education Truck with Whaea Anne.

We all like Harold.

We love school. It is awesome and we are Miharo too. 

Kickboxing

Kapa Haka

Reading our stories at
School Assembly

Life Education Truck with Harold

Learning Time on ipads

School Buddies

Duffy Books

Learning to write words

Link to children's wiki pages.

http://riversleawhanau.wikispaces.com/Miharo       

Feb/Mar 2016

                                               

                                                             Feb/Mar 2016

We had an amazing  February and March. Lots of learning and exciting activities.

We even rewrote our Goals as many students had already achieved
them in one month.
We continued with Getting Started ( Fitness /coordination programme),
Kiwi Can (social skills & games), Patu (Maori fitness & sports programme) Grandparent’s reading(Rotary),Kapa Haka (Junior & Senior) and even found time to have a Dress up day as Heroes or Heroines.
We were lucky to get Free Pita Pits (donated by Pita Pit in Russell St Hastings) for Lunch too.
The students in Room 1 are loving learning and making great progress.
We are Miharo.
We rock.
We show Aroha, Kaha and Mana



Inquiry on Fairy Tales



ipad Mask app

Patu Fitness

Kiwi Can

Retelling Little Pigs with Finger Puppets

Grandparent's Reading with H Nth Rotary

Dress Up Day



Getting Started Programme

Kapa Haka

Free Pita Pits for lunch

Kapa Haka

 

                                                   Nov/Dec 2015

                         Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.

A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1.

The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety.

We know to get down, get low, get out fast.

We also learnt new things when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School.

We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads and apple computers.It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything.

We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space and the Solar system and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well.

The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there.

We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting and playing at the new playground at Windsor park.We also had a Wet and Wild fun day.

We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas and all the candy canes and chocolate Santas we kept getting.

Lots of us achieved our goals in learning.

2015 was a great year.

Miharo is awesome.

Merry Xmas everyone.

Hakinakina sports

Learning to code on computers

Nga Toi

Swimming

New playground at the park.

Wet and wild fun day

Xmas glasses

Kapa Haka

                                 

                                         October

Link to children's wiki pages.

http://riversleawhanau.wikispaces.com/Miharo                                

                                          Trips learning and fun.

We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month.
We have still been learning lots with our buddies
and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things.
We have learnt about Augumented Reality .
That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move.
I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container.
We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’.
We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting.
We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already.
Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day.
He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England.
We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all.
Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook.
The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities
and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams.
We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark.
We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.

Augumented Reality on the ipad.

Wheku masks at Assembly

At the Skatepark

Fun on the skateboard

Omnigym trip

On the tramp

On the beam balancing

Nga Toi for the Bike container

Going up high on the rope