Swimming Lessons have Begun

Today (13th November) we began our swimming lessons to help us stay safe around water this summer. We have 3 tutors and we will go into 3 groups to learn new skills. Some of us can swim and some of us are learning to put our heads under. Here we are with out tutors.

We are very excited because we are going to have a triathlon to finish off our lessons. Mums and Dads can come and watch us. It will be fun. We finish the day with a free swim. :)

Team 1 and 2 Cross Country

We finally had our Cross Country today - even though it was a really cold day. We have been practising for 3 weeks now, so we are all very fit and keen to go. We started with the 5 year old girls and our Jenny came 2nd. Mrs E is really proud of all of us for trying our hardest. Poor Alex had a stubbed toe and he had stopped because his plaster came off. But then he took off and finished the course.

The girls are off. They went really fast and everyone tried really hard.

Off go the boys. They had 20 weetbix each for breakfast, so they had lots of energy!

This is Mrs Irwin's last ever Cross Country at South School. She is funny. We will miss her starting us off.

Pet Day 2015

Mrs Bridge organised another great Pet Day this year. Jenny brought her pet calf ,Robby Bobby, and Kade brought his pet calf, Milo, to be judged. Some of us even brought our pet dogs along. We made sand saucers, painted rocks and dressed our favourite teddy's. It was a wonderful day and everyone really enjoyed meeting the different pets and making pet day creations . Thank you Mrs Bridge.

Shake Out 2015

On Thursday morning at 9.15 am, all of our school along with 1.3 million other people around NZ had a practise  earthquake drill. We had to rush under our tables and hold onto the legs of our tables. After awhile Mr Snell came and told us too assemble at our safe place out on the asphalt. We are getting really good at practising four earthquake drill.

Here we are gathered in our safe place after the drill in our class. Mr Snell was pleased with the way our school "Shake Out" went.

We are Scientists

We are learning to be Scientists. We are learning the Scientific method in our Inquiry. We are asking lots of questions, especially "I wonder...." questions. We are using "The Scientific Method" - Asking a question, forming a hypothesis, testing it, gathering evidence and a conclusion.

We have done lots of different experiments, showing the water cycle, testing for dirty surfaces, blowing up balloons with a bottle, vinegar and baking soda, growing fresh and packet capsicum seeds and heaps more. We are discovering lots and asking interesting questions and doing research. One day maybe , we will be real Scientists.

Our Self-Managing Discovery

Doesn't Peyton look gorgeous as Cinderella going to the ball.

We love playing with water, measuring and discussing.

Nicole's friend Amelia supported Nicole on her first ever Discovery Day. Amelia is a wonderful mentor.

We loved Mrs Bone's dress ups. We could create little plays.

Wow, there was lots of self discovery going on here!

Mr Snell just couldn't resist demonstrating "How it's Done!" Apologies are underway sorry Alex.

Thanks so much for fixing Mrs E's laminator and phone.

You boys are amazing. Wiremu and Karlos persevered until they got their canal leak free.

Kade's first ever Discovery. Deegan was there to support Kade with all of their discoveries and discussions. "Look at our magnets working!"

Learning To Use The Record button On Educreations

Jesse is learning to record his story. Well done Jesse.

Jenny wrote her story and then recorded it all by herself. Great work Jenny.

Maths Discovery

On Friday 14th August we had a great Maths Discovery. Rooms 1,2,3,4 & 14 had lots of Maths activities out for us to use. It was Maths Week so we thought it would be a great way to finish our Maths Week off by doing lots of Maths Discoveries.We had a great time going around the classes and learning together. Here are some of our fun Maths learning activities.

Every photo tells a story.

Symmetry

We have been studying symmetry this week. Our buddies made a pattern on the ladybird and we had to copy it. Here is what we came up with.

Do you think all of our ladybirds show symmetrical patterns on their wings?

Reading with our Room 7 buddies

Every morning at 11.20, our friends from Room 7 come to read with us. We share books and we read to them sometimes. We love reading.:)

Ryder is reading with William. They were reading about Dinosaurs. William really enjoyed that.

Maddie is reading to Zarlia, who loves books and chose her own to share with Maddie.

Jennifer loves reading and Jayla is sharing her favourite book with Jennifer.

Jamie is reading to Alex. Alex is enjoying having a buddy from Room 7 read to him.

Jade is really enjoying this book being read to her by her buddy Tiarah. She got really involved in the story and was sad when buddy reading was over.

Yummy Yellow Yoghurt

Last week we were studying letter Yy. We decided we should make some yoghurt, so Mrs E went shopping and found some yummy yellow yoghurt that we could make. Aroha helped us to follow the instructions and make it up.Today we had a "Yummy Yellow Yoghurt" party!

Pattern Discovery Show and Tell.

After we had finished our activities and tidied up, we shared all of our pattern making creations. We are really proud of our work.

Pattern Discovery Day Activities in Rooms 1,2,3 & 4

Here are all of the different activities we got to do on our Patterns Discovery Day. We had a great morning creating all sorts of patterns using construction, food, paint, beads, dye, glue and pompoms,snowflakes and heaps more. We did a real variety of creative patterning activities.

Tissues from the wonderful ladies from the Women's Institute

Last week, Mrs Streeter received a big parcel of boxes of tissues to help us through the winter when we get colds. They are lovely soft tissues and kind to our noses. Thank you so much ladies, we really appreciate you kindness.

Here we are practising with our lovely soft tissues.

Our Visit to Meet Harold in his classroom with Kirsty

Fun with Autumn Leaves

Here are our Autumn Stories.

We are playing in the leaves. By Harry

I am rolling down the hill in the leaves. By Caleb

I am playing in the leaves. By Ryder

I like playing in the leaves. By Arthur

I am rolling down the hill. By Tamati

I am rolling in the leaves. By James

I am playing in the leaves. By Jasmine

We are playing in the leaves. By Brayden

Dr Seuss Discovery

On Friday 8th May, we had a great time doing Dr Seuss activities to finish off our 3 week unit learning all about Dr Seuss" books and some of us even got to go the the musical in town called Seussical. Lots of the South School children and parents were in the musical.

We made all sorts of different things at the Dr Seuss Discovery. Here are some of our efforts.