Junior Week - FOUR

Today we attended the ARMISTICE DAY commemorations at the domain.  

The children were very engaged and respectful.

Thank you to Georgia and Leo for presenting the fabulous wreath that Mrs McIntyre made with some children from room 2.  

After the Armistice ceremony we enjoyed a yummy lunch of nuggets, fish and chips.

Thank you Kids Crusaders for helping us make this week amazing,  YOU ROCK.

JuniorWeek - Three

Today we planned for a swim and tent building. 

BUT!!!!

The weather didn't play fairly and we could only do our swim, that was so much fun!!

Junior Week - TWO

Today we headed off to the lower domain with our bags, hats, lunches and smiles.  

We had a fantastic picnic lunch followed by a scavenger hunt.

We made lots of discoveries and covered a lot of ground.

A big thank you to all the parents who came along and helped out.  

Junior Week - ONE

The juniors started their activities off this week with a trip to the Fantasy Cave and then a visit to our public library.

WOW we have so many amazing things to do and discover this week.

Keep tuned.

Look at all of our fantastic readers.

Thanks to all the parents who joined us.  👍

Splash

Splish splash

We were going for a swim. 

Down at Wai Splash. 

What a fantastic opportunity we have had. We learned something that will keep us safe in and around water. 

Fly Away

Room 1 and 2 have been creating rockets.

First we made straw rockets, then we made rockets out of classroom objects and then had the challenge of building a rocket out of paper.

We all demonstrated so many skills, we problem solved, we communicated and we created.

Speech Time

Thank you Kiki and Ava for representing room 1 at the St Joseph's School speech competition.

You both did an amazing job.

La La La

Room 1 loves participating in school singing and they are so enthusiastic.

Look at the amazing expressions on their faces.  

Thanks Mr K for making this an enjoyable experience for everyone.

Speech Time

All this week room 1 have been doing their speeches.  They are learning to speak to an audience, speak clearly, speak loud enough so everyone can hear and not to fast, stand still while talking and to order their speech.  The listeners were learning to be a good audience.

Thank you room 1 you speeches were informative and entertaining.

Maori Language Week

To celebrate Maori Language St Joseph's Scool participate in a variety of Maori activities put on but Rangiitane at the Hub. 

Thank you for this amazing opportunity.

Ngati Kahungunu

Another great celebration for Maori language was done by Ngati Kahungunu for us at St Joseph's.

They provided a saugage lunch for us.

Remember the Maori word for sausage is tot its.

Ngati Kahungunu 

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce

We had are final session of basketball with Miles on Thursday.

We played games that reinforced the skills we had learnt over the term.

Thanks Miles for encouraging all children to become basketball players.  🏀👍

Characters

To celebrate the end of our "Book Fair" we all dressed up as one of our favourite book characters.

Well done Room 1 you all look amazing.  

Thank you parents and care givers for supporting this week.

Sister Ann

Sister Ann from the 'Mission Sisters' came to visit us today.  

She talked to us about her mission work in Cambodia and then she taught us about meditation.

To meditate we sat in a circle with our arms and legs crossed.  We then listened to three chimes on the meditation bowl and quietly and slowly said the word, Ma-ra-na-tha, (Come Lord Jesus.). To end the meditation we heard three chimes on the meditation bowl again and slowly opened our eyes.

It was a very peaceful and relaxing experience.  

Thank you for that Sister Ann.

First Year Friends

Room 1 had visitors yesterday from, 'First Year Preschool'. 

They shared the first part of the day with us.  

We did phonics, made rainbows and read to a buddy using 'EEKK.'

Thank you for the visit, we had a wonderful time.  

Daily 5

Room 1 have started on a new literacy journey, "The Daily 5.

Our first step was to establish our, "Reading to Self" routines.

As you can see we are well on the way.

Keep up the amazing reading Room 1, you are fantastic.

Our next step is to establish, "Reading to Somebody".

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce

Miles was back today.

He was teaching us how to dribble with a basketball.

We now know we use one hand, we control the basketball with our fingers and we bounce the basketball up to our belly button.

Thanks Miles

Bounce bounce bounce

Room 1 had an amazing time with Miles.  He was teaching us some awesome basketball skills like "jump stop", " catch and clap" and more skills will follow next week.

Keep on bouncing Room 1.