Grandparents afternoon

Thank you to all the grandparents and aunties who came to our grandparents afternoon - it was certainly a fantastic success.  What a beautiful sunny afternoon we got for it!The children absolutely loved showing you their classroom and sharing their learning with you.  The Pic-collages you made together are lovely.  We have printed them out and they are on display in the classroom.

Research Presentations

Some children in Weka have been researching topics and have made Book Creator presentations to share with you. These will be added as they are finished.

Community Walks

We had 3 very interesting walks around our community last week.  We were lucky with the weather!  The children took a lot of photos and noticed how many different places and organisations we have around us.  
Thank you to the parents who joined us on our walks, without your support we would not have been able to get out and learn about our neighbourhood.  Thank you also to the staff at the Redwood Dental Centre who welcomed our group when we popped in.  The children loved their face masks and all the stickers too.  
Over the next week we will be talking about what we noticed about our community.  The children will think about questions they have that they can investigate.

We met Peter the water meter reader as we were out and about.

Do you recognise the masked individuals?!

Kath Bee visits Papanui Primary

We all had a fantastic time on Monday singing along with Kath Bee! She played some old favourites like Individuality as well as introducing us to some new songs.
We loved the balloon animals she taught us to make.  We will be singing a lot of her songs from now on.

Home

We are loving singing this song in class.
Here is a link to the lyric video so you can sing along at home too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EreCgvezCeQ

Book Character Day

We had the best day last Thursday when we all got to come to school dressed as a character from a book.  Here we all are!  Can you see Wally?  We also got photo-bombed by Captain Underpants!

Mr Twit joined us for this photo.  Do you recognise him?

There was a lot of laughter when Captain Underpants joined us!

The children couldn't quite believe their eyes.

Where are we?

We are learning to use the words that describe where we are.  On Friday we all went out onto the adventure playground.  We had a mission!  We had to take 6 photos and put them onto a pic collage, then we needed to use 6 different words to describe where we were.  Have a look and see if we managed to do that.