Amelia, Evie and Bella's dance showcase

Bella, Amelia and Evie practiced a dance to 'Party Rock' by LMAFO they performed it to Room 14 and we thought it was awesome! Keep up the good work girls!!

Jayden's Robotics Driller

Check out the driller Jayden made in robotics yesterday, he had lots of fun designing and making it.

When you turn the switch the wheels and part work together and rotate around

Room 14's litter free lunchboxes

We have been adding up all week who has had a litter free lunchbox and who is using resealable bags for their lunch. Thank you parents and caregivers for your help and support with this. Our highest number is 12/25 which is  nearly half of our class but it would be great if we could get 25/25 lunchboxes litter free!!

Topic: We are who we are

We have started our topic wall. We had to colour and decorate ourselves. Miss Mead also took photos of us and we had to draw the other side of our faces.

Our topic wall is very bright and colourful- make sure you come into Room 14 and check it out :)

Needs vs Wants

Today we have been learning about the difference between a need and a want. We sorted pictures into the correct headings. Miss Mead made a fun activity for us on the Mimio.

Newsletter for Term 4

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

I hope you had a great holiday. I can't believe it is Term 4 already; Christmas will be here before we know it!

We are excited to have Miss Mead back with us, and I can't wait to hear where she took Mr Moose in the holidays.

This term our topic is: We are who we are. It is all about us, our family, belonging to a community, cultures, diversity and belonging to different groups. Room 14 will be putting together a flipchart on the Mimio as we explore each area and document who we are and where we come from. We have completed our topic wall to celebrate who we are – please feel free pop in and check it out.

We will be having swimming this term, but not for a couple of weeks. The pool has been fixed and it's now in the process of being cleaned and re-filled. When the timetable comes out I will let parents know what day and time our swimming session is.

In Visual Arts this term we will be exploring and making different types of puppets. Room 14 will be making puppets to represent who is in our family. We will be collecting different materials. Please have a look at the separate list your child will bring home of the items we are collecting. If you could please send in the items with your child that would be much appreciated.

In Maths this term we are continuing to work on number strategies in addition and subtraction. We are also learning about statistics; how to collect data and display it on a tally chart, display the data on a graph and then write statements from the information collected. Last week, we looked at our favourite colours and animals. 

If you have any questions or queries please don't hesitate to ask and remember to check the blog for regular updates:

 http://rm14arahoe.blogspot.co.nz/

Miss Scarlett

Bringing sweets and treats to school...

Hi Parents/Caregivers,

Arahoe teachers had a meeting last week and we have been informed that children will no longer be able to bring sweets and treats to school for their birthdays etc... 

Mr Limbrick will be formalising a letter that will be getting sent out, but I know we have a few birthdays in Room 14 coming up, and a few of the children had mentioned bringing in a birthday cake.

Thanks Miss Scarlett

Miss Scarlett's Bali Adventue

In the school holidays Miss Scarlett went to Bali for 2 weeks. Here are a few pictures to show Miss Scarlett's Adventures...

I woke up at 2am to climb My Batur to watch the sunrise in Ubud Bali. It took me 2 hours to reach the top and 1 hour and a half to climb down. It was a hard climb but I made the top!

Mt Batur

The start of the sunrise

I also went snorkeling in the Gili Islands. There were beautiful fish with bright colours.

We also saw a turtle!!

In Ubud we went to the monkey forest. The monkey's were very friendly and liked to climb over tourists - but some naughty monkey's tried to steal people's water bottles and bags.

Tanah Lot Temple

Sunset at Tanah Lot

News Rotation- Term 4

Monday 13th October- Whole class holiday news

Tuesday 14th October- Miss Mead and Mr Moose

Wednesday 15th October- Miss Scarlett- Bali holiday

Thursday 16th October- Bella

Friday 17th October Zephaniah

Monday 20th October  Rhea
Tuesday 21st October Leshay

Wednesday 22nd October Te Ariki
Thursday 23rd October Dipesh
Friday 24th October Arlo
Monday 27th October- LABOUR DAY

Tuesday 28th October Jayden
Wednesday 29th October Tye
Thursday 30th October Floyd
Friday 31st October Nathan
Monday 3rd November Max
Tuesday 4th November Isabella. H
Wednesday 5th November Jude

Thursday 6th November Warner

Friday 7th November Sweta
Monday 10th November Liam,
Tuesday 11th November Evie,
Wednesday 12th November Amelia
Thursday 13th November Bridget
Friday 14th November  Kheiani
Monday 17th November Riya
Tuesday 18th November Jireh
Wednesday 19th November Sanvi
Thursday 20th November- Ada

Bottles needed for Room 14's stall at Spring Fair

Hi All,

Room 14 still needs many bottles of  either food or drink to be donated for our bottle bank by the 1st of November. Any perfume, cooking sauces, wine, oils or bubble bath you can donate would be fantastic and much appreciated!! I'm adding bottles into my weekly shopping to make it cost effective. Would be great if every family could bring in a couple of bottles if you can.

Many Thanks!!

MISS MEAD AND MR MOOSE’S SUPER-DUPER FUN HOLIDAYS!

Miss mead and mr moose’s super-duper fun holidays!

By Miss Mead

In the school holidays, Miss Mead and Mr Moose had lots of fun together!

Mr Moose had a bubble bath and then he felt squeaky clean!

Mr Moose also was really lucky and had some delicious, cheesy pizza but he also ate all of his vegetables! Miss Mead thought it would be a good idea to take Mr Moose on a few journeys! First off they went to the Auckland Zoo!

Mr Moose’s favourite animals were the giraffes! He really loved their long, stretchy necks and the interesting pattern all over their bodies!

Mr Moose learnt that giraffes have blue tongues! How strange!

In the new New Zealand area of the Zoo, we saw lots of animals that are native to New Zealand.

Can you see an animal hiding in this photo? He is camera shy!

Keas are birds that can be a bit naughty sometimes, they have been seen nibbling car aerials!

The orangutans were Miss Mead’s favourite animal! They were covered in really long orange hair!

They were sitting in their enclosure being lazy and sunbathing, it was really funny!

They didn't like photos though!

Here is Mr Moose sitting outside one of the hobbits’ houses!

They had a tour guide and she said that lots of children hobbits lived in this hobbit hole!

They did not see any hobbits because they are very, very shy!

Mr Moose and Miss Mead had a really great holiday together!

It was fantastic to spend time with Mr Moose and we are both excited to start Term 4!

Miss Mead hopes that Room 14 has an awesome term with lots of fun and learning!

Litter free lunch boxes competition

Arahoe School cares for the environment. We want to reduce the amount

of rubbish we send to the landfill.

You can help us…

BE LITTER FREE!

Make your lunch-box free of gladwrap and

plastic wrappers as these are non-recyclable.  Instead, put food such as yoghurt, chips

and biscuits into reusable containers.

Arahoe Primary School is becoming Waste Wise. Part of becoming waste wise is learning how to eliminate our lunch rubbish each day. For four weeks there is a whole school litter free lunchbox competition. Each student in every class needs to try and bring their lunch to school using more sustainable ways and eliminate the use of lunch wrapping such as gladwrap. Each day the class counts how many students lunchboxes are litter free and records it on the calendar, the results can also be graphed on a wall display. The class with the MOST litter free lunches over a four week period wins.

 The prize up for grabs is a litter free picnic at the mystery location for the whole class and also getting to choose and plant the centerpiece tree for the school vegetable garden.