Karearea can swim!

Our two week swimming sessions ended a very busy Term 2.

The progress that our class made has been significant!  

Despite the fact that our Karearea's have been fighting the inevitable winter chills, they turned up each day with smiles on their faces ready to master their new swimming skills.

Have a look at some of the fun we have had!

Liquids

Our Science Topic this term has focussed on Materials.  

We have looked at Solids, Liquids and Gases.  

We wanted to know if all liquids mix and we made an excellent discovery about water, food colouring and oil.  Ask your child to explain the experiment to you!

KIDS IN SPACE!

Today our Year 1 and 2 classes went on a journey into Outer Space!

We made Rockets, ate Space Food (Shared Morning Tea) and coloured in aliens.....space style (upside down)!

Have a look at some of the highlights of our busy intergalactic voyage!

I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes.....I saw the sign!

I might be the only one singing the Ace of Base song "I saw the sign" as I read the title of this blog however it is very relevant to our Karearea class at the moment as we have been learning about the ways in which signs communicate important information to us.

Our Karearea class went walk-about this week and looked at the signs that 

'TELL US WHAT TO DO', 

'WARN US TO BE CAREFUL' and the signs that 

'INVITE US TO SAFELY MOVE THIS WAY'.  

We were so surprised to realise that signs give us such a lot of information and they often use few, if any, words.  We looked at signs from other countries and delighted in the fact that we understood them.

Have a look at some of the signs we were very interested in and ask us what these mean.  

Here is the Ace of Base song I was humming whilst typing this blog....... I SAW THE SIGN

Grandparents Day

It was a very special morning at Wentworth Primary yesterday.  

Our Grandparents and whanau came into school.  It was a pleasure sharing our classroom with our family and it was lovely hearing about some of the experiences our grandparents had when they were at school.  

We were shocked and bemused at the notion of 'the cane' as a form of discipline.  

One grandparent shared some photos of their school, calf club, milk bottles and dress-up day.  

We heard a little about school in China......we were surprised to hear that there were 60 children in ONE class!  

We loved hearing about waiting outside before school, having to sing the national anthem whilst the NZ flag was raised and then marching into class.  Very different to our morning!   

One of our Karearea class members was delighted to receive a video message and a letter from grandparents whom are overseas.  This certainly made a few eyes in the room moisten.......mine definitely!

Thank you to the Karearea families for visiting with us today.  We are privileged to have you in our lives and you are such an important part of our learning journey.  Thank you for taking the time to share our morning with us and feel free to stop by ANYTIME!