Making Kawakawa Tea with Mr Bennett

Room 6 spent time this week making kawa kawa tea with Mr Bennett. We harvested the kawa kawa leaves ourselves from Owairaka's Rongoa garden. It had a strong taste, so we added honey to make it a bit sweeter!

Head over to the Nga Ringa Awhina blog site to see some of the other learning that all children at Owairaka are taking part in.

Puriri Cross Country 2017

As you know, yesterday was the Puriri team Cross Country! I can honestly say that every single child in Room 6 who ran gave it everything they had. What an awesome team effort.

We talked before-hand about all the different goals we had for the Cross Country. Some of us wanted to win our age group, while some of us really wanted to get to the finish line.

EXTRA well done to these place-getters from our class:

- Leilani was FIRST place for 7 year old girls
- Alan was FIRST place for 7 year old boys
- Emacyn, Joyce, and Zoe M were FIRST, SECOND, THIRD for 8 year old girls
- Brandon was SECOND place for 8 year old boys


Well done Room 6, all of the Puriri teachers are proud of your efforts.

Table Tennis excitement

Puriri team has been very busy lately! During week 4, we had a NZ table tennis champion come and teach us some of the basic skills and rules for the game of table tennis.

We learnt how to hold the bat, how to hit the ball with different force, and how to serve and return a serve! WOW!

Mr Faulder is keen to see heaps of you at his lunchtime table tennis lessons.

Life Education Caravan!

Owairaka had a visit from the Life Education Caravan (and Harold!) last week. We learnt about the importance of being ourselves, and we spent time talking about what makes up our personality:

- the way we think
- the way we feel
- the way we act
- the things that we do

Science Week 2017

School Certificate: Leilani

Well done Leilani - you were our School Certificate winner this week - you have shown a keenness to always get better at what you are learning or participating in. 

What a great example for others around you! 

School Focus: Be Healthy

Some Super Room 6 Wednesday Walkers

Caught Being Good: Keane

Well done Keane - you were "caught being good" this morning during maths problem solving - great sharing and listening when we were learning to read a table of data!

School Certificate: Neena

Neena was our certificate winner this week - her improvement in maths and talking about her maths has been great this year. She is also a good listener in her problem solving group. Nice one Neena!

Lexia Superstars - Ronan and Bosston

Well done Bosston and Ronan - these two great learners were recognised at school assembly on Friday for their awesome improvements in reading - keep up the excellent efforts boys, R6 is proud of you!

School Focus: Be Confident

Room 6 does Sudoku

Check out some of our excellent Sudoku efforts from class this week!

Science in a Van!

We had the awesome crew from Science in a Van join us at school on Tuesday. We learnt all about forces and motion, in particular the 3 laws of Isaac Newton.

We will be finding out plenty more about forces and movement, when we begin our Science term in week 3.

Caught Being Good: Emacyn

Emacyn shows responsibility by being organised for school and thoughtful during learning and our class discussions. What a great role model for your class mates, keep it up!