Caught Being Good: Jake

What a great role model we have here - Jake has impressed this term with his super attitude to all activities and learning in the school day!

Keep up the awesome efforts Jake.

Book Week 2017

School Focus: Be Caring

School Certificate: Hood

Happy Book Week everyone - and special congratulations to Hood, who was our school certificate winner this week. 

Hood is always keen to read, and he keeps his reading log up to date each week. Nice one Hood!

Trip to Mangere Mountain

Some of our Room Six children were excited to take part in the Whanau Group's trip to Mangere Mountain last week.

It was an action packed day, with lessons about the history of the maunga, a super long walk, making poi, and working together to make traditional kites. 

Thanks Mr Bennett for an awesome experience!

Daffodil Day in Room Six

Farewell from the Aquatic Centre!

We have now finished swimming lessons at Mt Albert pools. What a great time we had there - we learnt some essential and valuable skills to help stay happy and safe in the water, and we had so much fun doing it.

Thanks to the awesome instructors who helped us during our lessons.

Caught Being Good: Lincoln

Nice work Lincoln - you have been using super manners with adults and children at school, and your confidence to share your maths ideas with your group is really good stuff!

Ka pai - keep up the excellent effort.

School Focus: Be Resilient

Slightly Modified G2T roster

School Certificate: Zion-Li

Well done Zion-Li. You are a great learner in Room 6. You have kept trying with some of the new maths learning we are doing in class, which is all about finding repeating patterns.

What a great role model for your classmates. Miharo!

Visiting our School Library

We are visiting the school library every Monday this term - lucky us! Have a look at the librarians blog here for some of the displays that are currently up around the library.

Our Netball Stars

Congratulations to super talented sports girls, Emacyn and Joyce, who represented Owairaka at the zone netball tournament last week. 

The girls both played really well, and the team even won a game!

Reading in Room Six - weeks 3-6

Dear Parents,

We have had a super exciting, and busy, start to term three. Because of this, you would have noticed that some children (not all) have bought home the same School Journal for weeks 3 and 4.

This will be happening again over weeks 5 and 6.

We are using the reading time we do have in class to explore these journals in our reading groups. We will return to a normal program (1 journal per week) in week 7.

Many thanks, Mr Lyons

Happy Cook Island Language Week!

Last week was Cook Island language week. Have a look at the awesome display our student and teacher librarians have up on the library wall. 

http://odslibrarians.blogspot.co.nz/2017/08/kia-orana-celebrating-cook-island.html

Caught Being Good: Neena

Caught being a great mathematician - Neena. You have been a super times table learner this year, and you are now using some of this knowledge to help your problem solving group.

Keep up the great learning!

School Focus: Be Persistent

School Certificate: Tamati

Caught being organised! Well done Tamati, you are always ready for learning because you have your book bag and books ready to go! You were also spotted showing super confidence in our first week of swimming lessons at Mt Albert Pools. 

What a great role model!

Swimming in Term 3

Swimming has begun - Room 6 has been going to the Mount Albert Aquatic Centre this week, and had some very exciting lessons with some awesome instructors!

We are learning floating, breathing, freestyle, and backstroke. Parents and adults are most welcome to come along and see the action.

Our first Garden to Table!

Take a look at some of the photos from our first lesson at Garden to Table this week. We had a great time learning about gardening tools and what is growing in our garden beds around the school.

In the kitchen, we made some delicious Indian themed food, which we ate together as a whole class to finish the lesson.

You can find the recipes for what we made at the G2T blog here: 

https://owairakag2t.wordpress.com/

R6 Garden to Table roster - Term 3

Our Swimming Timetable

Caught Being Good: Alan

What a great start to term three Alan - you were spotted sharing your ideas with your maths group in the first lesson of term three!

School Focus: Be Organised

End of Term 2 - Puriri Disco Day!

We have had a fantastic, BUSY! term 2 in Room Six. Thanks for keeping up with some of our activities and learning on our class blog.

We finished the term with the Puriri Disco - so many of us got dressed up and showed off our best dance moves.

Well done Zoe C (best dressed girl) and Emacyn (best girl dancer).

See you all in term 3!

Our Community Garden Harvest

One of the benefits of helping out in the Community Gardens - a huge harvest of Jerusalem artichokes to share together.

We simply washed, chopped, and roasted them in the oven. We added garlic, oil, and salt to make them extra delicious.

Lots of children took some home to share with their families after trying them in class.

Matariki 2017 - Planting Harakeke

Happy Matariki 2017 from Room Six. We had a great week making stars with our buddy class, reading myths and legends to explain the star cluster, and we planted a baby Harakeke flax beside Nga Ringa Awhina.

Some super keen children even woke up at 5am Friday morning and got a great view of the Matariki stars from the top of Mt Albert.

Mindful Eating

Who would have thought there was so much to eating an apple (mindfully). 

With the help of our super parent Jane, and a picture book about eating mindfully, Room Six children each examined an apple from every possible angle before we finally got to eat them!

The best thing is, you can do this with any type of food. The enjoyment of your favourite meal can go on for much longer with this new skill!