This morning all we can smell is smoke. We hope the firemen and helicopters put out the big fires at Mt Allan.
Today we are going to the swimming pool for our 3rd lesson. After lunch we have music with Mrs Tay and then PE with Mr Hoffman. We will have a lot of fun and its great to cool off in the hot weather. Miss Brown thinks our news is going really well. There are some fabulous posters and talks all about ourselves. We really are getting to know each other well. We have a poem all about A to read tonight.

Kia Ora from Room 13
We had our first day of swimming today and it sure was hot!! Remember you will need your togs again tomorrow. Pipi is at Anna's tonight, she loved her swimming style. We had a great writing session today and we worked hard on our spelling, writing down the letter sounds we hear in words. On Friday we found out that the most common eye colour in Room 13 was blue and brown was the least. We think this is interesting and wonder what the most common colour will be in our whole school???

Funky Friday

Today is Friday. We are going to have a fun maths time this morning. We will have to solve problems with our buddies!!!! Today we are going to get our new homework book. We have spelling words to learn and we are very excited about it. Pipi was at Jess's house on an adventure, she made Jess pick up 5 in last card and she won the game. Tricky Pipi!!! We have been thinking about honesty this week- this means we are good at telling the truth.
Room 13 are showing Junior Whanau Hui the story of How Maui found the Secret of Fire.

U is for Ukulele

We have been sharing news about our favourite things..... Riley played his Ukulele today for us. We are going to listen to some ukulele music tomorrow.
Emma T shared a fabulous mind map about what she likes to do... this gave us an idea. Some of us are going to make our own mind maps of what we like to do. Thanks Emma T!!!!

We listened to Toni's, Leighton's, Emma J's and Oscar's narrative stories. We have been learning that a narrative has an interesting beginning (telling us who, where and when) they have a problem and a solution. This is Toni's:

One day a snow dog fell in the water. The girl dog swam to save the snow dog.

Next week we are going to start learning spelling words for our homework. This will be new for all of us but a fun challenge. A great website for brushing up on letters, letter sound and spelling is starfall.

Pipi went swimming with Emma T and Oscar might take her on a bike ride tonight!!!!

Pipi had a fabulous time at Ollie's house in the weekend and she met kiwi!!!
The Otago Highlanders came to ETS today and showed us some of their cool rugby moves.
We each got a poster and some of the Highlanders even signed them!!!! They were very tall and they were super friendly. Good Luck Highlanders, we hope you do well this season.
We got a notice about sharing news today and we found out when our news day is. Pipi is at Emma T's house tonight for kai and a sleepover. I bet she will have awesome time.

Kia Ora

Kia Ora Koutou from Room 13!!
We are following Room 11's great lead and getting into blogging.
We have had a busy start to the year and we have been hard at work creating some gorgeous self portraits. We even recycled our stationary boxes to make frames for them. We will post photos of them here soon.
Pipi Piwakawaka is a very special friend of the class and she is home having an adventure with Ollie and his family this weekend.