Birthday Party Games

Mrs Jones recently had a birthday and the children in Te Ope Ruaraki helped her celebrate with an afternoon of party games - pin the tail on the donkey, pass the parcel and musical chairs.
We wrote about it the next day.
Here are a few:

Tyler wrote:
On Mrs Jones' birthday we played musical chairs.  I was proud of Kataraina for winning.  I liked the day.

Phoenix wrote:
We played pass the parcel.  It was fantastic.

Kataraina wrote:
Yesteday it was Mrs Jones' birthday.  It was a school.  We played games.  It was good. She was 48.

Lucas M wrote:
We played pin the tail on the donkey.  Everyone won.  It was fantastic at school.

Aaleiyah wrote:
Yesterday we played musical chairs at Mrs Jones' party at school.

Drama

Te Ope Ruaraki have been having lots of fun doing Drama with Mrs Gatehouse.

Learning to Order Numbers

Some of the children in Te Ope Ruaraki are learning to order numbers from the smallest to the biggest. 
Kelicia, Tyson, Christine, Isabelle and Rylan are working so hard with their number knowledge.

Hero Awards

Congratulations to our first heroes who were awarded a Hero Certificate at our very first Celebration Assembly of the year. 
You are fabulous - great to see you all using your People Powers and Learning Powers.

BEING GUARDIANS

Yesterday when Mrs Signal was on lunch time duty she discovered this little group of "guardians" who were picking up rubbish (other peoples rubbish) around the school.  They are doing a fantastic job at looking after our brand new school!

Wonderful Watermelon

This week the children in Te Ope Ruaraki had watermelon. 
We used our senses to explore the watermelon.
First we looked at it, then we smelt it, then we touched it, and last of all we tasted it.
We wrote down all of our ideas - and WOW words.
Then the next day we wrote some amazing stories about watermelon.  Check out our great describing words!

Practising Our Learning

Today Rocky decided to practise writing the word of the week during his choosing time, what a champion! Great to see you trying hard in your learning. 

Talking about our learning.

Today we started looking at a new way to solve addition problems. We are learning to count on from the biggest number. Check out our video, we were able to talk about the way we solved the problem.

Ted and Olive

Meet Ted and Olive. They spend their days looking through our learning space, looking for children that are showing their People Powers and Learning Powers. Ted and Olive choose a child each day that they would like to go home with. We love hearing about the adventures of Ted and Olive at your house. 

Self Portraits

This term in Te Ope Ruaraki we are learning all about ourselves and what makes us special. We have been exploring with different materials while creating our self portraits. We've experimented with pencil, pastel and natural materials. Here's a sneak peek of our work, hopefully they will all be finished soon so there will be a lot more to show off!

Te Ope Ruaraki Authors.

Check out Brooklyn and Kataraina's weekend recounts. An amazing effort recording the sounds they could hear. Well done, keep up the great work!

Term 1 Newsletter

Our first newsletter for the year is available here.  Future newsletters will be emailed out like the school newsletter so please make sure we have your email address.
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Learning Through Play

In Te Ope Ruaraki we are loving being back at school.  We are enjoying getting to know one another.  We are learning how to work together and play together nicely.

Term 4 Newsletter

2 more sleeps until Term 4 begins - check our Term 4 Newsletter for important information.

See you all on Monday at our brand new school!!

Returning the Sod and Blessing Ceremony at the new School

Link to folder of all photos - CLICK HERE

Te Ope Ruaraki and the Junior playgound 

Kapa Haka singing

Te Māuru-e-taki-nei

Blessing group

Signs on our doors

Our ROCK!! - at its' new home outside the new school office