Swimming

We love swimming - and we love our new school swimming pool.
We go swimming every single day!

Welcome to 2019

Welcome to 2019.
In Te Ope Ruaraki this year you will find Mrs Jones, Mrs Montofre and Mrs Gatehouse.
Mrs Montofre and Mrs Gatehouse job share, which means Mrs Gatehouse works Monday and Tuesday, and Mrs Montofre works Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  Mrs Gatehouse releases Mrs Jones each Wednesday.
You will also, of course, find a great bunch of amazing Y0 and Y1 students!!

Descriptive Writing

Miss Bannan's writing group have been working on descriptive writing. This week we have been writing about lemons. We used wow words and our senses to describe what they were like to look at, touch, taste and smell. We also watched a buddy eat the lemon and watched their face to see their reaction. Taylor, Turanga, Ella-Pearl, Cole and Sophie wrote some amazing descriptions and got to read their stories out to Mr M, who was very impressed and gave them a gold sticker! 

Read some of our amazing descriptive writing below:

The room was filled with excitement and anticipation as the class stared at the object that looked like a yellow fruit and an L&P ice block. As I bit into the juicy, sour, stinging and a little bit transparent lemon my tastebuds were running away from the lemon because they didn't like it. My eyes crunched and scrunched up like a crunchy bar. It was extremely yellow and sour. When I looked at the skin, I saw some little gold freckles. It was really strong. - Ella-Pearl.

When Mrs Harris took the white bowl of who-knows-what out of the fridge I felt anxious. As I touched the lemon it froze my hand! My taste buds stung! It also tasted sour. Zara's eyes scrunched up and her hands flapped as she bit into the lemon. When I bit into the lemon I was disgusted. - Cole.

Have you ever eaten a whole lemon before? I have. It was yellow like the sun. It was squishy. It smelt amazing like lemon perfume. It was juicy. I loved the lemon. It was so loud when Mrs Harris brought the gleaming bowl out of the fridge. The room grew with anticipation. When we all bit into the lemon our faces crinkled with disgust. Our taste buds stung as we threw the lemon out. - Taylor.

The room buzzed with excitement. Everyone was so excited because Mrs Harris said we would have something to eat. Everyone was yelling. My ears blew up!! My ears didn't actually blow up. The inside of the lemon looked like mars. When Lucas bit into the lemon his eyes disappeared because the lemon was so sour. - Turanga.

As Mrs Harris pulled the shiny bowl out of the cold fridge I got excited! If I tell you it was sour, can you guess what it was? If you guessed a lemon you're right! There was a lemon in the bowl! WARNING! Never taste a thing that looks like a little yellow planet. The lemon gleamed in the shiny bowl. When Rylan ate the sour fruit his eyes scrunched up and his tongue poked out. - Sophie.

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.

Descriptive Sentence Writing

 Miss McLeod's writing group have been working on writing descriptive sentences. Last week we used a picture of a beach and thought about what we could see, hear, smell and feel at the beach. We made a plan using wow words to describe.

Today we used our plans to turn our ideas into sentences. We used whiteboards so we could practise editing them and making them better.

Here are two sets of work that Miss McLeod thought were amazing!

Kobe's Writing

I can see colourful shells and I can see sparkly waves and I can see the sun reflecting on the water. The sun is making the water shiny. I can hear squawking seagulls.

Lee-Chin's Writing 

I can see sparkly shells splashing in the sparkly waves.

I can hear rolling splashing waves on the muddy sand.

At the beach the crabs are crawling in the shimmering hot sand. 

The crabs are going to the shimmering waves.

Stay tuned to see what we do next!