Week 7

Another fun week ahead, Mt Holdsworth  trip on Wednesday. Fingers crossed the weather is nice to us. 😀

Last week we had fun panning, making and flying our kites!

Big congratulations

Well done Taika for winning the colouring in comp for wings over Wairarapa.

We are very proud of you!

Dress up

Harakeke looked amazing on book character day!

Remember its Tabloids afternoon on Friday from 1:25 to 2:45. Bring a change of clothes (house colours) to school to get changed into at lunch time.

Fun in week one

Fantastic first week!

 We explored building towers using boxes and paper cups.We had to work as a team and think about the foundation and the height of  the pillars.






On Friday we dressed up for discovery time.

Term 4

Welcome back to a busy term! I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing holiday.
This week we are getting to know each other and working on some fantastic art for the calendar art fundraiser.

Please remember to send a drink bottle of water to school as the weather is getting hotter.

Jo Miller :)

We have had a great start to Term Three.

We have been enjoying writing about Myths and Legends and doing 'Maui and the Sun' art.

Harakeke Term 3 

This week ...

Sound of the week: W
Blend of the week: ch - chocolate, chips, chin, chart ...

We have been enjoying doing lots of creative art during our minibeast unit. 

We are enjoying our talking topic this week. 
We have brought a 'surprise' object to school. We are to give the class three clues and we have to guess what it is. 

Max

It goes in the sky

It has a propeller

People can go in it

 

A helicopter! 

On Tuesday Solway School had cross country. 

Liam
Yesterday we did cross country at the showgrounds. I was the third boy. Mum and dad cheered for me. I am in blue house.

Sophie
Yesterday we did cross country. I went around the big oval. I went with the five year old girls. I ran fast. I was wearing a yellow top. My dad came to watch me. I liked cross country. 

Week 4 

Talking Topic:  Mini beasts 
Choose a mini beast. Share 3 interesting facts to the class about your chosen mini beast.

Sound of the week: S
Blend of the week: pl 

We have been having so much fun learning several folk dancing routines. 
On Thursday we have a house folk dancing competition from 1.30-2.30pm.

School in shut on Friday for a Teacher Only Day. Enjoy the long weekend/ Queen's Birthday Weekend. 

Welcome to Kaelas. He has joined us in Harakeke.

Week 3 - 
Sound of the week: Ff
Blend of the week: fl
flower, flip, floor, fly, flutter 

Talking Topic: Our Term 2 Values. Duty and Comsideration. 

Cross Country: Today we started training for cross country. The children can wear running shoes to school over the next two weeks.

We have just about finished our sunflower art. Come and see them displayed in the hall next week.

We have had a busy start to the term. We are enjoying getting back into reading, writing and maths and have been loving producing bright, colourful art to display in the hall during week 3.

We made popcorn today.Connor, Hana and Taika used Puppet{Pals on the ipad to make a short video.

Today we planted cress seeds. We want to watch the cress grow. We had to write the steps that we followed today.

 Daisy with her pot of cress seeds.

Vini with his pot of cress seeds. They are now sitting outside in the sun.

We had so much fun with our buddies on Friday. We made boats using boxes, bottles, containers and all sorts of things. In the afternoon we went over to the school pool and floated them. Some boats floated ... some boats sunk! 

 Timaka and Jak with their boat, "The Jak Attack"

 Charlottle, Connor and Alex

 Getting our boats ready for the boat race

Ruby was the Star during week 5. She's been doing amazing writing ... and swimming. Way to go Ruby!

On Wednesday we went to The Wee Red Barn. It was such an exciting trip.

 Dot told us lots about strawberries and how they grow.

We even got to pick some strawberries ... they were delicious!

At the Wee Red Barn there were lots of farm animals. There were lots of cute piglets running around.

Week 6

Sound of the week: Tt

Blend of the week: pr

Talking Topic: What's you favourite home cooked meal and why?

On Friday Harakeke is on assembly. You are welcome to come and watch. It's at 9.15am in the hall.

We have been doing graphs during Statistics. 
On Friday we did a graph on our 'favourite takeaway food'. We had to stick our favourite takeaway on the graph. We then came up with some information we found out. 


- McDonalds was the favourite takeaway option 
- Only Jasper said Subway was his favourite 
- 2 people enjoy fish and chips
- Riley was the only person who said BK was his favourite 

We are getting really good at reading bar graphs. 

We are looking forward to our trip to Wee Red Barn and the supermarket on Wednesday. We have been looking at the food in our lunchboxes. Check out Riley's and Awatea's yummy food. I love the snow peas and cucumber for an healthy option - yum yum!