Relaxing time in Karearea

We have been relaxing from all our panto practises by doing some yoga stories. Its a nice way to chill out from a long term's learning! See you at the panto!

Karearea's little measuring machines!

The akonga in Karearea have become little measuring machines! We are learning about length, how we measure it, and the units we measure different things with. Centimetres and millimetres are hard words to say!
Today we did lots of measuring using our 30 cm rulers, and tomorrow we'll be going outside with our metre rulers looking to measure larger objects and areas. Ask your children what they measured today. :-)

Briar's wonderful writing.

Our Lions writing group are masters at setting the scene in a story. Briar has done a wonderful job describing this stormy scene. Well done Briar!

KAPA HAKA!

We're learning Kapa Haka at the moment with Whaea Maryanne. It's great for our hand-eye co-ordination. We can't wait to show you when we've finished! Stay tuned.......

Great job Maddie!

This young lady has had a tough time lately. She broke her arm way up high near her shoulder and had to be super careful not to hurt it again. This week she finally got out of her sling.
I'm super proud of her and also the kids in Karearea who were careful around her for so long. "No hugging!", was hard when we wanted her to feel better!

Great job Maddie, we're proud of you!

Welcome Back!

It was great to see 28 keen kids pouring back into Karearea this morning! We had lots of fun with some shapes today. Check out some of the pictures we created! They were allowed 10 pieces to make their picture.

A person with an ice cream!

BB8 from Star Wars!

A Flower!

A penguin!

Athletics

This week we have been practising our athletics skills! It's lots of fun and the weather has been awesome. A great way to finish a super term in Karearea!

Jake's flyboard writing

I was so proud of Jake's efforts writing about a man on a flyboard today. He has included lots of amazing features in his writing. Keep working hard young man, you're turning into a terrific writer!

R-2-D-TUI!

Jake, Malakai, Remi, Tavish and I got very excited today. We saw a tui at lunchtime. It was singing away as we went closer and we were able to go right under the tree and listen! The boys thought his chirping sounded like R2D2 from Star Wars, so we called him R2DTui! We hope to have more tui around school and will be putting some traps down next term to try and protect tui eggs in the area.

Karearea's last Olympic event.

Karearea finished their Olympic theme off this week with a spectacular 'Crab Race!' Congratulations to our medal winners and commiserations to poor Lexie M who fractured her pinkie!

Ellah's beautiful cat!

I was blown away by Ellah's amazing writing today. Her new learning goals are adding similes and commas to her writing.  Sometimes you see a piece of writing which knocks your socks off! Tino pai Ellah!

KAREAREA'S OLYMPIC FRISBEE RELAY!

We had a lot of fun with a frisbee relay event last week. It was great to have some sunny afternoons and get outside for some Olympic fun! Our kids were in teams and had to use teamwork to get their frisbee across the finish line first. Chaos ensued! But it was great to see the kids work together to try and win their medals.
Then we gave the winners their medals and sang the National Anthem! Congrats to all the kids on a fantastic afternoon.

Lexie M paints a picture with her words.

What an amazing piece of writing from Lexie! She is learning to add strong adjectives and verbs to her writing.

Firewise

This week and next we are learning to be 'Firewise.' We will be learning all about fire safety. Today we had Jodie from the Wanaka Fire service visit us and talk to us about matches and lighters, as well as how to get out of a burning house safely. We appreciate your support in helping with the homework we have set to support our learning!

Bruce Potter visit

Yesterday Bruce Potter visited our school. He is a book author and illustrator (and also a great singer!) He showed us how he creates his characters for his stories and drew an amazing doodle creature from ideas we gave him. 
"I liked the shark mouth." - Kaiyo
"It was incredible!" - Jake

As soon as we got back to class we got suck into some doodle art, so watch this space!

Writing skills

The Lions writing group have been learning how to use commas in their writing to join ideas together. They now use these well! They are also enjoying reading each others writing and looking for their learning goals in each others stories. Well done team! You can check out part of Meisha's writing here.

KAREAREA OLYMPICS!!!

We have been learning about the Rio Olympics in Karearea. We chose some fun activities to have competitions in. Today we handed out our first medals. We did frisbee throwing! Malakai won the BRONZE medal with a throw of 13 metres. Avie won the SILVER medal with a throw of 14 and a half metres, and Ellah won the GOLD medal with an ENORMOUS throw of 18  AND A HALF METRES!
All the kids had a great time and cheered their classmates on. Tino pai Karearea!!

The Olympics have started!

We have been learning about the Rio Olympic games. Last week Kyle brought to school a 2000 Olympics jacket signed by Gold medal winner Rob Waddell! We think it would take a lot of effort and practise to win an Olympic medal.

Remi's super writing!

Check out Remi's super descriptive writing! Remi and the Lions writing group are learning to use commas to create complex sentences. Hasn't he done well!

Safe Walking!

This week we are practising safe walking and crossing roads. Mr Milford is helping us understand that we have to use our senses to be safe crossing roads and to walk quickly across until we get to the other side. We are having fun but there are important skills for the kids in Karearea to learn.

WELCOME BACK!!!!!

WELCOME BACK KAREAREA! 

We'll be doing lots of fun activities this term, including our own class Olympics!!!! A special welcome to our four new students! We'll be sure to look after you and make you feel right at home. 

Ice Skating!

We had a great time ice skating on Tuesday! It was a warm day and it was great to get back on the ice. There were a few wobbly legs, but we soon remembered how to skate and some were even doing twirls by the end of the day! Some of us had a blister or two but it was lots of fun!

PINK DAY!!!!!

Pink day was a bit hit in Karearea! We had a blast! Thank you for all the effort you put into the children's costumes. We wrote positive comments to our friends telling them how cool they are! Everyone had comments, which showed what a friendly bunch we are at Karearea.

Click on the photo to see a bigger version.

UKELELE!!!!!

This week we had our second lesson with 'Baz' on our school ukeleles! We all learned how to play 'Row, row row your boat.' It's lots of fun! 
We're lucky to have Barry Bemrose coming to teach us ukelele on Friday mornings all term.

Back to school!!!!

It was great to see my 22 happy smiling kids back in Karearea this week! Sounds like everyone had a fantastic holiday! I went to Pounawea and saw the Cathedral caves. They were huge! We looked at the photos in class. We got straight back into our learning!

Here Annie and Remi made a number train adding tens to some BIG numbers.

And look at some of our leaf art!!!!

What a super play!

On Friday we were treated to a super play performed by William, Kyla and Bridey! They performed 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff.' It was great to see the three kids taking their reading skills further and being confident enough to put on a play in front of their peers! Great job guys!

Harold the Giraffe is visiting!!!!

Harold the Giraffe is visiting this week. In Karearea we are learning about being good friends, friendship and respect!

A SNEAK PREVIEW!!

We read a book about a little boy who daydreamed! His art teacher gave him a piece of paper and said, 'use your imagination.' That's what we did in Karearea! 

Here is a sneak preview of what is inside our imagination!

Autumn is here!

The first leaves are falling from the trees! We wrote about our favourite season and also what things happen during Autumn. Aren't we lucky to live where we do....

Karearea role plays

In week 2, we looked at feelings we feel at school, especially identifying situations where we feel happy, sad, frustrated, angry and excited.

Then we acted out some situations where we feel these emotions.

Click on the pictures to read the story behind each photo. :-)

BIKE PARK!!!!

WELL WE GOT A BIT MUDDY BUT WE HAD A LOT OF FUN!! Well done to the kids who pushed themselves and tried something new at the bike park yesterday.

Old Coach Road

We had a super time today checking out the old road that horse drawn coaches used to take to get to Dunedin with their gold. You could even see the worn path in the rocks!

Our amazing backyard!

Check out some of the amazing sites in the area we live!!

Karearea and their favourite toys!

Will you look at the love in their eyes!


Today we shared about our favourite toys and why they are special to us!

Kia ora Karearea!!!

Hi folks! Welcome to Room 7's new superblog! We are called karearea this year, named after the NZ falcon. We hope you come and visit often to see what we've been up to!