Explore

Here are some photos of the activities during Explore last Friday. As you can see the children are having a lot of fun. 

Dog Safety

On Thursday the City Council came to talk about dog safety. There was a song, the chorus was “If a dog’s on its own, leave it alone”.  By Riley




On Thursday we went to dog safety. Someone in Room 7 picked up dog poo. At the end there was a song, “If a dog’s on its own, leave it alone. If a dog’s in a car, leave it alone. If a dog’s on the footpath, leave it alone”.  By Alivia

When we went to dog safety we saw two dogs. I also got to pat them. We listened to a song that said “If a dogs on its own, leave it alone”. That song was awesome.  By Quinn

If you have a dog you must have a collar and lead, and if it does a poo you must get a plastic bag and pick up the poo. If you are walking to school and a dog comes up to you, get your bag in front of you and shout “Go home”.  By Holly

Can you Spot the Tuatara Rock Mara'fun Champion?

Wow it is our own Harry D. The 5 and 6 year old champion of the Christchurch Mara'fun 2016.

Super proud of him. Great job Harry.

Crossing Safely

Constable Ross visited us again today to talk about Scooter Safety and crossing the road safely. He taught us a great poem to help us remember to cross safely.

Stop, look and listen

Before you cross the street.

Use your eyes,

Use your ears,

Before you use your feet.

Team Harakeke Choir

At the last School Assembly the Team Harakeke choir had their debut singing Candyman. Wow, what a performance, so very proud of them all.

Measurement

This term we are learning about measurement in maths. 

We have made clocks and we practice each day telling the time using hours, half hours and this week starting to learn about quarter past and quarter to.

We are also learning about length, Mrs Innes measured us all in cm and at the end of the year we are going to see how much we have grown. Last Friday we brought our teddies to school and measured them using multi link blocks. We had to estimate (a careful guess) how many we thought before we measured. Mrs Innes was very proud of how our estimates were very close.

Exploring Painting

This term we are going to be exploring painting. 

Today we learnt about brushes, how to hold them, choosing a size brush for what we want to do, and caring for the bristles by not pushing them back too hard. 

We then chose a brush to make appropriate lines and dots. Thick lines, thin lines, dots, zig zags and waves. We can control the brush by holding it correctly and add paint by layering if we need more.