Happy Holidays

Hi All, This is the last blog post for 2015. I would just like to thank all the Room 11 whanau for their support this year.

Room 11 have been an amazing bunch of students and have grown so much this year academically and socially.  One highlight for me was their performance at the Taiopenga,  and the confidence and pride this brought out in all of them.

Thank you so much for your wonderful gifts, Larrissa and I were very spoilt!

Enjoy your wonderful children over the holidays,  all the best for 2016!

Regards Sonja Zydenbos

Our fun board game session.

We are having fun with our board games. We all played and learnt a new game today.

Rest Home Visit

On Monday we had a lovely morning out.

 Our value for this term has been compassion, and we wanted to do something kind for others. We walked through Oliver Park and went to the Redwood Retirement Village, where we sang Christmas carols, decorated the tree and gave the residents a Christmas decoration for their door.
We enjoyed chatting to the residents and they loved our singing.

We hope they have a lovely Christmas!

Swimming on a beaut Marlborough day!

We had a lovely swim with Room 10 this afternoon. The pool was a very warm 28 degrees. We are soooo lucky to have a school pool.

1st swim for the summer!

Tapa Art/ Celebrations

We learnt about White Sunday as part of our celebrations inquiry. It is a special celebration in Samoa held on the second Sunday in May and October. Children dress in white clothing and read a verse from the bible in church.  

Something we noticed was that Tapa cloth was often worn as clothing, or was in the buildings, in the pictures and books we looked at. Miss Z got a big Tapa mat for us to touch and we looked at the patterns on it.

We watched some videos about how the special Tapa is made from the bark of a Paper Mulberry Tree. Tapa cloth is made into clothing for special occasions or given as a gift at  births or weddings.

We are talking about the patterns on the Tapa Cloth.

We are using vivid and crayons to design our Tapa art.

We had to screw our art up! We didn't think that was a good idea!
Then we painted dye over top of our art, it went into the cracks of the crayon.

We made a frame on black paper with white crayon. We glued our art into a square.

We put our names on.......

Hooray! Our very own class Tapa Mat! We think it looks amazing!

Kapa Haka Photo

Hi Everyone,
Here is a copy of the Kapa Haka photo that Ricky Wilson kindly took for us. Please let me know if you would like me to email you a copy.

Rooms 8 and 11 ready for action!

I was so proud of your children at the Taiopenga, they were so confident and performed beautifully. Enjoy the great photo, Sonja Zydenbos