Cultural Festival

Many children from Room 5 performed at the Cultural Festival held at Rocket park.
I was very proud of all the children who performed. It was great to see so many families out supporting their children.

Here are a few photos from the day.

Play-based Learning

Room 5 have been enjoying Play-based Learning sessions in the mornings. We love exploring, creating and making.

Here are a few photos of us.

Goodbye Ms Dent!

Today we say goodbye to Ms Dent who has been with us for 5 weeks. We had so much fun with Ms Dent and will miss her alot. 

Ms Dent is heading back to university for the next few weeks and after the Christmas holidays starts teaching her own year 7/8 class.

Kia ora,
Room 5 and Ms Mitchell

Play-based Learning

This term we have had Play-based learning in our morning sessions. In Room 5 the children have been , playing with kinetic sand and creating the most spectacular creations, drawing or putting together boxes and rolls to make wonderful things.


They are engaging with each other, negotiating, sorting out disagreements and establishing better friendships. They are imagining, exploring and inventing


Here are a few photos of Room 5 at Play-based learning.

Celebrations: Diwali

The topic this term is Celebrations. This week we have been learning about Diwali.



We know lots of facts about Diwali...

• Diwali is called the festival of lights.
• Diwali happens at the end of October or early November.
• It celebrates the Indian New Year
• People give gifts
• People celebrate with food
• People clean and decorate their home
• People make rangoli patterns
• People light divas to celebrate
• There are fireworks to celebrate.
• It is a special time to celebrate with family and friends

We also read books about Diwali.




Our poem of the week was about Diwali too.

Diwali Art:  

We made rangoli patterns.

We also made divas (light holders) for Diwali. Here are a few photos of us making the salt dough for our divas.

After we put them in the oven we painted them and put some glitter on the divas to make them sparkle.

Our divas look so colourful and sparkly! 

HAPPY DIWALI!

Discovery Time

Today we enjoyed Discovery Time. We went to the play shed to create and explore.

Kiwiball: Session 2

Today we had our last session of kiwiball with coach Marco. We had loads of fun playing a game today.

Here are a few photos of Room 5 at kiwiball.