100 Day Celebration!!

What a super day we had celebrating being 100 days smarter (since the start of the year)!!
We did 100 exercises this morning to start our day as well as some counting to 100 songs.  We followed instructions to draw 100 monsters and then wrote cool stories about our monster.
We had a huge amount of 100 activities set up for 100 Explore including: 100 cup stacking, write to 100, 100 treasure hunt, drawing ourselves looking 100, 100 headbands, using chalk to write 100 on the concrete, what we would spend $100 dollars on, 100 boards, stacking Lego up to 100 and many more!!  What a fun day we had!!

Creative Pins!!

Today we learned all about the new pin charts we have in Piako Tahi.  The new charts are all about CREATIVITY and how we can show our teachers that we are being creative in all areas of the classroom.  We now know that being creative means:  Using our IMAGINATION, Thinking of new ideas and explain them to others, Doing different things with equipment and make changes to make things better...
Here are some of the CREATIVE things we came up with this afternoon.

 A HUGE marble track made by Nevaeh, Dominic and Jacob S  (What a team!!)

 Some beautiful art by Charlie on the table instead of on to paper, cool idea!!

 Maddy made a fabulous model of Toby using just the rods, how CREATIVE!!

 This castle was so cleverly made by Lakhdeep and Brooke, they even used the basket 

as part of their design.  Good thinking kids!!

 We LOVE the new Bunchems!!  Amon has made Earth and Mars with them, what a great idea!!

 Kento started making this fabulous house and then was kind enough to let others 

join him to finish it off.  You are so kind Kento, good job!!

 Tyler made this mowing tractor!!  He used red rods for wheels and the yellow rods on the side as the mowing parts.  Your IMAGINATION is fabulous Tyler!!

 Wow Sophia, your first day and you used your IMAGINATION to make a 

huge sun with the wooden sticks.  Awesome work!!

A HUGE farm with paddocks, animals and grass made 

by Holly P and Maddy.  Great teamwork girls!

Thanks Mrs Johnston!

We are sad to say that at the end of this term the lovely Mrs Johnston will be leaving Riverdale School. We will all miss her smiling face in the office and wish her the very best. 

We used our fingerprints to create a beautiful picture to give Mrs Johnston to remember us by. Amon, Riley and Oliver H presented it to her at the office today! 

 

Thanks Mrs Johnston!

We are sad to say that at the end of this term the lovely Mrs Johnston will be leaving Riverdale School. We will all miss her smiling face in the office and wish her the very best. 

We used our fingerprints to create a beautiful picture to give Mrs Johnston to remember us by. Amon, Riley and Oliver H presented it to her at the office today! 

 

Our Writing!

We have been working really hard at Writing time to produce some AMAZING stories! The teachers are so impressed with how keen we all are to write! Here are a couple of stand out stories from this week:

My Party

I was having a party and all of a sudden Hunter smashed his face into the big wet chocolate cake.

By Quinn B




The Zombie Dream

I was inside my bed and then all of a sudden two zombies came out of my wardrobe and sucked my brain up. Just kidding, it was just a dream! 
By Kaito

The Cute Little Penguins

                                          

Awww cute! The cute little penguins waddled off to see their Mum. Then they found her and gave her a big hug!

By Charlie

Cross Country Training

We have been working hard to improve our fitness ready for Cross Country and the Walkathon coming up.  Each time we do a lap we get a dot on our hand, we have improved so much!  Some of us even did 7 laps this week!  Wooooohooooo!

Te Takaro

We were so excited to have the Te Takaro shed open on Monday!!!  We had so much fun using all the equipment today and hope the other classes enjoy using it too!!!