Burnside Stars

Collin and Alexia were our Piwakawaka Burnside Stars that we celebrated at assembly this week.  Alexia has learnt all the alphabet letter sounds and Collin has been working so hard to make his handwriting the right size and shape, and to make it the right way AND sit it on the line.  We are so proud of both of you.  Congratulations - Tino Pai!

Maths Must Do and Can Do activities

We have been practising how to work with our buddies, stay at our activities and to focus on what we are doing during our must do/can do time.  Here are some photos of people that know exactly what to do and can work well with their partner.  What great role models you are, especially when you use your words and talk to your partner about your activity or where you are going to next.

Brainstorming

Our Piwakawaka writing group has been learning about different ways that we can plan for our writing.

We learnt that we can make a brainstorm and write our ideas instead of drawing a picture.

We had fun sharing our ideas with each other and can't wait to practice this in our writing next week!

Hui

This week in hui we sang one of our old favourites - two little dicky birds.

Today Ahi, Collin, Mason and Alexia were our leaders! They did a fantastic job in leading the whole team in our rhyme!

Check out their awesome performance!

Thank you Alexia!

On Friday Alexia and her mum brought us a pineapple and some grapes to try.

We wondered why pineapples are so spikey and guessed what it might look like inside.

We really enjoyed this special treat!

Swimming Sports

On Friday we had our school swimming sports. The whole school walked down to Jellie Park for a fun afternoon of swimming and races.

We had a great time watching our friends and joining in with all of the different races especially the egg and spoon and the starfish competition!

It was great to see all of the Piwakawaka Team showing our school values and completing the races with confidence!

Miss Smits and Miss Browne are very proud of you all!

Discovery Time

Today we watched a youtube video and we had to work out how each part of it was showing our focus disposition of collaboration.

You can watch the video here.

At the end of Discovery Time we celebrate those children who were our Discovery Stars.  This week congratulations go to Pagen, Collin and Maya.  Each of these students did a very different part of Collaboration.

We also have our reflection time.  This is the time where we think about our own actions at Discovery Time.  Today we looked at some photos that had been taken during Discovery Time and thought about what each person in the photos was doing and if it was Collaborative.  Some of the photos were taken because they were great fun, others because they showed Collaboration.  Can you find the photos that are collaborative?