The Great Easter Egg Hunt

This week we made our own wonderful looking cardboard easter eggs. Then the Easter Bunny (or Hazel, in an Easter Bunny costume) collected them from us and hid them in the playground.
On Thursday after lunch all the Year 1s and 2s went hunting for their easter eggs - we had a lot of fun! When we found our egg, we exchanged it for a REAL chocolate egg - yum!
Here are some photos of us hunting for our easter eggs.

Wacky Hair Day

Look at the wacky hair in Room 5! Well done everyone for supporting such a worthy cause...Child Poverty. Check out "KidsCan" http://www.kidscan.org.nz/ for more information on how our donations go towards helping out children in need.

Hosting Junior Assembly

On Friday, Room 5 hosted Junior Assembly. Everyone in Room 5 was a great role model, sitting up the front with excellent listening manners. Our hosts Jack M and Clara did a fantastic job of speaking clearly in loud voices so that we could all hear what was happening.
We shared our Seaweek sketches of the things we found at the beach and some of us shared our writing describing what we found. Well done Room 5!

Here are some photos of the Assembly:

Seaweek

On Tuesday afternoon we visited the beach to celebrate Seaweek. We worked in small groups to be 'beach detectives' by looking carefully inside hoops that we placed on the sand. We found many interesting things and were able to get in 'close up' by looking through magnifying glasses.
Here are some of the things we found:

Swimming Festival Fun

On Tuesday it was the Junior School Swimming Fun Festival. Everyone in Room 5 tried their very best and had so much fun on the day! Here are some photos of us in our relay events:

Statistics

Room 5 read the big book, "Number 10 Tāwai Crescent". Then we did some Statistics to find out more about our own addresses and the people who live at our homes. We also drew our own fabulous letterboxes and wrote our home letterbox numbers on them. After Mrs Saker had photocopied the letterboxes, we spent time with a buddy finding many different ways to sort them into matching groups. We then turned our favourite way to sort them into a pictograph and talked about what we found. You can see our letterbox art and pictographs up on the wall in Room 5. Here are some photos of us sorting our letterboxes: