Crazy for Kids Can

Today was 

GET CRAZY FOR KIDS CAN Mufti Day. We got to dress up in Mufti, get crazy with some funky hair styles, crazy socks & crazy dress ups!

We had so much fun dressing up, have a look at who dressed up this week...

Term 3 Buddy Class - Landforms & Printing

This term with our buddy class we are learning about landforms. We now know that there are 4 different landforms

1. Mountains
2. Hills
3. Valleys
4. Plains

After learning about these 4 landforms we had to draw these four landforms on a massive sheet of paper. This was in our first buddy session.

Our 2nd buddy session (this week) we used our sketches from last week to cut pieces of cardboard to create our cards for printing, ready for next week.

Check out what we're up to...

THE TRIAGRAPH DGE by Lucky

For phonics today we focused on the sound of the triagraph dge. We learnt that the rule for the dge are the vowels come before the dge. This is what makes the sound. Here are some example.

Book Character Mufti Day

Today, we had our Mufti Day. It was all about dressing up in our favourite book characters! 

Check out the amazing characters we had in our class today.

Phonics - Soft C

For phonics today we focused on the sound of the soft c. We learnt that the rule for the soft c are the vowels E I and the letter Y come after the letter c. This is what makes the sound a soft c. Here are some examples.

Student Led Conference

We had our Student Led Conferences this week. It was great fun being able to see our families come in and share our learning with them. 

Here are some photos from Thursday. 

Thank you to our whanau for coming in! We really appreciate it!  

Welcome Back

Welcome back to Term 3. 

We hope that you all had a great holiday. Some of us did the Winter Learning Journey and you can check out the things that we learnt on our blogs. The links on the side. 

Keep coming back to our blog and check out the amazing things we get up to. We've got lots of events and some trips this term and we can't wait to share all this with you. 

Matariki Kites with Rm 3

For buddy class, we did some learning about Matariki, the Maori New Year. Together, we designed our own kites. We used kebab sticks, tape, black paper to make the kite and then used pastels (gold, white and silver) and read and white feathers to decorate them. Then we got to fly them. We had so much fun making and flying our kites.

Phonics with Tracey

This week, Tracey had put some work together for her phonics learning. She had the sound 'ir' and 'ue'. 

Check out her work below. 

TUTIRA MAI CHALLENGE

Our school entered the #tutiramai challenge. Miss Bowmar pieced everything together and sent it in. We had made it to the final phase!

We got to take 11 lucky students to the Heritage Hotel to represent our school in the final. We left school at 4:30pm and made our way to perform. Nerves were kicking it. Mr Shanks and Mafi decided to sing some songs and that helped calm our nerves.

When we got there we were amazed by how beautiful the hotel was. Then we were amazed at how many people were there. As we waited we became more and more excited.

Finally, it was time to go in the room and wait for our moment to perform. We sang loudly and with lots of pride! We were so proud of everyone, even the juniors that came.

Even though we didn't win, we felt like winners! We all got goody bags that has some treats for us inside! 

We're so proud of everyone at GTS!

Go the All Blacks!