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! 

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Want to know about DIABETES?

A couple of weeks ago, the Pineapple Lumps Reading Group read an article about a young Kiwi girl who was diagnosed with diabetes. They'd done a lot of learning about this and learnt about the things that they do to keep themselves safe and healthy.
Have a look at their video responses. 

 

Phonics with Tee & Jonay

This week, L&P reading group had a phonics activity. Tee & Jonay have done an awesome job with the sound 'AY' as in crAYon. Have a look at the words they've found that have the 'AY' sound. 

Can you come up with any other words that have the same sound? Comment below! 

Jonay's work 

Te Morehu's work

Kiwican - Don't worry. You can trust me.

Today in Kiwican we learnt about what it means to TRUST someone. We did a few activities to see how much we trusted each other. Take a look below at the fun we had in Kiwican 

Getting ready to catch Mr Numia 

He trusted us. We caught him. And then we dropped him. Woops. 

Lexi having fun catching Mr Numia 

Lexi & Mr Numia trying to figure out what went wrong hah! 

Energizer - FREEZE 

I trust you Lucky! 

Mone trusting Leeroy

Moni trusting Tajaney

Great catch team! Don't worry, we got you David! 

Getting ready to catch Leeroy! Trust us, we've got you!