And the Winners are...

After a very tough two days of work for our expert guest judges, Mrs Buckley (Principal, Wairere School) and Mrs Currie (Assistant Principal, Matamata Intermediate), the results are in.

Thank you to all the wonderful children in Room One for your amazing hard work on this daunting but rewards and fun new experience. Every single one of you should be bursting at the seems with pride in what you have achieved.

Also, thank you to our judges for taking time out of your extremely busy schedules to come and be a part of our very first Reading Fair.

Agricultural Day 2013

Out of the 18 children in Room One, 15 of them brought an animal to compete in our Ag Day. Here they are working hard with their calves, lambs and goats. Congratulations for all your hard work and thank you to your mums and dads for supporting you in training your animals.
In addition to agricultural animals we had some children bring pets and create amazing pet projects. Those without animals planted our veggie gardens, made some beautiful art and were able to come out and support the competitors and then enjoy the gala.

Reading Fair Sneak Preview

Here we are standing proud next to our Reading Fair boards.
We hope you'll come in and see all our hard work.

Kuranui Kids Shine Brightly at Inter-School X-Country

Check out these little super stars - so proud of you all.

Waiting patiently

Excited and nervous!

Cheeky grins on the super-six year olds

The serious five year old speedsters

Kura Kids supporting each other

Big school boys

Great work girls leading the way for the six year old girls

Awesome work

All in a day's work

Just One More........

Before school many of us were glued to the TV willing Team New Zealand to go faster.

Only one more win to go, we have our fingers crossed for tomorrow morning.

Ag Day Training

Today we had some special visitors come to school to give us some advice on how to best prepare for Ag Day.

Mrs Lee and Daniel's lamb were first up:

Special woolly visitor - Daniel's lamb

Use a nice loud voice for Call, Follow, Run.
Make sure you pat your lamb on it's head.
Practise clipping the lead on after the Run.

Hold you lead just above the clip.

Walk with you lamb next to your shoulder.
If your lamb walks slowly, so do you.
Never pull your lamb along.

When you do your Stop count slowly to 3 before you continue walking.

Mr Kennedy and Madison's calf were next:

Our mooing visitor - Madison's beef breed calf

Regular grooming and cleaning are important.
Make sure your calf is relaxed being handled.

Calves do an obstacle course.
Make sure you can lead your calf across poles, mats
and weave in and out of poles. 

The Fish of Maui

Room One was very lucky today to have Room Five come and spend the day working with us.
One of the things we did was listen to the Maori legend "The Fish of Maui".  In small groups we had to retell a section of the story by creating a story board panel including crayon and dying a picture.

Working co-operatively in a group can be challenging; we discovered that the most effective groups talked kindly to each other and often and they made sure everyone had very specific jobs to do.

Stream Planting

Yesterday we planted more than 200 plants next to the stream behind the school.
We all worked very hard and got them planted in record time. It was lots of fun and we didn't even get too dirty. We think the plants will feel happy living there as they will get lots of water and sunshine to help them grow.

Gorgeous Spring Art

Check out our amazing Daffodil Art and the Awesome artists themselves!