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!

Daffodil Day

Our school celebrated Daffodil Day with a coin drive and face painting.
Here are a few snapped by some of the students:

Room One has made some stunning daffodils which we are looking forward to sharing at Assembly next week so make sure you pop along and see it.

Inaugural Digi Awards

Tonight was the very first Digi Awards for the Matamata Cluster.
It was an amazing night showcasing the children's ICT talents from across nine schools.
Each school selected their top entries in each category and then invited judges narrowed it down to finalists within each age group and category.

Room One had three children reach this stage of the competition and we would like to congratulate them for their efforts:

Digital Photograph Yr 1-3
- Louise for "Mirror, mirror, moo cow"
- Louise for "Just one more bite"
- Bradley for "Two monkeys on the monkey bars"

Digital Photo Story Yr 1-3
- Fleur for "Magnolia Life Cycle"

We are very proud of all the fantastic digital work that all the children in Room One created. If you have time we would love you to pop in an admire our Wall of Fame.

Cross Country

What amazing runners there are in Room One.
Every single person in Room One ran their absolute hardest and achieved amazing results. I am so proud of each of them and it was wonderful to hear Lee saying what speedsters they all were because she gets to see children from all different schools run.

Reading Fair Ideas

Thank you to all the children who have chosen their book for our Reading Fair - only four more to go.

We need to give how we want our display boards to look some thought.
Here are some ideas to think about over the weekend:

The beginning of our Pop Art adventure

We started an art project today which will demonstrate some of our maths knowledge once we're finished. To get started we needed portraits of ourselves choosing either a silly or sensible face.

Can you guess which option was more popular?

Getting started with Pop Art

Reading Fair Reminder

Remember that you must have chosen your book for our School Reading Fair by this Friday 23rd August.

Thank you to all of those who have chosen your book and had it checked off already :-)

Travelling back in time to Katikati Museum

Yesterday our whole school drove across to Katikati Museum. We had a brilliant day experiencing what school and life was like 100 years ago. We even got to dress up which was lots of fun.

School life

Different machines and tools

The telephones of old

We played lots of games

The cheeky boys and the sweet girls

Fun times with friends

Think about a time you have had fun playing with friends?
Where were you?
When was it?
Who was there?
What did you do?
What made it so fantastic and how did you feel?

Here is a collage of pictures showing children playing together to help get you thinking.

Dogs playing at Kiddies Corner Umina Beach

Hatupatu and the Bird Woman

With the help of the talented Room Five and Mrs Jacobsen we retold the legend of Hatupatu and the Bird Woman. This was one of the Maori legends that we saw at the Kahurangi Dance Theatre and it was fun to retell it in yet another way.

What do you think of our artwork?

Hatupatu and the Bird Woman from Katreena Daniels on Vimeo.

Kahurangi Dance Theatre

Today we went to the most amazing Maori Dance Theatre.
The show was spectacular and very professional. They told us some traditional maori legends using voice, singing, poi, dance, string, rakau, taiaha, etc.

If you want to find out more about them you can visit their website by clicking on the link below:
Kahurangi Dance Theatre

Challenging equal sharing

We hav been working on equal sharing.
Have a look at this tricky problem we worked on. Working together with a buddy we found one fraction each and then moved them around until we were happy with the order.

Thanks to Charlotte Wilkinson for the thought provoking problem.

Muffin Making

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Staying Healthy

Today Mrs Grant the public health nurse came and spoke to our school.
She taught us about the importance of keeping ourselves healthy.

The important messages are:

• Wash your hands before eating, before and after doing things with food, after going to the toilet, if we cough or blow our nose, when we hav been patting our pets.
• Sneeze or cough into our elbows.
• Use tissues to blow our nose and throw them away afterwards.
• Eat a good mix of foods.
• Drink lots of water.
• Keep warm in winter.

Germs can travel very easily!

We had fun seeing how this worked using glitter and spray water bottles.

We watched some cool videos

How to wash our hands properly

Sneeze germs can travel more than a metre.

Rubbing your hands really fast causes friction and kills germs

Germs are everywhere.

We used glitter instead of real germs.

If we shake hands some of the germs go to the next person.

It happens over and over again.

This was the glitter germs on the first person.

This was the gitter germs on the second and third people.

Alien Invasion in Room One

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Blocks, centimetres, metres and more

In maths we are exploring measurement.
Can you guess the different tools we used for measuring?
We discovered that it is extremely important to make sure you start from the correct place or everything after that goes a bit crazy.

Everyone in Room One and Ms Daniels would like to thank Room Five and their clever teacher for making the time that our teacher was at a conference such a fun learning time.

Jelly Making - Procedural Writing Language Experience

Check out some of the fun learning we have been doing with Room Five and Mrs Jacobsen while Ms Daniels has been at a conference.

New Faces in Room One

In Room One we have been very lucky to welcome four fabulous new students and their families to our learning family. Everyone in our class is excited to have you join us and we hope you learn lots and have fun along the way.

Haere mai, tena koutou Cayle, Shaniya, Ryan and Bradley
Arohanui Room One and Ms Daniels