Box Çonstruction

We love making things out of boxes in Team 20. Usually we have to make some thing that is to do with our big book but on a Friday we can make anything!
Today we made robot costumes and some of us worked together to create a car. It is very cool. It has keys, number plates, a drink holder and even an ice cream holder. We worked together very well.

Love for me is - by Lucy

When I am feeling love I ___ to my

I like cuddles with my Mummy.

I like it when I cuddle up to my cat at home.
I like it when I am in the snow.

by Lucy.

Love for me is... by Georgia

Sometimes I ring my Grandma on the phone. 

Love is playing with my friends.

I love it when I take pictures of my family.

Love is giving hugs.

I love it when Mum and Dad give me kisses. 

I love it when Mum and Dad read a story to me.

By Georgia.

What is love by Nicholas

I love Winnie the Pooh and he likes me too.
I am going to play with my house made of boxes.

By Nicholas.

What is love by Samuel

I love my family.

I love my friends and my teachers.

My family helps me and I help my family.

By Samuel.

What is love by Will

I love my Mum because she loves me. I talk to my Grandma on the phone.

By Will

Love for me is... by Zach

What is love?

Talking to my Dad.

Cuddles with my Mum and Dad.

Playing basketball.

Playing board games.

Sleeping with my Mum and Dad.

By Zach.

Love for me is... by Yusuf

In the weekend I played with my sister. The game that we played was hide and seek. It was fun because my sister could not find me.

By Yusuf

Love for me is - by Eden

I think love is this.

When I love my Mummy.

She is special, it makes me want to cry.

By Eden.

Love for me is - by Payton

When I was a baby I was so cuddly I always got lots of cuddles. So when I go home I will get a cuddle.

That is love to me.

What is love? It is something which makes your feelings really nice. It is cuddling and kissing. I like the feeling, that is love to me.

Love for me is - by Austin

Love for me is cuddles playing in your heart. Being kind and smiling and presents from Mum.

By Austin

Team Building Today

Here are some shots of a challenge we had today where we had to organise ourselves while on seats without falling into the shark infested waters:

Love for me is - by Hamish

I love my mum and Dad because they give me kisses and hugs and snuggles in bed.

By Hamish

Morning tea meetings with Mr Sibson

Dear Mr Sibson,

We think that it is not fair that people who have their birthday's in the holidays don't get to have a special morning tea with you.

We want to see if we can arrange a morning tea with the people who have their birthdays in the holidays. Do you think we could talk more about this so we can figure it out?

From Josh and William
On behalf of Team 20

Quadathlon practice today

Isabella is a very good swimmer. Charlotte is a biker in the quadathlon. The quadathlon practice was fun. Clara learnt how to do the running.It was great fun. Everyone is very good at it.

Here are some pictures of the practice for you to enjoy, check the one of Isabella jumping in the water!

Learning about our need for love

One of the things we learnt today was that everyone has the need for love. We all meet this need in many ways. Here are some of our ideas.

Lucy - by reading a story with my mum and Dad before I go to bed.
Will - by cuddles with my mum.
Finn - by play fighting with my Dad.
Nicholas - by sharing things with my sister.
Austin - by playing nicely with my brothers.
Clara - by talking on the phone to my Aunty and cousin. I also meet my need for love by playing games with Mum.
Hamish - by reading books before bed time with Mum or Dad and snuggling in bed and HUGS.
Zach - by reading with Mum and Dad.
Samuel - by play fighting with my big brother.
Isabella - by helping Dad to paint the house.
Josh - by dressing up with my Dad and getting my plastic sword and playing with him.
Yusuf - when my Dad cooks I help him.
Nick - by playing with my friends.
Flynn - by thinking nice things about others. I also meet my need for love by letting other people join in. By being fair to others.
Eden - by kissing my mum.
William - by cuddling my mum and dad.
Charlotte - I help my mum around the house.
Payton - When I go to bed my mum gives me a kiss.
Jasmine - by helping my family to tidy up.
Rob - by cuddling my daughter Isabella.
Jack - by playing with my friends.
Georgia - by going shopping with my Mum and Dad. When I come home I say "I love you" to Mum and Dad.

Harold and Life Education

In the Life Ed caravan we learned about the parts of our body. We learned that the brain helps us think and the heart pumps the blood. We learned that the stomach munches and crunches our food, the lungs help us breathe, the small intestine squeezes the food and goes through small holes and into the blood. Harold calls water brain juice. We looked at Tam, a plastic doll and could see all the body parts inside.
Harold showed us a movie about looking after ourselves. We all need; food, water, safety, oxygen, sleep, exercise and love.

Reflection - trust and worms

Today we talked about what trust is. We think that trust is when:

• you believe a person can do something.
• you can give a person something, for example tell them a secret, and they will look after it.
• people are honest.

What do you think trust is and how do you know when you can trust someone?

Lucy brought a worm farm to school. This is really cool! She fed the worms lettuce and here are some photos.

Two Bunnies by Charlotte

One day two bunnies went to the hills. They found a pile of mud and one of the bunnies was heard to say, “Look at the mud, come and see the mud it is brown just like me.”

The frogs were down at the pond and one frog saw some grass. One of the frogs was heard to say, “Look at the grass, the grass is green just like me.”

Reflection - rainy day

Today some of us finished our publishing boxes and our stories to go on the wall. We also started to make our first tally chart without a sheet. It was hard.

Something else we did was to retell the story we read with Claire yesterday. This was really hard. Eden was really good at retelling that story.

In handwriting we set goals that we want to improve on.
We all did great work.

My Grandma by Clara

My Grandma has three dogs because one died. It was called Bardo. The other big dog was called Monet and the little girl is called Pia and the little boy is called Matisse.

By Clara

Going to Jelly Park by William T

I went to Jelly Park three days ago. I wish I had a waterproof torch to see down the slide!

By William T.

The Zoo by Abby

I see the baby. I saw Nana and Poppa. We saw Lizzy and baby Lily and Dad and Mum. We saw Isabella and Ethan at the zoo. We went in to the zoo and it was fun.

The Frogs by Jasmine

One day the frogs went down to the zoo and they saw some gorillas.

One was heard to say "Hey come and see the gorillas, they are just like me."

What Percy Does by Georgia

Percy is my pet. Mum feeds Percy. Sometimes I feed Percy as well. Percy likes kissing his glass.

Can you guess what kind of pet Percy is?

By Georgia

Same and Different

We have been learning about being the same and different. We are not all the same. We might have different hair and eye colours. We are all good at something different. We all dance to different music. We all do different things.We all like different things.

There are things that are the same about all people. We all bleed, we all cry, we all love, we all laugh, we all feel, we all breathe, we all see.

We all need to believe in ourselves then we can do things.

Here are some photos showing our work in being the same and different.

Reflections on our first few weeks

Here is a new tool we will be learning to support our learning. The first step is to get everyone's picture into it (which we've done), the next step is to get children and adults recording their thoughts into it. You can record your voice or just type your ideas as comments.

Holiday Highlight Writing

This is our first piece of writing for the year. The guide was to use the yellow thinking hat to recall their favourite holiday activity.

This is the edited version of the first draft.

It's purpose was to refresh their thinking of the writing process; thinking, planning, writing and checking.

Here are Team20's thoughts about the hiolidays.

The best thing in the holidays was seeing my cousins. Their names were Cam and ZeeZee. It was fun playing with them. My Aunty came over from England. She came with us to Torbay.
By Isabella

The best thing about the holidays was going on the boat with our friends. Sophie and me went for a biscuit ride behind the boat.
By Charlotte

When I went to Treasure Island I got the treasure. Inside there was a ring and some skittles, pirate hats, lollipops and marshmallows and freddo frogs. I didn’t get sick because pirates share.
By Flynn

I saw Eden and Cass with Lily and Emily. We saw Eliza. We went to my home and we played on the tramp.
By Abby

I went to the best camp at Treasure Island. We went to have some fun. The next time we went we got treasure. My favourite was the skittles.
By Jack

The best thing was when I went to swimming at Aqua-gym. I am in the blue team. We do arm circles and a ball float. We also breathe on the side and we do caterpillars to the end of the pool. I like Aqua-gym. They have snake lollies there. Aqua-gym is fun.
By Clara

I went to Diamond Harbour with Anna, Chris and Georgia. We went to a café.
By Hamish

In the holidays I wished I went skiing because I am learning to ski.
By Yusuf

The best thing in the holidays was Christmas and I got lots of presents.
By Payton

The best thing in the holiday was when I went with my Mum and sister to Orana Park. I went there after the café. I saw ten zebras and I went on the bus.
By Nicholas

In the holiday I played on the play-station. It was fun.
By Finn

I am going to Abby’s house in the weekend and it is going to be fun.
By Eden

In the holiday I put the Christmas tree up with my brother Ben and my Mummy and Daddy. Then it was my birthday.
By Jasmine

The best thing I did was swimming at the Temuka Pool.
By Austin

In the holidays I went to Lake Coleridge and I played iToy and I played fighting. We played soccer and I got a goal.
By Will

This is Ben 10. I like watching it in the holiday because holiday is not going to school.
By Samuel

The best thing was going to McDonalds. I went to McDonalds. Granny took me with Elissa. It was fun.
By Georgia

The best thing in the holidays was playing on the beach.
By Zach

In the holidays I went to my friends house. We played safari, it was fun.
By Josh

The best thing about the holidays is going camping because I like boogie boarding in the sea and riding the waves.
By Nick

I went camping, I liked it.
By William

Photos from our first week

Here are some photos of our first week together: