Keeping Arahoe Clean

Lately a group of Room 15 children have decided to clean up Arahoe School by picking up rubbish! This is what they collected one afternoon. Great job guys! 

Building the new classroom

Yesterday Mrs Sutton's Yr3 writing group came and read us a story they have written about the new classrooms being built at Arahoe. We liked how they had put the words in different places around the page. We learnt funny sounding new words like 'dumpy'.

Have a look at the book by clicking on the link below!

http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/6875092/5091cbff1a53f

Harakeke Flowers

We have been learning about harakeke (flax) and today we made harakeke flowers by folding the harakeke over itself. 

We made sure that when we harvested the harakeke from the plant  we didn't cut the centre leaf ( rito or the baby), the leaves around it that are the awhi rito (or the parents - awhi means to embrace) or the outside leaves which are the tupuna (grandparents).  We cut the tupuna  leaves.  

Garden Visit

On Wednesday we visited Zach's house as part of our 'Green Fingers' topic. His street was part of a special initiative where fruit trees were planted all down the street and at the reserve down the bottom of the street.. When we arrived at Zach's house we walked past strawberries, figs and grapes to his backyard where we saw many different fruit and vegetable plants, a worm farm and his pet chickens. At the end of our visit we were surprised with fruit kebabs to eat!

Eden Gardens Trip

We visited the Eden Gardens as part of our 'Green Fingers' topic. The garden was "a maze of beautiful flowers and trees" (student) We walked for over an hour and ended at the top of a big hill where we coud see Rangitoto!

5km Heart Kids Ride

Wilson is going to do the 5km Heart Kids ride at Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge this Friday.  He has been training very hard!  Here is the link to his fundraising page. 

http://www.everydayhero.co.nz/wilson_meyer

Student of the week

Today we had a whole school assembly. The certificate went to Zach Brown for community and participation. Zach always helps with the computers and tidying the class. Well done Zach!!