Room 5 Ashburton Netherby School

 Wow! End of week 4 already.    We have been super busy with cross country running, sport, art,  a magic show, road safety, and our new reading programme. Mrs Mackenzie has been impressed with our writing this term as we are now all writing more sounds by ourselves. Netball practice  Constable Shaun talking about road safety, How to cross the road. Elgregoe the magician and his McCaw.

 Mrs Watson and Mrs Mackenzie arranged for Sarah Ward to come to school with some of her show birds. She came with some canaries,  cockatiels, budgies, a quail, a lovebird, finches, and a pigeon.  We even got to pat the pigeon, which was pretty cool. Thank you Sarah for sharing your birds and your knowledge with us.

This term the Junior School are inventing bird feeders for our feathered friends. We have walked around the school investigating what birds we have on the school grounds.  We have seen magpies, blackbirds and a few sparrows. In class we have a display of birds that we know and birds that we find in our gardens at home.  (Please help us look out for birds in our gardens. Our job is to design a bird feeder that will attract birds into our gardens at home but also at school. Due to the cancellation of our aviary visit, Tania brought her two birds in.  Their names are Salt and P epper. 

 There is always more than just one photo.  Please click on read more to see them.

  Exciting News....... This week, after 2 weeks of waiting, two of our cocoons hatched.  We did not get to see them hatching but yesterday we were invited into Room 6 to see one of their's hatch.  Nature is pretty cool. We have painted a butterfly this week and we also wrote about what we saw with our first butterfly. You are more than welcome to come and read our wonderful writing.

 Our buddy class is Room 2 and we read with them every Friday.  We like sharing our books with others.  We hope that you enjoy reading with us at home too.

  Every second Friday we have Phys Ed with Alex and Room 6.  Here are some photos of our first session with Alex in Week 2.

 Currently we have 3 caterpillars visiting our class from Mrs Oakley's house.  Mr Oakley grew the swan plants from seeds.  The caterpillars have gotten very big in the 4 days that we have had them.  We check them everyday to see how big they are getting

 Welcome to Room 5 2021. Room 5 has 16 children,  6 girls and 10 boys.  We welcome Ifereimi to Netherby School and into our class.  Mrs Mackenzie is our teacher. Important information to know: Library - our library day is Friday. Reading - we will have reading every night so it is very important that we have our reading folders at school every day.  Please sign their reading log each night. Kapahaka - Mrs Mackenzie helps teach Kapahaka every Tuesday afternoon during our discovery time.  Your child can opt into Kapahaka Pasifika - is held every Friday afternoon at 2.30.  Your child can opt into this if they wish. Kai for kids - We can have kai if we want but please return the form if you do not wish for your child to get Kai for Kids. Independence - In my class I like the children to do as much for themselves as they can.  It would be fantastic if you could please encourage your child to pack their own bag either the night before or before sc...

 Yesterday we had a special performance from our school kapahaka group for Maori Language Week. In tuarima we have been labelling rooms in our house.

The school is looking at shapes and in room 5 we have been trying to sort shapes either by their colour, size or shape.  Please help me to do this with items at home too.