Some of us are chapter book geniuses

At school some of us are writing chapter books, at writing time.We started them at the start of the year. Some of us started at term 2. Savanna's chapter book is about Marshmallow Land. Savanna, Nova and Jacob.

Harold

Harold is a giraffe that teaches life education.  We learn about body parts, energy, oxygen and making friends. He makes movies and he explores in them. Harald is the coolest giraffe we ever met.

Quadblogging

We have joined a new, for us, initiative called Quadblog.

This means that we link to three other schools around the world via their blog sites. We can "meet" the children and find out what they do in other schools. The groups can change throughout the year.

Here are our Quadblog schools for this round.

St Teresa's United Kingdom

The Deans Primary School United Kingdom

Taipei European School Taiwan

Last Day of Term

What an awesome last day.

We had a shared lunch in our house groups.

We got to say goodbye to Jani and wished him all the best for his shift to Wanaka.

We got to say hallo to Elizabeth, who left earlier in the term. Great to have her visit us for the afternoon.

We got to go home for two weeks of holiday.

Be safe and enjoy your break.

Welcome!

Last Week of Term 1 2012.

A big welcome to our newest classmate, Mya. Mya has come back to Highfield School from Australia so some of us already know her. Welcome to Room 13, Mya!

A Special Visitor

Miss Kerse came to see us today. Otago schools all had Anniversary Day to she was free to visit us. It was great to see her and to share our reading and writing with her. We saw photos of her school in Alexandra and the children in her class. We all miss Miss Kerse because she was such a fun teacher so it was great to catch up with her.

Friday is Discovery Day

 We have Discovery time every Friday. Sometimes we have it in our class and sometimes we have it with Rooms 1, 2 and 3. We love Discovery. We get to choose what we want to do. We learn about getting on with other people, managing ourselves and sharing, as well as cleaning up.
Sometimes we have a theme. This picture relates to the theme of aeroplanes: some of us made planes, some of us tried to fly them, some of us pretended we were travelling on a plane. It was great fun.