Whanake with our Kindy Buddies

We love it when our Kindy buddies from Hillsborough Kindergarten come to visit. We especially love to teach them how to play with all the special activities that Mrs Jacob has for us. We learn how to how to work our finger muscles and to share with our buddies.

Class Artist inspired Art

During our art time, we have been learning about how our class artist Clare Matthews creates her art.

We learned that our artist likes to use motifs to create images that are different, and lots of colour to make beautiful and vibrant art!

Take a look at how well we have created art in her style!

Junior Motat Trip

On Friday 22nd February, our junior team had an exciting fun-filled day.

We were out and about in Motat.

Learning about flight in the aviation hall and exploring all the wonderful things inside the Above and Beyond exhibit.

     

Our favourite part of the trip was when we got to create our own plane with our new knowledge of the 4 forces that help things fly (lift, thrust, drag, and weight), and testing them out.

        
After all that walking around and learning, we got treated to a nice relaxing tram ride.
 

We have learned so much from our very amazing trip and we can't wait to go back to school and tell everyone all the great things we found out about flight!

Buddy Reading at Hay Park School

This year Hay Park School is doing something different in the morning. 

We are and will be reading almost every morning to a buddy from our buddy class!

This means we each get a turn to read to someone and be read too.

We are all loving this buddy reading morning and are enjoying all the great stories that are being read.

Check out some of our fantastic buddy readers below!

           

Our first week of learning!

This week is our first week back, and we have gotten straight into our learning!

This week was a special week for New Zealand, as Wednesday 6th February was the 179th year that the Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi) was signed and celebrated.

We learned about the treaty and that it was made to help everybody to work together.

"The Early Settlers came to Auckland and wanted to hunt the whales, and the Maori's were very angry. And they made a treaty and signed it." - Krisha 

We also learned about our class artist and talked about how we could create art as awesome as our class artist.

"I want to use dinosaurs in my art." - Ayyan

"I want to use flowers and butterflies." - Renesmee

The hike around our school grounds has made us all very very tired and ready for a nap.

That is all for this week.

Have a great weekend!

From Matthews Class.

Matthews Class is Under construction for 2019

Kia Ora Whanau,

Matthews Class is on its way to being ready for another amazing year of learning.

Stay tuned, as there will be more exciting posts to come!!!

Naku noa,

Mrs Jacob and Miss Stirling

Swimming is fun!

Every Tuesday we go swimming and we have enjoyed every moment