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By Taylor

Just a reminder to make sure you have placed your orders for our beautiful 2017 Calendar Art. 

Orders close on Wednesday the 21st of September.

COUNTDOWN!

Our art was inspired by The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt. We thought Oliver Jeffers' illustrations were very funny. We have some larger images and some writing in class. Come in and check them out.

              

Starting from top left corner: Marius, Ethan, Alyssa, James, Xavier, Malakai, Lyzelle, Gurkeerit and Heidi.

Starting from top left corner: Riley, John, Olive, Brinna, Misiluni, Teagen, TJ, Kayleigh and Amelia.

By Sophie

Arohanui

Room Seventeen

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Ni sa bula vinaka!

       

We had the most amazing fun representing Fiji in the Trentham School Olympics this past week. We worked with our buddies from room two and created head garlands with tropical flowers. We painted our faces with symbols from the Fijian Flag. It was a lot of fun sharing our Fijian Chant at our Opening Ceromony in the hall. Everyone cheered for us as we marched in front of all the other represented countries. 

Above: Fiji AKA Room 2 and 17 strutting their stuff in the opening ceremony at the Trentham School Olympics.

Above: The Room 2 girls take the start line, getting ready to race the 'Indoor Mile'.

Above: Check out James, sliding across the finish line!

Above: We always have a great time with our Buddy Class. Here are the winners from the 'Indoor' Mile heats.

Above: Misiluni and Riley receive their certificates at the closing ceremony. Too much guys!
We are so proud of your team spirit.

Check back next week to hear about some of the Olympic events we took part in.

Arohanui

Room Seventeen

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#Flashback

Here is some of the writing that was inspired by our experiences walking the runway during our last week of term. We created our own costumes.

Vesi brought in some Lava for us to wear and use in our classroom. She showed us lots of different ways to tie them.

Our Room Two Buddies came to support us one afternoon. We got a lot done with their help.

Some shenanigans with our Room Two buddies.

Above: Team Work - Kayleigh and Misiluni working together to tie knots.

Below: Xavier and Taylor working with Liz to finish  off some of our 'deconstructed lavalava'.

Arohanui

Room Seventeen

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Samoan Language Week 2016

Talofa Lava and Welcome to Samoan Language Week!

Our classmate Misiluni.

We are excited this week to be celebrating Samoa, it's language and the culture of our classmate Misiluni. We have been learning a song together, and are lucky enough to have Vesi - Misiluni's Mum, come in and support us. She has been helping us with our pronunciation, understanding and has shared some beautiful actions too.

 

We are still learning, but hopefully will have some footage to share with you soon!

Whanau Groups

Next Tuesday we will be taking part in the school cross-country. It will be the first time we work with our 'Whanau Groups'. There are Four Whanau - Mahoe, Rata, Kowhai and Kauri. To support our Whanau group, we can come dressed in the corresponding colour. Check out our classmates' groups below.

Arohanui

Room Seventeen

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So much to catch you up on!

So it's been a wee minute since our last post, and as the title suggests - we have been very busy in class. Of course we have been working hard on our reading, writing and math, but we have also been lucky enough to have some fun activities outside of the classroom to support other areas of learning.

We met Jenny from the Mobile Library Bus. Jenny comes and visits us outside school a few times a term. Turns out some us already knew Jenny from Kindergarten, so it was a nice surprise to catch up with her.

Thank you to all the whanau who completed 'Library Card Forms' for us to return. We will be visiting the Bus on the last day of term and Jenny will have our new cards ready. If you would still like to sign up, we have more forms in class.

We can't wait to take home something interesting to read!

We finished up our swimming lessons for Term 1. Swimming everyday showed us we were able to make big changes to how we swim. We set small goals like we do in literacy and numeracy and were focused learners.

Some children began the term being nervous of the water, by the end of term they were lifting their legs and swimming with a noodle for support.

Other children were able to kick with a flutter board and by the end of term were kicking and practising 'rainbow arms'. We all made lots of progress.


Thank you again to Belinda, Deb and Liz. They were a big help in making sure our swimming lessons ran smoothly.

We have been also been practising our tennis moves with the Hot Shots Team. You can see Xavier above practising his backhand. We also learnt to use a forehand strike and to serve. We will continue to work on our small ball skills this term.











We visited the Life Education Van and meet the fabulous duo, Andrea and Harold the Giraffe. We learnt all about 'bucket filling' and being supportive of others. We even had a little bit of a dance party to celebrate!

Above: Busting our moves on Harold's dance floor!

Left: Bucket Filling, Right: Bucket dipping.
Ask a Room 17 student if you would like to know more information.

Arohanui 
Room Seventeen xx

Our classmates rock!

Shout out to our boys Xavier, Gurkeerit and Malakai. All three boys were nervous about putting their heads under the water at the start of our swimming unit. But look at them now! Heads under the water and lifting their legs to kick with the noodles. 

Ka mau te wehi!

Room 17 Hearts Rm 2

Last Friday we got together with our buddy class, Room 2, for the second time. This time we paired up, so every child has a special buddy from the other class. Turns out we already knew some of the older children! We learnt each other's names and discussed what we had in common. We then shared what we had learnt about each other with the whole group.