Merry Christmas

Our class made candy canes and a Christmas plates with a pohutukawa on it for our Christmas art activity. We enjoyed colouring them in and painting them. This is our last post for the year as we move to a new class next year. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.

We made a Scarecrow

Our class made a scarecrow to go into our school garden as part of our environmental project. We had fun making it as we stuffed pea straw into old pantyhose and dressed him in old secondhand clothes. Take a look at our slide and tell us what you think.

Pet Day

Yesterday we had a pet day at school. We could bring along our pets and have them judged. We could also create things using a pet theme. The day was lots of fun. Take a look at our slides and tell us what you think.

The Work of Bees

Our class learnt about with work of bees. We learnt that there are different types of bees and that they do different types of work. Some pollinate flowers and others make honey. We really enjoyed the creativity of learning about bees through art. We also liked learning about the honeycomb being made up of hexagons. Take a look at our slide and tell us what you think.

Fun with Water

As a treat for doing well in our Junior Musical the junior school got to play water activities as well as to eat hot chips. The slides show some of our class enjoying the water activities. We enjoyed running around, squirting each other and getting wet. It was a lot of fun.Take a look at our slides and tell us what you think.

Ice cream Sundaes

Our class all enjoyed our ice cream sundaes. Our slides show Micah, Luca, Isla and Olivia writing about them. We did this as part of our writing activity. First we wrote down the steps to make an ice cream sundae. Then we ate it. It was yummy. After this we wrote about what it looked like, what it smelt like and what it tasted like. It was fun. Let us know what you think.

St Johns Award

Milly brought along her St Johns trophy to share with us in show and tell. She won the West Coast District Youth Competition for the Penguin Pairs. We were all very proud of her for winning such an award as it shows her care for helping others. Let us know what you think.

Junior Musical

This week our class was involved in our school's Junior Musical. Many of us had acting parts. It took time for us to learn our lines and to learn all the songs. But it was a lot of fun. Let us know what you think.

Passports

We made passports with Mrs Minehan. Our passports showed a photo of ourselves, our age, our dream job, our favourite place to visit, sports we play, hobbies we do, our likes and dislikes as well as our best and worst subjects. We thought it would be fun to look back on these when we are older to see if we got to do our dream job. Take a look at our slide and tell us what you think.

Fake or Real?

Our class learnt about the difference between fake and real images on line by choosing an image and placing ourselves in it. We did this activity with Mrs Minehan. What we liked was being able to choose our own image and then putting a photo of ourselves in it. We also learnt how to do a screen shot. These slides show Zephyr standing amongst fire and water, Nate beside a warplane, Luke beside a book, Lucas beside a volcano, Amber on an Island beach and Madden on the moon. Take a look at our slides and tell us what you think.

The Sea, Oceans and their Inhabitants

Our class learnt about how people interact with the seas, oceans and the creatures that live within them in both positive and negative ways. We also learn about tides and that the moon causes the tides. We enjoyed colouring all the different types of fishes, including penguins and crocodiles on both sides after we had traced them using the windows. After this we cut them out. We liked our sea display which was made from blue cellophane and put across the windows. We liked our beach which was made of sand, shells, stones and driftwood. We had alot of fun as we did these activities.

Creating a Collage Using Google Drawing

Yesterday we learnt how to make a collage with Mrs Minehan using google drawing. In this picture Zephyr, Madden and Micah drew and coloured in a kiwi. Zephyr thought it was really fun. Madden thought it was really easy. Micah enjoyed it because he learnt new skills. Take a look at our slide and tell us what you think.

Preparing for Athletics Sports

Lacee loves athletics because it is fun. Here she is practicing the long jump. At the end of a PE lesson with Helen we often give her a class hug because she is nice and because she teaches us lots of new things.

Life Education

We enjoyed having Monz teaching us from Life Education. She taught us about What makes a good friend? and What makes me a good friend? We really liked seeing Harold, listening to his jokes, learning about friendships through using fillers, dippers and puppets. Seeing the stars and the different coloured lights was also alot of fun. Take a look at our slide and tell us what you think.

Show and Tell

Our class enjoys doing show and tell as we get to bring things to school and to share them with our class. Hunter - I brought some yellow daffodils and put Red, Green and Blue food colouring in water to get them to change colour. I enjoyed doing this as it was fun. Zack - My Nana and Grandad gave me these books when they visited. I really like looking at the pictures in these books. Tell us what you think. O

Our Animations

Yesterday we were learning to make animations with Mrs Minehan. First we opened a google slide. Next, using the explore button we chose a background. After this we chose an object that we could animate. We kept duplicating the slides as we moved the object across the slide. When the object was at the end of the slide we made it go back the other way. We really loved doing this because it was fun and exciting. Have a look and tell us what you think.

The High Jump

Our class has been busy preparing for our athletics sports with our PE teacher Helen. On this day we were learning how to do the high jump. We liked learning the high jump because we like jumping over the bar and doing the scissors jump. We also like landing on the mat as it is soft and spongy. It was a lot of fun.

Fire Safety

Yesterday we joined Tui to listen to our Hokitika firefighters who were speaking to us about fire safety. We learnt about smoke alarms and that when there is a fire that we should crawl on our hands and knees out of our houses as the smoke rises. We also learnt that if our clothing catches fire that we should roll on the ground to put it out. We were also told to make sure that we know our address just encase there is a fire at our place. The firefighters also showed us their fire safety gear that protects them when they go to put out fires. Let us know what you think.

Descriptive Writing

When a student came from another class and gave our teacher some flowers we wrote about them. We described what they looked like, what they smelt like and what they felt like. Tell us your thoughts about this.

Measuring Length

This week in groups we measured the length of one of the squares on the numbered turf outside our classroom. We worked out that we needed two rulers joined together to be able to do this. It was fun. Have a look at our slide and tell us what you think.

Writing Can Be Fun

This week we practiced our procedural writing by giving instructions to our Mum's and Dad's on how to make a cheese sandwich. We began by writing down the equipment we needed, next we wrote down the ingredients and after this we wrote down the steps to make our cheese sandwich. Then we got to eat our sandwich. It was yummy! Have a look at our slide and tell us what you think.

Looking out our classroom window.

Last week in Kaniere we had a wonderful new experience. Winter really arrived and it snowed in Kaniere. Our mountains looked beautiful so we decided to look out our window and draw what we saw. We used Google Draw and a mixture of the shape tools and the polyline tool to make our pictures. After we had coloured them in we went into the Explore tool and chose a background We had to learn to us the Arrange tool to send the image to the back. We're very proud of our pictures, what do you think?

Playing Draughts

We hope you enjoy our slide. Isla likes playing draughts because it is fun. Ava likes this board game because it helps children to be fair team players. Olivia likes this board game because she has to think about how to play the game. And Zoe likes this board game because you can play to win. Maybe you are wondering who won this game? It was Ava. Have a look at our slide and tell us what you think.

The Sun, Planets and Moon

Our class has been making the sun, the planets and the moon out of paper mache. We searched on the internet to find the colours of our planets and then we painted them. We then made a google doc of our planet. On our doc we included a picture of our planet and we wrote 5 facts about our planet. Have a look at our slide and tell us what you think.

Pyjama Day

We hope you enjoy reading our slide. We wore pyjamas to school.

The Stars

We Hope you enjoy our slide. We have been learning about the stars.

NZ Birds

We hope you enjoy are slide. We have been learning about Kiwis and Moreporks.

Using our own images

We have been looking at how we use images in our work. We have learnt that the best images to use are the ones we make ourselves. This week we have been using Google Draw to make our own images. We are very proud of our first attempts. What do you think of them?

First Aid Training

We hope you like our slide. This week we had First Aid training.

Cross Country Champions

We hope you like our slide. This photo was taken at our Cross Country.

Bubbles Everywhere

We hope you enjoy our slide. This week we blew bubbles.

Making Play dough

We hope you enjoy our slide. This week we made play dough in our class.

PE in the Classroom

We hope you enjoy our slide. We are playing bowls in our classroom.

Buddy Reading

We hope you enjoy reading our slide. We are buddy reading.

Our Kindness Day

Hi we are the year 2 and 3 students at Kanere School. We wore pink shirts to school to celebrate Kindness Day. Mrs Minehan showed us a video of two schools where the students were wearing pink shirts and the little children did something special for the big students. The little students made pink t-shirt necklaces and they wrote positive, thoughtful and helpful words on them and then they gave them to the bigger students. They thought they were really nice and we did too, so we made our own pink shirts. We wrote kind words on them. Have a look at our slide show and tell us what you think of our pink shirts.

Learning To Draw

We hope you enjoy reading our slide. Our class is learning to draw.

Show and Tell

We hope you enjoy reading our slide. We enjoy participating in Show and Tell each week.

Making Mother's Day Cards On Wacky Hair Day

We hope you enjoy reading our slide. We were making Mother's Day cards on Wacky Hair Day.

Making An Analogue Clock

We hope you enjoy reading our slide. We have made analogue clocks.

Learning Outside The Classroom

We hope you will enjoy reading our slide. We have been learning outside the classroom.

Charitable Giving

We hope you enjoy reading our slide. We are collecting loose change on Wednesdays for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

Food Scraps

We hope you enjoy reading our slide. We are composting food scraps.

Greetings From Around The World.

Our class has been learning to say greetings from around the world.

Cards for Constable Joss

Today we all made cards in Rūma Kōtuku for Constable Joss to thank him for all his teaching and wish him well.

Ruma Kotuku 2019

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