Halloween Fright Night

Gardening in the Spring sunshine

Do you remember those sunflower seeds we planted way back in Term 3?  Well, today we planted the seeds in the junior garden.  Our sunflower and legumes are really sprouting well.  We hope to see some lovely plants growing strong and tall in our junior gardens!

Jump Rope for Heart

Jump Rope for Heart Friday 16th October 2015

As you can see we really do love skipping in Room 9.  We really enjoy keeping our hearts healthy in the sunshine!

Te Reo Maori with Matua Dan

This week we began some Te Reo Maori classes with Matua Dan. We have been learning to count in Te Reo Maori to ten and are learning a new song. Lessons in Te Reo are really cool with Matua Dan.

Classroom visits on a Tuesday morning

Aamenah and Fletcher visited Room 9 on Tuesday week 9. We have guests come and visit every Tuesday morning before they start school as part of their transition to school. We can't wait until you start at our school Aamenah and Fletcher!

BOOK WEEK Week 8

Last week our school had a very successful book week. We met the author/illustrator Nina Rycroft and shared afternoon tea with our parents. We listened to Lyn Krieglar an entertaining and colourful storyteller and we decorated masks to become "Mythical Beasts"

Featured author

This week is book week at Parnell District School. We are reading the storybook "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. Maurice was born in 1928. He grew up in New York City in the United States of America. He loved drawing when he was young. At night he went to art school to study. Do you like drawing? When you are older perhaps you would like to be an author and illustrator of stories like Maurice Sendak. Click on the link below to listen to a talking book of "Where the Wild Things Are" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bptuYPvfgk

Week 6 Sunflowers Week

S U N F L O W E R S

We used the Rigby Year 1 Book How to Grow a Sunflower which is a procedural text. On Friday we tasted some sunflower seeds and then we planted our sunflower seeds. We love seeing them grow more and more each day!

What a wonderful Spring Day in which to plant new seeds!

Sally and the Daisy

As we were looking at Spring and Flowers the Kiwi group read the story Sally and the Daisy

Collaboration with room 4

Two weeks ago we did some learning with the big kids in room 4.

Week 3 in Room 9

We have been busy doing lots of Numeracy this week

Fabio, Luella and Ayumi are doing a written activity

Natalie and Kevin are playing Match it Up.  Great job Natalie!

The letter of the week was "O, o" so we shared some oranges for Brain Food on Friday morning!

1 0 0 th   D A Y   O F   S C H O O L

On Friday 24 th July we celebrated the 100th Day of School.  We made glasses with 100 on them and coloured in 100 objects around the lenses.  Here we are wearing them.  Don't we look cool?

Learning in Ruma 9

We have been busy learning lots in Ruma 9.  We love literacy time and 

learning our alphabet.

We love practising our numbers

The children are getting really good at writing sight words we know!

We are getting healthy by doing lots of exercise!

Year 1 hosted a brilliant assembly about Spain.  Ole!

Our class also love Art and Craft

ARTS FOCUS

We had two weeks of an Art's Focus in Weeks 8 and 9 of Term One and were treated to many performances and experiences to play music at PDS...

Steve our music teacher taught us to play Beethoven's "Twinkle Twinkle".

Xuheng plays the tambourine

Ari and Stan are having fun with the maracas

The APO Strike It! Performance

The Samoan culture group from St Peter's College

The NZ Opera Company perform "Figaro" from the Barber of Serville

Celtic Performance