Old and New

Last week Zeb invited his friend Olwyn to join us and share our learning journey this year. She has done some tripping around preparing to go on her own adventure next week with our writing. We are preparing to send some work to Waipukurau School as a part of Get NZ Writing. This week we started looking at poetry. We will be writing 'If I Wasn't simile poems.

We had a great time at hockey learning and practising our skills. We are so privileged to have so many wonderful community experts. This week we are looking forward to working with Constable Rob and learning all about cycle safety!

Constable Rob visiting KKPS for cycle safety

Meet Olwyn the Ornithologist 

Zeb and Olwyn- Learning Partners and Koru Kids

Bike Safety in ZONE 31

Earlier in the week Constable Rob shared some Bike Safety Theory with us.  We shared ideas about why we need to wear helmets and shoes, and how to make sure our bikes are safe to ride.  We learned that we need to make sure our bikes have pumped up tyres, oil on our chains and that the brakes must be working.  On Wednesday and Thursday we got to practice safe cycling on a course that Constable Rob had made for us on the school courts. 

Prodigy taking ZONE 31 by storm!

Prodigy-Maths Game

Prodigy is an online Maths game played by millions of children worldwide.  The children in ZONE 31 are practicing Maths knowledge and skills in a fun and engaging way.   Even Zeb and Olwyn have enjoyed learning how to play.  Lots of collaboration, communication and problem solving going on!  It's just awesome! 

Similes and Metaphors

In Literacy we have been learning to make our writing more interesting using similes and metaphors.  We love this song from the Bazillions.  

Hockey Sticks are go!

Room 16 Practicing their hockey skills

Jose and Huia came to KKPS in Week 7 to teach us how to use a Hockey stick correctly and how to dribble the ball.  It was lots of fun.  We hope they come back to share more Hockey Skills with us.

And the rain came down......

Zone 31 was fascinated by the storm that arrived in Kerikeri on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 March.  We recorded our thoughts and ideas on this padlet.  

Water, water everywhere!

Wow, so many things happened in Week 5 and now we are ready to race into a new week!

Zeb has returned from his trip and has received his first ever learning certificate. Well done Zeb! Thankfully Zanthea was able to be with him for much of the trip so I'm sure that he felt well looked after. Take a look at what he thought of the trip in his daily diary!

On Friday we had our first disco for the year with a nautical theme. Thanks to all who supported the fundraising efforts of our Year 5 and 6 students who will be closer to meeting their camp fundraising goal. Some amazing costumes.

This week our year 4 students are heading across to Kerikeri High School pool for their swimming sports on Tuesday. We know there are some nervous and some excited young swimmers. We wish them all well.

Zanthea and Zeb brought back a song about looking after the terehu. Here are the videos to help us learn the actions and tune. We're going to spend some time in class learning this song and the actions to present at an assembly! Maybe you could learn them too!

Learn a terehu waiata from LEARNZ on Vimeo.
Aroha nga terehu from LEARNZ on Vimeo.