Sunday 31 July 2011

The new term...

A very warm welcome to Term 3, it is very hard to believe we are into the last half of the school year. I have enjoyed a lovely holiday break and was very grateful for some fine weather - it is amazing how the sight and feel of sunshine can make a person feel so much brighter! After a wonderful first term at TKP I now look very forward to my second and am sure it is going to pass by equally as quickly. Enjoy the term with us!

Enjoying some lovely weather at Port Waikato - we are having fun exploring new places around the district!

Monday 11 July 2011

Centenary

Organisation is well underway for this exciting weekend - 28 to 30 October. The cost for registration is set at $60.00 and for only another $45.00 you can be part of all the weekend celebrations which include - Friday night Mix-n-mingle (cash bar operating); Saturday programme - powhiri, formal speeches, decade photographs, entertainment by the children and centenary dinner; Sunday - church service and morning tea.  As a school we look forward to a 'Centenary Day' - a step back in time to try and imagine what school was like 100 years ago!

Click below to find out more about the centenary celebrations

Friday 8 July 2011

Study Ladder

I think this is a site worth looking and we will be exploring it more here at school. Thanks to another teaching colleague for sharing it on her Blog - it's about being connected these days!

 
Have a good weekend everyone, it's looking like a good one for curling up in front of the fire with a good book!
Vicki

Monday 4 July 2011

Whakanuia Te Wiki o te Reo Māori - Celebrate Maori Language Week

Tena koutou katoa
Hello to you all

Kei te pehea koutou?
How are you all?

Ka nui te ora!
I am great!

 

Whakataukī - Proverb

Whāia te iti kahurangi
Ki te tūohu koe, me he maunga teitei 
Pursue excellence – should you stumble, let it be to a lofty mountain

Click on the link below to 'have a go' using the Interactive guide to speaking Maori
http://www.korero.maori.nz/forlearners/basics/lessons/index.html

Ka kite ano
See you again

Vicki  

Sunday 3 July 2011

Poetry is in the air...

You will see in our latest newsletter two wonderful poems, one a sensory poem and one an emotion poem, by year 3 and 4 students. A wonderful use of similies to express their messages.

Thank you Room 10 children for the following anthology, as a reader it was easy to 'picture' your messages in my mind...I am sure other readers would agree!

Colour My World
Birds are colourful just like you,
I try to be but it just doesn't suit,
I see rainbows and think to myself,
"Please colour my world so I'm not by myself"
I'm in black, You're in colour.
I hope that you colour my world,
So I can be like the others.

By Brenna, aged 10

The World Was Dark on the Other Side
The worlds was dark on the other side.
I rose from my bed and boy was it bright.
I saw a beam and so it seemed,
Shining in the sky.
What was it?
So high in the bright blue sky.
Was it here or there?
What was it?
I'll never know,
But it was,
Awesome.

By Blake, aged 10

The Beach
The wind blows in my face like a fan on high.
The sun up high, gold and yellow,
The waves grow bigger and bigger the farther I look,
The blue sky with puffy white clouds make the day cool.
Everyone's eating red apples, blueberries and yellow bananas.
The green leaves fall off the brown tree.
The blue birds fly high and the grey stones lie on the ground all over the place.
The little kids with their bags full of cream coloured shells.
Bright faced kids playing in the sand, making sand castles and swimming in the water.
The salt water smells like normal,
Just the way it should be.

By Jade, aged 10

Have a great week everyone...
Vicki