Kia Ora Whanau & Caregivers, Every Wednesday, Our Dedicated Dragons are always excited to participate and learn new games along with a new skill. But this week on Wednesday, when they heard the bad news about the cancellation of FMS class due to coaches being sick that made them feel sad. To make us happy Mrs Kaur decided to take us and revise some of the games along with the skill we've learnt over the time with FMS this year. We were extremely happy to hear this good news because we just love sports. So these are the games we played such as - What's the time Mr Wolf skill - JUMPING; River Bank skill - JUMPING; Paper Scissors Rock skill - SKIPPING etc.
Below are their pictures of us enjoying with full zeal:
Kia Ora Whanau, I always feel delightful to share the learning experiences our tamariki/children learn at school or in classrooms with our Whanau/families. This week's shared book was - "I am the Music Man"and we all had practiced singing the beautiful songs from the book. We had also explored a range of musical instruments where we identified them first using our prior knowledge. The illustrator of the book - Debra Potter has used 6 different types of instruments in the book and they are - Piano, Saxophone, Big Bass drum, Xylophone, Violin & Trombone. Everyone joined in by using several types of musical instruments together in making the music man a fun and a joyful musical experience in Room 8. All children loved these traditional rhyme and singing along also helped them to develop number skills. Below is the picture of the front cover:
We had also discussed everyone has a different hobby or passion that they love to carry on or would love to learn in future such as learning any musical instrument, gymnastics, or learning any self-defense skills - Judo, Taekwondo, and Karate. Below are our pictures and a video showing our participation in class by singing along with Mrs. Kaur and we hope everyone will love to watch us.
Here's the youtube link for this book if you would like to read with your child again and again which is linked with literacy programme.
This week on Wednesday, Dedicated Dragons learnt a new game and a new skill from FMS - JUMPING. We started off with a warm up first with the game called WHAT'S THE TIME MR. WOLF? - where we had to jump for the distance. We were really excited about this game as we had also played this in one of our swimming lessons. Then Coach Shanon and Coach B demonstrated and taught us another game with the jumping skills - Duck is jumping on the lily pads. The techniques were - Bend our knees, swing our arms and look ahead as this helps to jump further. Have a look at our pictures and a video following the right techniques for Jumping. Please let us know in the comment box how well did we do.
Kia Orana Whanau, Last week on Friday, we had the whole school assembly where there were a lot of important announcements made. The first one was the colouring competition for the entire school to enter into the draw to win heaps of exciting prizes from Rush (SKIDS). The second one was about how to play safely on the playgrounds and the games which are not allowed to play at all for everyone from Whaea Lois. The third one was there were a lot of students & teachers who received 100% Attendance Award. And the last one was a girl from room 10 received the Duffy prize & certificate for writing an amazing story about having a special time with her grandparents. Below are the pictures and a video of children enjoying singing a song with a beautiful rhythm with Whaea Lois and Whaea Mich Nahi, please enjoy them:
DEDICATED DRAGONS, so proud of you...
Only three teachers received 100% Attendance Award since Term1 to date- Mr. Savage, Ms. Sonya, and Ms. Rebecca
Received a free Duffy Book for publishing a story about having a special time with our Grandparents, Well Done Gardeeniah, Celine, Elisa, Mosilee, Tufala & Wyatt
Annamaria, Saint, Wyatt & Tufala rewarded with a certificate for 100% Attendance (Ka Pai Dragons for coming to school every day and thank you Whanau for your participation as well)
Week 4 Award Winners - Mosilee Received Caught Being Good Certificate for showing improvement in his reading and writing. Ledasha received school's Pride certificate for showing kindness and caring towards others.
We're really lucky to have coaches from FMS to teach us a range of skills in sports and to help us stay and live a happy and a healthy life. On Wednesday, our last and the final session was on Shot Put where we had to apply all the techniques we had learned so far in our last sessions. I hope whanau you'll enjoy their photos and videos taken on the day:
