Our Friend, Eric

Eric is helping us to read.  Eric’s home is San Francisco.  He wears glasses.  

Eric is our friend.  Eric is fun.  Everyone likes Eric.  Eric is 20.  

He came on a plane for 13 hours.  by Anjola

Eric is my best friend and he is Persaies best friend too.  He wears glasses.  

He has a drink bottle.  by Max

Eric is our visitor.  He is wearing glasses.
He has a little brother and his name is Cole.
He came from USA.  by Drea

 Eric is our friend.  He came from San Francisco.  

He is 20.  He is wearing glasses.  by Yasser

Eric is my helper.  He helps me to read with me.  I like to read with Eric.  

He wears glasses.  He bring a drink bottle.  by Persaies.

Eric is our helper to read a book.  He is our friend.  He has a Mum and a Dad and a brother.
He is 20.  He came from San Francisco.  by Betty

Thank you Eric for helping in Room 15.

Room 15's Garden

We are very lucky, 

Sam and Ben, Year 10 students from Kristin College are 

building us a garden as part of their studies. 

This is where our garden is going to be built.
Near the butterfly garden and next to the chickens.

Sam and Ben are showing us the vegetables that we are going to plant.

Persaies and Yasser pinning up the names of the vegetables.

Sam and Ben read us some stories about gardening.

This Saturday Sam and Ben are going to built the garden.  If you are around, pop in and see how they are going. They will be starting around 11 o'clock.

Next week, we are going to paint the outside of the garden box.

Green Day

Doesn't Room 15 look very GREEN!

On Green Day, Room 15 discussed our school
 Care Code.

At Owairaka our students will be environmentally active.

A goal for our students is to be conscious and active within the school, community and beyond in order to make a positive impact on the environment.

We thought about the things that we could do to make our school a better place...

... and this is what we said ...

Giselle and Kai were two children from Room 15 that walked to school, 

they received a little surprise at GREEN DAY ASSEMBLY.

Charity received the GREEN DAY certificate to being extra good at  

putting our rubbish into the correct bins. 

On GREEN DAY these children bought lunches that were 

wrapper free. 

We also planted some bulbs into our plant boxes on the deck and in our new pot. 

We hope they come up ... 

...  keep watching to find out what type of bulbs 

we planted.

Buddy Class

We went to visit our Buddy Class today.  

It is Room 16, which we thought was quite funny because we are Room 15.  

They live all the way over by the senior playground, near the swimming pool 

and in front of "our" tree.  

We are going to do some "fun" things with them, 

but first they are going to hear us read each week on,

 Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, after lunch.

Zarghuna and Seraphina

Bailey and Ana

Hana and Yasser

William and Titan

Andre and Rory

Romena and Soni

Vallen and Drea

 Thank you Buddy Readers 
for hearing us read.

Autumn

This term we have been learning about the changes that happen in Autumn.

We went for a walk to the tree over by the senior playground.

We found out that ...

Here we are under the tree, it is starting to loose its leaves.

Have a look at our previous blog on Summer and compare the trees

 and the clothes we are wearing.

We talked about the changes in the weather, 

this is what we think the weather is like in Autumn.

We shared our ideas about the clothes we are wearing in Autumn.

Then we wrote about what clothes we were wearing to keep us warm during Autumn.

In the mornings, before the 2nd bell, we have been doing some leaf rubbings with 

Autumn colours; yellow, orange, brown and red. 

They look awesome on our class tree.

While Eddie our caretaker was away, we took the opportunity to enjoy the leaves.

Autumn Walk

This morning room 15 went for an Autumn walk.  We jumped in the leaves.  It was fun.  Anjola

Today Room 15 went into the leaves.  They made a scrunching sounds. 

Kai

Dog Safety

We are learning how to be safe around dogs.

Kai's mum Nell and their dog Kimba came to visit Room 15.  

We practised the safety tips we learnt. 

Today Kimba and Nell came to Room 15.

By Rory

 Today Kai’s mum came to visit.

By Soni

Today Kimba came and Nell let me pat Kimba.  

He was fluffy.  By Max

Today Nell and Kimba came to Owairaka.  

Room 15 wanted to pat Kimba.

By Kai

Today we saw Kimba and Nell.  

I patted Kimba on the chin.

By Ana

Today Kimba come to Owairaka.  

I patted Kimba on the chin.

By Yasser

Today Kimba and Nell came to visit Room 15.  

Kimba sniffed my hands.

By Titan

For more information on how to be safe around dogs, go to

www.dogsafety.govt.nz