Monarch Butterfly by Pele

Mother monarch butterfly lays her eggs on the leaf of a swan plant. The eggs look like a dot. The egg is white.

Report Writing

Mother butterfly lays eggs.

by Patience

Mother Monarch Butterfly by Anthony

Mother monarch butterfly lays her eggs on the swan plant. The colour is white and it hatches.

Monarch Butterfly Egg by Oshin

Mother monarch butterfly lays her eggs on the leaf of a swan plant. The eggs are tiny like little white dots.

Monarch Butterfly by Jonathan

Mother monarch butterfly lays eggs on a
swan plant and they come out of her body.  

The eggs are tiny. The colour is white.

Plants by Sione

The plants need lots of things to live.
The plants need air, sun, soil and water to survive, live and grow. 

The children planted three swan plants outside Room 5.

Swan Plants by Princess

This morning Room 5 watered the swan plants because the sun dried the soil up. 

Planting Swan Plants by Luke

Room 5 did some planting out in the garden. 

Last week the whole class planted some swan plants. We used yellow gloves to dig up the soil. 

Water Fun Day by Jonathan

Last Friday, the whole school had a water fun day and there were lots of activities. There was a water slide with lots of bubbles and a bucket. It was so fun for the whole school.

But some children weren't here. It was on Friday after lunchtime and lunch was short. It was 5 minutes and the children went straight to the activities. 

Ka Pai to Princess and JJ 👏

Princess and JJ received a Duffy Award for reading very well this week. Both are very good readers.
Princess is good at thinking about what she reads to answer questions correctly.
JJ is good at using his phonics to help him read difficult words.
Well done!

Congratulations to Anthony and Mele 👏

Anthony received a Principal's Award last week at the School Assembly for supporting and helping his classmates to settle into their school routines. 

While Mele received hers for being the first person in her group to make sets of objects up to 10 quickly and correctly. 

Tino Pai!

Commenting On Our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Blogging Buddies

Today we visited the blogsite of our two Blogging buddies. We enjoyed reading some of their stories. We learnt to write positive comments using some kind words.

The first one was Rawhiti School. We commented on their, Jumping on their weekend! blogpost and told them that we hope they enjoy the weekend. Here's the link to their blogsite: Papatuanuku Team 2020

The other was Makaraka School. We wished Ollie a Happy Birthday. Here's the link to their blogsite: Makaraka School Class Blog

We are thoughtful and caring.

Steven Our Newest New Entrant

Nau mai, Haere mai, Welcome to Room 5's newest New Entrant, Steven. 

Steven was really excited and happy to receive his new lunch box. Now he can bring to school some very healthy lunch such as fruit, yoghurt and sandwiches with some green vegetables. 

Our New Classroom

Our class started the year in the multipurpose room, and we stayed there for 3 weeks until the builders and painters finished renovating Room 5 for us. 

Last Monday we moved into our new classroom in Room 5. Our walls have carpets and the colour is mostly blue but one wall which is orange. The heater is orange too. The floor has carpets too and they are grey with pockets of orange tiles. 

We have a new sliding whiteboard.

We think our new classroom is beautiful. It's bright and colourful.