Ruben the Bear

It was a busy day on Tuesday, after morning tea we had 
Ruben the Bear come to visit the Kowhai Team. 
Ruben had big shoes on, a back pack and coloured buttons on his top. 

Ruben talked to us about being safe on the road. 

"Stop (on the side of the road), Look (for cars both ways, left and right), 

Listen (for cars you might not see them but you can hear them) and 

Link (or hold hands with an adult"

We are going to practice crossing the pedestrian crossing, it is 

sometimes called a zebra crossing because it has white and black stripes.

Afro-Cuban Drumming

We had a wonderful band from Sacred Heart come and play for us.

There were saxophones, trombones, drums, jimbos, congos, clarinets, 

keyboard and electric guitars.

The band played songs in Spanish.

We clapped along to the beat and played some instruments.

Fun with Maths

We made a pictograph of all the things we did in the holidays. 

We drew a picture of ourselves then glued our drawing onto the graph. 
We can count how many children went swimming - there were 7.
3 children went to Auckland in the holidays.
Another 3 road motorbikes during the 2 week school holiday.

Sunhats

We have been back at school for one week now. 

We all enjoyed our holidays and had fun going to the movies to see Turbo or The Smurfs. Some of us went to Auckland and others stayed at their Nana's/Aunties house.

It is very warm and sunny this term and we are learning to be Sun Smart!

We all have our own hats with our name on it. 

We drew our hats and labelled them using Kidpix. 

It was hard work finding all the letters on the keyboard to type our words.