Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Have a very Merry Xmas from Mrs Toohey.  You have all been very good this year so I know Santa will be good to you all.  Enjoy your holidays and take care.  It has been so wonderful to teach you this year!  See you next year.

                                          We have been decorating a gingerbread house.

                                          William was excited to get an early present from his friends.
Love Mrs Toohey

Merry Merry Christmas!

Have a really Happy Christmas and enjoy the summer break with family and friends.  I hope you have enjoyed our blog for Room 9.  We look forward to starting up our new one in the new year.  Enjoy the excitement of the week before christmas Love Mrs Allen xx

Biscuit Decorating and Shared Lunch

Today Lauren and Melanie came in and decorated cupcakes and christmas biscuits with Room 9.  We had so much fun using the different icing, sprinkles and lollies to decorate them all.  In the afternoon we wrapped them up in little bags and put a christmas bell and stickers on.  I hope you all enjoyed eating and sharing your biscuits with your families.  Last week Loretta came in and made christmas cards with the children.  These looked so professional - thanks heaps Loretta and I hope the children have written in them for someone special!
A massive thank you from all of Room 9 to Lauren and Melanie for providing us with all the amazing goodies today and Loretta for the cards and craft things.
I would also like to thank all the parents for the gorgeous food for our shared lunch.  The children certainly had a good size lunch today and enjoyed eating the leftovers in the afternoon.  I hope they still ate their tea tonight!

Book Parade / Bouncy Castle / Christmas Party

These will probably be the last few movies that will be published on Room 9's blog for 2011! We have had such fun at school over the last week.  We had our book parade and Room 9 children dressed up as some awesome characters! Top job! We had a wonderful christmas party at Lucy's house on Sunday.  Santa arriving was just amazing and he even dished out some gifts to all the good wee children! On Monday we had a massive bouncy castle at our school.  What fantastic fun this was - some children in Room 9 went through 8 times!! Mrs Allen went through 3 times and I was tired! We have a couple more day left at school and we still have fun activities planned.  We hope you have enjoyed our blog.  Have a super Happy Christmas and a well deserved break for all!! xxx

Celebration Day

Tomorrow we have a big celebration day at school.  Please remember to wear your house colours! What a fantastic time at the Room 9 christmas party! Thanks to Pip, Tom, Lucy and Jacob for hosting us all at your house - we loved it!! Photos to come.  Room 9's shared lunch is on Tuesday - please bring a small plate of lunchtime food.  See you tomorrow :)

Awesome work from Jacob and Hannah

Congratulations to Jacob and Hannah for getting our certificates this week.  Jacob has been doing wonderful Maths work and Hannah has been displaying our school values with pride. Keep up the super work!

Christmas Fun

Today Mrs Sutherland told Room 8 and 9 the story of Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.  She told it to us orally - this means she didn't use a book, she spoke.  We made our own antlers and painted our button noses red! Too cute Room 9!

Our Christmas tree!

What fantastic decorators!

Athletics Day

What an amazing day today!! Mrs Allen is so proud of all of Room 9 superstars.  You tried your very best, had fun and participated in all the activities! I enjoyed seeing you all at the Long Jump.  Thanks so much to all the parents that came along to join in on our Athletics Day.  I bet there were tired Room 9 children tonight! Here are a couple of photos that I managed to get.

Good Luck Room 9!

Have a fantastic day at Athletics.  You have been doing such a fabulous job learning running, jumping and throwing skills. Good luck for the class relay and the parents race.  Don't forget to put on your sunscreen and big smiles.
Love Mrs Toohey
P.S Get Mrs Allen to take LOTSSSSSSSSS of photos please.

Certificate Winners this week

Room 9 are very proud of how hard to are both trying in your writing.  Keep up the great work Brooke and Tekken.

Awesome effort Ella!

Well done for getting the Heart of Achievement Ella.  You work so hard in Room 9 and you have an amazing attitude towards your learning.  Ka pai!

Well Done!

Look at our two fantastic certificate winners from Week 3, Hugo and Lucy.  You are working hard to achieve your goals and you are both contributing to make our class WONDERFUL!  Keep up the fantastic work.

The Christchurch Show 9th November 2011

What an awesome time we all had at the Christchurch Show last Wednesday.  A massive thanks to our wonderful Mums who came on the trip - Loretta, Kylie, Anj, Lauren and Melanie.  You were fantastic! We saw so many amazing animals such as baby chicks, lambs, calves and ponies.  We were allowed to pat them and hold them.  Some of us had a turn at shearing a pretend sheep and some of us saw a baby lamb being born.  After lunch we headed over to the tractors and machinery and we were allowed to ride on these massive vehicles.   At the end of the day we watched the popsicle band and then it was time to hop back on the bus.  Three children from Room 9 had a wee snooze on the way back to school.  What a fun day had by all!!

christchurch show1

Congratulations certificate winners

Well done to Sydney, Alexandra, George and Tui.  You are all stars and we love seeing you work so hard in Room 9.  Keep it up!

Onnah's Halloween Party!

What a fantastic Halloween party at Onnah's house on Saturday night.  It was so cool that the whole of Room 9 could make it.  Mrs Allen and Mrs Toohey loved seeing you all dressed up in your scary costumes! What fun Room 9!

Learning the Super Haka

This term we have been given the challenge of learning the Super Haka for Christchurch.  On Friday we split into girls and boys and began learning the Haka.  Use the following video clips to help you learn it at home.

Learn the Super Haka Actions - Male

Learn Super Haka Actions - Female

Term 4 begins!

We have had a fantastic start to Term 4.  This term we will be looking at our school values and learning lots of fun, creative and new ideas related to our 7 values.

Today Onnah and her Mum Lauren shared Bernies adventures up in Northland.  Bernie was lucky to go to the Rugby World Cup semi final with Onnah's Dad and they even went right to the very top of New Zealand. We learnt that the top of New Zealand is called Cape Reinga.  Lauren read us a strory about how the Kiwi lost his wings and she also talked to us about the massive Kauri tree called Tane Mahuta in the Waipoua Forest.  We made our own beautiful Kiwi birds.  Mrs Allen used to live up in Dargaville and knows and loves Northland! Thanks for coming in and teaching us today Lauren!

Go the ALL BLACKS

Hello everyone
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and you are ready for an amazing term 4.  I have had a lovely break with my family. We did lots of swimming and had some movie nights.  Today we are getting ready to support the All Blacks.  We are dressed in black and white and have put up some balloons.  Did you do anything in your house?  I wonder if Bernie is going to watch the All Blacks with Onnah's Dad?  How exciting!
I will see you all back at school on thursday. GO THE ALL BLACKS!!!!
Love Mrs Toohey

Holidays!

Have a fantastic holiday Room 9.  I can't wait to enjoy the lovely spring weather and spending some time in Queenstown with my family.  Enjoy the break and we will look forward to seeing you all for a busy and exciting Term 4! Mrs Allen x

Willowbank Visit

Samoa World Cup fun Day!

Talofa! Wow what a super day we have had in Room 9 with our buddy class Room 22.  We have dressed up in Samoan costumes.  We have headbands, flags, hula skirts, lei and beautiful painted faces!  The Samoan flag is red, blue and has five white stars on it.  Our clothes are these colours.  This morning we coloured in Samoan pictures, we decorated some biscuits, cracked open a coconut and drank the milk and ate the white flesh.  George's wonderful Mum Hannah bought in cupcakes in the shape of the Samoan flag for everyone - YUMMY!!! In the afternoon we had a big Jump Jam session in the hall.  We have had a fantastic day!

Awesome work Jacob and Hannah

Congratulations Jacob and Hannah for getting last weeks class certificates.  It is getting very hard to pick who will get our certificates each week because everyone works so hard!  Keep up the super efforts Room 9.

Our questions about Dinosaurs have been answered!

At the beginning of our Inquiry Unit on Dinosaurs each child had a question they wanted to find the answer to.  We have learnt lots of interesting facts and information about Dinosaurs.  At the end of our Inquiry we answered the questions.  Check out the video.

Brooke's Mum's Birthday!

Today Brooke told us it was her Mum's birthday.  Mrs Sutherland heard us singing Happy Birthday so she ran through and gave us the St Albans School Birthday Hat!! Happy Birthday Kylie - Have a fabulous day.

From Room 9

Talofa!!!

Talofa!  In week 10 the whole school are participating in a Rugby World Cup/Top Town fun day.  Our country, along with our buddy class Room 22, is Samoa!  We will be learning some interesting things about Samoa in class and also lots of Rugby World Cup facts.  We will be dressing up for the fun day!  

Heart of Achievement Winner

Congratulations Hamish for getting our Heart of Achievement certificate this week.  You have been displaying our School Values with pride.  Keep up the super efforts Hamish!

Mrs Warren's Birthday!

We hope Mrs Warren has had a fantastic birthday and loved the surprise this morning!

Each child in the school had a  balloon for Mrs Warren and they were all tied on the school gates.  Phoebe was our Superstar today and she got to give Mrs Warren the pretty pink gerbera flower.  Each class gave Mrs Warren a flower.  She really was surprised!

Fun Day Friday Dancing

We love dancing in Room 9!

Certificate Winners this week

Fantastic work from Maggie and Onnah this week.  Keep up the terrific efforts girls.

Congratulations to Phoebe for her certificate from last week too.  What a neat smile!

Balloon Fun

We had fun on Wednesday with balloons.  We have been reading a big book called "Oh, jump in a sack."  It is about a cheeky balloon who tries to float away.  Our balloons floated away from us at times too!

Certificate Success

Congratulations to our wonderful certificate winners for Week 5 and 6.  You are all awesome!

Dinosaur Funday Monday!!

What a fun day in Rooms 8 and 9 today.  We have made collage dinosaurs and dinosaur cakes.  We had Alex's Mum helping and what a fantastic job she did - Thank you Loretta!  We decided once we had eaten our dinosaur cakes we made them extinct!

Poetry Competition

Today Onnah, Brooke and Hamish recited their poems at the Year 0, 1 and 2 final competition.  We were so proud of how wonderful you all were.  Mrs Allen had so many comments from other teachers and parents singing your praises! A big congratulations to Hamish who was placed 3rd - your Triceratops poem  was fantastic!

Room 9's Poetry Superstars

On Friday we had our class poetry competition.  We all did so well learning our poems and reciting them in front of a big audience.  Even if some of our poems are hard to hear in the video you can work out what they are about by the gestures that the children use.  We wish Onnah, Brooke and Hamish all the best of luck for the Year 0, 1 and 2 competition on Tuesday!

Congratulations Lucy!

Lucy is our Heart of Achievement winner this month.  Lucy has such a great attitude to all her learning.  Keep up the wonderful work!

Dinosaur Baking

We had a great time making some Dinosaur biscuits today.  On Friday we will ice and decorate them................and of course eat them!

Meet our new buddy class - Room 22!

A few days before the big snowfall we spent some time getting to know our new buddy class for Term 3.   They are Room 22 and they are Year 4's.   We are looking forward to doing lots of fun things with them this term.

Mufti Day at school!

Things in Room 9 are a bit different today.  We have mufti day which means we wear our own clothes instead of uniforms.   We all look so different in other clothes.  Even the Year 1 teachers are wearing different clothes today!

Greatest American Hero Believe it or not - Assembly Song

Lucy the ballerina!!

Look how beautiful Lucy looks in her tutu! On Saturday night Lucy was dancing in a ballet recital.  I do love your beautiful hair and make up Lucy.  Even Bernie came to watch Lucy dance and then they all went back to her Grandparent's for a yummy tea!! Thanks for sharing this with us Lucy.

Zach's fun in the snow!

What a cool time in the snow Zach.  I love your toboggan! Thanks for sending these into us! Mrs Allen

Jacob's time in the snow!

What a busy few days you and your family have had Jacob.  I particularly love your igloo! I bet that snowball was really hard to roll as they get sooo heavy! Thanks for sending this in.

DAY 3 SNOW DAY

Who would have thought we would be having three days off school due to the snow.  While you are at home today you can still be doing lots of great learning.

1. Try and post a sticky note on the link below (Snow Fun) telling us about what you have been doing - Hamish tried this out yesterday!  
2. Read your reading books in your folder.  
3. Try some Maths games or practise 5 + ? = 9 etc or Numbers before and after to 20.  
4. You could write about your snow creations - we can make a book when we get back to school!     Enjoy your day.  Mrs Allen

Snow Snow and more Snow!

I hope you have all been having a nice time in the Snow.  I think I am ready for the sun to come out, are you?  I am looking forward to hearing all about your adventures back at School.  See you all soon.

Love Mrs Toohey

Hamish's Snowman

What a jolly looking snowman Hamish and William - fantastic effort!  He is really tall.  Did you give your snowman a name?