A New Face at Kuranui School

Welcome to a new Year 4 student who has arrived at Kuranui School. Mukhtar and his family have come to work on a farm in the district. Mukhtar has already made great friends in the class and has been eager to join in the learning and fun in Room 3. What a great start to learning at Kuranui School!!!!

What a great job you have done!!!!

Farewell to Mrs Goodwin who has been a star teacher aide in Room 3, helping to implement change and growth in our learners. You have made a difference to all the children you have helped over the last 18 months. Thank you from us all in Room 3, we have enjoyed your company.

Great to know we will still be seeing your smiling face each morning as we get on board the bus to bring us to school.

Marae Visit

Once again Kuranui School set off to the Marae to enjoy their famous hospitality and welcome. After a powhiri we began some of the awesome activities that were arranged for us. Poi making, legends, bushwalks, sketching, carving, flax weaving, photography and traditional maori games. Boy ! We were busy and we slept like logs at night after a great game of spotlight and karaoke.

We took all the staff, even the cleaner and we all had such good time. Lots of parents joined us as supporters, tutors and for a magnificent meal in the evening. It was great to see everyone there.

Special thanks to Whaea Monica, Whaea Phyllis, Mrs Butler, Jade, Marama and all the helpers. What a cool time!Here is one of the cool photo's Mrs Butler helped us to capture.

On the hunt for information for our unit on Rights/ Roles and Responsibilities unit in term 4, our intrepid teacher set out for unknown lands in Australia to see what it was like to be a convict in The Sydney Barracks. She tried the food, got put in irons and saw where they lived, how they spent their day and Patrick tried out the beds for size. Just as well he was a jockey and only 5foot tall as they were very tiny. No room to roll over that's for sure!!!

Patterns and Relationships

We have moved on in maths to look at patterns in numbers, shapes and objects. Room 3 is learning how to describe patterns, look for the unit of repeat and to try to devise a rule to help us add on  to the pattern. It is great fun and some of us are very creative. Next step is to look at graphs and number pattterns and use our new knowledge to talk about what they tell us.

Waiomou Stream Clearing

Our class has been watching with great anticipation as the coucil help us clear our stream...

the bulldozers are really cool!!! We love to watch them as they crash and smash their way through the trees that need to be removed so we can replant our stream boundaries. In class we are learning about how plants grow, why we need them and more inportantly why we need to help the council replant the banks of Waimou Stream.

Wow!!!!!! What fun we had while the rest of the class went away. We had a Bug Day with Room1.We had Ladybug Maths then read Wombat Stew and then.... we created our very own bugs!!! Great day and we didn't get bugged about it either.

Mighty Maths

This term our focus has been multiplication with one group learning how to multiply using 2,5,10's and the other group multiplying by 4's,6's and 8's. We used lots of equipment to sort out what multpilcation meant and how to use our doubles and halves to help us. Some of us where way good!!!