Peace Week

We like peace week. Sports4Peace was the theme for the week.
On Tuesday we played tabloid sports altogether.
Wiki played the frisbee game.
Alexis played the bean bag and the bucket game.
On Friday we all dressed in white. White is the colour of peace. Cheyenne face painted our cheeks with the peace symbol.

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Room 9 Happenings
It's a busy couple of weeks working in the classroom learning loads of new things.
This week in particular has been busy.
We have had the following:
Sebastian's Birthday
The PTA Cup
My Tag My Town Show
The Working Bee on Saturday 25th June.

The PTA Cup.
10 of us went to play in the hockey tournament. It was held at Matamata College turf.
We played our best and came second.

My Tag My Town Show
Ken and Evie from Mish Mash TV came and presented a show that taught us RAK's and caring for our environment.
A RAK is a random act of kindness.
The dog was particularly naughty and had to learn to be nice.

Rippa Rugby

On Tuesday 31st May Te Poi School got to be part of the Project Energize Rippa Rugby tournament. That left only 4 of us in class. We made leaf streamers and got to play Maths games on the computers. We also learnt how to update our blog!!!

Term Two 2011

Welcome Whaea Linda

Term Two has been awesome.
We have been learning:

• To add our doubles and halves.
• About ANZAC day.
• How to be an Enviro school.
• To do visual plans to start our personal experience writing.
• Fabulous new songs.
  

Room 9 have put together 3 puppet plays. This is our first one called "The Stinger". We made and designed the fish out of paper and paper mache', paint and cardboard scenes. Here it is and we hope you enjoy it


Room 9

Kristen's Kowhai Tree

At 12.15 pm today the whole school went and planted a beautiful Kowhai Tree in memory of Kristen Cook who passed away on 21 September 2010. Kristen was a special pupil and friend to us all. She will always be remembered in our hearts.

Tree "Fellas"

Wow !! Mr Underwood gave us a quick call this morning. Did we want to come up and see one of his big Poplar Trees on Watson Road being felled. This was much better than maths. Mr Muir put us in the bus and off we went while Mrs Muir called our parents to let them know what was happening. It was very sad for Mr. Underwood having to cut down his trees but he told us they had become unsafe after 70 magnificent years growing along side Watson Road. When we arrived we had a safety talk and stood well back in the paddock to watch the fall of a mighty tree. The workmen used large chainsaws and a wire rope attached to a large machine called a "grabber" to guide the tree's fall. They were very good at their job. The logs are going to be used for pulp and will be taken away on logging tucks. We brought back to school a large ring to check the tree's age and some other pieces of wood to make some poker designs. Have a look at some of the pictures we took.

Room 9