KIA ORA!!!

Karearea kids are using Seesaw to showcase their learning! If you would like a link to the individual pages to see all the wonderful activities and learning they are doing, get in touch with me via your whanau!
Thanks 
Alistair Banks

Kia ora!

Karearea kids are using Seesaw to showcase their learning! If you would like a link to the individual pages, get in touch with me via your whanau!
Thanks 
Alistair Banks

Karearea's Panto Song!

Check out our Indian song we are singing as part of the school panto!

Karearea Ukelele performance

I hope you're enjoying your holidays!! Here is Karearea's performance using the ukeleles at the last assembly of term 3!

Karearea's museum stories!

Earlier in term 3 we helped Carole out by helping her retell two famous robbery stories from Clyde's gold mining past. We recreated the stories in paintings! Be sure to go check them out in the holidays!

Bye Jimmy!

We're going to miss this guy! It was our last day with Jimmy in Karearea. He and his family are off to Papua New Guinea for 3 years. We will miss you Jimmy! Take care!

Leaning Rock

Next week we will be sharing our water colour paintings at assembly! Here is a little taste with Lenny's beautiful painting from the Clyde lookout.

Leaning Rock water colours

Here's a taste of some of the fantastic water colour paintings we are doing! Don't forget to get your clear file folder in so we can put all your kid's art in it!

Our ukelele orchestra!

Stayed tuned folks! We're practising hard! Keep reading your newsletter, we'll be performing in an assembly some time soon.

Back to school!

It is great to be back with the super kids from Karearea! Even better that most are healthy!!! We are all back doing lots of learning. This term were are learning about New Zealand and what we want to learn about our country.
Here is a photo of Jazmin working on her family of facts.

Ice skating!

We had so much fun ice skating! The weather was great and we all improved heaps!

Matariki

Karearea have had a super week celebrating Matariki, the Maori new year this week!  String games hsve been especially popular. Thank you to Jazmin who shared the fun time she had with her whanau on Sunday. We hope to see you at our shared feast at 12.30 in Karearea!

The Legend of the Midnight Thief

A big thank you to all the parents that came to help us celebrate the opening of our class legend. I was super proud of how our kids read to you and you should be very proud if their efforts!

Numeracy place value game!

http://www2.nzmaths.co.nz/LearningObjects/PVBlocks/index.html

Have fun playing this at home! Make some exciting numbers!

Meg's marvellous writing!

Meg is working very hard on using different sentence starters and putting similes in her writing. What a super effort Meg describing a swimming cave. Tino pai!

Boys at play.

The weather hasn't been great lately but it was great to see the boys from Karearea out playing force em back before school. There was lots of sharing and excitement going on as well as some really big kicks!

Karearea's little fish!

This week is the last week if swimming.   It has been great to see how much the little fish in Karearea have improved over the 5 weeks! Tino pai Karearea!

Stanley the spider.

On Monday Mr Banks found a BIG vagrant spider in our iPad box. We decided to call him Stanley. We kept him in a jar and had a good look at him. Yesterday we caught a fly to feed him, but he wasn't interested in the fly.  At the end of the day we decided to let him go. We put him under a bush near our class. This morning when Mr Banks went to open the class door, a spider web thread hit him in the forehead! We wonder if Stanley made it!

Fractions masters!

Today in Karearea, we chose a fraction and tried to find as many ways as we can to show that fraction. We used all sorts of equipment. Tom decided he'd get some leaves and a stick to show 3/4! We are the fractions masters!

We are learning Ukelele!

Have a listen to the start of our first song for the term! 

Short and sweet!