Karaoke!!

Every Tuesday at lunchtime Mike who takes music lessons here at NBC has started Karaoke, check out some of our girls giving it a go! Kai pai girls.  

Spending time in the Mara

 For our home learning, one of the challenges has been to get into the garden and care for our environment. Check out James planting some pumpkin seeds. They were the seeds they collected from the pumpkins grown last year.

Karate Tournament

 A week ago I had a karate tournament and guess what... I was the only white belt and I cam in 3rd place. The fun part was making friends and I enjoyed my first tournament.

Meeting a paralympian

 One Saturday I met Anna Grimaldi. I went to Dunedin because she lives there. We went to a cafe to talk and I got to wear her gold medal and it was so heavy.  It was really great to meet her.

Nā Brenna 

P.E. Term 4

 Today we begun the term participating in a rotation of activities; skipping, hula hoops, ladder races, obstacle course, goal kicking, netball shooting. We had lots of fun and it was impressive to see who could hula hoop for the longest and how many skips the children could do in a row (51).

See photos from the session below.

Swimming Term 3

 In the last two weeks of Term 3, Room 5/6 had swimming lessons. The lessons focus on swimming technique, with the last week focusing more on water safety, e.g. how to enter deep water safely, being on a boat and what you take (flares, bailer, beacon), treading water and how our clothing weighs us down.

Each lesson would begin with a safety focus e.g. what to do it a rip, how to get a life guards attention, what to do if someone is drowning close to you.

It was lots of fun and great to see everyones confidence build and enjoy being in the water.

Classroom Plays

 To finish off Term 3, Room 5/6 performed plays to one another. It was a lot of fun and great to see everyone's drama skills.

Stella and Rose Music Lessons

Stella and Rose have been taking music lessons here at school with Mike. Today they showed Miss Esselink what they have learnt so far, very proud girls! 

Stella has been learning the piano, by listening to the video can you guess what song she is playing? 

Rose has been learning the guitar, check out her photo in action. 

We are swimming!

It's all go with swimming here at NBC, we are off every day at 10:10am. We have a bunch of fantastic swimmers, check us out in action!

Celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

 In Room 5/6 we celebrated Māori Language week with our moment at 12pm yesterday. We read the story Kei hea tāku Māma and listened to the song Pepehā by Six60.  You can listen to the song below

In Room 6 Pixie-Rose, Oliva, Louis, Violet, Isa, and Sam shared their mihimihi/pepehā with the class. Here are some photos below.

               

How will you celebrate Māori Language Week?

Leisha

Leisha's tower building and experiment with water cycle 💦

Regards, Anna

Recycling!

Inbetween doing work we decided to make a house for our two favourite teddies and a double decker bus for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Wonder!

Mummy found the movie Wonder for us to watch! I'm really looking forward to seeing what the characters are like!

Kiaras flower art

Sent from my Galaxy

Daisy Chain

 I collected some daisy from our garden this morning to make a daisy chain.

First collect as many daisy as you can.

I then use a pin to make a hole in the daisy’s stem.

Now I use another daisy’s stem to go through the hole I made earlier.

Continue the process until the daisies get to certain length.

 

My flax boat by James

I made a flax boat and a stick raft and raced them on a big puddle. 

The flax boat was faster then the raft

A native shield duck watched my boats. 

I also practiced some hand writing 

Sam’s beach birdwatching

Summer

Summer and her sister made "Oobleck" (cornflower and water)

Father's Day Baking

 Sam and Jack did a great job making dad a happy Father’s Day cake! It is. Lemon yoghurt cake with lemon drizzle.

Sam busy working out how to cut a circle for lining the cake tin.


Jack carefully cutting out the side lining.


Grating the lemon in with the sugar to make it super lemony .


Jack cracking eggs.


Mixing the sugar, eggs and lemon juice together.


Sam beating in the yoghurt and oil.


Jack mixing in the flour.

Yummy cake!

Dojo hero

I have been doing my karate classes on zoom in lockdown. This week I got the virtual dojo hero award.

Weekend Adventures

We went for a bike ride to our old preschool and school, where we found a dog library! We also rode along the dunes, had a bbq and made my dad a cake!

Father's Day- Writing a Book (Imogen)

I decided to write a book for my Dad and we made a chocolate brownie cake because we couldn't buy him a present in the shops!

Joshua's Friday Walk

Today my Granny picked me up and we walked up the Rapaki track. It's really cool looking down to Lyttleton from the top.