Speck @ home with Arohaina

Wow - Speck has a surprise treat waiting for him at Arohaina's house because he had been so self managing at school.  He got to play on the PS3.

Welcome to our new team

We had our own mini põwhiri today to welcome our new students into our team.  The children of the old Room 6 stood at the front and welcomed the new learners to Room 4.

They were called in and we shared what was great about our old team and what we were excited about for our new team.

When you get to know new people, you always share food together and so did we.

We are all now in Waka Endeavour and are going to learn how to work well together as a team.

Middle Team Mix-Up

We mixed up with the whole Middle Team from 2-3 this afternoon. It was great to get to know the other people in our team and have a bit of fun together.

Jon - I'm excited...

Tuala - I'm excited.....

Spec the Wheelie Dog - @ home with Robbie

For my birthday, two days ago,  I got a kawasaki remote control 4 wheel motorbike. This is Speck doing a wheelie. "Hey Mollie the dog, what are you doing in the photo", says Speck.

Speck took off in to the paddock and he did a very good back flip, gee even better than me! He loved it! And I bet you $5 bucks he has never been on a motorbike by himself before! 

The first time he jumped the jump he had a very weird landing but didn't fall off. The next time he fell over backwards and the bike was out of control. The next time he did the back flip and landed it really well.

I liked the way his ears flew up in the air like birds wings. He looked so cool with his silver rims sparkling in the sun.Gee Speck, you should be wearing a helmet!
From Robbie

Speck the Wheelie Dog on PhotoPeach

School's Open for learning!

Wooppee - tomorrow we begin the learning.  It was great to meet most of you at Learning Pathways and get to know you more.




Well done to Robbie who is the first to take Speck home for the night.  I wonder what photo we will get to show what they got up to.  Speck is Spot's cousin from England.

Here is Speck in Singapore Airport on his way home from England.  He should have taken a book to read as the flight was very boring!

I am sure he will have more fun when he goes home with you for a weekend but remember to e-mail me a photo for the blog.

Welcome to 2014

See you all on Pathway Setting Meetings on Monday.  

Remember to bring all your books and we will start with the 'Challenging' team activities on Tuesday.  Bring your togs and a sense of A+ adventure.

I am trying to add the newsletter to this post but have managed only the introduction.  Come on Monday to collect your own copy.

Top Team - Co-operating with Burnham School

The other week - lots of the Middle and Senior Learning Team went to Burnham School to participate in the annual Top Team competition.  This year was drizzly and wet but it didn't stop us giving our best.  Sometimes this included getting covered in buckets of water.

This year we also mixed up schools.  That was great because we had to work with kids we didn't know and make sure everyone felt part of the team.

If you haven't been to Top Team yet, you will love it next year.  Remember to wear your old clothes and have heaps of fun.

Playing Golf

After weeks of learning how to play golf at school, this week we got to go to the golf course.  It was much harder to drive the ball do far down the green and when the ground tilted away from the hole.

We looked carefully at the problem and tried not to moan when Allana took us to the wrong hole so we had to walk for ages!  We were great at helping each other remember the steps to take.

1. Feet together
2. Little step
3. Big step
4. Tilt
5. Pop
6. Swing (tick tock like a clock)

Check us out learning tennis

We had lots of sessions learning tennis.  We got pretty good at managing the raquet and moving to the ball.  We were also working very hard on listening carefully to the instructions.

What amazing writing!

I was reading these on my teacher blog this weekend and was so impressed that I have to post them on our class blog.  I know some of them have been posted before but they are well worth reading again.

Tor: 
I was siting down reading my book when all of a sudden the wind, which had started as a light breeze,  started blowing violently.  I pretended that nothing  was happening  but as quick as a boulder falling,  pages were blowing past me.  I wondered if I was heavy enough then suddenly I was hovering and then-blown away.  It felt like a dream and I was clinging onto a street post in the middle of a tornado.  Bicycles flew past.  Would I ever survive to see if I could rescue my books?

Liam:

Morris was sitting on his veranda all of a sudden it started blowing.

Loudly the wind horribly threw Morris accross the veranda as he anxiously gets scared.

Howling, the wind sucked up Morris' books high into the sky.

Before long even the house was gone.

MORRIS was sad.

Will he survive this drama?

Jess:
Morris Lessmore sat amongst piles of books like crooked towers, getting lost in a story when the sky suddenly turned black.  An angry howling wind whipped up the colourful books like they were a flock of flapping birds.  
Dangerously caught by the wind, Morris' hat danced merrily on his head.  While he was clutching his chair, the wind skidded him across the deck, making his eyes widen in fear.  Sucked right up! 
Swirling around amongst the books and houses, Morris wondered when or if the winds would ever let him go.