Mihimihi

Here is the extremely belated video of our clever inquiry group presenting their mihi at the end of term 2. They had so much to say that I couldn't figure out how to upload the gigantic video we made!

Ruma Rua Mihi from Tracy H on Vimeo.

Maths Week

This week is maths week at Freeville School! Each child has their own username and password for the Maths Week website which includes activities and challenges -- these should have come home attached to last Friday's newsletter. Children can earn points to "spend" on auctions.

Here are some more websites with great maths activities and games to share at home this week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/numbers/chi.shtml 

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/geometry.html

http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/student-sites

Karakia mo te Kai

...presented by Izak and Mason A. Tau ke!

Featured Freeville Flyers

Today John came to Team Singing to present our Featured Freeville Flyers with their FFF certificates. Congratulations to Ruth, Luke, Mason A, Mason P, Marshall, Mackenzie and Mariah!

Mighty Writing part III

The  big  boat. 

A  boat dissapeide   from    nower   and   it  was    rely  big  and  was  cool. And  the  pepl  were  happey.                  

By Jack

I   love   my  mum  I   love   my    mum   so   much    because    I    love       my     dad    to     I   like    playing    games    with    them   my     favourite   game   is   connect four.                It     was       me    who      won    

By    Mackenzie 

MUM         AND         DAD          WENT         TO           TH E          WEHUS

AND      DAD        GOT       A             BUZZ LIGHTYEAR TOY FOR ME

By Rory

I   am   going  to    see   Kate  it   is   going   be  fun it is  she  is wearing   a   skirt  it  is  prity.  And  it   has  sparkles    and  has   kittens   it     is  very  fun

By Rosa

I am going to macdonalds

we       kant     wait      my  mum   is going    to come     andjoshk       

I   am    gonto     ete cheps     an   nags

we cant wait   

By Josh K

In the  weekend  I   went  to         What Now    and  I     saw          kamila the gorilla     and    I   saw   the  robot  lase   and   I      wose   on   tv   and   I    saw   the    milky  bar    kid    and   I   had  a   milky bar     and   we   got  to   toe   beose    and   I  got  a   juice      

By Mason A

We are going to the beach and I like collecting. I will get musels and we will eat them. My whole family will eat them.

By Ollie

More Mighty Writing from Ruma Rua

Here is today's Mighty Writing. It takes a little bit longer to type a story on an a strange keyboard than it does to write it in our books!

I got a new teddy. It is rainbow coloured. it is called Ariel

By Ella M

i am playing the wii

By Ethan

Optimus Prime drove fast  to  the   shop

By James

On my birthday I'll have cups of tea because they are my favourite.

By Jamie

I  have almost getting to the treasure box. I  want a pstol 

By Luke

I went to dads soccer

By Ryan

I AM GETTING A MOTORBIKE

By Sam

I went to the prty today

By Zoe

We are writing on the laptops

I   am   going  to  get   a   new   games and   I   am  going  to  get   it. 

By Aaron

This  mermaid  was  all  alone  but  there  was dolfins. They  were  beautiful  and  sparkling.

By Ashleigh

Today  I  am  going   to  gymnastics    and    Lexi      and      we      will      have     lots     of       fun       and     my     sister     and     her    name     is      Taylah.     

By Chloe

Yesterday  Lexi    came   over    to     my    house   for    a   sleepover   and      at   night      we   had    march  mallows    and    for    dinner   we   had      ham   bacon    and  spgette     

by  Ella  the   end

Lizzy my lizard is in a tank and he is my pet he likes eating ants and he likes comeing  to school. Sometimes he does reading with me but at school he hides in my pockit when the firealarm & Eathquack comes to us sometimes he whashs Movies with Me like megamind , tangled shrek forever after, despicable me. Not toystory3.

By Flynn

In three weeks its my birthday I want to go to chipmunks but mum said its better if I have it at home.  I want to play pass the parcel  and heads down thumbs up and I want to invite Mariah Bekky leah and ruth. 

By Mariah

Tomorrow  it ism y birthday and  we are going to   play with  the toys in  my    bedroom.  

By  Lexi and Aleisha . 

 Yesterday   I   went   to   my   cozens   house  because

It  was  his  birthday  he  was   toning  8

I  played  on   his  playstsysten

We  had  fun

By Marcus

It is nearly   Haleys  birthday and   Mariah  is    invited   we  are   going   to play     heads   down  thumbs up   and  pass the parcel.

By Mariah

I  WENT     TO   A   MOTOR   BIKE     TRACK   I   WENT   IN   IT 

By Mason P

Today I am playing army with Sam Marcus and Connor. I feel happy because we get great gajits.

By Nicholas

LAST    FRIDDAY    HALEY   CAME    TO   MY   HOUSE   BEFORE   WE

GO   TO   MY   HOUSE    WE    WENT     TO  THE   DARIY   TO   GET   LOLIES

AND   WE   WACHT   SPONGBOB    I   FELT    HAAPY  BECAUSE   WE   PLAYED    OUR   GAME   WHAT   WE    YOUSLEY  PLAY   WE   WAS

LUCKY   BECASE    WE   HAD   KFC    ALL   WE   HAD   IS   CHIPS    AND

CHIKINE   IT   WAS  YUMM    IT   WAS  COOL   AND   WE    DANCE

TOGETER  AT  THE   END  AND   THEN  HALEYS  MUM  CAME  AND

WHEN   HER  MUM   CAME  SHE  WENT   I  CRY  BECAUSE

SHE  IS  MY  BEST  FRIEND  FOR  EVER.  AND  MARIHA .

By Ruth

Pirates of the carribean  lego go

We can be jack  sparow It is cool Because he is the catin  of  the people they  are  cool pepol  because they have swords they are awesome  because they have awesome stuff.

By Taylor

More Maths

We are focusing this week on counting forwards and backwards, skip counting, and counting on to add numbers together.

Here's James counting forwards and backwards to 20. Go James!

Mackenzie can count forwards and backwards to 20 as well. :-)

Marvellous Maths!

We have been getting back into the swing of things at school this week! We have been doing lots of fun maths and the children have been enjoying having free use of the maths resources...especially when Nicole and I ask them, "WHAT IS THE MATHS?" They take this question very seriously and think carefully about the maths they are doing with our equipment.

Bradley is making patterns with cubes.

Sam and Ethan are building a tower and measuring how tall they can make it.

Karl is sorting dinosaurs into different sets, and seeing how many in each group.

 Aaron is measuring his tower. Some towers have been a metre tall!

Rosa and Ruth are sorting jellybeans into groups by colour. Who has the biggest pile?

Taylor is sorting dinosaurs into different types.

We have been having fun with maths all week and learning heaps about counting, sorting, measuring, and making patterns and shapes. Ka mau te wehi!

We are back!!!

What an exciting day - it is so good to be back at school and to see all those lovely faces again. We had a fun first day back: we did some of the same things we always do, like karakia and Jump Jam in the morning. Lots of children brought in a favourite book from home to share at reading time. We played maths games too.

We were incredibly lucky to receive very special gifts from Postgate School in Porirua - families at that school had put together beautiful gift packages for everyone at Freeville with very kind letters enclosed. At one of our breaks everyone was allowed to choose a couple of sweet treats, and in the afternoon, while the class was making sherbet, everyone got a turn to look around in the boxes and choose a special gift to take home. All the children were delighted with their presents - what a great way to start back at school!

What Nicole and I did today

Today was a busy day for us at Freeville! If you have been reading John's blog, you will know that we have been busy moving everything all around the school. Today we had a wee tidy-up in Ruma 2 and started getting set up for school to start next week.

After that we went to visit some of our friends who were at Kym and Sharon's homeschool, the Super Seagulls School of Success! We got to surprise the children and it was great to see the big smiles on their faces (and maybe ours too...). We stayed to help some children write thank-you cards to the companies that have generously donated resources and food, and then we did Jump Jam which was a real treat! It was good to have a bit of a practice before we get back to school.

Some photos from last week

Kia ora koutou katoa :-)

A few odds and ends I'd been planning to post for the children to check out. Here are some pictures of our fantastic Freeville Flyers at the sausage sizzle last week. It was so great seeing everyone that I tried to get photos before things got too crazy (which didn't take long!)...

Do you see anyone you know?

That was such an awesome day! What do you remember about the day the container came to Freeville School?

Learning Hubs are up and running

While we work to get Freeville open next Monday, the Ministry has set up Learning Hubs at some Christchurch schools that are already open, starting tomorrow (Monday the 14th).

The idea is that you can send your children along for normal school hours and they are set up as classroom spaces.

Here is the TVNZ story that lists the locations: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/all-christchurch-students-catered-4059501

I hope you are all well and that you are getting access to everything you need. Freeville staff will be at school this week to finish clearing out damaged spaces and getting ready to open on the 21st. Keep checking John's blog for details and changes!

A few useful links!

Kia ora e hoa ma,

What a wonderful day it was yesterday with our whanau from Hastings Intermediate delivering their shipping container filled with care packages and supplies for the community. It was a really special day. I was so happy to see everyone back at school, even if it was only for a little while. Keep watching John's blog for updates.

The teachers have been busy setting up the classrooms and getting ready to reopen. There is still work to be done to make sure we are ready, but things are looking pretty good! We have been having fun wearing our hard hats and high-vis jackets. :-)

Here are some useful links so your children can keep busy and learn while at home:

• Maths games for 5 and 6-year-olds
• Story Online: celebrities reading picture books
• Sentence-building games
• Reading activities: The Gingerbread Man
• A little bit late: Make a Valentine card
• Readquarium: sight word games
• Spelling City - enter your child's spelling words
• When My Home Shook: help your child write their earthquake story, then email the website to publish it online
• Do you know your addition to 16?
• Flashcard games with addition and subtraction
• Just for fun: Build Your Wild Self!

Have fun! Let us know your favourite games so we can share them with others!

I'm editing this to add some more - there are so many great activities out there. 

• Sumdog - a wide range of maths games
• Meegenius - online books with the choice to have them read aloud or for your child to read
• Scholastics Story Starters: spin the wheel to get crazy ideas for stories, poems, or songs
• Toy Theater has such a huge range of activities I don't know where to start!
• Whakaaranga Primary's wikipage has a selection of online learning games

Kia ora koutou!

Welcome to Ruma Rua's class blog. :-)

I hope everyone is doing OK and that our adaptable and flexible Freeville Flyers are finding some great ways to use their time away from school. I spent some time digging silt with the Student Volunteer Army (this was my team, we drove around to different houses to dig out gutters and driveways):

We popped in to see how Freeville was looking one day and stayed to help Grant distribute water. These are my children, Ethan and Amy, practising their weightlifting moves:

We took some time out to visit family in Timaru and Blenheim as well.

We are missing our friends at Freeville very much, and missing our awesome classroom. It looks like school will be open on March 21st, hooray! If you haven't already, check out John's blog: http://freevilleprincipal.blogspot.com/ to keep up to date with what is happening at school.

Come to school tomorrow lunchtime for a Freeville BBQ and catch up with everyone in the new car park by the learning studio. We would LOVE to see you!

Please use this blog as a way to keep in touch with us and with each other. Tell us what you have been doing since the earthquake, where you have been and how you are.