Swimming

Today we were very excited because we started swimming.

We are going to go swimming every afternoon until the Term finishes.

We enjoyed showing Miss Brown all the things we can do in the water!

Reading

Today one of our reading groups read a story called Dino in the Park.

 They got to choose who they wanted to read a story to.

Look at our wonderful reading and listening:

Athletics Day

Today is Athletics Day at Hinuera School!

We have been practicing skills to help us with Athletics activities all term.

 Give it your best Room 2 and have fun!

Ordering numbers

The red circles are learning to order numbers in maths.

We can use these to then find out what comes before and after different numbers.

Uno Yoghurt

Our school was lucky enough to win a competition run by Uno yoghurt.

Today they came to visit us and gave us all a Uno yoghurt.

We loved seeing the Uno mascot - he even stayed to join in with some of our Jump Jam!

Here we are enjoying our treat

A big thanks to Harry's aunt who entered Hinuera School into the competition!

Bubble Art

We made some bubble art to go with our wonderful writing all about the amazing Science in a van visitors. 

They taught us about mixtures!

Here is some picture of us creating our bubble art...

Kowhai Tree planting

Today our school planted some special Kowhai trees.

We had an assembly to celebrate this. We had Matthew come back to Hinuera School to read a karakia and bless the trees. 

Mathletics superstar!

This week our school Mathletics superstar was Zach!

Zach got his first gold certificate.

Kai pai, Zach!

Keep up the great maths learning.

Jolly Phonics - 'ng' sound

Today the Jolly Phonics sound that one of our groups focused on was 'ng'.

We did some dictation and wrote lots of words that have the 'ng' sound in them.

We are also working hard to form our letters correctly.

Look at all the words we could write!

Jolly Phonics - Ink on inky 'Ii'

One of our Jolly Phonics groups worked on the 'Ii' sound.

We wrote some 3 letter words that had the 'i' sound in the middle.

Do you know that the letter 'i' is a vowel.

The other vowels are a, e, o, u and sometimes y.

There is a vowel in every word. 

Drop, Cover, Hold!

Today we participated in the Shakeout Earthquake Drill.

We know that in the event of an Earthquake we need to:

Drop, Cover, Hold!

Here we are showing how to Drop, Cover and Hold!

Super Holiday Writing!

The children in Room 2 came back to school with lots to share.

They all wrote some amazing stories about their holidays.

Here are some super stories:

In the holidays I went to the beach. We saw some jelly fish and my little sister got stung by a jelly fish and we went too far. The rocks has little rock pools. They felt slippery.

By Emily

When I went to the sports shop we got a fishing line and a net. We used it to catch the rabbit. It was silver. It felt soft. We took it to the vet.

By Ben

In the school holidays I went to the beach. I played in the water. It was freezing and cold. It was very freezing and cold. I splashed and splashed and my clothes were very dirty.

By Corey

In the holidays I went horse riding. I got to brush her. Her name was Gypsy. I got to ride her. In the middle of the walk she wanted to have a drink but the lady made her walk again. She felt hot. She was cute. Her tail was like straw.

By Jennifer 

Week 9 with Hinni Hero

Hinni Hero had a super week!

Have a look at what Hinni Hero got up to with Room's 2 VIP's...

He made some words with the lego bricks, did some counting and matching with jelly bean count, went to the library to read some books, played rugby with our new Room 2 rugby ball and even started to draw his Ag Day animal.

Hinni Hero is looking forward to see what adventures await him next week including Ag Day!

Rugby!

This week we were lucky enough to have James and Ben's Dad - Mr Brown come in to teach us some rugby skills.

We learnt how to pass and catch the ball and we got to play a game!

We were so lucky that he even gave us our own Room 2 rugby ball to play with at morning tea and lunch! 

Thank you so much, Mr Brown. We had so much fun and can't wait to play some more!

From Room 2.

Kane's rhyming words

Today Kane was busy writing words on a whiteboard. He wrote the word cat. Then he thought of some more words that rhymed with cat. He sounded them out and wrote mat, bat, fat and sat.

Tino pai rawa atu, Kane!

Can you think of any other words that rhyme with cat? 

Or can you think of some new rhyming words?

Week 8 with Hinni Hero

Hinni Hero had a fantastic week!

Have a look at what Hinni Hero got up to with Room's 2 VIP's...

He helped to paint a picture with some puffy paint, he ordered some numbers, played mathletics, made some lego creations and was learning how to correctly form letters with Jolly Phonics.

Hinni Hero is looking forward to adventures in Week 9!

Week 7 with Hinni Hero

Hinni Hero is getting so tired from doing so much learning and having such a busy week in Room 2! Have a look at what Hinni Hero got up to with Room 2's VIP's...

Hinni hero was learning some songs with the Junior Syndicate, he read lots of poems, listened to some table tunes on Mathletics, found some words in poems and even went to Cross Country at the end of the week!

Make sure you check back in Week 8 to see some more adventures!

Cross Country

Today we had our school Cross Country.

All of our hard work paid off because we all ran very well!

Well done to all of Room 2 for trying their best.

Congratulations to the following people:

Ben - 1st place 5 year old boys.

Lachlan - 2nd in 5 year old boys.

Casey - 3rd in 5 year old girls.

Harry - 3rd in 5 year old boys.

We are all looking forward to interschool cross country next week!

Cool songs

The junior syndicate are learning these songs. Can you sing along too?

We say Hinni kids instead of Kiwi Kids

Week 6 with Hinni Hero

Hinni hero had another great week in Room 2! Have a look at what Hinni Hero got up to with Room 2's VIP's...

He played on mathletics, did some wonderful writing, went to PMP to shoot balls into hoops and jump from hoop to hoop, did lots of running and also did some science experiments.

Hinni Hero is looking forward to adventures in Week 7 including our school Cross Country!

Colour treasure hunt!

Today our running game was a colour treasure hunt. We were in different groups and had to race each other to find different things in the school that were different colours.

We are getting so good at running. We can run faster and for longer distances before stopping!

Tug of War!

Today we had a Tug of War at Hinuera School!

We were in our house groups and had a knock out challenge.

The winning house of the day was Green house! 

Keep an eye out for some wonderful recount writing...

Farewell Luca

Today we had to say goodbye to Luca because he is moving to a new town and a new school.

We decorated some biscuits.

Keep up the super Hinni kid attitude at your new school Luca! We will miss you a lot!

Week 5 with Hinni Hero

Hinni Hero had lots of fun in Room 2 this week! Have a look at what Hinni Hero got up to with Room 2's VIP's...

He did cross country running, drawing, played eggy words on the iPads, read some stories and did some beautiful printing.

What does Week 6 have in store for Hinni Hero?

Running Games

Ben from Project Energize came to Hinuera School to teach us some fun games that we can play to help us get ready for Cross Country.

These games were fun and also made our heats beat faster and made us feel puffed!

This is a video of one of the games that we played:

Our erupting Volcano!

Today we made a volcano as part of our fizzing and foaming unit.

We put some baking soda in a container in the middle and then poured some vinegar over the top.

We saw a reaction!

Have a look at what happened...

The baking soda is a base and the vinegar is an acid. When they join they react and fizz. We thought it was like they were fighting!

PMP

On Thursday afternoons the Junior syndicate do PMP (Perceptual Motor Programme).

We do lots of different activities that help to get both of our brains working.

These are some activities that we do.

Star Jam for Jump Jam

Today we had some visitors from Star Jam come to our school to talk to us and do a performance.

We also did a Jump Jam and donated a gold coin to this awesome organisation. One of our wonderful students from Hinuera School is part of Star Jam.

Reading Superstars!

Jennifer and Aiden are super readers!

They have both been working hard on decoding their decoding skills and re-reading and reading on to help solve tricky words.

They like to choose library books to read now!

Our assembly

In case you missed our amazing show with Room 1 last week - here it is!

Part one:

Part 2:

Problem solvers!

Today we had to think hard, explain our thinking and listen to others while we were being problem solvers and answering a tricky maths question:

There were 6 sheep (hipi in Te Reo) and two paddocks. The sheep/hipi had escaped and the farmer needed to put the sheep/hipi back into their paddocks. He needed to make sure there were the same amount of sheep/hipi in each paddock. How many sheep/hipi will be in each paddock?

There were some different answers so we all worked together to see if we could figure it out. We made a farm and used the animals to help us.

Look at our super problem solvers working the problem out. Ka pai Room 2!

How many sheep would there be in each paddock?

Casey's new puppy

In the holidays Casey and her family got a new puppy.

It is a chocolate Labrador and her name is Sophie. 
Casey's Mum brought Sophie in for a visit.

We asked lots of questions about how to look after a pet. We know that they need food, a warm bed, some toys to play with and lots of love.
Sophie loved our shoes and our bags!

We are learning to identify numbers

We love playing the fly swat game to help us identify numbers.

 We are put in two different teams and Miss Brown calls out a number. It is a race to swat the number first.
We are getting really good at quickly finding numbers. Some of us can identify numbers up to 100!

Reading with Room 4

Today we went to Room 4 to do some buddy reading.

We each took a story to read, then our Room 4 buddy read us a story.

Thank you for having us Room 4!

Jump Jam stars!

We love Jump Jam!

For fitness we sometimes go to Jump Jam. We love moving to the music. Sometimes we get to go on the stage!

What is your favourite Jump Jam song?

Show some kindness

This week our Hinni kid value is kindness/manaakitanga. Mr Mac showed us a video to help us learn about kindness.

We talked about how we show kindness to others and wrote some stories about this.

I show kindness by helping Dad on the farm. By Luca

I show kindness because I play with Blake and I like Aiden and I show kindness becuase I play with Blake and I show kindness to Mum I give her huggles. By Aiden.

I show kindness if someone someone doesn't have someone to play with I will play with them. By Casey

I show kindness to my sister by smiling at her. By Chris

I show kindness when I let Hudson play with my toys. By Shepherd

We are learning large ball skills

This term we have been developing our large ball skills. Here are some Room 2 Hinni kids in action...

Awesome Autumn Art

Before Winter set in with the cold weather and when the leaves were falling off the trees we did some awesome autumn art.

Our assembly

Today we shared our learning at Assembly.

We each said why were are special in a clear and loud talking voice, showed our wonderful pictures and sung a song.

 Miss Brown was so proud of us!

We are all special

Our topic is Keeping Ourselves Safe. 

We talked about why we are special and unique a drew a picture to show this.

These are our wonderful pictures.

Using Simple Machines

We got some new playdough toys in Room 2. 
They are simple machines!

We got to use these and then we talked about how they work.

Can you see what simple machines we are using? 
Do you know how they work?

Te Reo Maori - Feelings

We are learning about feelings in Te Reo Maori and how to say them.
Today we learnt about four words:

• Pai - Good
• Hiakai - Hungry
• Mauiui - Sick
• Pouri - Sad

We matched these feelings to their words. 

Kei te pehea koe? - How are you feeling?

Maths superstars

We are learning to identify and order numbers up to 20.

Look at our wonderful learners in action: