This term, our inquiry was all about the four seasons through art. We explored the unique colours, weather, and features of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Using a variety of art techniques and materials, we created beautiful seasonal artworks inspired by nature. Along the way, we learned new vocabulary, shared our ideas, and discovered how artists use colour and texture to represent each season. It was a creative and enjoyable way to celebrate the changing seasons!

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This week we are learning all about the letter B and its sound. We had a fun morning blowing bubbles and popping them while exploring our new letter of the week. We love learning a new letter and sound each week through exciting, hands-on activities!

It has been wonderful to see everyone back safe, happy, and ready for another exciting term of learning!

This term, we will be focusing on producing high-quality work and always trying our personal best. We will challenge ourselves to think deeply, show resilience when learning gets tricky, and take pride in everything we create.

There are lots of exciting learning experiences, creative activities, and new challenges ahead. Let’s continue to work together, support one another, and make Room 5 a place where everyone feels safe, respected, and inspired to learn.

Here’s to a fantastic Term 3 filled with growth, curiosity, and success. We can’t wait to share our learning journey with you!



Our last bit of learning for the term was about the celebration of Matariki. We learned it is the Maori New Year and a time for reflection and preparation for the year ahead. There are nine stars in the Matariki cluster and in early times, the night sky was an important part of daily life for Maori. The changes would tell them when it was time to plant and harvest crops, to hold ceremonies and to celebrate. The stars have connections to the environment and people’s lives.

We created a night sky using coloured chalk on black cardboard and then cut out a silhouette of the landscape to show contrast and depth. Then we added the nine stars which were kindly folded into tiny stars by our friends in Room 7. This is what they look like:

We also created some stars using wool and a round cardboard shape that looks like a clock (numbered 1 – 12.) We wove the wool from different numbers evenly around the circular shape. We had to be careful to count evenly as we worked our way around the circle. Some of us used two or three different colours. We are very happy with the outcome:

We wish all our families a happy and restful holiday.

This term, our inquiry was to do with curiosity. We used our five senses to explore nature. First, we went on an exciting leaf scavenger hunt around our school. We found so many cool leaves. Next, we brought them inside to sort them into groups and practice using descriptive words. We wrote about our outdoor adventures and shared all the things we saw and touched. After that, we made up our own five senses poems. To finish our inquiry, we learned how to make dot art. It was so much fun!.





Today as part of Chinese Language Week, we read the story of Mei-Ling and the Dragon, focusing on the importance of courage. We then enjoyed bringing our story to life by creating our own dragon puppets, while practicing our fine motor skills.

Reading is fun because it takes us on exciting adventures, helps us learn new things, and grows our brains every time we read.

We have loved building houses with our friends while developing our teamwork and communication skills.

Today we used the duplicate tool to help us create our drawings faster!



It has been a busy two weeks with lots of fun activities alongside our regular classroom programmes. We celebrated Samoan Language Week last week. Room 4 created siapo patterns using crayon and dye. We also had a lot of fun riding our bikes on “Wheels Day.”  This week we learnt all about Sri Lanka to celebrate International Language Week when we acknowledge different cultures within our school. We learnt to write our names in Sinhala. Some of us even spoke a few phrases in Sinhala at assembly.  We are thrilled with the new furniture we have in our classroom. The design and colours were chosen by us.

In this week’s Cybersmart lesson we had a go at recreating some creative mythical creatures on Explain Everything. We had multiple choices and drew them how we saw them in our minds. We had a lot of fun and even though it was tricky we kept on trying our best. Check out our cool pictures!

Our question for our Curiosity unit was How was the Earth Made.  We watched a video about this and learnt that space dust and ice banged together with the help of a meteorite. We also learnt about the layers of the earth and had fun using Playdough to make our earths and cut them open to see the layers.

Today, Room 7 was lucky enough to see the performance Treasure Hunt based around 3 books for book week. The books were  “The Big Boil Up,”The Only Dinosaur at School,” and “A Guide to Rocks.”   Room 7 enjoyed this performance very much.  We like how:

• The two actors worked as a team.
• We liked how the students were included.
• We liked doing the battle cries.
• Jess and her accents
• The changes of costumes.

The messages in the story were:

• Talking about your feelings makes the load lighter
• Talk about your heritage at home
• Being different is ok.

As part of our inquiry topic today Room 3 looked at how we can look after our enviroment. We disscussed different ways we could look after our enviroment  at school and at home. To support their learning Room 3 students then used their ipads to create a poster video. Check our these students work they create below.

Vonn’s Video Poster 

River’s Video Poster