The school year of 2024 has come to an end and it is time to celebrate all the fun and learning we have had in Room 9 this year and to look forward to the future.
Check out this video with the highlights of our year below:
What was your favourite part of the year? What are you looking forward to most in 2025?
The whole of Marfell Community School celebrated the second to last day of school for 2024 by spending the day at Todd Energy Aquatic Centre! We had so much fun putting our swimming and water safety skills into practice and enjoying the water.
Tomorrow will be our last day of school for the year and Miss Johns’ last day at Marfell Community School. Hoping to see everyone here tomorrow as they may have a cool surprise in store!
Over the past few weeks, Room 9 has traveled to Fitzroy Beach to learn all about lifeguards, rips, and being safe in the water. We know that it may look fun to swim where the waves are calm but that could actually be a rip and it’s better to swim in the waves! If we get caught in a rip we need to remember the 3 R’s: relax, raise, and ride! Relax and stay calm, raise your hand up (don’t wave!), and ride the rip out. We know that if the lifeguards are here we need to swim in between the flags and that they will save us if we need help. Some of the tamariki have created a book to help share their learning with others!
Thank you to the wonderful volunteer lifeguards for keeping us safe and teaching us all you know. And as always, a super BIG thank you to our parents that volunteered to help make this day a success!
Can you think of any more safety tips we can learn before we go swimming at the beach these holidays?
Earlier this term, Ko Taku Reo – Deaf Education New Zealand held a KIT (Keep in Touch) day with hearing-impaired students from across Taranaki for a fun day out.
Toreto shared his thoughts about the day in the slides below. What do you think? Do you think the Bliss Balls look delicious too?!
Room 9 has spent the past few weeks practicing a dance to Jingle Bell Rock to perform for our end-of-year shows. We first performed in the morning for our Annual Volunteers Morning Tea and then again in the afternoon for our Whānau Assembly.
We know that great performers put on a smile and do their best no matter what happens!
Check out our performances below! Both shows had some technical issues in the beginning but we played it cool like pros!
We feel like we did even better by the second show. What do you think?
Morning Show:
Afternoon Show:
It’s coming towards the end of the year and it’s time to celebrate all the amazing learning we have done. Last Friday, we had a Teddy Bears Picnic to celebrate our last Garden to Table session. All the tamariki were presented with a certificate and we also thanked all our amazing volunteers with cards and a present! Our Garden to Table sessions have been the highlight of our year and we have loved every minute of it. We are all more confident in the garden and the kitchen and we don’t want it to end! We are all hoping that our new classes next year will do Garden to Table too!
Once again, thank you to all our amazing volunteers who have helped to make this possible, and to the Marfell Community Trust for funding this amazing programme for our school!
We have been working on our measurement skills in lots of different ways! We have been learning to use our own units (such as blocks, hands, containers etc) to measure length, weight, and volume. We have also started to use a ruler to measure length in centimeters and using measuring cups in millilitres. We are very proud of our expanding our maths skills. We worked together in groups to solve these challenges. What do you think? Can you think of another great measurement challenge?
We read the book Giraffes Can’t Dance and talked about how it should be called Giraffes Can’t Dance Yet because the giraffe could dance, he just needed to find the right song! We talked about what the things are that we can’t do yet and used our new cybersmart skills to alter a photo of ourselves doing the things we can’t do yet. These are by far some of the coolest things we have ever made!!
What would you alter your photo to do? What can’t you do yet?
We have been learning to recognise when a photo or video has been digitally altered and think about why someone might alter a photo or video. We linked this back to what we learned earlier this year about the author’s purpose for writing, which is usually one of three purposes, to persuade, inform, or entertain. We talked about how people might create things to try and sell us things or trick us into thinking a certain way. We also talked about how altering media can also be done for fun and to entertain us.
We then decided to create our own media to alter and have some fun. We had to learn how to google and save photos from the internet. Check out our obviously fake altered photo!!
What would you alter yourself into?
Rooms 8 and 9 went on an exciting adventure last week to see Badjelly the Witch. This story is so funny, and the people performing were amazing! We loved the music and the funny voices they made as they were reading. This has to be one of our favourite books ever! What is your favourite book?
Thank you to all the parents who volunteered and made this trip successful.
We created some stories to tell you all about our trip. Check them out below: