Let The Games Begin!

Today we had the Christ the King Catholic School Mini-Olympics! We had an early lunch and then we all lined up behind the flag of the country we were representing. Miss McKenna and some students from Room 2 and Room 4 led us in a prayer. Then we sang the National Anthem. After that, we marched around the top court behind our team flag while Mr Tyrell played his guitar and we all sang the Christ the King school song.

Then, the games were open and we were off to our first activity! Miss McKenna's activity was Beachball Volleyball and she took some photos of us playing. Check them out in the collage below!

It was great to see so many of the teams embracing the Olympic, and our school, values as they worked together as a team during Beachball Volleyball. There was some fantastic communication and encouragement and Miss McKenna was pleased to see so many groups ensuring justice by taking turns and sharing the ball. Many of the older children were fantastic coaches of the younger students. 

A big shout-out to the fantastic parents who came and supported us. It was great to see so many whanau of our class! And an extra shout-out to those of you who were game enough to join us for a game of beachball volleyball. It was so cool to see you working with your tamariki and we hope to see you at our next school event sometime soon.

Nathaniel Came To Visit Today!

Today Nathaniel, Jacob and John Paul's little brother, came to visit us in Room Six. Nathaniel has just turned five and he is going to start school next term.

At morning tea time Jacob, John Paul and Nathaniel's sister Miriam all helped to look after him. What lovely brothers and sister you have Nathaniel. We are looking forward to you starting school Nathaniel. Thanks for coming to meet us today!

Congratulations To Our Budding Authors!

A big congratulations to Rosina and Aubrey who today received certificates for some fantastic writing they have been doing.

Room Six have been learning to write instructions and Rosina and Aubrey both wrote an excellent set of instructions about how to make jelly on Monday. Your instructions were simple, clear and ordered. Well done girls!

Painting Still Life Flowers in Room 6

This afternoon, the Room 6 children were invited to paint spring flowers - daffodils and freesias, from Ms Chan's garden.

The children were encouraged to look carefully at the flowers and paint what they could see.  Some of the things the children noticed were:

-Daffodils have yellow petals and are orange in the middle
- The white freesias have yellow in the middle
- The freesias have little green buds
- The daffodils and freesias have long, green stems
- There are no leaves on the freesias or the daffodils

Come and visit Room 6 to see our finished paintings!

Working Together To Make Jelly

This term we are learning about justice. Part of justice is ensuring things are fair and everybody has a turn. Today with Ms Chan Room Six made lemonade jelly. We worked together to mix the ingredients by taking turns and making sure everyone had a go; we made sure there was justice!

As the bowl got close to Trelia she exclaimed "It smells yum!". Miss Eileen took the jelly and put it in the fridge for us. We are looking forward to eating it!

Do you want to make jelly at home? Rosina wrote some simple, clear instructions for you to follow which you can read here.

Thanks SKIDS For Our Cool Prizes!

This week Trelia and Deevon were two of the lucky five students who had their names pulled out of the Values Voucher box for prizes - well done you two!

Trelia and Deevon got to go to Mrs Kopua at morning tea to get their prizes...and they came back with these cool volleyballs; woah - what a great prize! Thanks SKIDS for donating them.

Has your child received a Values Voucher lately? Ask them what they got it for and have a chat at home about the values we hold special at Christ the King Catholic School - respect, love, service, justice, peace and joy. And maybe they'll be one of the lucky winners to get their names pulled out of the box next!