Class Photo

Aren't they gorgeous!!

Science

This week we did an experiment to look at Chromotography - the process of separating substances. First we built a chromo tower, then we drew a spot on our filter paper with felt pen. We hung our filter paper from the tower and placed the tip of our paper in water. The water travelled up the paper like plants drink water from the soil. The colour separated into lots of colours.

Waikanae School App

WAIKANAE SCHOOL APP. Waikanae Primary School now have a Mobile App (See Images Below). This App is smartphone friendly enables you to see… 1. Urgent ‘Push Notices and Alerts’, 2. Our Calendar 3. Our Newsletters 4. Class Blogs Facebook Pages and other important links and 5. Contacts and Phone numbers 6. Fill out an Absent Form for a child when sick…This is really good! (No more phone messages!) This section will be very useful for busy parents. Stay in touch and get the App just go to Playstore /Appstore and search Waikanae Primary School and download for Free!!

Keeping Ourselves Safe

This week we started our Keeping Ourselves Safe topic. We are learning what to do if we get lost. An important thing to know is our address and phone number. Please help your child with this. Many thanks.

Welcome to Term 2!

Welcome to Emma and Alia and our two new fish... Snowy and Shark! We have had fun with science this week making Gummy Worms. We changed a liquid into a solid. We observed, shared ideas and asked questions.

Green Day Fun!

A few more pics from our Green Day dress ups.

House Assembly

A fun way to end the Term! Go Kakariki!!! Thank you parents for the great effort in dressing up the children. Harlow won 100 points for our house for the best costume! She was the Green Queen! A lovely last day for her.

Get Set Go!

We made up games using striking a ball with a bat.

The Disappointment Dragon

Mrs Castle read us a story called 'The Disappointment Dragon'. Everybody knows him but nobody likes him! He loves children because when they throw tantrums which feeds him and makes him blow out fire. But we will not let him take us to his home which is a valley of despair because we know how to make him go away! We can pull ourselves together and count backwards from 10. We can also think of something else to distract us. We can do something nice for someone else and that will also make us feel good. The Dragon of Hope is always ready to take us to a land of joy and rainbows. We drew amazing pictures and wrote great stories which we proudly shared in assembly.

School Assembly

Congratulations to our Gotcha prize winners and certificate recipients.

Autism Awareness Day

We had a "Onesie Wednesday" to celebrate and raise money for Autism.

Easter Bunny

Haha! Look who visited Room 9!

Easter Cupcakes

We decorated special Easter cupcakes today with Duncan's mum. Yummy!!

School Houses - Kakariki Green

Our class won lots of house points for Kakariki because we all dressed up in our colour. Yay!

The Big Yellow Digger

We watched the big, noisey digger demolish Rooms 12 and 11 today! It was awesome!

Kia Kaha

Constable Sue talked to us about how to help when you see someone who has no one to play with or when other kids are being mean to someone. We say "Stop it!" to the mean kids and then say "Come and play with us!" to the person who has no one to play with. She read us some stories and showed us pictures. We talked about what was happening in the pictures.

Saint Patrick's Day

Miley's mum gave us the story of Saint Patrick. He got rid of all the snakes in Ireland. Everyone wears green because there are lots of green hills in Ireland.

Filling Buckets!

Everyone in the world carries an invisible bucket. We are doing lots of nice things for each other in Room 9. When we fill someone else's bucket, we also fill our own. Look at our lovely buckets!