Room 6 and 7 Winchester School

Near the end of Term 2 we had a very crisp, frosty morning.  Kowhai team wrote some poems about the frost.  Come and see them on display at school.  Here are a few of the poems. 

We used dominoes for Maths. Here are some of the activities we used them for. Find the number before and the number after the sum of your domino. Match the domino to its sum.  Find a domino with the matching dice pattern. Match the domino to its sum on the number line. Write a number sentence for the sum of two dominoes.

As part of our Firewise programme we wrote some descriptive poems about fire. Come into Kowhai Iti team and see our fiery poems.  Here are a few of them.

The PTA kindly paid for a percussion performance group called Strike to visit Winchester School last week.   This instrument is called a Marimba. Murray used it to play a rainstorm song. Very apt for the Manawatu!  They made music with flames. The drums were very loud and exciting. Kowhai Iti team wrote some stories about Strike and we made a card to give to the PTA to say thank you.  Here are some of our stories.

The Kowhai team had great fun learning to sew hats. We had many parents, grandparents and friends that came to help us in the hall. A huge thanks to everyone for their efforts and patience - we couldn't have achieved our wonderful hats without all the help.

Some Rimu Team (senior) children taught the Kowhai Team children a Peter Rabbit dance. They performed it at the Kowhai Team assembly. This was an excellent example of our 4C's vision for learning where our children were confident, creative, connected communicators. Add caption

Kowhai-iti Team welcomed the Hokowhitu Kindergarten children, teachers and parents. The kindergarten children did activities with us and played in our playroom. Then we had a play together in the big playground.