No swimming this week or next week

For this week and next week, there will be no swimming for Room 24.

Ara Pakeke children are doing a special swimming course called Skills for Life Swimming. This course takes up all the swimming slots of Week 8 and 9. It is an intensive swimming course that will be available to Room 24 children when they become Year 3s.

Swimming for Room 24 will resume in Week 10 (31 March - 4 April).

The Waka Walk

I joined the Waka Walk on Sunday morning with Mrs Makani, Tia Makani and Mrs Bland. It was the start of the Eco West Festival. We absolutely loved this event. On the walk, we learnt about the history of New Lynn and Green Bay... and picked up rubbish on the way. At the end of the walk there was a band, healthy food and a canoe to marvel at - it was made out of coke bottles and had just returned from a 100km voyage down the Whanganui River to raise awareness of single use plastic bottles.

Click here to find more events in your area.

Ka kite
Fleur Tuck

A robotics visit on Green Day

On Friday it was Green Day where we got to celebrate St Patrick's Day in our finest and whackiest green clothes. While we ate our lunch, we were visited by Jackson from the senior school. He showed us what he had been making on the Robotics programme. He made a robot and programmed it to turn 90 degrees every time it bumped into something - no remote control needed.

There will be opportunities for children at Arahoe in their later years to go on the fantastic Robotics programme. Click here to learn more about Robotics.

Unique Profiles due today

Oh wow! The Unique Profiles are looking great!! Children will share their new posts today. Click here to see Finlay Turnbull's post (it is on a different Padlet). What a warrior!!!:)

Fleur

A week that was

Thank you parents for helping your children write about their names, ancestry and culture - so fascinating to read and share with the class! If you have not written on Padlet yet, you can always email me and I'll put it on for you - due Friday.

Here are some photos taken over the week:

Off to the Library

Drinking milk - thanks Fonterra and farmer shareholders.

The senior children helped us learn how to reduce and recycle the milk cartons. It was tricky folding the cartons - we got to write our name on the board if we folded the carton correctly. The cartons will be sent to Vietnam where they will be made into roof tiles. It was lovely to drink something so cold for morning tea. We are very grateful to Fonterra for offering to provide Arahoe with milk every day.

Kareena's Birthday 

Kareena turned 6 today and was a gracious host to everyone. She reminded the children to say thank you at the beginning and she was very attentive in asking each child if they enjoyed their cake. Ka pai, Kareena! Thank you for your party and beautiful manners.

Unique Profile Help

Dear Parents

If you have trouble putting your child's unique profile on the Room 24 blog, please email me the details and I'll put it on for you.

Warm regards

Fleur

fleurt@arahoe.school.nz

Super singers and more beach photos

Wow, look who got top marks for singing today from Mrs Sadgrove. Well done Tarapatiki and Levi!!

Here are three more photos from the beach trip that were sent to me today by Mrs Makani. The marvelous memories continue... This week, we are writing about our beach trip and will use our beach photos as reminders of all the things we could describe.