Maths Measurement

In Maths we have been learning about length and height. These things in Kindle 2 are longer or taller than a Gingerbread Man:

 These things are shorter than a Gingerbread Man

Great measuring Kindle 2.

Road Safety

Yesterday Mr Somerfield came to talk to us about Road Safety. He set up a pretend car and got children to show him which seats were the safest and which were not so safe to sit in. All children under 148cm must be in an approved booster seat (There is a height chart in Kindle 2 if you want to check). Mrs Dakers learned that it is not illegal for children to sit in the front seat even though it is the least safe place in a car for children to sit. If there is no choice and children do sit in the front seat, you can make it safer by moving the seat back as far as it can go, so that children are not injured by the airbag if it is activated.
Today he talked to children about walking on the safe side of the footpath and always crossing the road with an adult. We went out onto George St and practised looking for sneaky driveways and walking on the safe side of the footpath.
Thanks Mr Somerfield

Nived's Story

Here is a great story written by Nived:

Swimming

We started our 8 day swimming block on Thursday. It was raining, so we were lucky enough to have a bus ride to and from the pool. On Friday we had a half hour walk to the pool, a half hour swim and approximately a 40 minute walk back from the pool. I think all the children would have slept well on Friday night! We are going to be fit by the end of our swimming block. Thanks to the parents who are helping out, I couldn't do it by myself!

Te Reo with Mrs Yeoman

On Friday we had our first Te Reo lesson with Mrs Yeoman. We learned how to 'rima runga' (hi 5), we also learned some songs, a karakia, a whakatauki (wise saying) and some instruction words.

Kia ora, Mrs Yeoman

Kindle 2 Visit the Art Gallery

We were very excited about our trip to the Art Gallery today. Mrs Dakers talked to us about looking with our eyes not our hands, walking in the Art Gallery and using inside voices. We had an upside down day because reading was in the morning , play time was at healthy food snack time and lunchtime was at playtime!! We had 5 parent helpers who were fabulous.

Crossing the road to catch the bus. We stopped, an adult pushed the button, we waited for the green man and checked to see that the cars had stopped then we crossed the road with our adult helpers.

 Here is the bus waiting to take us to the Art Gallery.

 We got onto the bus and said hello to the bus driver.

 Here we are on the bus. For some of us this was the best part of the trip! It was very exciting.

 We arrived at the Art Gallery.

Our newest class member dressed up to look like a lady in one of the portraits and we asked her questions about what she was doing and where she was going. Doesn't she look fantastic!

Mr Neumegen told us some interesting things about portraits.

Mr Neumegen read us a story called "When the Wind Changed." Look at the ugly face portrait behind him.

Here we are looking into the pool of reflection (well most of us). It was a little hard to resist putting our hands in and some of us wanted to go for a swim, but that will happen next week!

Mr Neumegen sang a song about a car and we joined in.

We watched an old movie about road safety.

 Here we are, ready to make our own portraits.

After we had made our art work we were allowed to play.

What a fun trip to the Art Gallery. Thanks parents and Mr Neumegen. If you want to see our portraits come and visit Kindle 2!

Welcome to Kindle 2 for 2015

What a fantastic Summer we have had. Now we are back at school eager to learn and excited about the year ahead. Look at all the lovely children in Kindle 2 at the end of the first week at school. We had a whole school assembly on Monday, school photos on Tuesday and met our buddy class (Room 9) on Thursday. We are learning and practising class routines and working hard.