Welcome to 2017!

Welcome everyone to another great year of learning at Mahora School, in the BEST class in the whole school!!!! 😎

We are a group of 26 akonga (learners) who are ready to have a fantastic year together.  We will have fun, make mistakes, ask questions, grow and be the best us we can be.  BRING IT ON!!!

Room 7's special package

Miss Smith came running into Room 7 just after morning tea with a special package. She had to put it in another container because it was too cold for her to carry. Can you guess who it was from? It was from... SANTA! He must have sent it straight from his workshop because it was like ice when we touched it. What a special surprise! Santa wrote us all a letter back to the ones we sent him and even gave us a chocolate each. We cant wait to see what Santa brings us this christmas.

Celebration day in Room 7

We have had a big day of celebrations here in Room 7. It was Mrs Webbys farewell assembly this morning which was sad because we will all miss her so much. We wanted to celebrate all the amazing things she has done while being at Mahora. Well done Mrs Webby! You are amazing and we will all miss you so much. Second it is Aaron's 8th birthday today. Happy birthday Aaron! Check out the amazing cake that Aarons Mum made Aaron to share with us! We are so lucky. Thank you Blanche!

The last person we are celebrating today is Sheerani. Sheerani was nominated by Miss Kittow to win the netball medal for Year 1 and 2 netball this season. This medal was for the person in the team that showed up to all the games, tried their hardest, showed the right attitude and that showed potential. Well done Sheerani! This medal was well deserved. 

Our awesome day in the hall with Team Waru

On Friday when we had our sports photo day Super 7 and Team Waru decided to work in the hall for the day. We spent most of the day finishing and publishing our writing. Between writing we were super lucky. Do you know what we did? We made COOKIES!! Super 7 had chocolate chip cookies and Team Waru had ginger bread cookies. We decorated them with green and yellow icing and put lots of yummy lollies on them. They were delicious! We love working with Team Waru and hope we can have another day together soon. We had a great day!

Our great time at Cape Kidnappers

What an awesome trip we had to Cape Kidnappers! We saw many amazing things like fault lines. The big red/ orange tractors towed us behind them on a trailor. A couple of times we got stuck in the sand! Oh no! We saw a Seal sunbathing on the rock after he had anice refreshing swim. We had such an amazing time. Collin (Our tactor driver) found us some volcanic ash to feel. It came all the way from Taupo in the last volcanic eruption. We had to walk up a really big, steep hill for 25 minutes to reach the Gannet Colony. We saw lots of Gannets and some of us collected broken eggs and feathers. Thank you to the amazing parents who came on our trip to help us. More photos to come! 

Blue group - The brave jumpers!

Check out the action shots of the blue group doing a pin drop into the pool today. Some of us have been to scared to jump the last two days but we all jumped today. We are so proud of ourselves for having the confidence and showing courage. Some of us even jumped off the block! We have all learnt heaps at Swimming the last 4 days and cant wait for 4 more days in the pool next week! 

Our first day of Swimming

Check out the Swimming stars from Room 7 today. Well done for all of you that had your togs and a great attitude at the start of the day. We had lots of fun on our first day and can't wait for our other 7 lessons! 

Aaron the star Writer

Aaron wrote the most amazing story this week. Our Writing prompt was a video clip about a grey world that suddenly turned colourful. Can you can find the Simile in his Writing? Well done Aaron!

One day I wake up to my whole world turned grey. I jumped out  of bed and put on my grey-uniform and I ate my grey breakfast. I felt glum because everything was boring.I jump in the car  and went to school.

I Looked out the window I saw a spaceship. I said goodbye to my mum and walked to school. I saw the spaceship again and a ball came out of the bottom. And........everything turned colourful. It was as colourful as a rainbow.

I felt bubbly and excited. I was free

I grabbed onto the  spaceship and it landed on a planet it was like the future. It was amazing! I started walking around and the aliens started looking at me. I brought a motel and stayed there for two weeks. I went out of the motel and I got a job. My job was sidewall fixing

I used my money to buy me new clothes. I went to the beach except  this beach was different. The water was hot and the sand looked like suns. I went to the pet shop and brought a mutant dog.

I decided to stay on their planet.I lived happily ever after.

Writing in Room 7

This afternoon we had a look at the Writing Matrix the Teachers and Miss Smith have been working hard at creating.  It is all in kids speak so we can understand it. First we discussed it as a class and then we worked in groups to look at a peice of writing and find evidence of how they were meeting the 2B level. Check out how well we work collaboratively in groups.

Oh no! Room 7 has been taken over by spiders!

There is spiders everywhere in our classroom! Over the holidays the spider that was hiding in Miss Boaler's bag from last term crawled out and layed its eggs all around our classroom. The 26 eggs hatched today and we now have lots of baby spiders crawling all around our room. Miss Boaler screamed when she saw all the little spiders. She hates them! The 26 spiders made a huge web on our classroom wall. 

Our new table!

Look at our awesome new green table. We arrived at school today to find a low table and six cookie pads in our classroom. We like to sit around the table and do our work. We are even allowed to use cookie pads on the mat. We love our new table. Thank you Mr Pearse for buying us this lovely flash table!

Our amazing interschool Cross Country Runners

Wow Room 7 has some amazing runners! We had 3 children attend the interschool Cross Country against hundreds of other children. They did an amazing job representing our school. Yuri came 60th, Marni came 38th and Josh came 6th! Well done you three! 

Our Black and White day

On Wednesday we had the Ranfurly Shield come to Mahora School. We were allowed to dress up in our very best White and Black to show our support to our favourite team. Some of us were even lucky enough to get our tops signed by a real Magpie player! Thank you so much to Gareth and Simon for coming to show us the shield. Check out some photos from the day.