Poetic writing

Come and see our descriptive writing about our favourite wild animals.

by Lilian

Come and read our poems and see our fabulous garden paintings. 

Bee-lieve It or Not

As part of our Rich Task on Bees we were very lucky to have
a beekeeper visit us and give us lots of information about honeybees and gathering the honey.

Junior Playground

The little yellow digger came to Winchester school!

It was interesting to watch the digger working. It was
creating the base for our new junior playground.

There was so much excitement when the new playground
equipment arrived. Our very own junior playground!

Winchester Wearable Arts - WWA

Ruby created a beautiful skirt to wear in the WWA.
It looked colourful on the runway.

Lilian created a skirt, top and hat to wear on the runway.
It had lots of interesting embellishments.

Well done you two for taking part! 

Cultural Shared Lunch

Room 7 hosted their whanau for a
shared lunch to celebrate food from
our different cultures.

We served our manuhiri first and shared
our lunch with them at our tables. It was
delicious and exciting to try new foods.

The children created placemats that
reflected their own ethnicity. Thank you
to all the whanau who joined us.

Cultural talks

Reading Cafe

As part of book week we held a reading cafe at the Winchester School Library.  Parents were invited to come and read books with the children. We made some kai for our guests and the children served the adults first. It was a lovely cosy time. 

Book Week Character day

We had a parade with the whole junior team for book day. 

We all dressed up as our favourite character.

Room 7 Winter Art

Come and see our amazing snowmen!

Maths - Measurement

This week we worked on weights. 

We used the words heavy, light and balanced when we were weighing objects. 

This game was called 'Tricky Bags'. One person secretly put an item in each of the bags and the other person had to discover which was the heaviest / lightest or if they weighed the same. It was very interesting. We discovered that size doesn't matter, the biggest isn't always the heaviest!

Maths - Measurement

We have been learning about time. 

We learnt how to make "o'clock".

We made our own clocks to practice with. 

Discovery Time - So much fun!!

Hana came and played her violin for us. Our sound of the week was Vv. She was very good and we loved the sound it made. 

Folk Dance Afternoon

We enjoy performing to our parents and friends at the folk dance afternoon.

We performed Simi Yadech. It is a dance from Israel. 

The Jump Jam Witchdoctor was very energetic. 

Life Education Bus

Tim and Harold entertained us at assembly. He reminded us of all the things we had learnt about respiration and keeping ourselves healthy. 

Poly Plugs Maths

Here is some of our Maths we have been working on this term. 

Working with teen numbers

Number memory

Ten friends

How many to make 10?

Put me in the zoo - how many spots?
Arrange and count each colour. 

How many spots on the dog altogether?