Calendar Art

We have been making art for calendars. Order forms will be coming home this week. Check out the art below to see if you would like to order your child's stunning work.

Click on the artwork for a larger view.

If you have any questions about the art, please get in touch.

Audrina

Billy

Brianna

Danielle

David

Esha

James

Jia-Li

Julian

Levi

Luka

Manix

Nell

Rayhan

Shrinivas

Sofia

Xavier

Zach

Ben

Minwoo

Pari

Suki

Sunny

Swim safety

Exciting times learning swim safety!

Kids can make a difference

With elections coming up, we've been talking about how kids can make a difference to the world around them.

While they may not be able to vote, kids can still make big changes in the world.

The videos below show children who started making big changes in their world when they were 7, 8 and 9 years old - the same age as the students in our class!

For the whole series, click here.

Grammar Practice

We have been learning about past, present and future tenses.

This game is a great way of reinforcing this learning - you can play with the whole family!

Audrina's speech about cats

Changing our world

We have been learning to take action to change the world around us.

There are 4 main ways we can do this:

 - Volunteering
 - Raising money
 - Talking to/persuading decision makers
 - Spreading awareness




We played this game to help us learn about actions we can take. It's a great game to learn about making changes.

icivics.com has loads of fantastic games and activities to help children learn about how government works. It is non-partisan, but it is rather american focused, so not all games are relevant to New Zealand. Never-the-less, there is lots of useful information to take out of it, like the role of a judiciary, how debates work, how to write a law, international relations, what representatives do and much more. 

I really recommend the site, and the games. They do a great job of simply explaining a complex process.