Day 1 went as quickly as it came, and everyone agreed at the end of the day that it just flew by!
The students settled back into school exceptionally well and got off to a fantastic start! They worked quickly and efficiently to get their stationery sorted. While designing tray labels there was lots of discussion about the holidays and lots of connections were made of what people had done and places they had visited.
Mr Ayson dropped in to welcome everyone back and gave us a mini NZ geography lesson about the 3 islands. He linked this to the Maori Legend of Maui. While visiting the library we borrowed the a book to learn more about 'Te Ika a Maaui'. Check out his quick 2 minute drawing of NZ on our whiteboard!
After lunch Mr Ayson returned with some visitors, they are the new Mandarin assistants who will be working in NZ schools. We will meet our new one when we visit Miss Ko next week. Room 22 taught Miss Steptoe to say goodbye!
We read the story 'The Tree Hut Treaty' and discussed the Treaty of Waitangi. As a class we came up with some great promises that will become the Treaty of Room 22. Tomorrow we will have a signing session to pledge our promise.
Later we worked on creating 'Henna Hands' to be used for our 'Helping Hands' jobs around the classroom. We looked and discussed henna designs used in Indian culture. Look out for these on display on the whiteboard each week.
We finished the day with a fun cooperative game using the parachute, it was called 'Shaking Hands'
