The Power of Peers

Golden Moments in Marama watching our young learners share a great story with each other.   

Enjoying a sunny Friday morning in Marama

Practising Hard For Cross Country

We have been practising running every day to prepare for our upcoming Cross Country run at Dovedale School. Here we are having fun while out running. We can't wait until the BIG day. We love running!!!

A visit from Captain Cash!

Our wet day turned out to be an especially good day with a visit from a real live Super Hero
none other than ASB's Captain Cash!
Captain Cash taught us all  about the different values of notes and coins as well as talking to us about spending our money for both  'Needs' and 'Wants'.
We learned that a  'need' is something we have to have to survive like water, shelter, food etc and a 'want' is something we'd like to have such as chocolate or toys. We learned that when we spend our money it's a good idea  to spend it on what we need first then we can save our money to have what we want.
This is a Super Hero chant she taught us:
                     
                    "Speed to your needs and wait for your wants"

 

Thanks for visiting us Captain Cash, we had so much fun today!

Autumn Artworks

Upper Moutere Autumn - Kizoa Video Editor - Movie Maker

Collecting Autumn's finest in the afternoon sun.

                                                We're loving Autumn in Marama!

What could be more fun than collecting Autumn leaves, berries and seed pods in amongst the trees! We were so inspired by our stash that we decided to write stories and poems describing the colours and how we feel about Autumn.  Here are just a few to share with you.

Autumn.
It's arrived so early.
Yay, I love this time of year.
Red leaves fall from the trees.
Brown leaves fall from the trees.
Oh how I love Autumn!

By Jude


Red like an apple.
Yellow like the gold glow of the sun.
Brown like someone's hair.
Orange like an orange that is a fruit rolling away.
Autumn is cool.

By Monique


Red like blood in my body.
Yellow like gold glowing in the sun.
Brown like mud that I can feel on my feet.
Orange like apricots on the tree.

By Jessica

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all our gorgeous mothers. We hope you have a fabulous day!

Jarrod From The Nelson Giants

The Nelson Giants came back to visit us again. This time Jarrod taught us some new skills like how to dribble a basketball.

Soccer Skills with George

George from Nelson Soccer has been coming in on Fridays to teach us some soccer skills. Today we were able to practise all of these skills in a game.

Thanks George, we have loved our sessions with you!

A Champion Adventure Racer!

We had Jake from Team Motueka visit us today. Jake's team were in The GODZone race and we have been checking the team's progress every day. It has been exciting watching their team jersey move around the course on the tracking page on our computer.

They came in 8th in their race and even beat Richie McCaw's team! We think they are super fit, super fast and super brave to have kayaked, run, biked and rafted for 4 1/2 days throughout the day and night with only about 8 hours sleep. Congratulations Team Motueka, we think you are awesome!

Buddy Reading

We have whole school Buddy Reading every Thursday. We love having our older friends read to us and then been able to share our reading with them.

Flutterby Butterfly

Rose noticed our butterfly was climbing up the wall. It started to slip on the picture so Helga put her hand out for the butterfly to climb onto. We followed Helga outside as she carefully placed the butterfly on a tree. During morning tea the butterfly flew away under the watchful eyes of Seth and Leon. Bye, bye, butterfly......

Written collaboratively by the children of Marama

Butterfly Magic

Look what we spotted as we came into our class this morning. A beautiful butterfly emerging from a chrysalis........

Nick the Nelson Giant

Nick from the Nelson Giants came out today to teach us some ball skills. He was so tall, we know now why his team is called The Giants.

He was so much fun. We can't wait until he comes back. Three cheers for Nick....hip, hip hooray.....!!!

Our Pool Party

We loved our pool party on Friday. Our buddies came to swim with us and we squirted our buddies with our water guns. Riley did a big cannon ball and Seth did his first bomb in the deep end and Leon really loved swimming in the deep end too.

By Seth, Riley and Leon

Moutere Hills Junior Swim Fun Day

Here is the video of the day, made with the help of our great buddy Joseph

 

Moutere Hills Junior Swim Fun Day

Congratulations to our representatives for the fastest girl and fastest boy swimmers.

Amelia placed 1st in the girls backstroke race
Shania placed 2nd in the girls freestyle race
Theo placed 2nd in the boys freestyle and backstroke races.

What stars you are!

Rosie Comes to Visit Marama

My Mum bought my new puppy Rosie to school. I got to tell all the children about her. Rosie really likes playing with her squeaky toy giraffe. She enjoyed when we patted her tummy and scratched her behind her ears. By Alex

Sending Big Hugs to Jess And Brooke

Look at our Loveable Lovebugs we created to send big hugs to both Jess and Brooke. We hope it puts a HUGE smile of their faces xxx

Triathlon 2016

Triathlon 2016 - Kizoa Online Movie Maker

Wow, what a wonderful afternoon! The very 1st triathlon for many of us and didn't we do well. Jaki and Rachael and so proud of us all.

A special congratulations to all the placegetters:

5 year old Boys
1st  Micah
2nd Sebastian
3rd  Seth

Duathlon
Leon

5 year old Girls
1st  Sophie
2nd Rose
3rd Saffie

6 year old Boys
1st  Morgan
2nd Matai
3rd Mosty

6 year old Girls
1st  Phoebe E
2nd Sophia
3rd  Emma H

Our Self Portraits - Works in Progress

We are busy creating our self portraits using a black vivid marker and dye. Here is a sneak peek at a few works in progress. Watch this space.........our finished portraits will be unveiled here soon.