PHOTO GALLERY

Kia ora parents and whanau,

Have a look at our latest and greatest photos of our beautiful learners and ask us what is happening!

PARENT TEACHER MEETINGS

Kia ora!

We have our second round of parent teacher meetings coming up in the last week of school.

If we have seen you this term, or your child has started school in November, please allow for those families we have not yet seen.

Follow the link below:

http://arahoe.ultranet.school.nz/WebSpace/399/

Many thanks,

Sarah

FAMILY NIGHT

Arahoe Family Night 2015

When: Wednesday 2^nd December

Where: The back courts

Time: 5pm – 8pm

 

 

Food on Sale – Cash Only

 

Sausage & Bread                        $2.00

Halal Sausage & Bread                $2.00

Vegetarian Sausage & Bread        $3.00

Can Drinks                                 $2.00

Popsicles                                    $2.00

Water                                       $2.00

 

Arahoe Honey 500gms                $10.00

Eco Cups                                    $9.00

 

Airbrush Tattoos                        $5.00

Itinerary of the Family Night

 

Starts at 5 pm

 

5.30             Kapa Haka  

5.55             Rest Home Choir  

6.05             Bollyhop

6.15              Kool Kids Choir

6.25             Gospel & Stepping Up Singers

6.35             Diwali Performance

6.40             Unicyclists

6.45             Winner of Arahoe’s Got Talent

6.50             Jam Attack Band 

7.05             Partner Dancing

7.10              Christmas Choir

7.35             Santas Arrival

7.40             Finish

 

 

 

A FUN AND NEW LEARNING INTERNET LINK

Kia ora everybody!

Have a look on this website for fun ways to help us in Reading and Writing.  These are great games to play after school, in the holidays, or with your family and friends.
Enjoy!

There is also a link on the bar to the right of our blog page.

See you all tomorrow!

Miss Ellis

Mrs Schermer's Fun For 5 Year Olds!



ARA TEINA ATHLETICS DAY

Ara Teina All Star Day

On Thursday 3^rd December Ara Teina will be hosting an Athletics Day. This will be held on Arahoe School grounds.

Students are required to wear clothes for participating in athletic activities.

• Shorts
• T-shirt
• Sports shoes

Please ensure that your child brings:

• Sunhat
• Packed lunch
• Water bottle

The Arahoe Community Group will be selling ice-blocks in the hall at lunchtime for $2.

We require parent help on the day to assist in the running of an event. If you are able to help out from 9am – 2pm please talk to your child's class teacher.

Thank you

Ara Teina Teachers 

PEACE DAY TOMORROW

Kia ora everybody,

Wednesday 11 November marks the hindu Festival of Diwali and First World War Armistice Day.  

To mark the event Arahoe will be hosting a “Peace Day”.

We encourage all students to come to school on Peace Day in national dress and/or traditional ethnic clothes.  This means they do not have to wear their uniform.

 E

ach student will be gifted a battery operated candle/diya.

An Arahoe commemorative event will take place from 10:30am-12pm, on the front courts, in front of NZ flag. We welcome members of the Arahoe School community, friends and whanau to join us.

What is peace?  By Room 20

Quiet- Hezekiah

Having peace and quiet- George

Piece of my mind- Olivia

Fold your arms, cross your legs- Hana

Super listening body- Katy

Friends- Ewyn

Have a rest- Storm

Inner peace- Charlie

Piece of cake- Laken

Peace and quiet- Etene

Making friends- Eshan

Be quiet- Minnie

Peace of brain- Te Ara

 

P.S.  Our pool was suddenly closed today and reopened 1.20pm so we did not get our swimming session.  Swimming will be every Tuesday at 1pm.  Please come and help us!

EXCITING NEWS!

Kia ora everyone!

We are very excited to start swimming this week on Tuesday! We will be going swimming after lunch play has finished and we have done our afternoon roll.

We will need

• swimming togs
• towel
• plastic bag

Everything MUST BE NAMED or the swimming pool taniwha might steal it away for his mokopuna!

We can wear goggles and swimming hats if we need to.

We would love to have parent helpers so please let Miss Ellis or Mrs Marshall know if you want to help!

We are going to be learning how to manage ourselves for swimming.
We need to be able to:

• get changed into our togs
• look after our uniform by putting it in our plastic bag
• behave safely around the pool
• change out of our wet clothes after swimming
• dry ourselves
• put our uniform back on
• put our wet clothes into our plastic bags

Please help us by letting us practice at home after a bath or shower or swimming.

 

We have more great news!  Miss Gracious is going to be our 3rd teacher for the rest of the year!  Please come in and say hello to her.  She would love to meet you.

 

Don't forget our parent-teacher meetings are on Monday and Tuesday if you would like some time with Miss Ellis. 

 

We are also having a Peace Day to remember Armistice Day on Wednesday.  We will be learning about peace this week and decorating our class.  Look out for more information. 

 

Next week, on Friday, we will be co-hosting the whole school at assembly with our buddy class.  We are confirming the time.  We will perform our song 'Hurry Hurry'.

 

We are going to go on a trip with Room 18 to Westlynn Gardens to celebrate Diwali with our families.  We need lots of helpers and would love you to come along.  There will be a notice coming out soon.  The trip will be on Thursday 26 November.

 

 

In the meantime have a look at these photos!

 

At Maths time we added groups of tangelos together.  Then we ate them!

 

 

We use finger gym to strengthen our fingers after we finish our sound activity.

We have Reading with Mrs Marshall. 

 

We are learning to point to each word as we read it.

We are learning to read words that we use a lot.  We can make them with playdough.

 

We sing the National Anthem and do the haka!

 

No wonder we are so tired at the end of the day!

 

Ka kite ano!

Room 20