Term 4 - Week 1

Welcome back!
Term 4 looks to be an exciting one. We have a fun but busy term ahead.

Our inquiry for this Term is on the "Orphans of Nepal". We will be looking at how Muritai Kids have the power to make a difference in the lives of the orphans. Ultimately the Room 9 will be planning a small-scale fund raiser for Bistachap Orphanage.

This week we were lucky to have Mana College's kapa haka group come and perform for us. The children in Room 9 found it to be a very powerful performance and throughly enjoyed the experience.

On a personal note I would like to thank Room 9 students and parents for a fantastic Term 3. I enjoyed getting to know you all, thank-you for your support. I am looking forward to a even better Term 4.

Term 3 - Week 9

We hope you enjoyed the Lorax Production!! We are a little sad it's all over.
The children worked so hard over the many weeks of rehearsals and were fabulous on stage. I am so very proud of them. Here are a few excitable shots of us making our costumes and some shots just before we go on stage.

Term 3 - Week 8

It's "Literacy Week" this week at school.The children were asked to dress up as a character from their favourite book to celebrate. Don't they look great! Muritai has also had teachers reading stories in the library at lunchtimes and the kids have been enjoying listening to some great books. In Room 9 we also had a special guest reader who came in and read a story to us!

Term 3 - Week 7

This week Room 9 has started a writing blog (there is a link on our class blog). The writing blog was created so that we would have a place to publish our writing. It also gives a chance to share our writing with our family and friends. At the moment we are learning a bit about how to blog eventually we will publish some of the great writing we are doing in class. We look forward to getting some comments from you!

Production is drawing near and Room 9 and Room 7 have been working hard on their performance. It is looking fantastic. At the moment we are polishing off the last little bits. Dress rehearsals are next week but we are really looking forward to the performance. We hope you have your tickets!!

Term 3 - Week 6

This week we had the Milo cricket clinic out for a visit. Unfortunately the weather was not on our side and we had to move the game into the hall. However we still had lots of fun practicing our throwing, catching, bowling and batting skills. We were also given a Milo Cricket fun bag that had puzzles and some great collector cards in it. Check out some of our class below!!

Term 3 - Week 5

This week was busy with rehearsals for the students who were performing in Artsplash. On Friday all of our class got to travel into the M.F.C to watch Muritai’s performance on the big stage with the other schools in Wellington. Murutai were fantastic and there were loads of cheers coming from the audience. Check out the picture of them performing.

Term 3 – Week 4

This week was Maths Week and we were lucky enough to have a visit from “World of Maths.”

World of Maths is a unique traveling maths show that provides fun, colourful, hands-on, mathematical, problem solving activities. There were seventeen large, displays for us to work on. There were instructions and questions on the displays we had to solve. Some was easy and some were really tough!

In class for Maths Week we spent some time playing some Maths Games from our class blog. There are some great games to help us practice things like tables. We also made some great fraction charts to display on our walls. Take a look at them!

This week we also went on a beach clean-up. We went with our buddy class (Room 24). It was really cold but we toughed it out and managed to collect lots of rubbish that had blown into the dunes.