La Rosa Trip

We had a great trip to La Rosa park today! Thanks so much to our parent help we could not have gone without you!! 

Room 24 shine at Prizegiving

Well done to these superstars who recieved nominations, medals and a trophy at our school prizegiving last night! We are so proud of you!! 

Room 17's kindness project

Room 17 are organising a fundraising sale of used toys, games and books. It will be held outside Room 17 on Friday at lunchtime. The funds raised will be donated to help a three week old baby called Holly-Rose whose mother died in a car crash 4 days after she was born. 

Children are encouraged to bring some gold coins for the sale. Come  early to get a bargain!

Relay Races

Today with Mr Oud we learnt how to run relay races. We had to go inside the hall because it started raining! We had lots of fun running, skipping and side stepping. 

Trip Notice

A notice went home today about our end of year celebration.  

As part of our topic We Are Who We Are, Rooms 13, 14 and 24 will be going on a visit to La Rosa Gardens, Green Bay.  This trip has been planned for Thursday 4th December.

We will walk as a class, leaving school at approximately 10.30am and will arrive back at school at approximately 2pm.                                                                                      

Your child will need:

• sunscreen and hat
• appropriate footwear                                                                                         
• a packed lunch and a water bottle                                               
• to be in full school uniform

If it is raining the visit will be rescheduled for Friday 5th December. 

Readers stocktake

A readers stocktake will be taking place next week. Due to this please can you please make sure that this Friday your child brings all readers back to school in their bookbag. 

Thanks,

Imogen.  

SPECIAL DEAL for FAMILY NIGHT

Special Deal for Family Night

Shhhhhhhh!  
(You might like to keep the following information to yourself!)






DVD SPECIAL OFFER - Family Night only

Looking for a Christmas gift promoting good values for your child/children?  How about ordering a copy of Christine Fuller's latest DVD 'Helping at Home'. This video is an entertaining, and fast moving DVD featuring many large puppets engaging four young children. You will love watching lots of fun activities in and around the home, where the children are encouraged to "stick at it, and not give up."  Running time = 25 minutes.

Normally, the video retails for $20, but tomorrow only, the video can be ordered at Family Night, for $15 with a portion of each sale going to our school. Look for the sign 'DVD orders' outside the school office to make your order. Cash only please. 

Orders can be collected from Miss Bland by 10 December. 

See an excerpt of the DVD at http://handsalive.com/helping_at_home.html​ 



Contact Miss Bland if you have questions. Email:  kirstenb@arahoe.school.nz 

Puppet Show!

Today we went and saw the Hands Alive puppet show. We had a great time and laughed a lot!! 

Swimming!!

We had a great first day swimming this afternoon! 

Swimming!!!

We will be swimming Mondays! Please make sure ALL uniform and swimming gear is named.

Thanks!

Armistice Day

Today the whole school met on the big field to pay our respects to the soldiers that lost their lives during World War One. We had a 2 minute silence. Miss Bland explained to us that the first minute was to remember those who died in the war and the second was to think about their families. 

We did a fantastic job staying quiet!

Puppet Theatre

As part of our Arts unit this term we are making puppet theatres and we need your help!

How you can help…

Please collect the following items…

-An old cardboard box (a little bigger than a shoe box is perfect) 

-Popsicle sticks or plastic cutlery.

-Material for puppet show curtains etc.

You have the option to make the theatre with your child at home  and send it to school .

                                                               Or

We would like to invite you to school on Thursday 13th Nov at 2pm to help your child construct their puppet theatre.

Delayed Thank you!!

A big THANK YOU to everyone that helped at the fair on Saturday! You are amazing! 

Sharing Food at Arahoe

A message from Senior Management. 

At Arahoe School drink or food treats/prizes may not be given out to children or classes. However, from time to time, classes may create and/or consume drink or food items as part of their learning programmes. When this occurs, parents will be informed of what children will be making and consuming. Your child's teacher will inform you well in advance of any planned shared lunch occasions. We understand that parents provide the food for their child, that they would like them to consume while they are at school. ​

Spring Fair

Here are our Spring Fair bath bombs we made yesterday! If you would like to pre purchase your child's bath bomb please email me. 

Bath Bombs $5

HELP OUR STALL

We are needing desperately tomorrow morning supplies to make our stalls bath bombs. Each child will be making their own to sell in our stall.

If you have any of the following can you please email me asap!
imogenm@arahoe.school.nz

We have all but two ingredients for these, to make up 30 bath bombs we will need another 1500g baking soda (3x 500g Pams Baking Soda) and 500g Citiric Acid (5x 100g Hansells Citric Acid) both these can be purchased from New World.

Thanks!

And the certificate goes to...

Thanks Andrea!

A big THANK YOU to Andrea, Fletcher's Mum who has been helping us so much with our school fair stall!! 

We watched candles and lip balm being made and even got to help a little! 

Happy Diwali!!!

We had some very special treats on thursday to celebrate Diwali! Thanks to our mums who came in to help us! 

Clarence High School Band

On Wednesday we were very luck to have a school band all the way from Tasmania come and play for us!

There were lots of instruments like flutes, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones and even a BIG tuba!

We loved listening!!

T Ball players wanted

3 Skill Levels
T-Ball Only	T-Ball/Rookie Ball	Rookie Ball Only
Age Guide	Age Guide	Age Guide
5 – 6 year olds	7 – 8 year olds	9 – 10 year olds

T-Ball each player hits off the Tee only. There are no outs at this level.

T-Ball/Rookie Ball each player has the option to hit from the tee or have the ball pitched at them from a pitching machine. There are outs and games are scored similar to full softball.

Rookie Ball all players have the ball pitched at them by a pitching machine. There are outs and games are scored similar to full softball

NOTE: Each team requires a coach.

Season Dates:	13 weeks on a Saturday morning
	1st November to 6th December (6 weeks)
	14th February to 28th March (7 weeks)
Location:	Brains Park, Kelston
Time:	9.00–9.50am      (T-Ball and T-Ball/Rookie Ball Age 7-8)
	10.00–11.00am  (Rookie Ball Age 9-10)
Season Fees:	$20.00 per child, $10 extra child from same family

All enquiries to Arron Leaity

E-Mail: arronl@arahoe.school.nz

Paper Dolls

Yesterday we started making paper dolls of ourselves with Miss Reed. Today we are making the clothes! 

Be Litter Free

Arahoe School cares for the environment. We want to reduce the amount

of rubbish we send to the landfill.

You can help us…

BE LITTER FREE!

Make your lunch-box free of gladwrap and

plastic wrappers as these are non-recyclable.  Instead, put food such as yoghurt, chips

and biscuits into reusable containers.

Litter-less Lunchbox Challenge

Term 4 20^th of October – 21^st of November

The challenge is

to see which class can have the most litter-free lunches by the end of Week 5.

Each class is to fill in the calender and create an eye catching graph in the classroom which records how many litter-free lunches they have on a daily basis.

The winner will be

the class with the highest daily average of litter-free lunch-boxes over the period of Week 2-5.

The prize will be

an out of school eco-picnic for the whole class, plus the chance to choose and plant the centrepiece tree in the school vegetable garden. 

Help for Room 11

HATS!!

As we are in Term 4 we all need to be wearing our hats outside to protect us from New Zealand's harsh sun!

If you have lost your school hat over the winter please see Vanita in the office to purchase a new one.

100% hats on Friday and we will all get a treat from Miss Macartney!

Holiday News

This morning we took our News out into the glorious sunshine! We all had such great holidays!

Farewell!!

We are sad because it is Mrs Beulah's last day in Room 24!

Thanks for all your dedicated hard work! 

Jingle Performance

Today we sang our jingle at Ara Teina Assembly. Miss Macartney and Mrs Beulah thought we were awesome!!

Dancing Queen!

Today Tiya performed for our class a dance she has been practicing to perform at Temple tomorrow night.

We think she is great!!!

Thanks Kristy for helping Tiya!

Diggers at work!

Today we went and saw the diggers working hard to help build the new RTLB block.

We had lots of fun watching!!

Skiddy Visit

Yesterday Skiddy came to visit to tell us about the school holiday programme. 

If you would like more information please see the Skids leaders in the hall before or after school. 

Spring Fair

A reminder for up to date information please check out the PSG Spring Fair Blog!

http://arahoespringfair.blogspot.co.nz/


I will be sending home a notice about our stall by Wednesday next week!

Because We're Crossing!

Here is the jingle we made to help us remember the road rules when we cross!

We are performing next Friday morning so we need to practice.

It might seem crazy
What we're bout to say.
To cross the road right
you've got to look both ways.

An adult or road patroller
will help you!
Walk across, don't run
You don't wanna trip -OVER!

Because we're crossing..
Clap along if you know
what the right thing is to do.
Because we're crossing...
Clap along if you feel like
You know what to do.
Because we're crossing
Clap along if you are always
careful on the road.
Because we're crossing...
Clap along if you listen and
do what you are told!

Black and White Ribbon

Does anyone have some white and black (separate) ribbon that our class could use? It would be part of our costume for our jingle performance next week.

Thanks,
Imogen.

Newspaper and Magazines

If you have any of these lying around the house, can you please bring them in for our class?

Thanks!

Special Visitor

Today we had Marlo come and visit us! Illinois loves his new little brother. 

Screen Printing

At the end of last week and today we screen printed our t-shirts. A big thank you to Sylvia (Jett's Mum) who helped us! We think they look great!!! 

If you didnt bring in your t-shirt we are very lucky Sylvia is going to come back to finish them off. So get them in quick so you dont miss out!!! 

Spring Fair!

Welcome and Congratulations!

Room 24 would like to say congratulations and welcome to the world to Marlo Sebastian Cooney (little brother to Illinios) Josh Vinay (little brother to Shawn) and Lucas Liu (little brother to Mia).

We can't wait to meet you all!

Well done!!

To our wonderful star this week! Well done

Arahoe's got talent!

Today we were a great audience for the Arahoe's got talent semi finals! All the acts were amazing! We can't pick a winner!! 

Request from Mrs Beulah

Mrs Beulah would like to make percussion instruments with our class. She has asked the children to bring in some items to help.

If you have any of the following items can you please bring them in tomorrow or Friday.

-cereal type boxes
-milk/juice/metal bottle tops
-old cds or dvds
-plastic knives
-string/cellotape
-rice/pasta


Thanks.

Oh no!

Lots of us forgot to return our books today! Please make sure all our library books are returned by Tuesday morning. 

Shapes... What am I?

Today we made up stories to guess shapes. Here are some of the stories. Can you work them out?

I'm thinking of a shape.
It has 4 sides.
They are all the same length.
What am I?


I'm thinking of a shape.
It has 4 sides.
2 are the same length.
I look like a kite.
I have a pointy bit at the top and bottom.
What am I?


I'm thinking of a shape.
It has 8 sides.
They are all the same size.
What am I?


I'm thinking of a shape.
It has 2 long sides.
It has 2 short sides.
What am I?

Cans

Hi parents,

 

You may already know, but if not, this Friday the 5^th of September is the nationwide Lunchbox Day. Lunchbox day is a fundraiser event for Kids Can New Zealand, and is supported by Campbell Live. Arahoe School is taking part in Lunchbox day by asking families to donate a tin can of baked beans or spaghetti (of any brand) on Friday morning. 

All the tin cans donated will be made into a tin can sculpture before being collected by Kids Can. A photo of our sculpture will be sent into Campbell Live and will hopefully appear on the show this Friday! If you would like to take part please bring a tin can donation to the front of room 23 by 9am Friday.

Thanks, Arahoe Primary School

Jump Jam

Today we took Jump Jam on tour to Room 22. We had lots of fun! 

Old t-shirts

As part of our Visual Art plan this term we have been learning about jingles and slogans. Next week we are going to be screen printing our own design onto our T - shirt.

Can each child please bring in an old (doesnt need to be new) t shirt that we are able to screen print on to.

Thanks,

Imogen. 

Kite Maker

We have a fantastic Kite Maker in Room 24! 

His kite is made out of bamboo, old curtains, plastic bags and fishing wire! 

Thanks for showing us!

Arahoe Spring Fair

Here is a link to the blog for the school fair which will have all the up to date information.

http://arahoespringfair.blogspot.co.nz/.

Library

Congratulations to.. Tiya Patel! Who has taken the most books out of our Arahoe School Library this year.

Just a reminder the library is open before school, at lunchtime and after school until 3.30pm.

Room 24 Super Star!

This amazing classroom member has worked so hard in Reading and got our class certificate in todays whole school assembly! 

Well done!! 

Book Marks

Today the Centipedes and Butterflies made book marks. We made them so that when we get our chapter books out from the library we wont lose our page!