Finishing watching the movie with ice cream

Now it is time for pizza!

Our Christmas celebration has started with snuggling on the floor watching Arthur Christmas.

Pupils of the week this week were George and Chelsea. George got it because he had lots of great ideas when we were doing our shared writing about Jack and the Beanstalk. Chelsea got it because she is trying really hard with her reading and writing.

High five to both of you!

St Pat's Got Talent Auditions 2014

The St Pat's Got Talent finals are coming up next Thursday - we would love to see lots of parents there!

What an exciting day - our assembly went well when the technical glitches got ironed out!

Constable Bryan and Bobby came to talk to us about seatbelt safety.

Our buddy class Room 11 gave us this cool I Spy games that they had made for us.

We finished off some of our work on The Three Little Pigs.

Pupils of the Week this week were Connor and Trilby. Connor got it for his clever reading with Mrs Connor and Trilby got it for her amazing tennis skills.

High five to both of you!

Today was show and tell and both Isaac and Madelyn brought books. Isaac's grandad wrote a book about The Wahine and Madelyn's great grandad kept a diary during WW2 that has been published.
What clever families you both have!

Pupils of the Week this week were Isabel and Campbell. Isabel got it for being such a kind and caring member of our class. She is always smiling. Campbell got it for his clever and funny letter to the Big Bad Wolf. High Five to both of you.

Isaac got a Warehouse voucher at assembly today for selling a winning ticket in the PTA raffle.

We have been fantastic progress with our writing. Her are some photos of our writing today. We were writing letters to the Big Bad Wolf.

Dear Mr Big Bad Wolf,

It's OK if you want to eat me. I taste very delicious. I have big muscles and long hair. You will love to set me. Yum Yum

From Campbell

Dear Mr Big Bad Wolf,

Don't eat the Three Little Pigs. Go to the supermarket and get some bananas and apples. They are vegetables and they are healthy for you, seriously.

From Sofia

Pupils of the week this week were Alex and Sofia. Alex got pupil of the week for his great language skills - word a families, sentences, syllables, sight words, letter sounds, letter blends, digraph  sand tenses. We practice these three times a week and Alex has been showing his great skills. Sofia got pupil of the week for going up lots of reading levels.

Riley got a Warehouse voucher for selling a winning ticket in the PTA raffle.

Pupils of the week this week are Caitlin O'Connor and Thomas Namana. Both of them made fantastic  improvement with their swimming. High five to both of you.

Riley was pupil of the week this week for his positive and enthusiastic attitude to learning. He is always smiling and keen to offer his ideas and give things a go.

Caitlin was pupil of the week for meeting her writing goals. She has been making sure that she works on her Next Steps at every writing time.

High five to both of you.

Today we planted some native trees down in the bush area with some great Year 6 buddies. Lots of us named our trees and the Year 6s told us it was our job to look after them as they will be off to new school next year. It will be great to see them grow during our time at St Patrick's.

Today was our assembly and we did an amazing job. Here we are in our Dr Seuss hats after assembly. High five to all of Room 5 for such a great job.

At assembly Trilby got pupil of the week for getting lots of sight words correct in her writing and Sophie got pupil of the week for showing more confidence at school.

Today we have Thea and Caitin's mum reading to us for Book Week. We are so lucky to have her read Hop on Pop and The Taniwha to us!

Hi. I'm Spider-man. From Isaac.

Hi I'm The Grinch. From Ruby.

Hi I'm Pink-a-lish-ish. From Tribly.

Hi I am Sofia the first. From Sofia.

Hi I!m the Incredible Hulk. From George.