Hello!

Here is the link for Room 17 Google Meets.

https://meet.google.com/ubg-fbjj-wyz

Hope to see you there!

 Good morning,

Here is the link for our GoogleMeets starting at 10am daily.

Hope to see you there!

meet.google.com/dza-mohx-hjb

Just when we thought we could get back to school we find ourselves back in lockdown. We've done it before and we can do it again! 

This morning I sent out emails outlining what to expect in the days to come. Please check your emails and make sure that they haven't gone to your spam folder. Tomorrow morning there will be a link sent via email for a Google Meet at ten if you would like your child to participate. 

Enjoy your evening and please don't hesitate to contact me on

m.smith@papakuracentral.school.nz 

Regards,

Melanie Smith

Hello and welcome to Room 17 for 2021!

I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself, my name is Mrs Melanie Smith and I am very excited to be teaching your child this year. 

I live in Papakura with my husband, our two teenage children and our two dogs. I gained my Bachelor of Education in 2014 and am very happy to be continuing my teaching here at Papakura Central School. I look forward to a year of fun and learning and watching your child grow. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you would like to chat about any aspect of your child’s learning. 

Nga mihi,

Mrs Smith 

Room 17

                                                     Estuary Walk

We were very fortunate to be invited on a walk through the Pahurehure Estuary with the Senior Classes this week. This was part of our conservation topic. We learned a lot from the Seniors as they counted the wildlife that they saw and told us about the different types of plants. We had lots of fun exploring the boardwalk and spotting the crabs! 

These are our Jellyfish

 Did you guess what we were making?

We finished our jellyfish and here they are.

Letter of the day

Room 15's Letter of the day today was S

So we went in search of seahorses and found this amazing video about Pygmy Seahorses.

We hope you enjoy it. 

 

What can we do with our old milk containers?

Room 15 are having a great time re-using many things that either end up being thrown away or sent to the recyclers. 

Our topic of Our Own Backyard has helped us to see how much rubbish there is around our school and how some of it might end up in the estuary. 

We decided to re use our milk containers and turn them into something useful.  We had to wash them and make sure they were properly dry because if we didn't they would have been really stinky. Then we joined them together into groups of four. They should be perfect to use as a pencil holder. 

There were some really good photos in the magazines that we could use to decorate our pencil holders. 

We had to take our time and make sure those pictures were glued on properly

Motorbikes were the pic of the day here...

 

Tada...

Now I get to take it home, but I have to leave the pencils at school. 

By Room 15

This is Step 1 of creating something that shows what we now know about how rubbish can affect the oceans.  We are re-using rather than throwing away our rubbish.  Keep an eye out for Step 2 coming soon. 

Can you guess what we are making?

Here is a hint...Turtles and whales eat these and sometimes they eat plastic bags instead,  thinking they are food. 

Our topic this term is called In Our Own Backyard. Room 15 students are deep in discussion about what would happen to the life in the estuary if the rubbish in our school blew over the fence, across the road and into the water.