Dinner with whanau

Hi Hilary its Sofia here. This is my story I wrote at school.

It is a true story that happened on Monday the 11 of April.

On Monday night almost every one in Te Tikanga Rua Reo went to Caesers for dinner.I went with my Mum and my Brother. When we got there the first person I saw was Whaea Mary who looked just wonderful. When the adults sat down on a long table and they told us that we had our own special tables with colouring pencils to our the activities on our place mats. There were word finds and loads of other stuff. The first thing I did was run into the playroom. There were an x-box and play station. It was an awesome playroom. I had a traffic light drink which was really nice. It came with a little toy balancing on the side of the glass. I kept stealing everyones that were left behind on the table. I had ribs for tea, they were served with carrots cut like flowers and BBQ sauce on them. It was so wonderful that I wanted to have more. When we got our dessert, the adults just started eating their main course. I had an ice cream Sunday with raspberry sauce. After that I played with Dejah and Ngaru. They looked so pretty and cute dressed up for dinner. I was hoping Ngahiraka was going to come to Caesers but thats alright. It was so much fun I would definitely go there again.

Miss you so much, I will write to you again. Please tell me how my story was as I tried my best. Sofia xoxox

Week 9

We said our farewells to Hilary this week as she set out to travel the world. Her last day was Thursday and she treated us to ice-cream cones after lunch. I was so proud of her for participating in the x-country, knowing she could not make it into the school team because she would be away. She did so well by running all the way. In fact I was so proud of all our tamariki, not one of them developed x-countryitis.

Autumn has certainly taken a hold on the temperature in the morning making for a chilly start most mornings, which is a reminder to wrap up warm and then when it does warm up, to put sweat shirts, polar fleeces etc into our school bags to take home again for the next morning.

We started math interchange for Year 5/6 tamariki this week. I know our tamariki enjoy working with the children in mainstream and with other teachers. Subtraction and addition problems is the focus for the rest of the term and working on smart ways to find solutions.

This Tuesday is Class and Individual Photo Day. Tamariki are asked to wear the correct school uniform and a big smile.

Matua Te Haere will be the class teacher on Monday while I will be assessing the Year 3 tamariki and preparing for our Goal Setting Meetings Tuesday and Wednesday.