The Big Apple Crunch

On Friday all of the RSS children and teachers were involved in the Jazz Big Apple Crunch along with thousands of other NZ children and adults. We broke the world record for the most people crunching an apple at the same time! Very impressive! We all donated a gold coin to contribute to raising money for 'KidsCan', an organisation that helps less fortunate NZ children. A super effort, all for a good cause and fantastic fun too!

Sharing Time

On Friday we have sharing time. It is an opportunity for The Bright Bugs to bring something special from home to share with the class or they can talk about something that is happening or a coming event. Here is a little video of our sharing time last Friday.

Letter of the week

We have 2 letters this week - C and K. We came up with lots of words that begin with the 'c'/'k' sound. Here are some of the things we thought of.
cat, cake, candle, curtain, cushion, caterpillar, cabbage, capsicum... Chelsea starts with the letter C too!
Keira starts with the letter K, kumera, king, kite, kittens...

Can you think of some more? Post them on our blog.

And then there were 8...

A big welcome to Angus and Keira who started on Monday. You have made a fabulous start to school and it is wonderful to have you join us in the Bright Bugs!

What a magnificent smile Angus!

Super ball skills during Catch Me If You Can Keira!

Counting Buses

Today the maths mission of one of the groups was to order numbers using the 'Counting Buses'. We had to make the pattern of numbers in order, counting forwards. Most of the buses had a number on them so we had to include that number correctly in our counting pattern. If there was no number on the bus we could make up our own counting pattern. To show Nicole what we had done, we had to take a photo of each bus that we did. Super counting and ordering of the numbers Bright Bugs!

Bits and Pieces!

Gorgeous marae pictures by Riya, Mikaela and Rebecca, our visit from Daniela and Angus today and reading after lunch in the library corner on Friday. Great sharing and helping going on! The girls wanted to show off their insect necklaces that they made when the letter 'i' was our letter of the week and there is some great maths learning going on! We have been learning to add and subtract numbers up to five.

And then there were 6!

Welcome to the Bright Bugs, Chelsea. It is so nice having you here with us. We love your big happy smile! You are a big 5 year old now! This is a lovely picture of you on your first day of school with Mum.