Traditional Costume

During Literacy Week children had the opportunity to come dressed in a traditional costume.
Here we have Paul, Hayley, Yihang and Mrs Zhu - all looking wonderful and celebrating their heritage.

Playing String Games

We have discovered that String games are played both in Chinese and Maori culture. Ashton is our class expert and he taught us a neat trick.

Visiting the Marae

Here we are being taught a dance that has actions.

                                                         Eating our Morning tea.

                                                   Tracing around stencils to create designs

                                             

We had a wonderful trip to the Marae. We were warmly welcomed and were given the opportunity to introduce ourselves and to closely look around the Meeting House. It was a memorable trip.

Here we are and here we SHINE!

Our first story writing was about things we were good at. We wrote I shine at.....
We then published them on a sunny yellow balloon. It was tricky to keep the balloon still.
We shone at lots of different things!!

Celebrating Chinese New Year at Sunnyhills School

 We had visitors come to the school to tell us about and demonstrate "The Lion Dance"  It was really interesting and skillful. Some children including Hayley were given the opportunity to play the cymbals. Mrs Dijkstra loved the drums. They reminded her of the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing where there were one thousand of those drums. They were AMAZING!

Mrs Dijkstra was very proud of these children who wore their Traditional costume to school to celebrate their culture. Everyone in the class made an origami pig to take home.

 We had a special day!

We went on to make our own dragons. Check out the display in our classrrom!

Find Someone Who......

As part of getting to know each other we were given a recording sheet. Our task was to roam around the room and ask questions like a reporter. If the person said yes, they wrote their name in a box on our grid. We tried to collect as many different names as we could. That way we were mixing it up and getting to know something about a lot of people in our class. One of the questions was - Does your family have a pet? Room 24 well done for getting to know each other better!!