Welcome to Term 3!

Hi everyone! We have all had lovely holidays and we are so fresh and ready to go! It helps that the weather is so warm and sunny and we love getting outside and running around at lunchtime! We have a new fitness time at 12.15 where the whole school gets out together and has lots of physical activity before lunch. Today was the first day and it was lots of fun.

Here is a picture of our class. It has grown since the picture at the start of the year! We have two new faces this term - Madison and Sophie are now big school girls in Room 3.

Here are a few photos from last term where we had some big buddies come from Room 6 and read with us. We have lots of kind senior children at Bradford who look after us in the playground and we like to spend time with them.

Our Visit to Kaikorai Kindy

Today we went along to Kaikorai Kindy to show them some of our songs, stories and artwork.

We sang three of our favourite songs and they joined in. They were really good singers and movers!

Here we are doing the actions to our "Reach up high" song. It has lots of funny moves. It always makes us laugh!

Mrs O'Donnell read the story of Greedy Cat getting too fat and getting stuck in his cat door. We showed our cool paintings of Greedy Cat and some of us read our stories about the other places he might get stuck. Ella's Greedy Cat got stuck in the fridge. Harrison's Greedy Cat got stuck under the bed!

At the end of our visit the children at the kindy sang us a lovely song to say thank you. Next time we want to stay a bit longer so we can have a play on their playground because it looked really interesting.

Another Famous Author Visits Bradford School!!

Today we had another special visitor....a famous writer and singer! It was Craig Smith who wrote the Wonkey Donkey song and book and Wilbee the Bumblebee book. He sang songs and told us about how he came up with his ideas.

Gracie was chosen to fly the butterfly puppet around the room as a roving entertainer!

Summer was chosen to make the kea puppet come alive for his new song. This book will be out in September so look out for it in the shops. At the end a crazy monkey came into the room and helped sing a song...can you guess who it is? Look at the photo below to see who it might be...

Famous Author Visits Bradford School

It was great to have Kyle Mewburn today talking to us about writing lots of stories. He read some really funny books to us that he has written...books like 'Kiss Kiss Yuck Yuck' and 'Seesaw Po'. He has written over 30 books and we have some of them in our school library. Kyle said the most important thing for writing is having lots of ideas in your head. He writes for 7 hours every day and sometimes writes a story over and over again until it is the best it can be.

Look out for Seesaw Po in the shops - it is about a big hippo who wants to play on the playground equipment but he has a few problems! It is very funny with pictures that make you laugh out loud!!

Next week we have another author coming to visit us...this one can sing as well...I wonder who it might be!!

Kiwi Breakfasts

This week with Ms Clark we have been hard at work designing our posters. Our message is all about how important breakfast is for setting us up for a great day of learning and activity. We have been thinking about how to get everyone's attention so we have used bright colours and big bold headings. We have written our message and put in a picture to make our posters easy to understand. Here are some of our finished posters. The rest are hanging up in Room 3. Feel free to drop in and see them.

Staying Healthy

Today we had a visit from Karen the Public Health Nurse. She talked to us about ways we can stay healthy and keep from getting sick or catching colds from other people.

We are showing you the way to wash your hands. We want to get the germs off so we don't give them to other people. We want the soap to go all over our hands - on the top, in between the fingers and around the thumbs. After we soap our hands we need to wash it all off and then dry our hands really well.

We should wash our hands....

- before we eat

- after playing outside

- after going to the toilet

and any other time they get dirty.

Sometimes we need to blow our nose with a tissue. We should cover our nose with the tissue and blow out our nose...not our mouth. We might need to give it a wipe as well. Then we put the tissue in the bin.

When we cough we should cough into our arm so we don't give our coughs to other people. We don't cough into our hands because then we touch things or people and they get our germs.

Jacob is practicing how to blow his nose. You need to have your mouth closed. Jacob has got some cotton wool on his hand. He is trying to blow it off just with the air out of his nose. This was fun to try!

You can help us keep healthy by reminding us to....

• wash our hands carefully
• cough and sneeze into our arms/elbow
• blow our noses in to a tissue

We might remind you too!

Creative Character Writing

We created some people out of junk material and had to write about where they might live and what they might like to eat. Here are some photos of our writing.