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BOO! Tamaki Primary went to Sommerville School today for Halloween celebrations. We had face painting, art activities, pin the face on the jack o lantern, spooky sensory play, the haunted sensory room and trick or treating around the base classes. We had so much fun. Look at our scary costumes!

Halloween at Tamaki Primary

We watched a video about an haunted house and wrote sentences about what creatures we saw in the video. We are looking forward to dressing up today as Halloween characters.

Fractions at Tamaki Primary

This term our maths topic is fractions. We practiced sharing play-dough pizza between two people by cutting it in half. We know that a half is two equal portions. We all love working on the whiteboard to complete maths activities.

Rangoli Designs for Diwali

This term is all about celebrations! We are celebrating the Diwali festival - the festival of lights. We made Rangoli designs using crayon and dye.
This year we have all also been working on our keyboard skills.We typed up a sentence about our Rangoli deisgns on the computer.  We can now make spaces in between our words and we all use a full stop at the end of our sentence.

Dance with Sarah

We have been working hard this term on our dance moves with Sarah. We have made our own dance with different sports from the Olympics.
On our last dance session for the year we got to dance with ribbons. We really enjoy making circles, zig zags and patterns. Look at us go!

OLYMPICS DAY

Tamaki Primary took part in Sommerville School's Olympic Ceremony. We dressed up in Jamaica's flag colours and marched through the atrium where we sang the national anthem, passed the torch and opened the games. We played heaps of fun games like javelin, discus, soccer, shot put and Hockey. 

Don't we look fantastic! 

Swimming Sucess

Today we went swimming with Helen our swimming instructor. She has begun taking each student for 1:1 sessions in the big swimming pool. Haylen has been reluctant to put his head in the water and is now confident enough to submerge his head under the water. Today he went under the water , floated with a pool noodle and explored the water sprinklers for the first time. We are so proud of your success Haylen!

Cook Island Language Week

Last week was Cook Island Language Week which Tamaki Primary celebrated by making costumes at Te Oro. The helpers at Te Oro showed us how to make head pieces using feathers and plastic flowers. We really liked the live music that was playing too. Dont we look good in our special hats we made?

Run, Jump and Throw!

Every Wednesday we go to Kiwisport. This week we  enjoyed a circuit of hurdles, dodging, jumping and balancing. 

Playing Together

Conrad and Haylen have been enjoying throwing a ball to each other during lunchtime. We are learning how to play nicely with our peers, take turns and initiate a game with a friend.

Reading Success

Ricky has been working hard on his reading this term. All the students at Tamaki Primary read their individual reading books 4x a week at school and also practice at home. Ricky has shown so much progress which we were able to capture in this short clip. Go Ricky!