Good Luck for 2016!

It's our last Monday morning for the year and there are so many things left to say. As your teacher I would like to thank you all for your amazing effort, beautiful work and huge smiles that we've seen in Room 6 this year - you are all excellent and I hope that next year you keep learning more and more, find what interests you and work hard to achieve what you want from 2016!

I also want to thank you for the giggles and good times we've had in 2015 and for you to know that I will miss Ruapotaka School and Room 6 a lot! There hasn't been too much growling from me and I am very proud of the progress you have made in your work. Together we have been swimming, learnt to play golf with Shannon and touch with Trevor, read hundreds of books, made some awesome movies, produced some great writing and beautiful art work, problem solved in maths, played songs and rhythms in music, had a class Christmas, a visit from Santa, 'elf-ed' ourselves and even made ourselves into Storybots! Phew... And that's only some of the list!

As you all know, I will be leaving Ruapotaka to move to a new school closer to home for 2016 and I will miss you all! I wish you lots of luck, laughter and lovely teachers to inspire you and help you become all that you can be. I remember my favourite teacher at school when I was 5 and she inspired me to become a teacher! I hope that you have a teacher who helps you discover what you want to achieve and encourages you to work hard to get there!

Let's make our last week count and have an amazing time! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, a safe summer break with lots of sunscreen and you don't forget all the things that you've learnt this year!

Stay amazing, Room 6!

Miss Walters

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Important Dates!

It's almost time to completely empty the desks, put away the pencils and start saying goodbye for another year!

Don't forget to come and pick up your reports this week from Monday to Thursday in the mornings from 8.30am to 9.15am or after school from 2.45pm to 3.30pm.

We also have prize giving on Wednesday at Tamaki College Hall at 10.30am and our culture day on Thursday, which is also at Tamaki College Hall at 10.30am!

We have our last day on Friday and we will be finishing school at 12 noon for the summer!

Check the notice for anything you missed and we hope you are able to come down and watch the many different things going on in our last week together!

Santa Surprise and a Christmas Miracle!

Guess who came to town last night?! SANTA CLAUS!! He must have visited very late last night and he ate our cookie and drank our lemonade! He even performed a Christmas miracle because he managed to fix our Christmas lights on the tree! Until Miss Walters broke them again... Whoops!





He left us replies to our letters in special Christmas envelopes and left presents in our stockings! They were wrapped up in Santa wrapping paper. We were crazy and surprised and he left us a note.

We were really happy and excited that Santa came! We are feeling very Christmassy! We have the Christmas spirit in Room 6!

Happy Christmas from Room 6!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Go and Elf Yourself!

We had a few minutes spare time before lunch so we decided to try ElfYourself! We laughed so so much and we hope you enjoyed it too!

Celebrating Christmas Cheer!

On Monday Room 6 decorated the Christmas tree!

We started with a white tree and added some decorations. We put on the lights first and then each person hung a decoration up that they chose. We put on gold and red baubles, red and white tinsel, silvery beads and some red and white candy canes, We put an angel on the very top.

All the time we were singing Christmas songs from Miss Walters' laptop! It made us cheerful and happy and excited for Christmas. Can you hear Frank singing loudly in the background of our video?

Have a look at our Christmas stockings that we hung up in class! We hope that when Santa visits us he might bring us a little present! We will have to wait and see!

Here is a photo of our completed Christmas tree!

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year! We hope you have a safe and happy summer break and come back ready and healthy in 2016!

Santa Speaks!

On Monday we looked at Miss Walters' email and we found that Sugarplum Mary (one of Santa Claus' elves) and Santa Claus had emailed us. Santa had emailed us from the North Pole! We felt excited and cheerful. 

We read the email from Sugarplum Mary and she told us that she was going to try and get Santa to come to our classroom one night. We had to write an email back to Santa and Sugarplum Mary to persuade Santa to come and visit us before Christmas!

Here is what we wrote:

Dear Santa,

How are you, Mrs Claus, the elves and the reindeer doing? 

Please can you come to Room Six at Ruapotaka School in New Zealand? Sugarplum Mary told us that you are free on Tuesday night. When you come can you please bring a photo of Sugarplum Mary and the Reindeers, (especially Rudolf)?

If you and Sugarplum Mary come to Ruapotaka School to Room Six there will be a surprise for both of you on Tuesday night. We will leave you chocolate chip cookies because we know they are your favourite! We will also leave you a can of lemonade.

Santa, when you come to Room 6 look out for our present for you under the tree! We want you to come so that you can see our decorations. We've made a paper chain, Christmas stockings, decorated a tree and some snowflakes. We've also written Christmas poems and letters and they are on the wall. 

You should visit us on Tuesday night because most of the children in Room Six have been very good all year! It would make us feel very happy and special if you visited us. You should also practice flying the sleigh before Christmas Eve so that you are prepared!

Pretty pretty please with cream and cherries on top come and visit us!

Merry Christmas from Room Six and Miss Walters

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And this is the reply we got!

Dear Room Six and Miss Walters,

Hohoho! Merry Christmas! Thank you for your lovely email! I see you've been having a good chat with Sugarplum Mary? I actually have dinner plans with Mrs Claus for her birthday on Tuesday night so I can't come and visit you on Tuesday, but how about Wednesday night? I will try my best to get a photo of everyone for you, but remember I am very busy this time of year!

OOOOOH! Chocolate chip cookies? My favourite! It's been quite a few days since I've eaten a cookie and that makes me sad! Sugarplum Mary told me that there are none left in the whole of the North Pole! But a chocolate chip cookie is worth the trip! I look forward to seeing your Christmas decorations! I hope that you are feeling excited and festive but still being good and working hard!

I shall visit you on Wednesday night all being well, how about that? 

Let me know! Ho ho ho!

Santa

Today we have to organise a little present from us and the cookies and lemonade! We're going to make a card and photo frame with a lovely picture of us!

Culture Day Sneak Peek!

Culture Day is in the last week of school - it's being held on Thursday 17th of December. We have to go to Tamaki College because our school is too big! We need to be there ready to go at 10.30am.

We have been learning Maori and Samoan songs for a few weeks now ready for Culture Day. We also have to learn a Cook Island drum dance and songs from Tonga.

Here is the Junior syndicate singing one of the Samoan songs  called Le Aute. It's all about the Hibiscus flower and how they wear them in hair on their ear and around their necks. See if you can spot the actions!


We feel proud of ourselves because we learnt a new song and we sang well with the actions too! Some of us are Samoan and we feel extra proud to show off our culture!

By Room 6