Kingdom Kids Times Two!

It was wonderful to celebrate 2 special awards for D1 children at assembly yesterday. Jonathan and Jimin were both given Kingdom Kid awards - Jonathan's was from the end of last term but he was away and we had to keep the BIG secret from him all holidays (well done, mum and dad!).

Here they are:

Two awards? Twice as nice!

Jonathan's award says:

Jonathan has been an outstanding example of someone who is focused on improving himself as a learner and will honestly say if he truly understands, gets ideas a little bit or needs help to work something through. That’s integrity in action.

Jimin's award says:

Jimin is a wonderful example of our value of Kindness. She is often the first person to offer help to someone in need and is a kind friend to new members of our school family. She truly is one of D1’s ‘Good Samaritans’!

Time to Celebrate!

We are celebrating some amazing learners in D1 this term. Here they are:

These wonderful people learnt every memory verse all term and where it was from in the Bible!
Well done Jimin, Mach, Samuel and Sam T (who was away).

And here are the awesome people who knew every spelling word in their homework all term!
Great job Jimin, Tayla, Samuel, Caleb, Mach, Matthew M and Sam T (who was away).

How many people can you see who got BOTH certificates? What super brains they have!

It's Art Time!

On Friday it was D1's second to last trip to the high school art room. Everyone was really focused on their work and enjoyed the new examples of letters and designs that Mrs Sneddon showed them. They were letters from old Bibles - very fancy and creative! Mrs Sneddon also showed the children some letters that were full of pictures that started with that letter - a special treat for children who finished their work early!
Here's a look around the room - so many hard workers in action!

This was our lesson plan for the day.

The boys sharing ideas...

Awesome colours!

Some people working on the 'special treat'...

Great concentration!

More 'special treat' work...

Colours, colours everywhere!

Working hard...

Toku Whanau

D1 have been doing some wonderful self portraits with Mrs Thompson on Tuesdays. Please do come in and see them if you can! The children have also been completing a mihi about their family and this is hanging below their portrait. Here is Jimin's work:

Jimin said "I look just like my mum!"

Ka pai, Jimin!

We're going to the art room...

On Friday, D1 went up to the high school art room to have a lesson with Mrs Sneddon.

It's so exciting!

When we got there, Mrs Sneddon told us how to use the art room properly. She had written on the board what we were going to do.

Sounds good...

Next we played a game of 'Art Chinese Whispers'. One person had to put 5 letters of the alphabet on a piece of paper then whisper where they were to someone else. The whisper traveled up the team and the last person had to draw what they heard on the board.

This was really hard...but fun! Jimin checking her team's answer.

Finally we thought about our theme for the term - God is Number One. Mrs Sneddon said that we would be learning different ways to write this and make it into a piece of art!

Here is an idea of what we will end up with.

So we got to work...but our time was over all too soon!

William, Sam C and Mach all ready to work.

Thanks, Mrs Sneddon. We can't wait for next week!