Merry Christmas!

This is going to be our last blog post for the year! 

We've had an awesome time in TM in 2019, learnt heaps of new stuff, read tons of books, solved lots of maths problems, made new friends and enjoyed ourselves.

It is time for us to say goodbye for another year and head off on our summer holidays now that we've finished tidying our class, had the family fun day, a santa visit and helped Miss W move all her junk!

Thank you for an awesome year and some awesome blog comments! We hope that you have enjoyed hearing about our year! We have loved reading blogs from around NZ and seeing what everyone else has been learning. 

Good luck to everyone leaving, especially Jayden and Miss W!

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year from TM2, Miss W and of course, Tinsel Stripeypins the elf! We hope you have a great summer break!

Goodbye to Miss W :(

We have some news to share... Miss W is leaving us at the end of the year!

We found out the other day that Miss W is leaving and going to be working at another school next year. She's off to Burnham Primary School in 2020 to be a learning support coordinator and we're going to miss her! Lots of us have cried and had lots of hugs and giggles (especially Miss W!) but we know that we won't forget her and she won't forget us!

Good luck Miss W! We will miss you xxx

Ka pai, Ruby!!

We are super proud of Ruby!! She won Gymnast of the Year for her gymnastics club at the weekend! What an awesome achievement!!

Ruby was a bit shy to tell us but her grandmother came and let us and then she was really happy and smiled heaps when we all clapped for her!

Here is the picture that taken when she won the award!


Well done, Ruby! Gymnastics superstar!

Dropping in

We had a new elf come to our classroom. She's called Tinsel Stripeypins. She has black shoes and white gloves and stripy pants on. Recently she has been frozen and sat inside a pot because there was a snowstorm on the way to visiting NZ and coming to our class.

Stella's elf at home went missing and he had done the same - he froze himself and blamed it on Elsa!

Tinsel Stripeypins is now hanging from the roof because she's trying to dry out, like an elf clothes line!


Today the elf on the shelf brought us letters from Santa. They are replying to the letters that we sent to him on Friday! They came in different colours and faces on the envelopes. We had snowmen, reindeers, elves and Santa envelopes! She also left us a note:



How many elves do you have in your class? Or do you have an elf on the shelf at home? Have you sent letters to Santa yet?

TM Trip 2019

Yesterday we had our school trip to Riccarton Bush House. We have been learning about the history of Christchurch and Canterbury this term and looking at how people lived when they first arrived by boat.

We learned heaps from our amazing tour guides and we even heard about the ghost story! Apparently there is a ghost who is the first owner of the house that lives in the house still. We didn't see it because it was day time but people have seen it before.

We had a great time and Ms Lange researched some victorian time games that we could play and we got to walk around the bush, have a picnic lunch and then came home on the bus.

We had a great time and would totally recommend going for a visit. It was amazing!















They didn't used to have running water or flushing toilets so they had commodes. Bridie is sitting on the commode! The lady who's house it was had it brought over on the ship with her so that she could use the toilet in the bedroom and she had servants who would empty it for her... YUCK!


We had a great time... Have you ever visited Riccarton Bush House before?