Hat Walk day

We finished Movin' March with a Hat Walk parade.
WOW what a lot of creative hats we had to share. It was awesome to see the effort the children had put into making their hats.
Here are our class hats

Scooter Training

Today Constable Blue and Sherie came and taught us how to ride our scooter safely. It was lots of fun as we practised gliding, doing emergency stops and standing correctly by our scooters with both feet on the same side.

Making Sherbet

For our writing today Rooms 3 and 4  decided to make sherbet and then write about it.
We added ingredients together to make a mixture but there was NO reaction... until we put some of the powder in our mouth and it mixed with our saliva ... then it EXPLODED on our tongues!

Here is the recipe for making sherbet so you can make it at home

Movin' March mural

During Movin' March we all helped decorate a mural in the library to show things that we saw and heard as we walked to school.

our decorated school gate

After we had decorated sticks in our Whanau groups, Room 6 children helped Mrs Morgan decorate the gate.
We think it looks awesome.

Our first butterfly

Today we were all very excited when we got to school as one of our chrysalis's had hatched into a butterfly. It was very pretty.
We put it on a tree outside so it could fly away.

Whanau groups

On Friday we got into our Whanau Groups and decorated sticks. We are going to use these sticks to decorate our school gate as part of Movin' March.
We used wool, paint, glitter and lots of recycled objects. It was lots of fun.

Our Bug Lab visit

We had a great day at Te Papa on Tuesday. We went as part of our topic study on Mini Beasts. We visited the Bug Lab and looked at each bugs special talents. We also explored Bush City where we completed a scavenger hunt.
It was lots of fun and we were all very tired on the bus on the way home! A special thank you to all our parent helpers. We hope you had fun too.

Movin' March

During the month of March, we are once again encouraging our students to walk to school either from home, the top of the steps or from Martin Grove. This will have multiple benefits – it will develop your childs’ independence, confidence, road and personal safety skills and general health and wellbeing. It will also relieve the congestion of cars down the school drive.


Starting on Monday March 6th, for the next 3 weeks, we are encouraging the children to walk to school. If they do so, they will get a stamp on a passport. Once they have 10 stamps, they go into a Regional Movin’ March draw to win a bike.

Bug Hunting with Zealandia

On Friday morning we went bug hunting with the team from Zealandia.

Room 3 and Room 4 went off with Anne from Zealandia up past the court by Room 9.  We lifted up stones and rocks and looked under leaf litter and logs.  We scooped up slugs, centipedes, worms,  slaters and a spider.  We looked and counted them and then put them back.  All the information we collated went onto a Zealandia website.

Science in a Van

Emily and Allan came to visit us to share a science show.

We began our morning with a whole school assembly where we learned about forces. Objects move if you push or pull them...but gravity has a part to play too.

After morning tea, we had a junior session during which we learned about mixtures and gases. We now know that if you mix two materials together they can mix, separate or cause a reaction.  We also found out that some gases are heavier than air like carbon dioxide, and that some are lighter, such as helium.

Allan blew bubbles. There were small bubbles, BIG bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, heavy bubbles and bubbles that looked like a volcano!

It was good fun and we now have lots more science knowledge in our brains!

At Last.....

It was so hot today we went swimming. Yay!!  The water was lovely and warm and we all went in and made BIG splashes!

Our swimming days are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

 

Miss Shen

Yesterday Miss Shen came to meet us. She is our new Language assistant.  She comes from Tianjin, near Beijing in China.  Over the year, Miss Shen is going to be teaching us some games and songs from China.

counting our school days

We are counting the days we have been at school this year. Today we have been at school for 10 days. We were all very excited when we could make a bundle with our sticks.