The Fruits of our Labour

This afternoon, we opened up a shop outside A1 to sell our garden produce to parents and students. We really enjoyed harvesting our garden and selling what we have worked so hard to grow! The sale was a huge success - we sold everything!

Caring for Pets

Every Friday, A4 go to the library for ICT with Mrs Clark. This term their inquiry topic was pets. Their task was to find and present information about caring for a goldfish.  Then, they had to present their findings by creating a slide using Powerpoint.



Junior Sports Day

On Friday morning, the junior school had a special sports day. Here are some photos from the day.

Here are some of us talking about our favourite part of the sports day.

Strawberry Thief!

Our plants are growing so fast! We are starting to see a lot of strawberries. On Tuesday, we saw our first big red strawberry. But when we went back later to have a look, it was gone! 



Our strawberries growing

The broken stalk where
the strawberry was stolen!

Here are stories about the strawberry thief written by Osama, Eli and Hayzel. Eli and Osama think the new kittens will keep the strawberry thief away! This is Osama's first video!

Our Special Visitors!

We really wanted the new school kittens to come and visit our class. So we decided to write letters to convince Mrs Compston to let the kittens come to A4. Here is Loveday's letter. Can you hear Loveday using a persuasive voice?

Here are some photos of the kittens in A4.

Tofa Soifua Nanas!

Today was Nana's last day at Papatoetoe East School. She is flying back to Room 8 in Springston, Christchurch tomorrow. So A3 and A4 decided to have a farewell party for Nanas. Here is a video of the party!

Here are some stories that Alofa, Rani and Sen Nay Pow wrote about Nanas leaving.

Enjoying Our Garden

We have been enjoying these warm, sunny afternoons. Today some of the children spent some time in our garden. Look at how much it has grown in just over a month!

We watered the plants

We tasted some spinach

We tried some lettuce

More tasting...

We gave Stu some
cabbage

And of course Chester
 got some too!

Nana's night at Hayzel's house

Nanas went to Hayzel's house for the night! He had so much fun and Hayzel wrote a story in Nana's book about what they got up to!

If you want to know what Wally has been doing in Christchurch with Room 8, click on the link on the right-hand side of this blog. Their blog is called Springston Explorers.

One Fine Day

Here is a video of our museum trip on Wednesday, the 17th of November. A big thank you to the parents and caregivers that came along to help with supervision.

Wally's Vacation

Today Wally is going to Christchurch!! He is going to visit our blogging buddies The Springston Explorers. They are also sending A3 and A4 a package and we can't wait to see what is in it! We wrote a lot of letters today and sent them with Wally. 



Wally getting ready



Wally in his package



 

Eli looking at the Springston
Explorers blog

Loveday posting her letter



 

Here is a video of some of the letters we wrote to the Springston Explorers.

If you want to look at the Springston Explorers blog, click on the link below:

http://springstonexplorers.blogspot.com/

Saal Mubarak

Diwali is the Indian Festival of Lights that marks the beginning of the Indian new year. To celebrate Diwali, we created rangoli patterns and made coconut barfi.

Rani was very excited about Diwali. Here she is talking about her experience.

Do you have a Diwali experience you would like to share? Leave us a comment.

Freaky Friday

It will be Halloween on Sunday! Today we made masks, got dressed up and made treats. We had a lot of fun!

Groovy Gardeners

We had a very busy week last week getting our garden ready. Here is a video of how weeded our garden bed and filled it with soil. It was hard work, but now we are ready to start planting!

What do you think we should grow? Leave us a comment.

Super Scribe

Hayzel is a fantastic writer. Once she starts writing, she can't stop. Here is a recount she wrote yesterday that she wanted to share on the blog. Can you believe Hayzel is only five years old?

Snail Art

This week, we completed our snail art. We used pastels on black paper because snails are nocturnal. Our pictures had to include a snail's shell, foot, tentacles and eyes and as you can see, we have labelled these body parts.

Snail Trails

Here is Mihi holding a snail.
Look at its tentacles.

As part of our Minibeast study we have been looking very closely at snails. We are even keeping some snails in our class as pets!

We picked cabbage from our
garden to feed the snails.

Here is Rani getting some 
cabbage for the snails.

The snails eat their cabbage.

The Frogs group read a story about snails today. After they read the book, they had to draw and label the body parts of a snail. Here are their pictures. Use the magnifying glass to get a closer look.

End of Term Barbecue!

On the last day of term, the Year 0/1 classes had a spring barbecue. Luckily the sun was shining because it had been raining all week.

Duffy Theatre!

On Friday we had more special visitors! The Duffy Theatre Company came to our school to put on a show.

A4 thought the show was hilarious and some of us wanted to write stories about the show when we got back to the classroom. Here is a video of Hayden, Makaveli, Sharon, Hayzel and Loveday sharing their stories.

Fish and Chips!

On Monday, A3 and A4 made healthy fish and chips! We worked very hard! Watch this video to find out what we did.



Terrified Turtles

Today we have been talking about turtles. We tried hiding our heads and arms - just like a turtle retracts its limbs to protect itself from predators!

Here is a video of Theodore, Alofa, Hayzel and Loveday sharing their knowledge about sea turtles.