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.



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.

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.

Amazing Apes!

After the arrival of Nanas, we decided we wanted to know more about apes. The Ladybugs reading group have read books about chimpanzees and orangutans. Here is a video of the Ladybugs sharing what they learnt.

Do you know any facts about chimpanzees or orangutans that would like to share? Please leave a comment, we would love to know more.

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.

What is it?

On Monday, the Frogs reading group read a book called Tails and Claws. It is a puzzle story. So the Frogs had a go at making their own puzzle stories. Can you guess their animal?

The Rabbit who got his Wires Crossed!

You guessed it! Stu has been up to more mischief. He has been eating A3 and A4's telephone wire. We were very worried about what our principal would say when he found out. So we wrote letters to Mr Gilbert and made a video. Sorry Mr Gilbert.

Freaky Friday

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

Strawberries

Today we planted some strawberries in our new garden bed!

 First, we dug holes.

Another strawberry plant
ready for planting.

Here is one of the
strawberry plants.

We put the plants
in the holes.

 ... and gave them some
special food

 Lastly, we watered the plants...

Here is a story by Loveday. Listen carefully to find out what creature might try to eat our strawberries!

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.

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.

Stu's Vacation

During the holidays, Stu (our rabbit) was at Loveday's house. He had a great time. Thank you very much to Loveday's family for taking such good care of Stu.

For more pictures from Stu's holiday, check out our Pets Page.

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.

Raised Garden Beds

Today was our first day back at school and we got to see our new garden beds.

Loveday wrote a story about the gardens. Watch this video to find out what she would like to grow.

Did you know that Amy and Loveday recorded this story all by themselves?

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.

Squeak Squeak!

A Block has another pet and his name is Chester! He is a guinea pig. On Wednesday, we got to meet him for the first time. Some of us wanted to hold him. Here are the pictures...

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.

Fishing

Oh dear! Loveday went fishing and lost her fish. Find out what happened.