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.



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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

Good Morning City

This term we have been learning about the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and we have created art based on Hundertwasser's painting Good Morning City. It took us two weeks to complete. Here is a video of the art process.

Check out the final product! The art looks great. It looks even better in the classroom so if you would like to take a closer look, come down to A4! A big thank you to Rachel (Loveday's Mum - who is an art teacher) for your great ideas and input.

Kelly Tarltons Slideshow

Here is a slideshow of our fantastic trip to Kelly Tarltons on Tuesday the 31st of August.

Kelly Tarltons!

Yesterday we went to Kelly Tarltons and we had a great day!

We were really tired when we got back but Makaveli wanted to write a story about his fun day.

Thank you to all of the parents who came to help. Keep watching the blog for more photos and videos of the trip.

The Pufferfish Comes to A4!

A3 let us  have a look at their pufferfish. It was very spiky and we had to hold it using a piece of string.

Here are some stories that Ayush, Sen Nay Pow and Rani wrote about pufferfish.

The Walrus

As part of our Under the Sea study we have been learning about a lot of different creatures that live in the sea. Here is a poem about a walrus written by Jack Prelutsky.

Fish Alive

We have been learning a lot of poems as part of our Under the Sea unit. 

Have you ever been fishing or been bitten by a fish? Leave us a comment.

Fruit Salad

We have been talking about things that make us feel good. One thing that makes everybody feel good is eating fruit. So on Friday we made fruit salad.

What is your favourite fruit? Leave us a comment.

Papatoetoe East's Amazing Orchestra

Our school orchestra are getting ready for a big competition and on Friday we were given the pleasure of watching their rehearsal.

This is Dimitris playing in

the orchestra.

Reon and In-Lee concentrate

on reading their music.

Here are a few thoughts on the orchestra's performance!

ACTUAL SIZE Collages

A4 read the story ACTUAL SIZE.  We decided to measure our bodies and make life-size collages.