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.

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.

Skype No.2!

 We skyped with the Springston Explorers again on Monday morning. Wally is having a great time. Room 8 sang us a fantastic song and we got to ask each other more questions. Check out this video.

After we skyped, some of the children decided to write stories in Nana's special book.

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.

Auckland Museum

On Wednesday, we went to the museum and Nanas came too. It was a very hot day and when we got back to school we were exhausted. But Sharon decided to write a story about her day!

Nanas on the bus

Nanas looking at dinosaur bones

Watch this space for more museum pictures!

Springston Skype!

Then we saw Wally with Room 8
and they could see Nanas with us

A3 and A4 skyped the Springston Explorers today and we saw Wally!

We waited for the
phone to ring

We asked Room 8
some questions...

and they asked us
questions too.

We have not skyped with another school before and it was very exciting. We were worried that Wally might have been in an earthquake, but he was fine. Room 8 were holding Wally very carefully and we could see that Wally was having a great time.

Nanas has landed!

Nanas arrived from Christchurch this morning along with letters from his class.

The package arrives

Nanas is revealed!

Nanas meets Stu

Nanas checks out A4

We decided to write letters to Nanas to introduce ourselves. Here is a video of Amy, Eli and Hayden reading their letters.