Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Celebrations....

This week we have been looking at Diwali!
We have made candle holders and created chalk patterns.
Diwali is celebrating the New Year like the Chinese New Year and our New Year. These all happen at different times of the year - according to the moon.









Sealord Water Safety Skills

We are having ten water safety swimming lessons at Wai Splash. We go to the pools each Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a 30 minute lesson on keeping ourselves safe in the water.
We are all doing this in the big lane pool!

Here are some shots of us swimming.....

















Sunday, November 1, 2015

Cross Country

We finally had our Team 1 and 2 Cross Country on Friday 30 October 2015. This was held on the top field. The weather was a little cold and some of us ran in our polar fleeces.
We had all worn our black clothes to show our support for the All Blacks who were playing Australia on Sunday morning in the Rugby World Cup final.
We all tried our best and ran without stopping for the one or two laps we had to do!






Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Miss Weir

During the last 6 weeks of term we had Miss Weir come and teach with us. She is a student Teacher from Massey University. Miss Weir has worked with small groups for reading, writing and maths. We really enjoyed having her to help us improve our learning.
Good luck Miss Weir on being a teacher!


Team Assembly

Welcome back to term 4- hasn't the year flown by???

This week in Team Assembly Bailey and Riana shared a play they had practised in reading time. It was one of the activities they chose in their reading time. 
Bailey and Riana had clear voices and a little bit of expression as they were different characters!


Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Sunflower Science

We have been growing sunflowers from seeds during term 3. We found the fastest sunflower to sprout was the King Kong seed. We have continued to water and look after our sunflower seeds. Each day we rush to put the seed trays outside before school and bring them in to the classroom before we go home at 3 o'clock.
Today we have planted all of our sunflower seeds in the school garden over by the old swimming pool. We will keep going over at lunchtimes to check and see how our plants are growing!

Here are some photos of our planting with Mrs Buchanan......

















Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Science experiments

This week we have been bringing science experiments to school that we have been doing at home with our families.
In the morning at school,we are learning to explain what we have done and give a reason for the results of our experiments!
It has been lots of fun doing these with our families!











Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Road Safety

We had a group of children create Puppet Pal Presentations as part of our road safety unit.

See what you think of these!





Thursday, August 20, 2015

Life Ed with Harold

Over the last two weeks we have been into the Life Ed classroom twice. Wow,  we learnt so much about our bodies.
We know that we need to put healthy food and clean water in our bodies so they can work and grow!
We need sleep and exercise so we can keep growing strong!


Tech Challenge with Elmo

For maths tech challenge this week, we had to make a seat for Elmo to sit in using boxes and sellotape.
We had to make a seat so that Elmo could sit up with a straight back .
Look at our results!