PRIDE Award

Congratulations Phoebe! You have been a wonderful independent worker . Keep up the great work!

Superhero Book Character Day

Wow what a fun day we had dressed up as Superheros! Snow White, The Cat in the Hat, Ninja Turtles, Spider-Men and more. We looked great!

Manuka Hub Certicates

Well done Riley, Summer and Phoebe! You have been putting your superhero powers into action in class. Fantastic effort and determination shown in your learning.

St. Patrick's Day in Room 1

We were so excited to celebrate St. Patrick's Day today with Jenna.  Jenna is visiting from Ireland for 6 months.  We learned about leprechauns, pots of gold, shamrocks, the Irish flag, speaking Gaelic and much more!  We sung a leprechaun song (see below), did lots of St. Patrick's Day art and even looked for gold to fill our 'pots of gold.'  Jenna brought us in some shamrock chocolates that she had made with her Mommy.

Jenna told us some special things about her life in Ireland.  We loved hearing about the leprechaun that hides in the floxglove plant by her front door.  Every morning when she walks past she says something nice about the leprechaun's  shoes, like "Oooo I like your shoes!"  This makes the leprechaun happy so he won't play tricks on her!" 
We had such a fun day!

Jenna with 'Larry the Leprachaun's Pot of Gold'

Yummy shamrock chocolates with gold inside!

Gold!

More gold for us to find!

Ready to fill our 'Pots of Gold'

Lots of treasure! 

Super Swimming

We have been swimming in our school pool for 6 weeks and boy does it show!  We are so clever and have all become much more confident in the water.  For the last few weeks we have been practising blowing bubbles (and not holding our nose), holding the flutter boards correctly with straight arms and kicking with long straight legs and also floating on our backs.

Our Monarch Butterfly!

On Thursday Mrs Blakesley noticed that a chrysalis on our swan plant had turned transparent.  

Mrs Blakesley brought the chrysalis inside so we could watch it.

We could see the black and orange Monarch butterfly inside.

Within minutes the chrysalis split open and monarch butterfly emerged.

Riley said that the butterfly's legs were long and skinny like a spiders.  It's sticky legs helped the butterfly to cling onto the branch.

We watched as the butterfly moved out of the chrysalis and slowly began to unfold it's wings.

Slowly the butterfly's wings dried and filled with blood so it could fly for the first time.

This amazing change is called metamorphosis.  We were so lucky to watch it happen!