The Frost. - Waiariki

Huhu Grub

Today Sydney brought a fat huhu grub to school. It is squishy and slimy. The huhu Grubs face is black.  It Was Sydney friends.  Her name Is Paige.    It eats dried wood.    It wriggle around and its got stripes In The middle. By Waiariki

The Leaf Boat Race

We made leaf boats and had a leaf boat race at the school pool.  We went back and wrote stories about what we did...

Riley's boat went too fast because it sailed the high winds.  I said, "Wow, Riley's was fast."  Mine sunk to the bottom of the pool.

Sebastian

We made leaf boats today and we went to the pool.  We put the leaf boats in the water.  We blew and blew and blew.  My leaf didn't go fast.

Ahniqua

We had a leaf boat race.  Riley's boat zoomed.  Everyone's boats were slow even my boat was slow.  Some sunk too and the water was a little bit calm.

Waiariki

We went to the pool.  My boat sunk.  My boat is a leaf boat.  I went to Paki's paddock to pick a leaf.  My leaf was yellow.

Pippa

Riley's leaf boat zoomed across the pool and my leaf was really slow.  Riley won.  I wanted to win.

Fynn

Mixing Colours

           We grew a pumpkin in our garden and this week we decided to have a 'pumpkin week!'  

We drew pumpkins with a black pastel.  Then Mrs Blakesley gave us 3 paint colours - RED, YELLOW and BLUE to paint our pumpkins but we needed orange and green.  

We discovered that RED, BLUE and YELLOW are called primary colours and that we could mix them to make ORANGE and GREEN.  

We were very clever at mixing the colours to make new colours!

     

      

     

      

     

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! 

Amazing Reading!

One of our task board activities at reading time is called 'Read to self'.  This is when we find a quiet place to sit with our browsing box and read quietly. This is great way to practice and enjoy our reading. Today we were all superstars at reading quietly to ourselves.  Well Done Room 1!

Manuka Hub Certificates

Congratulations to Pippa, Maddi, Waiariki, Lucas, Cameron, Sydney and Bree for receiving Manuka Hub Certificates at Assembly on Friday.  Fantastic work! Well done!

Teddy Bear's Picnic Maths

For maths today we made fruit kebabs.  We had to write down how many of each fruit we put on our kebab stick and then work out how many pieces of fruit we had altogether.