Meri Kirihimete!

Last week, was the end of the 2011 school year. Thank you to everybody who has viewed our blog and left us comments. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. We look forward to sharing more of our learning with you in 2012!

We have done so many fun things this year. Here is a slideshow of some of the highlights of 2011.

The Picnic

On Tuesday, A1 invited our class to a picnic. We had a great time. We made fruit kebabs to take along and A1 brought fairy bread and corn chips. It was a beautiful sunny day. Thank you A1! Here is a video of our picnic with some stories written by Ubaid, Leilah and Paki.

Happy Halloween

On Friday, A3 and A4 celebrated Halloween. We cooked mummy heads, escaped from zombies, ate friendly ghosts and ran away with some pumpkins. Here is a slideshow of our celebration.

The Incy Wincy Spider

This week, we have been reading the poem Incy Wincy Spider. We have made two videos. The first video shows the illustrations we created for the poem.

Here is a video of Room A4 reading the poem.

The All Blacks win the World Cup

Yesterday was our first day back at school. We were still all very excited about the Rugby World Cup. Here is Paki's story about the game.



Term 3 comes to an End

After three long terms, we are now enjoying a well deserved break. We will see you back here in two weeks. Go the ALL BLACKS!

Tile Mosaics

We have been working very hard on an art project for outside our classroom block. We have been making flower mosaics, using broken ceramic tiles, on squares of wood. Here is a slideshow of how we made them.

The tiles have now been mounted outside A Block and they look fantastic! Come on down and check them out.

Portraits

Check out our fantastic portraits that we created with Mrs Wheeler, using vivid and dye!

The Lion King

We had to use our tickets to
get into the movies

Last Friday, A4 and A3 finished off their study of lions with a special screening of The Lion King.  

We used plastic money
 to buy lollies and popcorn

We sat down to watch the movie

Here are illustrations and stories by Crystalive and Tuan about their experience.

Our New Sandpit

  A block's new sandpit is almost finished! Last week, a truck arrived with our sand and it got stuck in the mud. When we finally got the sand, we helped to shovel it into the new sandpit. Here is some footage of our busy day.

We will keep you posted.

I am a Lion

On Thursday, we illustrated a male lion's face using KidPix. Here is a slideshow of our art along with our poem of the week about lions.

Wally Returns!

Today we received a parcel from our friends in Australia. It was Wally the giraffe. He has returned from his holiday and he brought back presents for all of us!

We all got new key rings!

Wally had a new scarf!

The Preps sent us a book with
lots of photos

Look at Wally's new koala

We were also given Australian
balloons and an Australian flag!

Thank you very much to the Preps in Melbourne, Australia for taking such great care of Wally and for the lovely gifts.

Making Popcorn!

On Friday, we made popcorn. It was delicious, especially with icing sugar! Here are some photos.

Today, Tuan and Avantika wrote stories about their experience.

Monkey See, Monkey Do

On Wednesday, as part of our study of Predators, we went to the Auckland Zoo. We had a great day and we learnt a lot of new things. Wally the wombat came with the us, too. Here is a slideshow of our trip. 

A big thank you to all of the parents and caregivers that came along to help with supervision. Stay tuned for more posts about the zoo.

The Monsters' Party

We have been reading the big book The Monsters' Party, by Joy Cowley. We decided to have our own monsters' party in our classroom. We built a big castle, played party games and ate ice cream and jelly. Here is a slideshow of our party.

See Ya Stu!

Sadly, one of A Block's pets has moved to a new house. Stu our pet rabbit, has gone to live with Steyve-Rei and her family. He has been a little bit grumpy lately and has been biting children too hard. We decided he would be happier living where there are less people to bother him.

Paki is very sad that Stu has gone. Here is a story he wrote about Stu.

I am an Alien

What would Paki do if he was an alien? Watch his video to find out.

Got You!

On Friday, we caught some gingerbread men. They were delicious. Here is a video of what we did.

Frog Art

Last week, we created some very colourful frog art using vivid and dye. Here is a video of the results.

Boogie Wonderland

What a great night of dancing and fun we had last Thursday! Here is a video of some of the photos from the school disco and stories written by Paki and Katie about their night.