The Fruits of our Labour

This afternoon, we opened up a shop outside A1 to sell our garden produce to parents and students. We really enjoyed harvesting our garden and selling what we have worked so hard to grow! The sale was a huge success - we sold everything!

Caring for Pets

Every Friday, A4 go to the library for ICT with Mrs Clark. This term their inquiry topic was pets. Their task was to find and present information about caring for a goldfish.  Then, they had to present their findings by creating a slide using Powerpoint.



Our Special Visitors!

We really wanted the new school kittens to come and visit our class. So we decided to write letters to convince Mrs Compston to let the kittens come to A4. Here is Loveday's letter. Can you hear Loveday using a persuasive voice?

Here are some photos of the kittens in A4.

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.

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.

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.

Saal Mubarak

Diwali is the Indian Festival of Lights that marks the beginning of the Indian new year. To celebrate Diwali, we created rangoli patterns and made coconut barfi.

Rani was very excited about Diwali. Here she is talking about her experience.

Do you have a Diwali experience you would like to share? Leave us a comment.

The Rabbit who got his Wires Crossed!

You guessed it! Stu has been up to more mischief. He has been eating A3 and A4's telephone wire. We were very worried about what our principal would say when he found out. So we wrote letters to Mr Gilbert and made a video. Sorry Mr Gilbert.

Freaky Friday

It will be Halloween on Sunday! Today we made masks, got dressed up and made treats. We had a lot of fun!

Groovy Gardeners

We had a very busy week last week getting our garden ready. Here is a video of how weeded our garden bed and filled it with soil. It was hard work, but now we are ready to start planting!

What do you think we should grow? Leave us a comment.

Snail Art

This week, we completed our snail art. We used pastels on black paper because snails are nocturnal. Our pictures had to include a snail's shell, foot, tentacles and eyes and as you can see, we have labelled these body parts.

Stranded Pilot Whales

In September, 80 pilot whales stranded themselves on Spirits Bay beach. We were very interested and saddened by this news. Amy and Joshua wrote stories about the event.

End of Term Barbecue!

On the last day of term, the Year 0/1 classes had a spring barbecue. Luckily the sun was shining because it had been raining all week.

Fish and Chips!

On Monday, A3 and A4 made healthy fish and chips! We worked very hard! Watch this video to find out what we did.



Good Morning City

This term we have been learning about the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and we have created art based on Hundertwasser's painting Good Morning City. It took us two weeks to complete. Here is a video of the art process.

Check out the final product! The art looks great. It looks even better in the classroom so if you would like to take a closer look, come down to A4! A big thank you to Rachel (Loveday's Mum - who is an art teacher) for your great ideas and input.

Kelly Tarltons Slideshow

Here is a slideshow of our fantastic trip to Kelly Tarltons on Tuesday the 31st of August.

Kelly Tarltons!

Yesterday we went to Kelly Tarltons and we had a great day!

We were really tired when we got back but Makaveli wanted to write a story about his fun day.

Thank you to all of the parents who came to help. Keep watching the blog for more photos and videos of the trip.

The Walrus

As part of our Under the Sea study we have been learning about a lot of different creatures that live in the sea. Here is a poem about a walrus written by Jack Prelutsky.

Fish Alive

We have been learning a lot of poems as part of our Under the Sea unit. 

Have you ever been fishing or been bitten by a fish? Leave us a comment.