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.



Junior Sports Day

On Friday morning, the junior school had a special sports day. Here are some photos from the day.

Here are some of us talking about our favourite part of the sports day.

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.

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.

Firework Safety

Tonight it is Guy Fawkes Night! Yesterday, A4 wrote stories about being safe around fireworks and we came up with some important safety rules.

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.

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.

Squeak Squeak!

A Block has another pet and his name is Chester! He is a guinea pig. On Wednesday, we got to meet him for the first time. Some of us wanted to hold him. Here are the pictures...

Squidward Leaves Bikini Bottom!

As part of our Under the Sea study, A3 and A4 got to see a real squid. The children were scared to touch it at first. Here is a video of the children touching the squid.

Later in the day, we dissected the squid to look at its body parts.

This is the squid's beak inside its mouth. The beak is for biting food into small pieces.

We cut off the squid's fins. Squids use their fins for swimming.

This is Ayush holding a tentacle. Squids have 2 large feeding tentacles and 8 shorter tentacles (arms).

This is one of the squid's teeth. The teeth are found at the ends of the two large feeding tentacles.

Look at the squid's eye. A squid has two very large eyes.

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 Pufferfish Comes to A4!

A3 let us  have a look at their pufferfish. It was very spiky and we had to hold it using a piece of string.

Here are some stories that Ayush, Sen Nay Pow and Rani wrote about pufferfish.

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.

Mind your own business Stu!

What has Stu been up to lately? More mischief... he has been getting very comfortable in his new environment. Maybe a little too comfortable!

Fruit Salad

We have been talking about things that make us feel good. One thing that makes everybody feel good is eating fruit. So on Friday we made fruit salad.

What is your favourite fruit? Leave us a comment.

THE 2010 PYJAMA PARTY!

On Wednesday the 4th of August, we held our annual Pyjama Party. It was a very fun night.