Kiwi release

A Kiwi chiclk was released

Playing in the puddles

 It had rained for days and there was huge puddles all over our field.  We had so much fun playing in the puddles and sliding in the mud.  Afterwards we wrote some fantastic poems and stories about our experience.

Kiwi Calls

Today we learnt what call a male and a female kiwi make.  We learnt that a male kiwi makes a high pitched noise and the female make a noise like they have a sore throat.

kiwi call

Term 2

Welcome back from the holiday I hope everyone had a great break.  Yesterday we watched the royal wedding.  The children wrote great stories about the wedding and loved watching the funny dance.

The white horses were beautiful.
The horses had some jewels on them.
The prince was handsome.
Tiana

The beatiful bride was stunning in her special dress.  The handsome prince was wearing an army uniform.
Janevah

The beatiful bride looked stunning. The church was very old and had trees down it.
Lilly

Rainforest

Today Jo came to school we learnt about the rainforest. We saw pictures of tocans and poisonous frogs. We also learnt about the python did you know they can wrap around you and squeeze you to death they can also swallow you whole.

By Marley

White Pine Bush

All the juniors went for a walk around White Pine Bush.  We arelearning about what New Zealand bush.  It was a really interesting walk and I am sure everyone learnt something.  the children came back buzzing talking about the tall nikau palms, the silver fern the epiphites the fungus on the tree.  Some children thought the dead possum was the most interesting thing they saw.

Frog Song in memory of Fred

A Frogtastrophy

One of our tadpoles turned into a frog during the weekend which was was very exciting and we all loved looking at him..  We named him Fred.  I put Fred into a bigger tank so he would have more room to move around.  but sadly during writing this morning Fred escaped his tank paradise and started his big OE outside the tank and in room 4.  I hope he made it outside but fear the worst has happened to poor Fred and his newly found frog freedom.

Sophie R's weekend recount

In  the weekend I went to a  motal and  I had a spa. When   I woke up we went to the Waitomo Caves. I went on a big metal bot in to the caves.  We saw glow worms and the cave was dark.  My Daddy was scaring me and saying there was an eel and I was really brave.  We walked out a long path and we had nuggets and chips.

Matthew's weekend recount

In the weekend I went to the swiming pool. I did a pencil role into the swiming  pool and a bomb.  The water was  warm.   My  mum  and  mydad    went      with me.

St Patricks day

What fun we had today all our learning was based around St Patricks day.  We had a little try at Irish dancing and even ate some leprachaun berries( kiwi berries) that the cheeky leprachauns left at the end of the rainbow instead of gold.  The children enjoed tasting them and writing stories about the leprachaun berries.  I made a jibjab with some of the children Irish dancing (I am trying to get it on the blog so you can see)

Tadpole Mania

Today we were given 4 tadpoles all in different stages of transforming.  The buzz , excitement and interst these tadpoles created today was fantastic.  We learnt about the life cycle of frogs, what tadpoles like to eat and how long the transformation takes.  The children were learning how to ask questions about tadpoles.  Some of the common questions were, what do tadpoles eat? how do their tails fall off, where do you find tadpoles.

Grumpy Bear

We read the big book Grumpy Bear then the children made masks of the animals.  We practiced every day, we worked on changing our voices and acting.  The bees loved chasing me (grumpy bear) and stinging me.  We got some children in room 4 to video it but sadly it didnt work.  I might need to  teach them how to use the camera  anyway I got one photo of our masks.

Fun 4 U

This afternoon all the juniors from most of Whakatane went to Rex Morpeth Park for a fun sport afternoon.  There was a range of different sporting activities that were taken by people who coached that sport.  We did footbal, netball atheletics and adapative sport.  It was a fantastic afternoon and the children got  a little sample of what these sports are like.

Hedgehog Fun

After reading about how to make hedgehogs we decided to make hedgehogs.  The children enjoyed making them but loved eating them.  What a great way to get to get lots of fruit into children.

Beach

 On Monday the juniors went to Ohope for a fun day out.  Room 4 and 5 walked over to Otarawairrere and enjoyed the challenge of walking over the rocks to get to the next bay.  We had lunch over there and walked back for a swim.  What a fantastic fun day.

3D Shapes

We have been learning about 3d shapes.  Room 4 loved singing the 3d song, we learnt lots about what objects are spheres, cylinder cones and cubes by watching this song.

3D Shapes I Know (song for kids)

Football

Last week and most of this week Michael Ward has been teaching us football skills.  Room 4 is loving  the games.  Our favourite is running the gauntlet and aliens.  All of us are really improving on our dribbling skills Mrs Ward needs to keep practising her kicking skills so the ball goes where she wants it to.

How many teeth do sharks have?

We read an article about sharks and found that they have 3000 teeth.  We have only 20 teeth.  We counted beans to find out what 3000 looked like.  We only had 1000 beans but look at the differnt size piles.  3000 is LOTS of teeth.

Meet Room 4

Hi we  the new room 4. We have 19 children in our class but only 15 have come to school today.