BOOK CHARACTER DAY

What a morning!  We've had a wonderful time celebrating World Literacy Day.  We had Nathan Mudge (Centrepoint), Mr West, Belinda Cadzow (Firefighter) and Irene Dores (Scholastic Book Club) come and read to us.

 

Take a look at some of the amazing costumes we came in today.  

  

  

"LOVELY" WRITING BY HOLLY HUDSON

With Holly's permission I'm sharing her lovely story about Princess Holly and Prince Finn.  Holly read it to the class today and they loved it.

"Once upon a time there was a Prince called Finn.  He was very handsome.  I thought I had a crush on him.  That means love.  On right I have to introduce myself.  Hi!  My name is Holly.  Anyway the Princess went to his castle.  Hi!  My cheeks are red.  Hello. What is your name?  Hi.  My name is Finnlay.  Nice name!  Thank you.  I like your name too.  Oh would you like to come inside.  Yes thank you!  Wow!  I love your home.  Then I got a surprise.  Will you marry me?  Of course I will.  So I said "Yes".  Then.... we were King and Queen.  We lived a happy life."

LIVING WORLD - PLANTS

Animals are out and plants are in!  Yesterday we started learning about plant life.  

We started with the parts of a plant and today we we looked at what plants needed to survive.  It's going to be a fantastic few weeks.

 

Amelia had free writing today but decided to give report writing another go.  A great effort Amelia.

"Flowers have nectar.  Insects can pass it on to make another flower or the wind.  We get lots of food from seeds.  Flowers can be many colours like blue, purple, yellow, red, green and orange.  To make a plant we use seeds.  Plants can't talk to walk at all.  Lots of plants are pretty".

MIXING COLOURS

Today in Mrs Lunn's Colours and Light Opt-in Workshop, we explored mixing colours.  We used paddles of plastic in different colours and a torch to have a go at trying to make new colours.

Here is what we discovered...

• We found out that when we put two paddles together, and shine the torch through, it makes a different colour
• We found out that blue and yellow made green 
• We found out that red and yellow make orange
• We found out that blue and red make purple

BALLOON BOAT MAKING CHALLENGE

Wow!  What a day we've had.  A huge thank you to Zac, Oliver and Lloyd for creating our Make It Monday challenge.

The boys HOOKed us in with the The Gingerbread Man story and left us with the challenge of creating a balloon powered boat to get the Gingerbread Man safely across the water.

There was a lot of WONDERing going on in Piako Rua today.

We EXPLOREd in Wonderland... we needed to find answers to all our questions.  We are still learning about 2D and 3D shapes.

Soon it was time to ACT...

  

 

Our REFLECTion today included some interesting discussion about why cardboard boxes wouldn't float and why Mrs Kenyon couldn't use the hot glue gun to glue balloons onto boxes.

Thanks Zac, Oliver and Lloyd!

MILO MAKING

A big thank you to Pounamu Atawhai who gave us their left over milk from camp.  We all stopped to have a milo today.  Yummy!

  

OPERATION CHRISTMAS SHOE BOX

A huge thank you to all the families that donated to the Operation Christmas Shoe Box collection.  The children have packed 12 shoe boxes ready for collection.  

Take a look at what the boxes had in them.