Trip to the Redwoods

Room 13 had a great day in the Redwoods. We all walked a long way but we showed determination all the time. Great PARKVALE PRIDE Room 13.

Energy Bars YUM!!

We had Room 8 children come to our classroom to help us make our energy bars for our bush walk trip on Thursday. They are going to give us so much energy so that we make it up the hill.
Thank you Room 8 for helping us. You were very kind.

Measuring length

We have started learning about measuring lengths. Chaise estimated that the length of our classroom would be 7 children long. We tried it and he was right. We made long worms out of play doh. 

Who had the longest worms??

When we measured we had to have the same starting point.

Children showing determination at Discovery time

Discovery for Term 1 has now finished. The children have been involved in building, collage, sketching, sand pit activities, ball and PE activities, making toys with lego, puppets, marble tracks, dress up dolls and  train sets. The children have been learning to stick to a task and complete it and how to work nicely together.

Our Butterfly

It was so exciting yesterday. We came back from lunchtime and our butterfly had squeezed out of it's chrysalis. We watched him flutter his wings to dry them out. He didn't want to fly away when we took him outside during the afternoon so we took him back into our classroom. After school he flew out the window and disappeared. We are wondering where he is now!!

Here are some of our stories.
I wonder if the butterfly wriggled out and fluttered away and found another butterfly?
By Connor

My butterfly is fluttering on my shoulder.
 By Ashley

I dreamed i had a garden and the butterfly pushed out of the chrysalis.
Naisa

The butterfly is fluttering in the tree.
By Toby

I saw the butterfly flying out.
By Joshua

We are learning about how to care for plants.

Our grassheads have been growing so well because we made sure they had plenty of water and sunlight. We are also very proud of our kowhai seedlings. They are getting a little bit bigger each day.

And don't forget the boys!!

Fantastic effort boys!!

Triathlon 2014

Last week we had our Kowhai  Triathlon at school. We all showed determination so that we could do our best. Well done Room 13 children that raced hard.

Using Visual Poet to learn our sounds

 

What clever children working on their ipads. Room 13 chose a letter and then had to hunt for something in the classroom that started with that sound. Here are some of their fabulous creations. Thank you to Connor and Abby Rose for being our experts.

Planting Grass Heads

Today we planted our grass seeds to make our Grass Heads. We are learning to care for plants.
We learnt that  plants need water and sunlight to grow.
We are looking forward to the hair growing on our Grass Heads.

Pet photos

Don't forget to bring your pet photos if you have a pet.  Here is Roco and Benny- Mrs England's pets.

Graphing

 We wanted to find out what the kids favourite colours were in our class. We all put our favourite colours onto the page. It was a little bit hard to talk about what we found out.

We thought it would be a good idea to join them together. Doing this made it easy to talk about. 
Blue was the most popular colour in our class.
Yellow and brown were the least favourite colours in our class.
2 people liked purple  and 2 people liked black. That was the same amount.

Whiteboard Masterpiece

Brodie and Oliver are very proud of their fabulous drawing. What a fantastic ocean scene boys.

Room 13 on Day 1

Yah it is so good to be at school. Lovely to see such happy faces!! Keep up the smiles Room 13.

Hi

I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday. The countdown is on now. I am looking forward to meeting the children and their families who will be in Room 13 for 2014.
See you soon.
Mrs England

Fun Day in Napier

Room 2 had a lovely day in Napier yesterday to celebrate all the hard work that they have done all year. Well done Room 2. 

WALA Algebra

Today the children in Room 2 were very clever at working out which numbers were equal or less than or greater than. Fabulous thinking Room 2.