Enviro Day Again - How Fantastic!

Mrs Hilder was so impressed with all the children in our class! She explained that they were wonderful at listening and working together. This is what she wrote about the special things the children learned - "In the first block we focused on Mystery Science - Are plants Alive? related to Living things. We did role-playing, movement games and then went outside with our magnifiers to see if we could observe any plants growing and moving...this was such a hit! After our morning learning about living things we discussed that our nature art needed to be made up of only dead plants (leaves or flowers)... no living things. The children soon realised this was the best season to do this art in because as we watched the golden, orange and red leaves blow off the Kowhai tree outside Room 17 they realised there were HUNDREDS of leaves to choose from. So we set off to collect their favourite leaves! We worked through the different steps together to create their final suncatcher art."

Tabloid Sports Time

After lunch all the Junior classes gathered on the field to play different sports. It was a lovely, sunny day! Our first sports ativity was with Mrs Naus and we used big balls to do relays. After that we played lots of other games and Ricco's mum helped us to go to each place. One of the activities was to fill a bucket with water. We had to use sponges to suck up water and then we squeezed the water into another bucket. We also did egg and spoon races and sack races. Some children were amazing at skipping with ropes but others kept tripping up. It was fun any way and everyone gave things a go even when it was tricky. When it was time to go home, we all were tired but happy.

Hooray! It's Junior Breakfast Today!

We all arrived at school dressed in our pyjamas and ready to make our own breakfast! We were excited and ready to get going so as soon as we placed our things on our placemats it was time to get started. Some children chose to eat their cereal first. There were Rice Bubbles or Corn Flakes and they tasted crunchy, sweet and delicious. Others decided to spread their toast with butter, jam or Marmite and they snacked happily on these.