Enviro Learning

Mrs O Hanlan introduced us to the exciting world of minibeasts and she was amazed at how much we already knew about the little creatures that live in the environment around us. We spent time searching for some outdoors and studying them on video.

STEM Sewing Challenge

Mr Rankin taught us some new skills today. At first we found them quite challenging but with a little practice we got better at doing them. The first two challenges were to thread a shoe with a shoelace and then to tie the shoelace. It was hard to get the laces exactly the same like they are in a show! After much trial and error we managed to get the threading bit done. Then on to learning how to tie the lace. Our fingers had to work hard to make loops and to tie knots! Whew! Next was our third challenge and that was how to thread a needle and to use the thread to sew. We needed to push our needle into the holes on some material and then to put the thread through. Each time we would go in and out of the holes with our needle and thread. Some of us managed to sew lots of rows with stitches. Mr Rankin sewed another piece of material onto our sewing piece and turned it into a bookmark! We are very proud of our achievements!

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."