Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles.

On Wednesday Ms. Bonsey and Mrs. Bedingfield took us outside and blew bubbles for us.

We watched them very carefully and when we went back inside we talked lots about the words we could use to describe the bubbles.

We wrote some wonderful stories using some great words to describe the bubbles.

On Friday we blew bubbles in a special paint mixture and then popped them on the paper to make great bubble art.

Term 4 has begun!

We can hardly believe we are into Term 4 already!   Where has the time gone?

We have begun our new topic of inquiry "Nurturing Nature" and as part of this we are exploring the harbours of Porirua and our part in keeping them clean and healthy.

We talked a lot about the nature around us which led us to talking about harakeke and how it was and still is used by many people in New Zealand.  We discussed its importance to the maori people and decided we would like to use it to create something special.

We used strips material to learn how to plait and over the next couple of weeks we will begin using harakeke to create some special pieces.

If you, or anyone in your whanau, can help us with harvesting of harakeke and work with us during the process we would love your help - please just let Ms. Bonsey know.

Duffy Assembly

What a wonderful way to end the term with a Duffy Assembly.

Nicole Rex, a radio broadcaster, came to talk to us about how reading had helped her achieve and succeed in life and then we got our Duffy Books!

We had a fun afternoon reading and sharing our new books with each other.

Thanks Duffy.

Yummy Maths

We have been conducting our own statistical investigations during maths. Today Ms. Bonsey gave us all a packet of M and M's first we estimated how many of each colour would be in the packet and then we opened it to check our estimations.  Then we ate them!

We then used the data we had collected to make a bar graph that showed our results.

What a fun way to do maths !

 

Rangikura Olympics

What a fantastic Day we had out in the sunshine!

We all showed the Olympic Values as we participated in all the activities, supported and encouraged our peers and had a great time too.

Cheers!

Today Room 5 and Room 7 had such a lot of carrots in our fruit buckets and because we have been looking at the long vowel sounds this week we thought we would make some fruit juice.

Despite thinking it would taste yucky we all tried it and to our surprise we LOVED it.

Wacky Dress Day for KidsCan

Today we all raised money to support KidsCan.

Some of us dressed up in "Wacky" clothes and some of us even got to tape Mr. Featherston to the wall.

What a great time :)