It is spring! Ko te koanga!

Spring is all around us.   We have been growing runner beans in our class and they are growing up very quickly.  We have been writing a recount about Jack and the Beanstalk.  Jack is climbing up the beanstalk in our class.  What will he find at the top of the beanstalk?

Here is some of our writing.

We have been learning about disasters that could happen in New Zealand.

Here are some of our kid pix pictures of disasters.

Daffodil Day

Look at our fabulous daffodil hats that we made today!

The hare and the tortoise- a fable by Aesop.

We are writing a recount about this famous fable by Aesop.  The message of this fable is to keep on trying and not to give up.  This is our value for this term - Determination.

We made some hare and tortoise puppets and performed the story to our class.
We also did some cool recounts about the story.

Life Education Caravan.

Here is some writing about what we have learnt from our visits to the Life Education Caravan.

"I learnt to eat a variety of food,"  said Tyson Cook.

" I learnt to eat a variety of food.  I learnt to drink milk and to eat lots of fruit,"  said Daena Aujla.

" I learnt that the brain helps you to run and play.  I learnt to drink milk and eat vegetables," said Richie.

" My brain can think and read and make me smart.  My lungs help me breathe air.  My heart pumps the blood around my body.  The food goes into my stomach," said Arpreet.


" My brain helps me to think and run and read," said Emzara.

" My brain helps me to think and read, " said William.

We are eating the colour green!

Maori Language Week.

We made a Maori headband ( tipare) and performed a poi song at our Team 1 assembly on Friday.

We are eating a rainbow!

This week we ate red fruit- lovely, crunchy, red apples.

P is for pirate!

We are learning about the letter P this week- so we made some pirate hats! Do we look like scary pirates?

Eating the colour yellow!

Room 4 enjoyed eating yellow fruit- pineapple, yellow apples and bananas.
Some of the fantastic words we used to describe the fruit were- juicy, sweet, crunchy, smooth!