Welcome Back!

We are all back at school for the new year and it is very exciting.  This year the children in A3 are year 2s, so we are a little older and there are alot more of us! Take a look at the slideshow to meet the children who are in A3 this year,  you might recognise some of the faces.  We are looking forward to sharing our learning with everyone.

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Bye Bye Wattle

Friday was Wattle's last day in A3.  He has been visiting us from Australia for the last 7 weeks and now it is time for him to go back to his class Learning Together.  We have had lots of fun with Wattle and we are going to miss him, but we are looking forward to seeing our giraffe Wally again.  Take a look at the video to see what Wattle got up to while he was with us.  

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Here is a video of us singing a goodbye song for Wattle.

Farewell to Five

Yesterday was Maqushio, Shirley, Lolo, Malik and Rachael's last day in A3!  Our classes are getting too big so they have gone to B3 to help Miss Mooney start a new class.  We will miss them but we know they will have fun in B3.

Meeting the kittens

On Thursday we skyped with our friends in Australia, Learning Together.  We got to see their rabbit blue bell and her seven kittens.  The kittens have grown since we last saw them and Wally is having a great time playing with them.  You can see Wally playing with the kittens by clicking here.   

Wattle is saying hi to his classmates.  

Going to the zoo!

We went to Auckland Zoo yesterday and had a great time.  We were lucky the sun came out and all the animals were very active.  Wattle came with us and he had lots of fun and he made some new friends. 

Wattle met some friends at the zoo and he saw a real wombat's skull!  

Take a look at the slide show and movie to see photos and videos of the day. 

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Rachael's Futuristic skater!

Rachael has designed a Skater that she can get to school on, but it can do more than just skate!

Here is Rachael telling us about her skater.  

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Futuristic Transport

Once a week A3 goes to the library to work on the computers with Ms Clark.  Last week they were learning to use kidpix to draw futuristic transport.  Take a look at their amazing creations.

Run run as fast as you can!

On Friday we baked gingerbread men.  It was a messy job but lots of fun!  We watched the gingerbread men carefully to make sure none of them ran away and lucky for us none of them did. 


The gingerbread men waiting to be eaten



The Gingerbread Man

We have been reading different versions of the Gingerbread Man this week.  Some of the children have written their own versions, watch the video to see what they wrote.

Sweet Sticky Buns

We have been reading Greedy Cat and on Friday we decided to make some sweet sticky buns.  Take a look at the slide show to see how we did it.  Deziah and Maqushio did a great job as our official photographers. 

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Here is Amalani reading his story about the sticky buns.

The Dark Dark House

This week we have been reading a poem called 'The Dark Dark House'  We wanted to act it out and we needed a dark dark box to do it.  

Take a look at the video to hear us reading the poem and see what comes out of the box. 

Red and Black Day

On Friday we had our red and black day to support all the people in Christchurch who were affected by the  earthquake.

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Where's Minxy

One of our school cats, Minxy, has gone missing.  We are very worried about her and we all hope she will come back soon.  Some of the children have written stories about what they think might have happened to Minxy, where do you think she might be?

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Bubbles

Last week we read the book 'Bubbles' and on Friday we went out to blow some bubbles of our own.  It was a perfect day for bubble blowing and we had lots of fun. Check out our video.

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Here are some of the children reading stories they wrote about our bubble experience.

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Our Garden

We have been doing some gardening over the last couple of weeks.  First we had to pull out all the old plants from the garden then we planted some vegetables and flowers.  It was a lot of work but we are happy with our new garden

This is our garden before we pulled out the weeds.

Take a look at our slide show to see all the work we did:

Two little birds

Last week we read the poem two little dicky birds and we decided to paint pictures of what we thought the birds might look like.  We experimented with mixing the colours and it was a lot of fun.  Take a look at our video to see the results of our hard work and to listen to us reading the poem.



Fruit Kebabs

On Friday it was Miss Sinclair's last day in our class until she comes back in May.  As a farewell Miss Sinclair made fruit kebabs with us.  We made enough to share with A1 and A1 made chocolate sundaes for us.  It was a very fun day and everyone enjoyed the yummy food.  Thanks Miss Sinclair! 

Here is a Rohit's story about making the fruit kebabs.

The curious cat

Minxie our school cat has been visiting our classroom in the mornings.  She loves to explore the room and is very interested in Chester, our guinea pig. 

Minxie on our star of the day chair

Talking to Chester

Rachael and Vicky wrote stories about the mischief that Minxie is getting up to.

Clowning around!

Last week we read the big book smarty pants. It's about a very clever clown and all the things he can do.   We decided to draw our own clowns and they look great! Take a look at the video to see our clowns and hear what they can do.   

Cupcake madness

Today we made cupcakes and they were yummy.  We worked together to add and mix all the ingredients then we iced cupcakes and ate them up in the playground.  Take a look at what we did.  

Two of the children wrote stories about the cupcakes.  Do you like cupcakes too?