Concert Video

Take a look at the videos of our end of year concert.  We had a great time so we hope you enjoy watching them.

The year ones

The year twos

The year threes

A roaring good time!

Today the junior school had our Christmas concert.  All of the year ones had their face painted as lions and we sung 'In the Jungle'.

It was a lot of fun and the children did a great job performing their songs!  Take a look at our photos and stay posted for a video of our performance.  

Christmas Concert on PhotoPeach

Goodbye Nanas

It's time for Nanas to go back to his class in Christchurch so we decided to give him a farewell party.  We had a treasure hunt and played some games then we made banana splits! Yum!  We will miss Nanas, but we are looking forward to seeing Wally again.

Nanas Big day at the museum!

Yesterday A3 and A4 took Nanas on his first adventure into the big city.  He went with us to the museum and he got to see lots of interesting things, like dinosaur bones. 

Nanas on looking at the motorway on the way to the museum

Nanas looking at some cockroaches in the weird and wonderful exhibition 

Take a look at this slideshow to see what else Nanas and A3 got up to:

Here are some stories that the children wrote about their trip to the museum.  It is Tevita's first video since starting in our class, well done Tevita! 

First Contact

Yesterday we had our first ever skype call with the Springston Explorers in Christchurch.  We got to see Wally and ask them questions about what he was doing down there.  They asked us some questions too!  It was very exciting.

Nanas is waving hello to his class.

Asking questions about Wally

A3 and A4 go bananas for Nanas

Nanas has arrived and everyone is very excited.  He has spent the day meeting the children, reading books and playing games.  It's been great and he even came out to fitness with us.

Happy Diwali

On Friday it was Diwali, the Indian festival of light.  We decided to celebrate it by making Barfi and Rangoli patterns.  Take a look at our video to see the what we did.

Trick or Treat

It was Halloween last week.  We decided to make some scary halloween food.  We got together with A4 and made marshmellow ghosts and fingers covered in blood!  It was fun making them but even better when we got to eat them.

Gardening

On Wednesday we started to get our garden bed ready for the plants.  First we took out the weeds, then we put newspaper down and wet it.  This was to stop more weeds from growing.  Once the newspaper was really wet we started to fill up our garden with dirt.  It was a very messy job but lots of fun.  We were all very tired at the end but we can't wait to start growing strawberries so we can eat them all up! Alex wrote a story about what we did to make our garden, have a look:

Take a look at this slide show to see what we did.

Fish and Chips

On Monday A3 and A4 made healthy fish and chips.  It was lots of fun and the fish and chips were delicious.  Here are some of the children from A3 sharing how we made our fish and chips and what they thought of it. 

Our squid inspired stories!

After we dissected the squid some of the children wanted to write stories about the experience.  Katie wrote about what it felt like to touch the squid and Solomon chose to use what he had learned to write an imaginative story.  Let us know what you think!

Play time!

After we had been through Kelly Tarltons, we went to the park to have lunch and then play!  It was a great park and everyone really loved the merry go round!  Take a look at the photos. 

Kelly Tarltons

We had a great time at Kelly tarltons.  We saw sharks, octopuses, penguins and best of all - a real live puffer fish!  Here is a photo of Yvon and the puffer fish looking at each other:

We got to see a lady feeding the stingrays.  They came up very close to her and she gave them fish.  Take a look at this picture, if you look closely you can see the shadows of the stingrays:

We went on a snowcat to look at the penguins. We saw King Penguins(they are the ones with yellow chins) and Gentoo penguins.

We saw a diver in the penguin tank.

On board the snowcat

The penguins are being fed

We saw the tooth of a megaladon shark, it was HUGE.  It's mouth was bigger then most of us!

Jaida with the megaladon tooth.

In front of the megaladons mouth

Have a look at more of our photos:

The puffer fish. By Solomon

Porcupine fish

Today we got to look at a real porcupine fish.  We were pretty excited and some of us were a little scared!

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We talked about why it has spines and Solomon was keen to tell us that they are to protect it from other fish and sharks(have a look at the video on the left of our blog).  Here is a video of Solomon telling us what he knows about puffer fish.  

After all that the children thought it would be fun to pretend to be puffer fish. Bill was the shark and when he came near us we had to puff up to scare him away!  Lucky for us it worked!

Alice drew this picture of the puffer fish on kid pix.

We'd love to hear what you know about porcupine fish, please leave us a comment.  

Our thoughts on the cats

After drawing our pictures of the cats a few of the children wanted to share their ideas about the cats.  Some  of the children had ideas about what the cats might do, while others wanted to share how they would look after the cats, and what they might do with the cats when they get here.  Have a listen to their ideas.  What are your thoughts about the cats? 

Cats

A3 heard that our school cats would be arriving soon. We decided to draw some pictures of what we think they might look like.  Have a look:

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Sharing our languages

On Friday Alice read us a poem in Mandarin.  We thought it was great and after Alice had finished lots of the children wanted to share the other languages that they knew as well.  Here is a video of the children sharing their languages.

Weaving with flax

Last Wednesday Solomon's Mum came into our class to teach us how to weave with flax. We made a strong rope like the one Maui used to catch the sun.

The Sun by Solomon