Redwoodtown Rest Home Visit

Yesterday we had a lovely time singing to the residents of the Redwood Village. We are learning about the value of Compassion and we definitely showed that. Some people sang with us and there were lots of smiles, it was a great afternoon.

Room 8s Christmas Tree

First we went for a walk with Mr Western in the forest and chose a dead tree to cut down.

Then we pulled off as much bark as we could so the paint would stick.

Next we painted our tree white and sprinkled it with glitter.

Finally we put it in a bucket of sand and decorated it with our star decorations. It looks amazing!

Swim week!

This week are at the pool for swim week. We are learning some really great swimming skills and having lots of fun.

While we are in the pool some of our mums are doing some cutting for the decorations for the rest home. 

Something Christmassy!!!

We are getting ready for special trip to the Redwoodtown Rest home to sing, decorate their tree and give the residents some special personalised decorations to hang on their doors. 

We have started to make salt dough decorations, at the moment they are drying in the sun and next week will paint them. We can't wait!

We also have lots more exciting bits and pieces coming up so stay posted!

Champions of Athletics

Well done Alex and Oliver! You are both champions of Athletics for the year two boys! Awesome work :)

Cute wee fluffy Pup

On Friday we had another puppy come in and visit us. His name is Charlie and he is Harris's puppy. He is so tiny and very very cute. His fur was super soft and he got a bit scared with lots of kids around. Thank you for bringing Charlie in to meet us!

Witherleas Got Talent!

Go Dyuti! You sang beautifully :)

Room 18 Interview

Here is a video one of our buddy class friends made about Miss Green! It's pretty cool!

A special visitor

Today we were lucky to have Miss Greens puppy Ash, come to school to visit us. Seth was excited to show off all the cool tricks he has been teaching him. He loved spending some time with us and getting some extra cuddles.

5 + a Day Friday

We are on the 5

All the healthy snacks for lunch 

A watermelon cake!!!

Having a picnic with our buddy class.

Blogger of the week- Week 1 Term 4

Gidday Mates!

Hip Hooray we are so excited to be back at school for the last term. We are looking forward to learning about Celebrations of people in our class and around the world. We are also looking forward to learning about money and writing really cool made up stories.

This week we met an author called Tracy Duncan. We liked when she read us a story because she used great adjectives. We thought she was an amazing illustrator and some of us really want to write and illustrate our own books.

We have started to practice athletics and are loving racing each other in sprints. We are hoping the weather will hold out so that we can have a practice at long jump and high jump today.

We planted some special trees in our forest and we are making sure we remember to water them. A big thank you to Oliver and his Mum for keeping our sunflowers and potato alive over the holidays.

Next week we are looking forward to learning heaps and having lots of fun with our teacher and our friends!

 

Dance Festival

Wahoo! What an awesome night! Our dance was awesome you should all be proud of yourselves! Here are a couple of pictures of us getting ready.

Reading Celebration

What a fantastic day we had today. It was really exciting sharing our reading and writing with our family and friends. We also got to watch an awesome play and share some yummy food. Take a look at some of the fun we had...

Reading Celebration - Video Maker

Sharing at Assembly

We shared our awesome 3D bees at assembly on Friday. We explained to the school the process we went through and how long it took. Come into the classroom to check out our amazing bees! 

Potato Planting

On Friday we planted our potato in a bucket for out Ferns/Punga potato growing competition. We need to make sure it gets plenty of water and sunlight.

Goodbye Tyson...

Today we were very lucky because Tyson's mum made us a scrumptious and delicious cake. The only thing is that it's a sad cake because Tyson is leaving on Wednesday. We will miss him so much. But we know he will have lots of fun and make new friends at his new school.

Dance Festival

Today we had our dress rehearsal for the dance festival that is coming up next Wednesday night. We all looked fantastic. We will bring our clothes home tonight so that we can change into them before the dance festival. We had to make some small adjustments with our costumes.

Reading Extravaganza!!!

Save this date for our really exciting reading extravaganza!!! We can't wait to share our learning with our parents, friends and family. We also can't wait to munch on some tasty treats!!!

Bees

Our paper mâché bees are coming along nicely. Today we started painting the head and thorax black. We will do the abdomen yellow next.

Fun Friday Disco!

Tonight was our school Disco. What an awesome night we all had with lots of dancing, lights and treats. Check out the photos of the fun we had...

disco 2014 - Video Maker

Daffodil Day!

Today is Daffodil day so we all come to school wearing either green, yellow or orange and bought a gold coin to go to the cancer society. We had lots of fun at the parade and the Jump Jam afterwards. Here a few pictures of us putting our coins on the daffodil.

Wow Jess and Jemimah!

Today Jess and Jemimah had their dance exam. When they returned to school they both had beautiful purple rosettes! They told us about their dance and how much fun they had. 

Science Week

This week we have started a series of science lessons. We started in our own classes and next week will go to another class to learn something else about science.

We wanted to know what would happen if we put flowers in coloured water. They started out like this:

When we got to school this morning look at what had happened!!!

We also looked at what would happen if we put raisins in fizzy water. 

They started dancing as the bubble attached to them and then when they got to the top the bubbles popped and they fell down.

Our Big Punga Walk

Today we went for a big walk around the Wither Hills. We had to walk through a deep dark forest up hills and around on a stony path. We also had to dodge lots of poo! We had so much fun looking at how winter is changing to spring.

Tevita having a rest

Waiting to get over the stile

Alex waving the sand flies away

Enjoying the view

A long snaky trail of children

Here is some of our fantastic writing about our walk...

Paper Mache

We have been really busy paper maching all the parts of our bee. We did a bit of an organise this morning and found due to some balloons going down we were missing a few parts. So we asked some of our awesome big buddies to come up and help get them finished so that we can paint them in the next couple of weeks.

Very busy children

Everyone working together

Our big buddies are such fantastic helpers