Growing Vegetables

Miss Suze brought some peas from her garden for us to
look, draw, look and sketch in our sketching books.
Then we got to eat a fresh sweet juicy pea! Delicious.

We looked at the strawberry patch.
Some of the strawberries were red
and ripe to eat.

These are beans growing in the
kitchen garden.
They have orange flowers.

The kitchen garden has changed a lot.
There are a lot of vegetables growing.
We like walking on the stepping stones through the garden.

 

Kowhai Wheels Day

Buddy Reading

Last week we started reading with our buddies in Room 14.

We are going to take our writing books and share our writing. 

We like listening to the big kids read. 

We like having the big kids listen and help us with the hard words.

Thanks Emma for taking photos of us reading in the shade.

Little Yellow Digger

This week has been exciting, we watched the garden vanish!

First of all the man with the digger came and scooped up all the trees and dirt.

Next he used a sledge hammer to smash the concrete.

There was nothing left when he had finished!

We liked watching the digger so much we drew pictures

of the little yellow digger at work.

Our success criteria was :

- there is a digger and it is coloured in yellow

- there is someone driving the digger

- there are orange safety cones to keep the children safe

- there is a truck with dirt  piling up in it

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Crafty Kids

Meet our Buddy!

 

 We have a new person in our class his name is Buddy Robinson.

We have been having fun learning with Buddy.

Room 5 and their Buddy Minnie came to visit our class (left)
Buddy enjoys lining up with Room 3 on the snail (right)

Buddy is dangling from the monkey bars on the Rainbow playground (left)

We are all building sandcastles in the sandpit (right)

 Look at all the children in the tyres on the playground 

down on Putikitiki! (left)

After all that learning and playing it is time for morning tea, 

don't forget your sunhats! (right)

 Our favourite time of the day - Big Book reading time. 

Everyone is enjoying reading and working together to read all the words.

 

Room 3 loves choosing time when all the blocks come out.

Buddy joined in making a tall, tall, tall building with the big blocks. 

Room 3's Buddy

Meet our Buddy, we are going to decorate our Buddy.

Watch this space to find out more about Buddy and

what makes them feel safe, happy and healthy.

Superstar Readers in Room 3!

We have been practicing videoing each other. 

We are reading the writing from our writing books. 

We have to press the red button to record and hold the ipad steady 
so you can see the writing and hear the person reading.

We love sharing our writing with each other.

Ruben the Bear

It was a busy day on Tuesday, after morning tea we had 
Ruben the Bear come to visit the Kowhai Team. 
Ruben had big shoes on, a back pack and coloured buttons on his top. 

Ruben talked to us about being safe on the road. 

"Stop (on the side of the road), Look (for cars both ways, left and right), 

Listen (for cars you might not see them but you can hear them) and 

Link (or hold hands with an adult"

We are going to practice crossing the pedestrian crossing, it is 

sometimes called a zebra crossing because it has white and black stripes.

Afro-Cuban Drumming

We had a wonderful band from Sacred Heart come and play for us.

There were saxophones, trombones, drums, jimbos, congos, clarinets, 

keyboard and electric guitars.

The band played songs in Spanish.

We clapped along to the beat and played some instruments.

Fun with Maths

We made a pictograph of all the things we did in the holidays. 

We drew a picture of ourselves then glued our drawing onto the graph. 
We can count how many children went swimming - there were 7.
3 children went to Auckland in the holidays.
Another 3 road motorbikes during the 2 week school holiday.

Sunhats

We have been back at school for one week now. 

We all enjoyed our holidays and had fun going to the movies to see Turbo or The Smurfs. Some of us went to Auckland and others stayed at their Nana's/Aunties house.

It is very warm and sunny this term and we are learning to be Sun Smart!

We all have our own hats with our name on it. 

We drew our hats and labelled them using Kidpix. 

It was hard work finding all the letters on the keyboard to type our words.

Mystery Creek Trip

We had a fantastic trip to Mystery Creek.

We learnt about what life was like in the olden days.
When we got back to school we drew pictures 
about what we saw during the trip.

 

We learnt about what children used to wear when 

they went to school. Boys wore shirts and hats and 

girls wore pinafores and bonnets.

They used to wear hats to keep the cooties from 

jumping between childrens heads!

 

We found out how people used to wash their clothes by hand.  We washed material against a scrubbing board and then squeezed the clothes through a mangler to dry the clothes (we had to watch out and make sure we didn't squeeze our fingers!). 

There were no washing machines or dryers because 

they had not been invented yet and there was no 

electricity to do the job for us.

We really liked the big paper mache cow. 

We learnt that you can make butter and cheese 

and cream from the milk.

Earl showed us old photos and the old machines people used to use on the farm before motorbikes and tractors.

  

Earl also found a frog for us to have a look at.

 He was hiding under the metal step.

Thank you to all the wonderful parent helpers 

who came along on the day.

You are all superstar parents and we couldn't have done it without you!

Hopscotch

We have been learning about games our grandparents used to play.  They didn't have ipads or television to watch so they had to play games like hopscotch.

Hopscotch is a great game you can play and all you need is a piece of chalk and lots of energy to hop and jump!! 

We drew squares to hop and jump in. We practiced writing our numbers in the boxes. 

Cross Country Day

On Friday we had our cross country race at school. 

We ran at 11.10am and some parents came 
to watch and cheer for us.

Thank you for your support!

Here is a video of the start of a race...

"I was tired and running around the grass on Putikitiki."

"I feel fast and I like cross country."

 

"I am running around Putikitiki and I was tired."

"I felt like I was going to fall over but I didn't."

"The winner was the fastest boy I've ever seen!"

"I like cross country it made me very tired."

What was school like for our grandparents?

We are learning to use puppet pals on our ipad. 

We love using the ipad!

Daffodil Day

Look at us, today we dressed up as daffodils or in yellow or green for daffodil day!

We brought in a gold coin to donate to the Cancer Society to help all the people who are sick.

Grandparent day

My Grandma came to school and I felt happy. 

I showed her my homebook and my new classroom

                         My Nan came to school for Grandparent day

 and my Aunty and Uncle from Australia visited too.

I am reading my poem The Koru to my Grandfather