OUR FLOWER SHOW

Well hello! We've had an amazing day today. We've been learning about plants so today we had a flower show. We each entered two exhibits - we could choose from a miniature garden, a sand tray, a fruit or vegetable person or a vase arrangement.

We had spent the last few days planning what our exhibits would look like - then we searched in our gardens at home to find things we could use to create the picture we had made in our mind. Finally, we put it all together at school today - and our families came to celebrate our work at school this afternoon.

So take a look at our photostory videos - and share in our wonderful designs and creations!

OUR VISIT TO ZEALANDIA

We heard kaka, tuis, saddlebacks and some weka. Today Room 7 and Room 4 went in a bus to Zealandia. Jenny took us for a look around. She talked to us about the bush and how the wildlife sanctuary works.

At Zealandia there's kiwi, bellbirds, tuatara and more. There are lots of birds because of the trees and there are lots of trees because of the birds. The birds eat the seeds off the trees, then they fly and poop somewhere else so the seeds drop to the ground and get into the soil - so another big tree can grow.

Insects also help pollinate the trees. They eat the pollen on the flowers and carry it over to other flowers. The little insects are eaten by bigger insects or flies. We saw a green geko eating flies. The tuatara eat insects too - so they all need one another to keep the food chain going.

"I think that it's really good that people from New Zealand are helping animals and trees that might become extinct." SHIRLEY
"I think my education about plants and animals has gone up a level". ANTON
"I think native birds and trees are a lot more interesting now." KELLER

Our Trees

Hi, everyone! Today we have been learning about our trees. We made poems. We would like to share some of them to you:

Barky, sharp, crackly
Brown as a chocolate milkshake
Holey as holey cheese

Reminds me of a windstorm

The tree is like a banana being peeled.

Spikey, bumpy, round

Brown as a piece of cardboard.

Bumpy as the bottom of shoes

Reminds me of a small piece of bark.

The trunk is still as a waterfall flowing down.

Hi there everyone.

We haven't put a blog up for a few weeks because there's been so much going on in Room 7. So... here goes......
We've been

• working on our school production....
• painting pictures......
• doing lots of basic fact practise
• lots of skipping - getting ready for the "jump off" tomorrow.....
• the field is really muddy and the boys have been getting really messy at lunchtime.....
• talking about where we feel close to God.....
• sharing about our treasures.......
• we painted pictures of our family treasures...
• writing recounts about our school production......

.... so you can see that we've all been working really hard.....

We would like to share our art work with you.
We were talking about sacraments. A sacrament is an experience of God in our life. Five students in our class participated in the Parish sacramental programme this year. Matt, Ciara, Caitlin, Brian, Toby, Josh, Anya, Cameron and Daniel made their First Holy Communion a couple of weeks ago. They had worked really hard to prepare for this and it was a pretty special occasion for their families.

Anyway, our pictures show the special places we feel the presence of God - and if you click on the link you can watch our powerpoint.

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Here's the link to our powerpoint presentation. If you click on the link you will be able to see all the paintings and captions up close. Tell us what you think of them!
THIS LINK ISN'T WORKING AT PRESENT..... SO WE'LL TRY TO FIX IT TOMORROW

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I'm experimenting with voice files .... We took the little yellow microphone to the pool and talked about what we had experienced in their lesson that day. listen to our comments!

We've been doing Green Homework this term. Each week we choose one special thing to do with a member of our family. It's fun to do different things for homework - some people have learned to cook, play a new sport or just have fun at the park together.

This term we are learning about pirates and treasure. There was lots of information about pirates on the internet and you tube. Caitlin has learned that they did some pretty horrible things to people. We found out that they ate biscuits with worms in them and Robert did some research about why people got scurvy. We've found out lots about the different types of guns and swords they used: like a cutless or a blunderbuss. Josh has learned that there are pirates still alive today.



Today is New Zealand Poetry Day so we decided we would all find or write poems about pirates and share them with you on our blog.

• Teah's poem


• Johniel's poem


• Ana's poem


• Robert's poem


• Sabina's poem


• Jasmine's poem


• Keller's poem


• Cameron's poem


• Brian's poem


• Caitlin's poem


• Daniel's poem


• Ciara's poem


• Shirley's poem


• Maddy's poem


• Anton's poem


• Josh's poem


• Christian's poem


• James F's poem


• Anya's poem


• Shannen's poem

Our teacher has to find out how to link to the poems and then we'll be able to share them with you!