Thursday 8 December 2011

The Botanical Gardens

Hi all! Wow! what a great (but tiring) week.  We had the trip and parent conferences on Monday and our Celebration Assembly today.  Unfortunately at the Garden's my class was the one that got split so  I only got pictures of the group I was with. Here you see Kalush, Sean and Delilah all planting their seedlings.  This was part of the Education programme at the Gardens.

Well done to the whole of Room 3 who acted out  "The Little Brown Seed"  at our celebration today.  Delilah read it superbly and our rain (Cohen and Sean) and our rainbows (Brodie and Mia) did a great job.  Our seeds were marvelous as well.

I also want to publish some very good writing that was done about compost (yes compost!) following our trip. Keegan, Seth and Evie did a great job of reading these out today.  Angelina was unfortunately sick.




Creepy Crawlies!


These are the things that you can put in a compost pile: Paper, horse and cow poo, green leaves, dry leaves and sticks.
Creepy crawlies love compost like ceterpedes, spiders, and beetles. They nibble and much on the rotting leaves.  Some of the bugs eat the compost and some of them eat each other. Compost piles turn out to be rich humus for our plants and weeds. 
By Keegan


Heat Rising
The compost pile has steam coming off it because it gets quite hot.  You can put lots of things in a compost pile - even a tea bag.  Dead leaves and horse poo can go in too.  There are centipedes and spiders and worms in the compost. All of the bugs work together.  They all help to make the compost.  We put the junk in and we get compost that helps our plants to grow.  By Seth

Centipedes -Yuck!
We can put sheep and cow poo in the compost pile and sticks and leaves are great too.  In a compost pile you might find some slaters, worms and centipedes. Yuck! They munch on garbage and some eat even eat each other.  The compost helps the flowers to grow.  By Evie

Creeping centipedes!
Compost can have lots of different insects in it like slaters,beetles and spiders. It is made of leaves sticks and garden garbage.  Centipedes creep and crawl around everywhere.  The compost helps your plants to grow. By Angelina



Thursday 1 December 2011

Today's the day we have the Teddy bear's Picnic....

We're going on a bear hunt.......I'm not scared!


We have been practising our best bear singing, our best bear acting and our best bear writing.  Have a look at this great bear writing.......

Saturday 26 November 2011

Wheels Day

Hi people.  This week have included some of the photos from our wheels day.  The children had great fun. Thank you to the parent help that came along.

Upcoming Events :
Monday 28 Nov Morning Walk (In afternoon -safety visit from police)
December 1  Drum Show
December 2 Teddy Bear Picnic
December 5 Botanical Garden Trip

                                                     Stop and walk across the Pedestrian Crossing.








 Thinking! Checking!




Determination!



 Fun at the parade!


Tuesday 22 November 2011

Fireworks!

Hi! These videos were directed, acted out  and videoed by the  clever Room 3 children.  I think there is some clever use of sound.  I love Brodi's firework scream. (I meant to post this blog about a week ago - and thought I had lost it.  Just found it under drafts!) Please also have a look at the 'Talking about our writing' blog. Some great comments from the children here.
Thanks to the person who wrote the comment! It really is good to know that people are looking at what we are doing.

Monday 21 November 2011

Talking about our writing

We have been learning about kiwis and their predators.  Today we wrote about why we should save the kiwi.

Monday 7 November 2011

Speeches

Hi! Hopefully all of the children have bee practising their speeches at home.  Last Friday they had an opportunity during our' 'buddy class' sharing time to read these to their buddies.

Remember you are all welcome to come a watch the speeches from 2:20pm on the 15th.  Have a look at some of the practising

Saturday 5 November 2011

Poems and drama

We have been having a lot of fun acting out poems.  I love this little video.

The children have started having turns videoing with the 'bloggie'. They are finding they have to overcome problems like fitting everyone in and moving the camera slowly.  This one was videoed by me but beautifully read by Angelina.  I hope to post some videoed by the children in the near future.  'Bloggies' really are a fantastically easy tool for us all to use.