Cross Country 2013....

Well the weather wasn't as kind as it could have been but it was a cross country race after all!  The children were determined and they all completed it ...well done room 10!  I tried to get action shots of all the children but my camera was a bit slow and the children were a bit fast.  But you can certainly see the determination on some of these faces...

Detectives....

On Monday we trudged up the hill to the community garden.  Richard showed us the caterpillar eggs and the tiny caterpillars on the swan plant in the garden.  The caterpillar eggs are tiny white dots.
 " The caterpillar eggs turn black when they are ready to hatch,"  said Beth.  
Good detective work room 10. 

Our First Butterfly...

We have a swan plant in our classroom. The first butterfly emerged from the chrysalis on Saturday while we weren't at school!  Sneaky butterfly!  Mrs S. took the butterfly up to the community garden and let it dry its wings on the swan plant up there.

Welcome to Room 10 2013

HELLO from all of us in room 10!

Farewell...

We had a shared lunch today to farewell Harish who is moving back to Malaysia, and also to celebrate our time together in room 10.  What wonderful food we had - thank you parents for sending it along for us to share.  You can see the very happy faces!

Book Character Day...

Today the whole school celebrated 'Favourite Book Character Day". 
 We had spidermen and ghosts,
 kings and foxes,
 mice and pirates,
 princesses and mermaids, 
oompa loompas and Charlie from the chocolate factory,
Ben 10 and ninjas,
 skeletons and monsters. 
 We had a lot of fun!

Amazing writing...

Last week the children discussed the effects of Hurricane Sandy in New York.

Max, Luke and Lola did some amazing writing as a follow up...

Splish, Splosh, Splash...

We just love going to swimming lessons.  Look at these happy faces...

Cupcakes...

Yum!  Harish brought Angry Bird cupcakes to school on Friday for his birthday.  Thank you Harish - they were scrumptious!

Art Gallery Creations...

Here are the beautiful pictures the children created at the Art Gallery.  Can you see the ocean junk sinking to the bottom of the sea?

Artists at work...

Today we visited the Art Gallery and worked with Mr Neumegan.  First we looked at some of the art work in the gallery.  Then we created some of our own art all about things that float and sink.  We will bring our art work home but we want to show it off at school first!

Cake creation...

Happy Birthday Ben.  Thank you for sharing such an amazing castle cake with all of us.  Yum!

Junior Olympics at NEVNS

Last Friday the sun shone for our junior Olympics games at school.  We had an opening ceremony, and then we split into groups.  We competed in running races, shot put, gymnastics and basketball.  We finished with a medal ceremony and sang the national anthem.  It was lots of fun!

Kiwi art...

Today we shared our 3D kiwi art at assembly.  Nice work room 10!

Magnets...

We are learning about magnetic force.  Today Max brought a magnetic rock to school.  Now that was interesting!
  How could a rock be attracted to a magnet? 
 'It would have to have iron or steel inside the rock because magnets are attracted to those types of metal,' said Ben. 

Guinea pig pets...

Nehana brought his very well behaved guinea pigs to visit us last Friday.  Today we wrote a poem about them...

Nehana's Pets

Throson and Binno

sharp scratchy claws

tiny beady black eyes

silky smooth fur

skitterish and fast

struggling to be still as a statue

burrowing to escape

sniffle snuffle

pat pat pat

purring like a cat

cuddly

calm

 soft

guinea pigs

by room 10

Snap! Snap! Snap!

We are learning about how things move using air.  We made enormous crocodile mouths.  Using a balloon and a straw we could make the mouth open wide by blowing up the balloon.  By letting the air out of the balloon, the crocodile closed its jaws.  Clever work room 10!

Pukekos at assembly...

This week we read a big book called The Swamp Eggs, with Miss Liu.  We painted pukekos and shared our work at assembly.  They look great! 

Leaf Prints...

We collected autumn leaves and painted them white and pressed them onto a black background to make leaf prints.  Stunning work room 10!

Making apple juice...

Lola's mum brought some apples to school from their apple tree at home. So...  Mrs S. brought her juice machine to school and we made apple juice.  It was thick and creamy and sweet and the children LOVED it!  We did some shared writing today and this is our poem.  "Well I am impressed with the great language these children use," said Mrs S.

Sensational Swimmers...

We have had a busy start to Term 2 with daily swimming for the first two weeks.  The children made excellent progress and gained a lot of water confidence.  Here are some smiling swimmers all looking googly eyed!!

Cross Country Fun Run...

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Cross Country Fun Run...

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We finished the term with a fun run around the school.  It was a beautifully warm afternoon.  Well done to all of the determined runners in room 10!  Mrs S. was not quick enough with the camera to get shots of everyone... sorry.

Community Garden...

This afternoon we planted tulip bulbs at the entrance to the Community Garden.  When they flower they will  be so colourful.  But they won't flower until spring.  We also planted our swan plant in the garden so we hope some monarch butterflies will lay some eggs on it next summer.  Thank you to Richard who was a great teacher of tulip bulb planting.

More beautiful butterflies...

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Butterfly release...

We let our butterflies go yesterday afternoon.  We took them outside to the honeysuckle plant outside our classroom.  One of them really liked Nehana's red t-shirt!

  It was a warm day so we were happy to let the butterflies free in the sunshine.  They looked  for nectar in the honeysuckle flowers. 

 It has been amazing to watch the life cycle of the monarch butterflies.

Butterfly twins...

We had the most exciting butterfly day today - both of our butterflies emerged from their chrysalises!!  One butterfly sneaked out at morning tea time, but Mrs S. was lucky enough to spot it, and snapped a photo.  The other butterfly emerged straight after morning tea and we were able to watch it push its way out of its chrysalis.  It was amazing to watch!  The wings were all crumpled and folded up, and the butterflies crept up to the top of the swan plant to let their wings unfold and dry out. 

Watermelon surprise...

Yesterday was Finn's birthday and he and his mum kindly brought along a whole watermelon for us to share.  What a treat!  We all showed off how strong we were and passed the watermelon around the circle.  It was HEAVY!  Then we had a feast of the sweetest watermelon we had ever tasted.  Mmmmmmm.....

Thank you Finn!

Ccccc....caterpillar alliteration

We have been learning about alliteration. At writing time we did some shared writing and produced this poem using alliteration.  Pretty clever room 10!

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Butterfly birth...

Our first butterfly emerged from its chrysalis on Monday morning before we got to school.  It was extremely exciting.  It stayed in the classroom with us until after lunch.  It flapped its wings to dry them, because it is wet inside the chrysalis.  We carefully took the butterfly outside and put it on a plant in our herb garden.  It was looking for nectar.  Fly free little butterfly.

Sunflower Art...

We have amazing sunflowers growing in our school gardens right now.  We have looked carefully at them and created our own sunflower paintings.  Fabulous work room 10!  You impress me.

Sunflowers

Some…

                       droopy, shy

Hiding their heads

Others tall, like a skyscraper

Like a mighty soldier

Powerful as the sun

An island of sunflowers

A sunflower mountain

Fiery sunflowers

Towering above us !

by room 10

Butterfly House ...

Today we had a visit to the Butterfly house at the Otago Museum.  We are learning about changes, and butterflies go through many magical changes in their lives. It was very exciting and extremely warm!  Sadly Mrs S's camera batteries ran out so we couldn't get too many photos.  Can you guess what Troy is doing in the photos?

Hedgehog surprise...

Mrs Lindsay, who works in our office, found a little hedgehog snuffling around at her house.  So she carefully picked it up with some gloves and brought it to school so we could have a close look.  We wrote a poem about the little hedgehog.  I love the way that room 10 children think of such amazing words and ideas...

Awesome room 10 writing...

Br..br..brownie

We have been learning about the sound a ...br ...makes, so today we made br....brownie. MMmmmmmm.....

Farewell shared lunch...

On Tuesday we all brought some food along to school to share at lunchtime.  We were celebrating our time together in room 10 and also saying a farewell to Iman, as he leaves for Malaysia soon.  We had a real feast!  Thank you everyone   :)

Making broad bean mash...

Last Thursday we picked all the broad beans off the plants in our garden...

Then we podded the beans...   
              cooked the beans....
              peeled the skin off the beans...
and whizzed them all up in the food processor with salt, pepper and sour cream.

We made a huge pile of toast and...

...ate the bean mash on toast!

  Most of us loved it....some of us weren't so sure!  But everyone had at least one big bite!











 

Ronald McDonald...

We all got a huge surprise this morning when Ronald McDonald arrived at out school!  He told us a story about losing his red stripy sock on a windy day.  He had to be very careful around roads and cars as he looked for his sock.  So we learned and remembered lots of road safety rules.  Thanks Ronald McDonald - we love seeing you!

Buddy reading with Room 2...

Sometimes we buddy read on a Friday afternoon with the cool kids in Room 2.  They read stories to us and we love it!  It is such a lovely way to end our week.