Book Week

Room 9a has been learning about New Zealand Authors.

We read a lot of books. Some by Joy Cowley and some by Lynley Dodd and lots of books by Margret Mahy.

We loved the story by Lynley Dodd called 'The Nickle Nackle Tree'. We read it with our buddie class Room 18 and then we all had a fabulous afternoon creating our own amazing birds to go on Room 9a's Nickle Nackle Tree.

Come on in and take a look at our fabulous Nickle Nackle birds.

Grandparents visit Room 9a

Room 9a was very lucky today. We had 5 grandparents come into the classroom to read with us.

The children loved listening to the stories and loved hearing about school dinners, where they went to school and how they got to school. We had 2 grandparents who went to school in England.

Thanks so much for coming to visit and giving up your day. We even had grandparents travel up from Taupo last night to be here.

 Laura's Nana is reading a book in Chinese. 

 The children loved listening to this story.

Charlotte's Grandad went to school in England. 

He used to have school dinners for lunch.

Roman's Poppa lived in England too. He grew up in a cottage that had a big garden he spent lots of time playing in.

Jade's Nana came up from Taupo last night to be with us today. She grew up in the South Island.

Jade's Grandad grew up in Invercargill. He used to walk home to have lunch every day.

Symmetrical Butterflies

As part of our insects study we talked about symmetry in insects.
We made butterflies out of leaves and sticks we found at school and tried to make them symmetrical.
We then painted butterflies on one side of the wing and then folded them in half. We smoothed the two sides together and then opened them up.
Look at our beautiful butterfly's.
Have a look do they look symmetrical to you?