George's Marvellous Medicine

On Friday we made our own marvelous medicines.
We used flour, vinegar, oil, flowers, leaves, baking soda, herbs and paint to make the medicines.
We had a wonderful time mixing, creating and making them.

Then we made granny out of cardboard and paper and fed her some of our marvelous medicine to make her grow.It was so funny. We had lots of fun.

New World Little Garden update

The little gardens are growing beautifully in Room 9a and Room 18.
The children have been spraying them with water and putting them in the sunshine.
The children have each taken one plant home now to grow in their own garden and we will plant the leftovers in the class garden.
Watch this space.

New World Little Garden

Room 9a and Room 18 were very lucky to receive a New World 'Little Garden' project to do together.
On Friday we planted our seeds into the little pots with our buddies.
We had to mix the soil pod with water and lay the seeds on the top and then cover them with soil.
Then we put the labels into them and put them into our big garden kit.
Our little garden looks fantastic.
Come into Room 9a and see how our garden is growing.

Toys, Toys, Toys.

We are learning about Toys. 
We enjoyed a fantastic trip to Motat last week and this got us inspired to make our own soft toys.
Fist we looked at pictures of soft toys and brought soft toys to school.
Then we drew a plan of what we wanted our soft toy to look like, onto paper.
Mrs Newman then cut a template out of calico.
Then we coloured the template in and added the details using fabric pens.This was quite tricky as the material kept moving.
Next lovely Charlotte's Nana took the templates home and sewed the two pieces together as Mrs Newman's sewing machine had broken.
Today we stuffed the toys with stuffing and Charlotte's Nana came to school with her sewing machine to sew the last part up.
They look amazing Room 9a. You are all so clever.
A big thank you to Charlotte's Nana, she is a star.

Working together

Drake, Matt and Peter worked really hard together today to make a candy shop at the collage/construction table.
They worked together to collaborate, incorporate everyone's ideas and to turn take to produce this wonderful sweet shop.
Isn't it awesome?

Stick Insects

We are learning about 'Insects'.

This week we looked at 'Stick Insects'.

We found out that they have 3 body parts.

They have 6 legs and they hatch from eggs.

They can camouflage themselves to look like the branches on trees.

The Maori name for a stick insect is 'Ro'.

They eat leaves.

*We made our own stick insects out of sticks. They are very cute. Come and have a look.

Room 9a went home on Thursday and all the stick insects were on the Science Table. When we came to school on Friday all the Stick Insects were on our insect tree at the back of the classroom. We think they decided to explore our classroom and found a lovely place to Camouflage on.

What do you think happened?