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.

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.

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.

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?