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.

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.

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?