Apple Collage

We made some wonderful ripped paper collage apples.

Our Visit from Lisa the Librarian

On the first Friday back this term we had a special visit from Lisa, who we all know as Miss Dam. Lisa is now working at Takapuna library and she came back to the middle syndicate to share some of the amazing books that we could look at or borrow from our local libraries.

We all really impressed by the augmented reality book. This book was special because you use an ipad to make parts of the book come alive!  Have a look at the great photo she sent of the dinosaur on Michael's hand!

Soccer

We were lucky enough to have some soccer coaches come to our school and teach us some basic soccer skills. Here we are in action!

Spot and Bo

Spot and Bo are special toys that we can bring home at the end of the week. 

Every Friday Mrs Hanson chooses two special people to take home Spot or Bo. We have to try our best and be excellent all week and if we're lucky we might get to take one of the toys home.

We can take Spot or Bo with us where ever we go and we have to write about our adventures in their diary.

On Monday we share their diary with our class.

I wonder who will get to take them home today?........

Visualisation Activity

Mrs Smith taught us all about visualisation. She told us a story about the Nogard. The story was very descriptive and we needed to use our imagination to draw a nogard without looking at any pictures. Eventually we found out that a nogard is dragon! (Nogard is dragon spelt backwards).  It was amazing to see how all our drawings turned out and how similar they were.

Later in the week we then wrote stories with Mrs Hanson about our dragon. We were encouraged to use adjectives to describe our dragons. 

Look out for future a future post of our published stories.

Milk in Schools

Last Friday was our first day of having milk at school. Every day we will get a free carton of cold milk to drink. Our buddy class visited us and showed us how to fold up our empty cartons ready to go in the special Fonterra blue bins. These bins are only for our cartons and straws and they are taken away to be recycled into different things such as books!

We have our milk around 10am each day after fitness. We drink our milk while we finish writing or while completing reading activities.

Hockey

This term we are lucky enough to have some special coaches come in and teach us basic hockey skills each Wednesday. This week was our first session and we were learning to hold a hockey stick correctly, dribble the ball, stop the ball and dribble in reverse.