Book Week Update

Today we browsed the shelves at the Book Fair in the hall with our buddy class.

There are some beautiful books there.
(Doesn't the Community Quilt look fabulous too!)

We were able to compile a wish list to bring home and share with you.

Ms Ashby's Valuable Life Lesson:
A wish list is NOT the same as a shopping list!
A shopping list has things you NEED and WILL buy.
A wish list has things you WANT to buy.

Wombling With Our Buddies

Today after lunch we went wombling with our buddy class. Can you see how much rubbish we found? We felt disappointed about that. The name wombling comes from a t.v programme I used to watch when I was little.

These are the words for the Wombling song. They might give you an idea about why what we did today is called wombling.

THE WOMBLING SONG Underground, overground, wombling free, The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we. Making good use of the things that we find, Things that the everyday folks leave behind. Uncle Bulgaria, He can remember the days when he wasn? behind the times, With his map of the world. Pick up the papers and take them to Tobermory! Wombles are organised, work as a team. Wombles are tidy and Wombles are clean. Underground, overground, wombling free, The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we! People don't notice us, they never see, Under their noses a Womble may be. We womble by night and we womble by day, Looking for litter to trundle away. We're so incredibly, utterly devious Making the most of everything. Even bottles and tins. Pick up the pieces and make them into something new, Is what we do! Underground, overground, wombling free, The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we. Making good use of the things that we find, Things that the everyday folks leave behind.

Drip, drip, drip

What a fun day we've had today all based around water. We worked with people from our class and our buddy class who were in our House (or one other House). Whero and Kowhai  worked together and so did Kahurangi and Kakariki.
The first activity we did was building sand structures in the sand pit. Our aim was to create a structure that would be mostly the same after a "flood" poured all over it.

More Buddy Reading

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Easter Baskets and Buddies
I love Caitlin's super-sized basket. Why don't you try to make one of those?

Heart Baskets

We have begun making Swedish Heart Baskets. They are tricky but very clever and pretty. There is a good YouTube clip about making them but the spelling and language is a bit funky and weird.

Reading this week...

We're putting all the great skills and book knowledge we've learned this term to the test this week. We are inviting year one classes to Room 17 to read to them. Not only are we reading the book but we are also trying to get them to talk about the book and share their ideas about it.


We will be reading to another class tomorrow. You can find a favourite book from home to read and then you can have some practice tonight. If you don't have a little brother or sister maybe Mum or Dad would pretend!

Buddy Class Learning

On Friday we invited our buddy class, Room 23, to come and do some observational drawing with us. We were drawing lemons and tangelos that had been cut in half.