A Child's Wish List

Today we made a list of things children might wish for. Next we got into groups and cut up a copy of the list and put it in order of importance from the most important thing to the least important.

This is what we came up with. This would be a great thing to discuss at home with your family. Which things on the wish list can you tick off already?

New Posters Around the School

Our marketing campaign got off to a great start today with all our fairies displayed on fake trees. We have a papa tree, a mama tree and a baby tree. The baby tree is getting a lot of attention in the office area.

The mama and papa trees are in Room 17 ready and waiting for the fair. I wonder if you can find the three giant peg fairy posters around the school. Tomorrow we are beginning the advertisements at the team assemblies. Remember to bring a fairy costume to wear if you want to.
Room 17 children are allowed to buy and take home one fairy before the fair.

Time For Your Own Investigation

We have spent a lot of time recently looking at how things have changed. We went to Ferrymead and experienced what life might have been like 100 years ago. We thought about WHY things changed. Now we are going to investigate how one particular area is going to change into the future.
You came up with these ideas: jobs, schools, houses, transport, aircraft, fashion, shops, cities and sports gear. You will need to pick one of these ideas (or come up with another) to study further.

Old School

What was school like over one hundred years ago?

  This little video will give you an idea.

Water Experiment

Today we carried out an experiment that demonstrated something interesting about water.

Can you remember what it was so you can tell your family?

Maybe if you have some food colouring you could do the experiment at home?

We will do another experiment tomorrow to see what happens when we have water of different temperatures.

Orana Park - Here We Come!

It was so exciting to get on the bus and go to Orana Park this morning. We couldn't have had a more perfect day for it! All that finger crossing you did worked.
We split into five groups and worked with an educator from Orana Park to learn all about loads of animals. We had a theme of Wonderful Water and Its Effect on Wildlife.

Orana Park on PhotoPeach
These photos are all of Group Three.
Group Five's Photos

Shadow Play

For writing today we worked together to write a poem about our shadows. At first we wrote all the words we could think of that were about shadows. Next we tried to shape those ideas and words into a poem. We now understand how difficult it is to write poems!

Shadow, shadow where are you?
Somewhere where the skies are blue?
Oh we wish you would return
To help us play, have fun and learn.

We love it when you stay nearby
When the sun is in the sky.
Come and pounce and dance and play
Keep us company all the day.

The holidays are coming soon
So please come back
We're missing you!!!

We were so excited to see the sun today we decided to go out and play with our shadows!

It might be the last time for a while - boo!

Have a Sneak Preview

The Orana Park website has got many photos, video and news clips about what is going on out there. You could have a sneak preview of our day tomorrow. We have a water theme for the day so that might help you guess which animals we'll be taking a particular interest in.

Before You Speak...

Is what you are going to say
True
Helpful
Inspiring
Necessary
Kind?
 If it is only true, then you need to find another way of saying it.