Angels by the Room 17 Angels

Angels on PhotoPeach

If you click on a photo it will make it bigger. It is best to watch it in full screen mode.

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.

Phoofed Out Fairy Fabricators

We have had a busy day on the production line today! Thank you to Tracy for all her help and encouragement.

By lunchtime we'd painted all the bodies and shoes.

By home time MOST fairies had their skirts on.
Tau kē koutou!

The Possibility Patch is Back!

Hooray - we're back in business! Thanks to Sharon for being the adult supervisor today, and for taking some photos to share.

If you'd like to read about how the Possibility Patch began you can follow this link.

Did you know that we even had snow in the Possibility Patch once? If you'd like to read other posts about the PP have a scroll through these links. 

Possibility Patch 2012

Possibility Patch 2013

Congratulations Sophie!

We are proud of you getting third place in the Year 3 and 4 Talent Quest.

We can't wait to hear and see you and your friends perform for us tomorrow!

Our Year Two Heroes

Super Heroes Parade on PhotoPeach Today we'll be able to give the children the cards we made yesterday about the parade.

The Memorial Garden

Last week Aaron was at school carving a manaia for the memorial garden. We watched him working and asked questions about his work. The manaia is a guardian creature. There was also a taniwha carving there.

The memorial garden will be a special place to help us remember Tracy and Doug who used to work at St Albans School.

That's Not a Good Idea!

Today we enjoyed a production of Mo Willems' book That is NOT a Good Idea!

The presenters used great expressions and gestures to enhance the story. Hmm - does that remind you of anything else we've talked about recently - possibly your poems for the poetry competition?

Tessellation Time

Tessellations are fun and a little bit addictive! There are lots of websites that have printable tessellation templates (try saying that fast 10 times!).

Book Week Parade

The links below will take you to the presentation with your photo and writing in it. Thanks Tracy for typing out all the stories!

Book Character Day 2014 Part 1

James, Belah, Blaze, Sophie, Lachlan, Ryan, Theo and Isobel

Book Character Day 2014 Part 2

Brooke, Akira, Riley, Evie, Vianca, Talan, Lucy and Makenzie

Book Character Day 2014 Part 3

Aakifah, Elizabeth, Ms Ashby, Gabe, Tanner, Soumadeep, Hasini and Sammie

Fish Fun

You each created a fish (or other water creature) using collage and used water colours to make a scene to present your fish on. These are up on the wall in Room 17. Before they went up on the wall Ms Neale helped you all use the app Puppet Pals to make a short movie. I have compressed these movies into three compilation tapes.


Next time we use this app we'll write scripts and plan the action too. It is a lot of fun.

Water Cycle

What a lot of words we use are about water. 

Bill Nye the Science Guy sure makes science fun. The poster you all created to show the water cycle is top-notch!

I love the way the glue dribbled on the word condensation
- it looks like it was designed to!

Do you want to rap the Riggidy-riggidy-rain song?

Winter Walk Photos

Mrs Brown took some beautiful photos on the Winter Walk last week. Click the photo below of Isobel's creation to transport yourself to Room 13's blog.

Happy Mothers' Day

Mothers' Day Fairies
Unfortunately some children were working with Mrs Hunter when we took the photos - it's pretty hard to be secret squirrels!

I hope you've got your fingers crossed for fine weather for tomorrow!! Orana Park here we come!

Just a Taster

The quality of this clip isn't very good but it is just to whet your families' appetites enough so they come in and have a look at the real things.

Community Quilt

Thanks to Ms Douglas for making the creative quilt squares with us! You will be able to see the real things when they go on display with all the other children's work, in the hall.

Autumn Beauty

Belah and I made a flower out of autumn leaves. We noticed something that looked like a pile of leaves. Then I said,
"Since we have so many leaves let's make a flower."
We did. We put some grass in the middle.
By Midori

Amazing ABC

Today Midori brought along her family's fabulous ABC book. We all love this book, it has very clever paper engineering and design ideas in it.  Here's a video of the book.
I also discovered that the author and creator of the book won a prize named after another author who created 3D books a long time ago here is an article about that.

Wet Playtime

I was very lucky Riley had brought some large gumboots to school today. Have a look and find out why!

Here's an interesting and surprising thing we noticed today...

The U.V. beads still had some colour sitting on the window sill