Discovery learning

Gemma getting creative 

Fashion Designers in the making 

What are you going to do with all of these???

Making an obstacle course

Looks dangerous....

           Making pirate hats 

Art in the classroom

We read The Crocodiles Christmas Jandals.  These are some of the ideas we had for our dream jandals. 

Dream jandals 

Concentrating hard 

Mixing colours 

Room 10's start to 2015

Maths - We cut out a gingerbread chain and joined them together to see how far they would stretch.

Orientation and position in Maths.  We blindfolded our buddies and gave them directions. 

"Walk straight ahead"

"No peeking"

Working together

Discovery learning in Room 10

Wow, what a lot of boxes (and a lot of mess....)

Getting creative....

OUR BEAN EXPERIMENTS

We are looking at how plants grow and change.

What we know is written in red. 
What we wondered is written in blue.

We started to find seeds in the food that we were eating

So we got some pots and filled them with dirt, and put a bean into the dirt.

We planted up 4 pots and labelled them Plant A , B , C and D.
Plant D was the pot that was watered and will have light and warmth because we will put it in the sun every day.
Plant A is in a box to see if it needs light to grow.
Plant B is in the fridge to see if it needs warmth to grow.
Plants A and B and D will all get water.
Plant C will not get any water.

This jar has paper around the inside of the jar and soil. There is a bean growing between the glass and paper. We are looking at how a seed forms its roots and leaves.

We will keep you posted as to what happens...

TANIWHA DAFFODIL FARM

On Tuesday 9th September, the whole Junior School and lots of parents, boarded buses to go to Waipukurau. We went to the Taniwha Daffodil Farm to pick daffodils as an introduction to our "Changes" inquiry topic.

On the bus. It was very exciting!

When we got there, we had morning tea on the tarpaulin that
Pete had put out for us.

Out amongst the daffodils. We were allowed to pick 20.

There was a tree house but there were too many
children wanting to climb up so we couldn't use it.

There were swans ...

 crocodiles...

and hippos....just kidding.

Hiding amongst the daffodils.

A beautiful bunch of daffodils for Mum.

A bit of playtime before we went home.

The daffodils went into crates so that they would arrive safely
back at school.

Wrapping.

                                                      "Home James."

Calendar Art

Instead of having a showing of calendar art in the hall as we usually do, this year we are showing you on the blog what the children have produced. Room 18 has done a background (like wrapping paper) and then put photos on of things that we have done at school.