Cross Country

On Wednesday we had our school cross country. We ran up Nature's Way, along the bank, down the hill, along the fence, around the playground and to the finish. It was great fun.

Birds' Nest

In drama we have been to visit Jill who went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Unfortunately a bird had stolen her special bucket and taken it up high in the tree. Jill was afraid of climbing the tree after falling down the hill. So we offered to climb the tree. When we got there a bird was sitting in Jill's bucket. When we asked for it back he got very upset as he had an egg in the nest. We offered to make him his own nest. We went for a walk up Nature's Way and collected things to make a nest. We made them in ice cream containers. On Monday we will take our nests back up the tree and let him choose one.

Discovery Time

In DIscovery time this week we talked about perseverance. We read the story of "The Little Red Hen." She showed perseverance when she made the bread.
We tried to persevere when we tried activities in Discovery time. We decided that perseverence means you keep on trying and don't give up.

Clowns

In art over the last few weeks we have drawn clowns. First we painted the background using sponges and white paint. We then looked at different pictures of clowns and talked about their bright colours. We practised sketching clowns. When we were confident we drew our clown onto our background using sketching pencils. We went over the pencil with black vivid and then used pastels to make our clowns bright and beautiful.

Our Teddies

On Friday we brought our soft toys to school for maths. We introduced our toy to the class and then we compared them to see who had the smallest/tallest and shortest/longest. We then used the interlocking blocks to see how many blocks tall or long our toy was. We loved having our toys at school. They were very well behaved and even came to Junior School assembly with us.

Our Fantastic Trip

Uma’s Dad, Virat, asked Room 6 to draw some portraits to put in his restaurant, Mumbai Mexico. When we had finished them he asked us to morning tea to thank us for the portraits. So, last Tuesday, we went. First we visited the Nelson Public Library. Margot, the librarian read us a story and then we were allowed to borrow some books. Then we walked to the restaurant on Bridge Street. Virat gave us some yummy food and all the adults tried some of the Indian food. It was all delicious! We had a great time and we would like to thank Virat and Maura for their generosity.

The Sandflats

On Tuesday we went to the sand flats across the road from our school.
We were a bit nervous crossing the busy road but it was o.k. because we held hands and had dads and mums with us.
We went digging for sea creatures in groups.
We found lots of crabs which were all sorts of sizes and colours.
There were worms and snails, also mussels and barnacles and empty shells.
It was very muddy and smelly.
Some people got stuck! Carol had to pull Hayley and her gumboot out of squashy, smelly, sticky mud.
We climbed back over the rocks to go back to school.
We had a good day and we now know what creatures live in the sand flats.

Friends

In Room 6 we have been talking about what makes a good friend.
We came up with these ideas.

A good friend is someone who . . .
is kind to you.

shares with you.

cares about you.

takes turns and isn't always the boss.

listens to you.

cheers you up when you are sad.

plays with you.

laughs with you.

School Tryathlon

On Friday we had our school tryathlon. We had to run and swim but the older children biked as well. It was lots of fun.

A New Year

We have started school for the new year. We have all moved through from Room 7 to Room 6 and have settled in so well.
This week we have been talking about rules we have at home and rules we want for our classroom to make it a happy place to be.
We came up with 5 rules that we wanted for Room 6.


We also read a story by Margaret Mahy called "Me and My Dog". We drew a pet that we would like to have at home.