Monday, September 7, 2020

Hunting for Bugs

On Fridays, Rongo-mā-tāne and Papatūānuku have Choice and Challenge together. One of the options is 'Bug Hunt'. We collect bugs from the garden to feed our class frogs. We don't take worms out of the garden though because worms improve the soil. We take slugs because they eat the vegetables that we are trying to grow. So, not only are we caring for our frogs but we are caring for the plants in our school garden too. 


We roll back the logs at the sides of the garden because the bugs love to hide under them in the dark. If we are quick enough, sometimes we can catch beetles and millipedes. 

Monday, August 3, 2020

Our Visit to The Metro Eco Drop

Our Visit to the Metro Eco Drop

Last week our class had a visit to Metro Eco Drop to learn about worms. We had a beautiful day trip. The expert at the Metro Eco Drop was called Chris. He was very cool and told us lots of facts.
Did you know,
  • the worms we use in our worm farms are called Tiger Worms,
  • the Tiger Worms have stripes
  • worms are covered in little hairs
  • worms have no teeth
  • worms feel very slimey, they are long and skinny
  • some people don't like to hold the worms
  • worms have 5 hearts!!!


It was fun going on the trip because we liked going in the vans and seeing the worms.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Don't Eat the Teacher

We read the story, Don't Eat the Teacher, with Rachel. It's a story about Sammy the shark who eats things when he gets too excited. He eats tables, paints, artwork, and even the teacher! We drew pictures of our own sharks who ate different things. 

What do you do when you're excited?

Ashleigh's Shark

Mattis' Shark


Jackson's Shark


Mia Hart's Shark

Rex's Shark


Sunday, June 14, 2020

Hurdles with Georgia

Every Monday as part of our Whakawhitinga (interchange rotation), we have a PE session with Georgia from Eastern Community Sport and Recreation Inc. This week, we used hurdles as part of our team relays. We practised jumping over them in lots of different ways. We also did running, star jumps, cross overs and skipping as part of our races. I wonder what our focus will be this week.










Thursday, June 11, 2020

My Monster Smells Gross...

Did you know, Rachel has a monster at her house? It's stinky, eats earwax for breakfast and likes to make cupcakes out of bird poo...? EW!

Rachel read us the book called, 'My Monster Smells Gross!' by Kate Leake. We then got to design our own disgusting monsters and we could be as gross as we wanted. There was lots of "ews" from Rachel when we told her what our monsters have. 

Check out our monsters below...

If you want to hear the story for yourself click this link.
River's Monster

Freida's Monster

Mayan's Monster

Johno's Monster

Rex's Monster

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Loose Parts Shed

At the Loose Parts Shed the children were working together to create houses. There was lots of trial and error and laughter as they tried out their solutions. They successfully built a two-storied house then realised that they hadn't thought about how they would get into the house!

 A step was created so that they could climb over the side and into the house. So much fun was had at this activity and it was a shame when we had to pack up. Thank goodness we have the Loose Parts Shed as an option for Choice and Challenge each week.