Green Day

On Friday 24th, our school had a Green Day - an opportunity for the whole school to focus on looking after our environment and keeping our school looking great.

On Monday we looked at how to recycle properly.

On Tuesday we looked at the butterfly garden and planted seeds that will hopefully grown into flowers that butterflies like.
 

We also observed a praying mantis and adopted a couple of snails we found in the garden.  We did some sketching and writing about them before returning them to the garden.
   

On Wednesday we did some weeding in the rainbow garden and on Thursday we did some more weeding with our buddy class.  We dug out some potatoes and harvested some silverbeet, mint, parsley and spring onion.

 

On Friday, we enjoyed a potato salad made with our produce, raked lots of leaves and hosted green day assembly with our buddy class.  Phew!

 

Action Stations

Here are some pictures of what the children do when they're not working with a teacher. Ask them about Action Stations.

              

Swimming with Dushon, Hun-Hi and Sandra

Shyloh: We go to the pool to learn to swim.  I kick and I don't drown.  I put my feet on the ground and stand up and take a breath.

Pheyton: You have to go under the water and kick with your legs.  The water is cold.  The teachers are trying to let us practise.  We make the spaceship shape with our hands. You have to put your swimming togs on in the art room and then go to the mat.  We practice keeping our legs straight and kicking. My mum came to take photos of me.

Pauline: We are learning to swim by ourselves.  We have to float. You can use a board and push the wall with your legs.

Leonzay: I like swimming.

Sonny: We practice swimming. We kick with our legs.

Pauline: If you're in the water you put your feet on the wall and push with your feet and then you swim.  The teachers help us in the pool.

Sophia: We learn to do kicking and to go under.  We learn to hold the rail and hold the board and not let it go.  We kick to go forward.  We lie down on our back and don't put our head up.  At the Wave Pools I did a handstand in the pool.

Vaiona Lovely: We kick and we swim back to the wall and we swim back to the other wall.  We lie on our stomach and on our back and we float.  We blow bubbles. We have to close our eyes.  We walk to the ladder and climb up and turn around and come down.  And then we get changed.

Luqman: When we started swimming the water was icey.  They must have put ice cubes in there.  When I get my whole body in it's freezing.  It starts to make my whole body shiver.  I'm learning how to kick, float and keep my arms and legs straight.





  

   
    

All aboard for 2017!!

It's lovely to have some new and familiar faces in Room 8.  We have started off with small numbers, which is great for getting to know each other really well.  We had a high ratio of adults to children on Wednesday as we had only 7 children and three adults (Mrs Noakes, Ms Mey and Mrs Azim!).


Even though we have only been at school for 4 days, the children are doing and learning so much already.  Here are some pictures of what we've been up to in the first week:


Using different materials to show the number of days we've been at school.


Learning to read!!

 
Making playdough and using it to make letters and numbers.


Working with a buddy to solve Maths problems.


Learning to swim across the pool.