Hockey Skills

Wendy taught us some hockey skills this afternoon. She taught us how to hold a hockey stick. Then we had to hold the ball under our chins so we listened and didn't fiddle with it. She showed us how to keep the ball on the stick. We practised moving the ball around the court with the hockey stick. Some of us could do it but some of us thought it was a bit difficult. Here are some photos of Room 11 using the skills we learnt.

Birds Feeding

Tracey took photos of sparrows feeding from the pinecone bird feeder because Dylan hadn't seen them doing it. The photos are lovely. I have put them up in the classroom. She tells me the wax eyes are beginning to feed as well.

Nepal

Tim Dalley spoke to Rooms 10 and 11 yesterday about what he learnt about Nepal by staying there for three months. I learnt that there is jungle in Nepal, not just mountains. The children were really engaged in listening to him speaking.

The Circulatory System

We are learning about how important the heart is for pumping blood around the body. One of our activities was to write an acrostic poem. We worked together to write these two.

Heart pumps the blood

Energy keeps our heart going

Arteries carry good blood

Round the body

To keep us alive.

Heart pumps the blood

Everywhere

Around the body

Respect your heart

To stay healthy.

Bird Feeders

Mrs Clementson is working on a technology unit based on birds. She had a visitor from Forest and Birds come to talk to the students on Thursday morning and these are some of their reports and photos.

Thursday morning we made bird feeders. We made them with an open pinecone, peanut butter, a butter knife and we had seeds and fat. We've hung mine in the tree at home but I haven't seen any birds eat yet.

Ben G

The Bird Expert

Birds don't have much food in Winter. The birds are dying so we made bird feeders so they can survive. We made them out of pinecones. Last night we went out to Carters Beach and we pulled them off the tree.

Lachie

This morning we made bird feeders. It was fun because we got to see real birds. There names were this - Blackbirds, Sparrows, Seagulls, Thrushes.

Mata

This morning we had a bird expert in our classroom. He was teaching us about different types of birds. The birds like flames at our school. In the winter they don't have much food to eat - that's why we made bird feeders.

Millie

Bird Expert

Today we made bird feeders. We had fun. It was a mess but we cleaned it up. Then a fantail came in when we were colouring in because he smelt the peanut butter because the bird feeders had peanut butter on. It had seeds and fat. We had to take it home. There were no hanging places to hang them up at school.

Finn

Gerald took us for a walk to show us about birds. Mrs Clementson took lots of lovely photos. We had a lovely walk. After the walk we made some bird feeders. I got tired making bird feeders.

Daisy

Today I got to see a bird expert. His name is Gerald. He told us information about birds. We asked Gerald questions. then we went for a walk so we could see winter birds live. After the walk we made bird feeders because birds don't have much food.

Dylan

Birds have not much food in winter. The birds die so it's sad. Today we made bird feeders. It was fun. We had a special visitor - a bird expert.

Trinity

This morning we had an expert about birds. He explained about what trees belong to the animals who lay eggs. It is a bird. In winter they don't have much food to eat. In spring they have lots of food. When he left Te Hana was holding a box with chocolate inside.

we were going to make some bird feeders. We needed a pinecone. We spread it with peanut butter and then we went over to the table. We put some of this sticky stuff on, then we put birdseed on.

Amber

Today we made bird feeders. My hands got covered in peanut butter and seeds. Mine was big. I had fun. When we were done a bird came in. We made bird feeders because it is nearly winter and there is not much food for the birds.

Jessica

Using whiteboards

There are whiteboards for all students to use in the classroom and they are used daily for numeracy, handwriting, spelling and other areas. I took these photos when we were practicing writing numerals correctly. Excuse my finger!

Basic Needs

We have been talking about what our basic needs are, particularly in a disaster. the students worked in groups to discuss and record  their ideas. All groups knew we needed food, water and air. Some of the groups worked out we needed clothing for warmth and shelter. this also relates to what is happening in Nepal at present and in Vanuatu.