Special boxes

We have been making mixed media 'special boxes'. There are boxes that will be a safe place at home for the children to keep things that they do not get thrown out. They turned out fantastic!

Marshmellow houses

As a celebration of our house designing in writing we tried to recreate our houses using marsh mellows and toothpicks. 

Brilliant boys writing

The boys writing club from room 3 and 4 had judging today on their house designs! Thanks so much to Bronsons dad for coming in and being the judge. Here are the winners!

Science "what ifs!"

After Mackenzie showed us the skittle experiment lots of us had things that we wanted to experiment with using skittles. Here are some of our experiments.

Thank you letters

We wrote letters to people who help us in our community. 

Charlie sent his to the Blenheim Police and got a letter back from the area commander!!

Science time

Thanks for sharing this great science experiment with the class Mackenzie!

Breakfast parfaits

We have been learning about why breakfast is so important and some different ideas of what we can have. We made yogurt in the yogurt maker and then used it in yummy parfaits.

Art classes with Boston

Today Boston from Room 10 came to teach us how to draw one point perspective. We had some of our big buddies to help us too. It was tricky but we love learning things from other kids! See you next week Boston!

Marvellous maths

We have been learning about measurement in maths. We did lots of measurement stations which was a lot of fun.

Learning what to do in an emergency

Today Mr Spence from the Marlborough District Council came to talk to us about being prepared in an emergency like an earthquake.He showed us how much water we would need each day for each person - 10 to 15 litres! And talked to us about what we should have in our emergency kits.

A special visit!

Today we had a special visit from St. John's. They came to give all the children an apple for morning tea as a way of giving back to our community. We were the lucky school who was randomly selected!

Survival talk

Today Constable Al came in to talk to us about his job in Search and Rescue. He told us lots of important things like if you are lost you must stay where you are! He also said that when you are tramping or out in the bush you should be like an onion and wear lots of layers! He showed us what he takes in his pack tramping and what an emergency locator beacon looked like. He told us about how helicopter pilots use night vision goggles to find missing people and that they can see a single lit match from over 10 kms away!

Will it float?

Today for news Oliver shared the cool piece of pumice that he found in his sheep paddock.  We wondered how it got there. Later in the day when Leo was looking at it he wondered about whether it would float. We all made predictions about whether we thought it would float. When we put it in the bucket it did float! We now wonder if the small holes in it will slowly fill up with water and it might sink after a while. We are going to leave it over night and see what happens.

Survival Training

We had Brett from the army and Keiran from the airforce come to school. They talked to us and showed us some things about survival.

Brett showed us how a signal fire worked if you are lost. They also shared some of their rations with us!

Thanks for coming Brett and Keiran! We loved learning with you!

Crazy leaf forest

We  made  some  cool  pictures  that are  made  out  of leaves. This is my picture.

Science time!

We did a cool experiment with milk, food colouring and dishwashing liquid. Look what happened!

Star of the week news

Today Phillip brought his violin in to show us. He has lessons on Saturdays. He played us twinkle twinkle little star. We were impressed!

Devin's new puppy!

Secret stuff!

I hope all the lovely mothers had a lovely, relaxing day on Sunday.

Harvest time

Look what was working across the road from our room this morning! We popped outside to have a look! Great photos Oliver!

Meredith's crystals

Meredith made these super cool crystals at home. She brought them to school to show us! We thought they were amazing! Maybe we will have a go making some in class too!

Science flowers

Look at the amazing multi coloured flowers that we made in science time. 

Making easter buns

Room 3 made some Easter buns. They were fluffy and it had nice bread and they were yummy.