Autumn Leaves

Yesterday Room 8 went up to share our Autumn Leaves Poems with Room 1. After we shared our poems we got into small groups. Room 1 children shared their knowledge of the iPads with us. Together we used Puppet Pals to take the leaves from our art, photograph a background and record our poems. We had lots of fun using the iPads. The Room 1 children were good teachers. Enjoy looking at the videos we created with our animations.

Term 2

This term we are learning about the importance of the Sun. We have talked about the seasons and now we are learning about Shadows. We have learned that a shadow is made when our body blocks the sun. he following photos show us standing in the sun and it shows our shadow being made because the sun is being blocked by our body. We have also played shadow tag. When we are standing our shadow is joined at our feet.

Butterflies and Caterpillars

We have been learning about The Monarch Butterfly. Here are some photos of the chrysalis's and a butterfly that has come out. We were very excited to see the butterfly this morning. We still have lots of butterflies to come out of their chrysalis.

Reading in Room 8

We all enjoy reading. We are reading books from the Library corner or from our book boxes. We are learning what to do if we come to a word we are not sure of. We can miss out the word and read on or we can re-read the sentence. Sometimes looking at the picture helps us and we can sound out our words.

Red and Black Day

We all dressed up in red and black to support the people in Christchurch after the earthquake. We all gave some money to help them. We are also making some cards to send down to a school in Christchurch. Mrs Meys has a brother who is a teacher in Christchurch, so we are sending the cards to his school.

Red and Black Day

Can you see the tadpoles in the tank?

We are learning about Tadpoles and Frogs. We already know lots about them but some questions we are going to try to find answers to are: How do frogs breathe? How do tadpoles change into frogs? Where do frogs sleep? We think we will find the answers by going online, looking at books and asking someone who knows lots about frogs.

Last week Joshua brought in his pet mouse and parakeet. We wrote about them when we did our story writing. Here are some photos.

Honey and Scooby