Weeding & Weird Worms

Today Room 14 had an Enviro Day with Mrs Daniel. We read about worms, dug up worms, watched worms and even found a new type of worm none of us had seen before.

Also, before morning tea we explored the native bush walk. We identified the native trees, but also discovered some pest plants too.

After our break it was time to analyse our lunchboxes; We asked ourselves, "After I've eaten everything what will be left for the worm bin, compost, recycling or landfill?" The Enviro Stars had nothing at all for the landfill. Well done them.

In the afternoon we listened to "Diary of a Worm" and weeded the edible gardens. We also fed the soil with worm tea from the worm farm.

Here's what we thought about our day:

"I learnt gardening is fun." Chanel

"Worms have an important job." Isabelle

"We're learning to take care of the environment." Vera

"We've been pulling out weeds, cause they're not supposed to be there; they'll take space and nutrients from our veges." Mia

"I liked weeding. I learnt white flatworms eat earthworms." Ben

"Touching things is fun no matter what it is ... not poo!" Tom

Elise's Teach the Teacher - Chatter Boxes

Elise explaining how to make a chatter box

Elise and her assistant Allison demonstrating how to fold it

Isala looks very happy making his one!

Matariki Celebrations

We read the story Seven Stars of Matariki by Toni Rollerston. In our art we are flying our kite at night in the wind, our kite will fly away to make the 7th star, can you see the wind gusts?  Come into the class to see the rest of our beautiful art.

We had our first week of Teach the Teacher

Joseph amazing us with his coin trick, where did it go?

Joseph guessed the right card, how did he do that?

Making stress balls

Vera was so organised with all her equipment to make stress balls.  She showed us a video clip with the instructions, we are now working as groups to make the stress balls.  She has lots of tips to make this easy.

Family of Facts

This morning we had the Room 15 and 14 Year 3s, we made family of facts streets.  The houses represent 'the family'.

Our ipads

We have been working on setting high standards, it is paying off!