Friday, September 25, 2015

Happy Holidays Everyone!

We hope you all have fantastic holidays.
Remember to be kind, helpful and have lots of fun with your families!
We look forward to hearing all about  what you get up to in Term 4!
Don't forget to think about some cool ideas for Discovery Time!


Check out this cool penguin dance that we performed at assembly on Thursday!

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Spuds and creativity!!

Potatoes were planted in our garden pots today.
We are hoping that we may have spuds 
ready for us to use before Christmas.


Come and look at our garden.
We are taking care of all the plants that we placed into the tyres.
We are remembering to keep them watered.

Discovery today was busy.
Caitlyn found a book to show us how to make Butterflies.
Her brother Riley came to support us 
and share some ideas to make the Butterflies.
Thank you Riley!



Bentley and Peyton love trains.
The chalk came out so that we could draw tracks to run the trains along.

Some of us enjoy Dr. Seuss.
Sione used the paint well to add detail to his work.



Door hangers proved to be the most popular thing to work on today.


Mitchell decided to put NO ENTRY! on the back of his hanger.



We made sure that we remained focussed on our goals today.
Asking to join in, including others,

and giving compliments.
Well done Korimako kids.





Thursday, September 10, 2015

Fun Friday Learning!

Susan's Mum worked with us to make the most delicious pikelets.
We read the recipe and took turns at mixing.
When we had dropped the mixture into the frypan
 we watched the bubbles pop before we turned them over.
Everyone ate their pikelet straight away.
Yum! Yum! Yum!




Butterflies were popular. 
We were careful to make the wings symmetrical.

The snowmen were so cool and the paint felt good on our fingers.

Some of the boys were keen to colour in images that we found on the internet.
The images were of Thar and Chamois.
They found it calming when they coloured in.


Phoenix enjoys Maths and managed to sneak in a few
 equations for her puppets to work on.
Check all the doubles.



As part of our study into fairy tales we talked 
about The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Mrs Robinson read a funny version of the story.


We chatted about words that described the Troll.

Next we drew a troll
 and wrote about the times when we are feeling grumpy!
We needed to make sure we had the right details when we drew.

Check these two pages from the book that we created.


The early finishers then worked in pairs 
to build bridges for the troll and the Billy Goats.


A good construction Caelan.

So as you can see we had a day full of learning with lots of variety.
As always we look forward to your comments.












Friday, September 4, 2015

Spring is here!

Last week during morning tea time, Sarah noticed that the plants we had planted in our garden in Autumn were struggling to survive!   
They had been attacked by an unknown predator -maybe caterpillars or night beetles! 
Sarah thought we needed to plant something new so that is what we did this week at Discovery Time.  
With the help of Megumi (Phoenix's Mum) and Claire (Luci's Mum) we cleared the old gardens and put in some new soil.

 September is "Bee friendly Month" in New Zealand so we decided that we could plants some colourful flowers to help!  
We also have 2 pots ready for planting some potatoes in! 

Today we also read and retold the fairytale of Jack and the Beanstalk.
We decided to be Scientists and investigate what conditions Jack's beans would need to germinate and survive!
We planted our own 'magic" beans and set up experiments to answer these questions:

What do seeds need to germinate? 
Do they need air? 
Do they need warmth? 
Do they need light? 
Do they need water?
Keep watching to see how they grow!

 More fairytale fun was had at Discovery Time!
  The castles and catapults were extremely popular with all. 
Lots of children got very creative and used the ideas that were set out as springboards to their own creations- adding knights and a variety of other fairytale characters to their settings!
Children enjoyed using the chalk & metre ruler to measure distance that their catapult could fire a pompom!

Perhaps a creation of two under construction for Father's Day!

We hope all the Dad's have a fantastic day on Sunday!