Oranges, Oranges and More Oranges!!

Today Koka Janna brought in some delicious oranges in for our Language Experience session. We cut them into segments. We used our senses to describe and discuss our ideas about the oranges as we ate them.  We used these ideas to write our stories.  Check out our cheeky toothy grins!!!

Astronaut Ice cream

Waylon has just come back from America. He was very excited to share some of his adventures with us. He talked to us about this Astronaut Ice cream that he had brought back. 

Alexei and Emma look at the packets of Astronaut Ice cream.

We couldn't imagine what it was going to look like.

Waylon shows us the packet.

We opened it and had a look and a taste. 
We also looked at some ordinary vanilla ice cream.
We all had great ideas to describe how they are different.

Koka Jodie helps us sound out and write some harder words that we may need for our writing.
These are our "looking words". We know where to find them as we are writing. 
We could hear and find most of the sounds needed to write the word... astronaut

New Life for the Medicinal Area

On Friday, we made the most of the sunshine and planted some new plants in the Maori Medicinal Garden. We found cosy, sheltered spots for the young trees and popped them into their new homes with lots of care.  

We are looking forward to watching our new Kawakawa, 

Koromiko and Hebe Tairawhiti grow big and strong.  

The ABC Alliteration Book by Moana 3 Year 5 and 6 students

Moving the Mulch Mountain

Well...they say "many hands, make light work"...and it's true!  What was a mountain of mulch at the beginning of last week has now been reduced to a bit of a pile and it's all down to the collective hard work of Room 5 and Room 9 who worked hard on Action Stations Day and used their buddy time on Friday to shift more of the garden goodness into the medicinal garden. 

Happy Faces in our Learning Through Play

We love our Learning Through Play sessions in Room 9!

Look at these happy faces creating play spaces in the Whanau corner and imagining, building, and playing with the Duplo.  Good on you Room 9!  We can't wait to see what you can come up with next!

More Poem Art Works

We have been working hard on Fridays producing artwork to go with our poems.  Last week we were thinking about patterning and pressing hard or lightly with the crayons to make outlines and shade areas.  Look at Alexei's hard work! She even added a border.  We created a gallery of all our pictures so everyone in Room 9 could see all the wonderful ideas.  Great job Room 9!