Term 3's Topic

Next term we will be learning all about dinosaurs. I have added a fantastic dinosaur website to our useful websites link (just click on the useful websites link). The children can learn about different dinosaurs, play games, make dinosaurs...... the list goes on. This is a great way for them to create some interest before heading back to school.

Check out our garden

Make sure you visit our 'Edible Garden' link to see all the fantastic work we have completed this term and to see how much our garden has grown!

What have we learnt from Dave's visit?

Today the Middle School were lucky enough to have a special visitor...... 

Dave who works at Hauraki New World made a special trip to our school to talk to us about fruit and vegetables. 

What did we learn from Dave's visit?

*There are 35 different types of fruit and vegetables.

*Vegetable don't grow in only 1 country.

*The most popular vegetable colour is green.

*All of the fruit and vegetables in the department are raw.

*Onions have the longest shelf life.

*Strawberries have the shortest shelf life.

*Potatoes must be stored in the dark or they will go green and poisonous.

*4 people work at New World fruit and vegetable department.

The Disco

I bet you don't recognise these Room 9 children! Mrs Ryder certainly didn't......
We had a great time at the "Out This World Disco".

Helena said, "I nearly won a prize for dancing with my Dad. It was fun!".

Eloise said, "I really enjoyed getting dressed up and dancing with my friends".

Amy said, "I really liked it when everyone was dancing because there were bubbles and flames".

Our PVA Flower Prints

In Art we have sketched the outline of a flower and then carefully poured PVA glue around the outline to create these fantastic PVA Flower Prints. We printed our flower prints again and again with different colours. It was alot of fun and we are very proud of how great they look!

Story Liners Show

On Friday we had the "Story Liners Show" visit our school. They were very entertaining and a lot of fun to watch!

Briana - I like it how they used the racing cars in the show.
Alex C - I liked the racing cars and that Claire's grey racing car won the race.
Helena - Mr Professor Widget was funny.
Amy - My favourite part was when they showed us the books.
Rebecca - I liked it when the were dancing. They were good dancers and singers.
Chloe - My favourite part was when the boy came and whacked the girl and the girl said "Hey" and he started laughing.

THE ART FESTIVAL

On Tuesday we had an opportunity to look at The Art Festival which was held at Hauraki School. 

We were so impressed with the art work on show. The work was from artists who attend Hauraki, Takapuna, Belmont, Bays water, Vauxhall, Devonport, St Leo's Primary Schools and Belmont Intermediate School.  

We can't wait to try out some of these fantastic art ideas in our own classroom this term. Congratulations to Estelle, Lav and Ashley who had their "Self Portraits" on display at the Art Festival.