ANZAC Biscuits

On Tuesday we learnt about Anzac biscuits and why they're important.  Then we made them!  They were so yum!  However, there was a challenge - we had to create the packaging for our biscuits to go in.  We could use any materials we wanted and decorate them however we wanted.  What a great job everyone did.  Miss Sharland is super proud of how well you all worked in your teams.  Superb effort!!

Dancing

We spent three Monday afternoons with Miss van der Merwe learning all about dance.  We had to think about things like expressing ourselves, moving our body, responding to the beat.  We had a whole lot of fun whilst we were learning about the elements of dance. Thanks Miss van der Merwe!

AROHA

Last week, when we were in the ICT room, we had a big talk about AROHA and what it means to us.  It's great to see that so many of us know what it means and what it looks like in the classroom, the playground and around the school.  We then used Kidpix to draw our heart and write our 5 values.

Painted Animal Faces

A couple of weeks ago we started making animal faces with Mrs Martin.  We looked carefully at a photo of our chosen animal and then thought hard about it's features such as its eyes, markings, nose shape, whiskers etc.  From here we carefully painted our animal faces to make them look as realistic as possible.  Now we have a scary jungle wall.  Thanks Mrs Martin!

Avatars

Today we learnt how to create an avatar using buildyourselfwild.com.  We had to think carefully about what our hair looks like, what our eyes look like as well as our mouths.  From there we could choose any arms, legs, tails, bottoms and wings that we wanted.  Don't we look cool!

Swimming

We love having 5 minutes of free time at the end of our swimming lessons.

LSS Values

Welcome to our new LSS Values! LSS children are going to have lots of AROHA.

Akohia (learning)
Respect
Ownership
Hautoa (courage)
Ambition.

When we talked about them we decided that we would write down what they look like in our classroom and everywhere else in the school. We even gave each part of AROHA an animal to make it easier for us to remember. Look at what we came up with.

There is always a lot to do in 'The Jungle' during wet lunchtimes.

Congratulations to Jessica, Cody and Taine who all got placings in the school cross country. Taine was first in the Year 2 boys. Cody was first in the Year 1 boys and Jessica was third in the Year 2 girls. Superb effort!

Cody has been working on writing down all the sounds that he can hear when he says a word slowly. He is doing such a great job! Well done Cody.

My made up animal is called Spice and it has six legs and four arms and it lives in an igloo. It looks for penguins and fish and bugs. It stays up all night and day. It is green and red and blue and brown. It is slimy and hairy and it runs really fast.

During Discovery Time we did Marble Art and what fun we had!!

First, we had to write our name on the back of our paper.
Then, we had to put our paper in the tote tray.
After that, we picked up a marble out of whatever colour we wanted to use and put it in the tray.
Then, we moved the tray side to side and front to back and our marble ran all over our paper.
We kept doing this with different colours until we had our art just the way we wanted it.

What a super messy activity but oh so much fun!

It was super exciting on Sunday night when we got lots of snow in Feilding. It was even more exciting to come to school on Monday and see all the snow / ice in the playground! Mr Jacobs even made us some cool snowmen.

We had great stories to share with each other about snowmen, snow angels and throwing snowballs.

What a special treat it was!

Friday is Discovery Time Day! How exciting. Today's focus was to think about a problem that we encounter and how we fixed our problem. There was a lot of great talking 'on the go' but we found it much harder to reflect about our problem solving. We'll try this again next week to help us better understand about problem solving and solutions.

We wrote fabulous taniwha stories last week and then we drew our pictures using Kidpix. We really like how our pictures match our descriptions that we had written.

We are learning to take risks this term so we combined this with our Marae visits and used our new learning about taking risks to create our taniwha art. We are really happy with how we took the time to think about creating exciting artwork. We used crayon and dye so had to think carefully about not colouring in all of the paper so that the dye had somewhere to soak in to. What a great job we did. What do you think?