Wilson has been working on adjectives and feelings. These are written in red.
Here is his made up animal story.

My made up animal is Sharp Teeth. It has two legs and two arms. It is red, green and grey. It has sharp teeth. It is enormous. It has two eyes and it lives in the forest. It eats meat all day and all night. It looks after its babies. It can run really fast. This is cool and I am happy because it didn't die.

The boys had their Rippa Rugby Tournament on Saturday and what a fantastic tournament it was! Turboman arrived in an iriquois. Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Elmo, Darth Vader, Spongebob Square Pants and Rugga were all there! There was live music and scrummy food! Frano Botica was the guest speaker and some of the boys were lucky enough to shake his hand. Imagine that - shaking an ex All Blacks hand!

All of the boys played really well and a big congratulations go to Fergus (and Lachlann from Room 16) who played for Scotland and were the overall winners!! Superb effort boys!

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!

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 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?

Wilson thought carefully about our special trip next week and this is what he wrote..

Next week we are going to the Marae and people are going to welcome us. We are going to wait at the gate and they will call to us.

Wilson, we like how you have included details like when it is, where we are going and what we will do. Well done.

This week we are writing about the planets our aliens come from! Look at the great planets we made! Thanks for taking the photos Grace!

Yay it's camp day!! How exciting! We spent the morning exploring our classroom and playing with anything we wanted to. Miss Sharland was really impressed with how well we played together and how nicely we tidied up! Check out some of the things we did!

The children in Mars

Look at the wonderful self portraits the children of Mars did!

Don't they look fabulous.