Our Legacy Garden

On Wednesday Room 9 planted a Garden!!

We had about 6 different types of plants. We planted them in a bath tub. The bath tub is on our classroom's deck.

We had lobelias, ageratum, white aylssum and dianthus for plants.We planted two plants each.

We had to wear vinyl gloves and dust masks.

First we dug a hole, then we lightly tickled the plant's roots, then we put it in the hole and put soil over the top. We had to flatten the soil around the plant.

We think the bath looks great with all the pretty plants in it.

We are going to look after it over the holidays and next year when we are in different classes, we can visit and look at our plants.

Written by Jessie, Tayla and Zoe
[Photos by Louie]

Our Descriptive Poetry

We have been writing descriptive poetry this term.

For the past two days we have been writing poems that compare us to other things!

Have a read of some of Zoe's wonderful writing below:

I feel as happy as an over-excited chimpanzee.

I feel as dizzy as a distracted dinosaur.

I look as silly as a circus clown.

I look as pretty as a purple petunia.

I am as crazy as a colourful cougar.

I am as skinny as a starving seagull.

I am as smart as a smiling squirrel.

I smell as sweet as a serene scent.

I smell as scrumptious as a strawberry souffle.

I smell as breezy as essence of pearl, jasmin and gardenia.

Our Maori Language Week Celebration

On Friday we went to the whanau classroom to do some activities. The activities were sticks, pois and strings. We did the activities because it was Maori Langauge Week. The teachers who helped were Whaea Trina and Whaea Erina. First we listened to the instructions. Then we went off to the activities in groups. We were in 3 groups. Room 15 and 16 helped us.

For the sticks we had to bang them on the floor in time to some waiata. When we used the poi we had to swing then around. For the string games we had to make something with the string. You put your hands into the other person's string and they pulled it and your hands got stuck in! Then they let our hands go free.

We thought the afternoon was fun, exciting and great. We learned how to use the sticks and how to play the string games.

Collaboratively written by Jaime, Lochie and Zoe

Asking our Buddies Questions

Yesterday we talked to our buddies on the computer.We asked them questions about their school. We found out what the worms eat and what worms dont like eating. Our buddies answered them.

They have different chairs from us. Their classroom is different.

By Zoe & Brianna

Our first day of Term Two

Today was the first day of Term Two!

Firstly we had news. We talked about the holidays. I went to Kaiteriteri. We looked for crabs.

Next we did a P.M.I activity on our holidays. My Plus was about finding a live crab. My Minus was falling over at the skating rink.I thought that having dinner at Kaiteriteri was Interesting.

By Zoe

Oobleck!

This afternoon Room 9 was lucky enough to make "oobleck" with Nicky!

Oobleck is a strange kind of solid/liquid.
When you touch it, it feels hard like a solid. When you press your finger in it is squishy like a liquid.
Sam thought it was a bit like "sinking sand". You can pick up oobleck and it becomes drippy like a liquid!
The only ingredients we used to make it was cornflour, water and green food colouring.

Here are some photos and comments from Room 9:


Today we made oobleck. It felt smooth it looked like snow it smelled salty.
By Tayla

Today we made oobleck. It felt silky, it looked like slime and it smelt like playdough.
By Zoe

Today we made oobleck. It felt like snow it smelled like nothing it was soft. It looked green.
By Josh

Today we mad oobleck. It felt like slime it looked like snow and it smelt weird.
By Jackson

Today we made oobleck. It smelt like salt, it felt like hard rocks, it looked like alien blood.
By Darcy