Pizzas!

Tahi won the tidiest classroom award for term 4, 2013!

Look what we won!

Thanks Cleaners... You rock!

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas...

Christmas is certainly our big focus in Tahi Class this week!

We have been decorating up a storm!

Tahi Class wish you all a very happy Christmas!

Water, Water, Water...

Today in Maunga Block, we measured with water.  

How many cups will it take to fill a giant container?

We had to measure accurately which means carefully filling the containers to the top and counting to some very high numbers!

What's The Time Mr Wolf?

In Tahi Class we are learning to tell the time using o'clock and half past!

Look how clever we are!  We even made our very own clocks.

The Water Play By Toru Class

Nathan and Charlie are making some coffee. Shayla is tipping water. Caitlin is measuring. 

Tessa is filling up cups. Hugh is tipping water into a bowl. 

Nathan saw a leak in the bottom. Charlie is looking too. 

Olive is wearing her Santa hat. She is making gifts for people. Isaiah is trying to get lots of water into a big bucket. Kate is getting water and is tipping it back in. Olive and Emma are making pretend medicine. Ryan is touching water. Cam is tipping water into the big bucket.

Charlie is down the back tipping coffee into Nathan's coffee. Tessa is helping to make medicine. Haydn is tipping water. Nathan is saying thank you to Charlie. Ryan is getting a cup to tip water into the big bowl. Brianna is helping Nathan and Charlie make coffee. 

We had lots of fun. We got really WET!!!!!!! 

Athletics Afternoon for Tahi

Well, with the sun finally out this afternoon the Tahi sports stars got to showcase their skills...

Hurdles, frisbee, long jump and high jump!  We had so much fun!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

We are super excited in Tahi today. Look what we got up to...

All we need now is a star for the top.

There is Something Fishy in Tahi Class

Today was fun day Friday. We had an afternoon of fishy fabulous fun.  We made magazine collage fish and boy do they look fantastic!

What do you think?

Rua creating Pets' Day pictures

The Exploding Lunchbag!

Mrs McGregor's Lunchbag exploded today.  Just as we'll she was eating outside!  Have a look what happened...

We don't think her lunch was very tasty anyway.  Just some water, vinegar and baking soda...it's a bit of a worry what our teachers eat for lunch!!!

What happens when you shake and shake and shake cream and salt together?

Butter!!!!!  Lots of delicious butter. We even has a taste, yum!

Maybe you could try it at home?

Reading to puppets in Toru

These puppets are enjoying being read to after lunch. 

Dancing Raisins Thursday 24 October Toru and Rua

We started with half a cup of water. 

We added 2 splashes of malt vinegar.

We added about one t spoon of baking soda ( not too much like we tried .....

It overflowed!!!!) 

Add 8 raisins, wait and watch them dance up and down for up to 1 hour. 

Have fun !!!

Toru and Tahi Art

 

Well, what a busy afternoon. 

We have been collaging our little fingers off and look at what we have made...

We watched a cool play today. Well done mother pig wolf reader and the three little pigs.

Quick Sand Fun!

Look at the fun we had with cornflour and water...

Science fun - term 4 day 1

Here is our first experiment for the term. If you want to try it at home you will need : a bottle of diet coke, half a pack of mentors mints and a piece of card. Open the diet coke. Place the card on top of the bottle and rest the mints on top allowing them to fall to the top of the pack resting on the card. Remove the card and let the mints fall into the bottle. Run!

Wow. The coke fizzed and foamed it's way out of the bottle. The mentors mints then dissolved into the coke. It took the whole day for them to disappear. Watch this space for more fun experiments ! 

Friday 27 September. Pirate fun!

Sewing in Toru

Treasure Island - What an Adventure!!!

Oooooo arrrrrr... today was the day... Quail Island here we come!

The bus ride to Lyttleton was super fun - especially the tunnel!

Is this our ferry?

Hmmm...maybe this one!

Ahoy sailors...boy is this ride bumpy!

We walked and we walked and we walked...

We looked at treasure maps and guess what we found... Buried treasure!!!!

One of our highlights...the giant hill to slide down...sorry parents about the washing:)

After all that walking and digging for treasure, it was time for a pirate feast!

Who are these tricky rascals and what yarns are they spinning?

Captain Hook from the Black Cat captured one of our crew!  Don't worry...we got her back!

What an adventure... it was a quiet trip home!

What an awesome day sailing to Treasure Island!  Many thanks to our wonderful Mums and Dads for coming along and joining in on the fun!!!

Writing Our Stories Week With Hermione

Hermione visited us to tell us pirate stories.  She didn't have pictures to go with her story - we had to use our imaginations and make the pictures in our heads!

We got to act out Hermione's story

Here we are putting on our coats...

We got to draw our own pictures for a pirate story that was still in our heads!

It took lots of thinking... what will happen next..?

Wow - now we're ready to tell our pirate stories...arrrr!

Ooooo - please can I share my story with the class?

Once upon a time..........arrrrrr!  Thanks Hermione!

Sewing Up a Storm

Arrr - sharpen ya needles me maties.  

We've some stich'n to be done...arrrrrrrr!

Under and out, over and through...

This sewing thing is quite tricky...

Woah!  These guys don't need any help!

Terrrrrrific work me hearties!

Careful Shipmate Amanda - you'll get stitched to the rigging!

Pirates with perseverance and determination!

Ahoy there Captains - what a fine looking crew!!!

Oooooo - we're almost ready to board the mighty Black Cat in search of that long-lost treasure..