Games with Deb.

Good team work here!

Careful, don't hurt me!

Deb was from Get Set Go. She taught how to play some games. The aim of the games was to practise our balancing and to work as a team.

What letter are we?

We listened carefully to Deb's instructions.

Another Visitor!

Emi's grandma spent the day in our class on Thursday. She is a teacher at a school back in Hungary. Emi had to spend the day translating for her and explaining what we were doing. She taught us some fun games at PE in the afternnon.

Emi and her Grandma made this gingerbread house for us to eat for morning tea.

Sher Foley Visits Us

Sher Foley came to talk to us about writing children's books. She is an author of children's books. She has written "The Cat With No Name" and "The Three Little Lambs." She gave us a clue about a new book called "Granny Gorilla." 

Welcome Back To School

Welcome back to the third term. The school wide Olympic Games activities in Week 4 will be the highlight for this term.

Thank you, Emi, for taking the budgies home and looking after them in the holidays. I'm sure Cutie Pie and Puffle had a wonderful rest at your house.

Listen to our Blabber (talking photo) - click on this link or start the video below. (I had a fabulous time at the IT conference in San Diego and have come back inspired with lots of ideas! Here is a taste of one of the activities I am trialling with my class - from Blabberize.com)

Read These Impressive Stories!

At the Zoo.          By Charlotte H

One Thursday we went to the zoo. We went into groups. Each group has a parent or a teacher to look after them. In my group we visited many places at the zoo. First we went to Pridelands. In Pridelands we saw giraffes, zebras and ostriches. Next we came to the flamingos. I like flamingos because they are pink. Then we visited the tortoise. He looked very old. Yipeeeee, we are now at the spider monkeys! I love them because they are soooo cute. Before we came to the spider monkeys we came across the cotton top tamarinds. The cotton top tamarinds have white fur on their head and that makes them have….. ear phones! Then it was time for lunch. After lunch we went back to school on the bus. What a lovely day we had!

At the Zoo.    By Tzion                                                                     

At the zoo I saw lots of animals. My favourite animal was the lion because it roars really loud. Lions eat lots of food like meat. Lions are carnivores. They can camouflage in brown grass. They live in the Grasslands and the Savannah. Lions are fighting animals. I also like tigers. Tigers are bigger than lions. Tigers and lions are dangerous because they could bite you. Tigers are carnivorous. They like to eat the same as lions. That’s why I love tigers and lions.

At the Zoo.     By Emi

Peacocks live next to the servals. Peacocks are nice but they can be fierce as well. Peahens are girls and peacocks are boys. Peacocks look beautiful when they open their feathers. The colours of the peacocks feathers are green, orange, aqua and dark blue. The top of the peacocks head is like a fan. A peacocks chest is dark blue. Peacocks fore-heads are blue and their beaks are white. A peacock’s tail is gold, but it’s only gold at the beginning of its tail. The stem of their tail is white. When their tails are closed, it is orange. Their feathers are very, very long.  At Auckland Zoo peacocks live with wallabies, emus and kangaroos. Peacocks are herbivores. Peacocks are prey and predators. Peacocks are big birds.

At the Zoo.       By Aidan

At the zoo I saw lots of animals. My favourite was the serval.  It belongs to the cat family. It has long ears because it helps them hear. They can twist their ears. It can run fast so it can catch its food. Servals are one of biggest cats in the world. They have sharp teeth. They eat other animals. Servals don’t like the water.

At the Zoo.    By Miles

My favourite animal is the cheetah. I like it because it can run very fast, but only for a short time. It eats other animals.it lives in the savannah. Its predator is a lion. It blends in with the golden grass. It is a carnivore.

At the Zoo.     By Gary

We went to the zoo and we saw lots and lots of animals. We saw the hippo and it can hold its breath for 5 minutes! We saw a hippo trying to scare away the birds. We also saw the elephants. We saw an elephant taking a bath! While it takes a bath it’s eating some carrots. At lunchtime everyone sat on the grass to eat their lunch. After that we got to explore more animals. We saw the meerkats and we got to go in the meerkats tunnels. Next we saw a lion having a rest and a lion staring back at us. We went to the kiwi house. We have to be very quiet otherwise we will scare away the kiwis.



BOOK WEEK

We dressed up as characters from our favourite books. Can you guess who we are? Watch our video.....

From Videos

Listen To Our Zoo Reflections!

We used a cool "app" called fotobabble to record our Wallwisher messages. Click on the links to hear what we saw at the zoo.

Josh's message   Emi's message Charlotte's message Keira's message Aidan's message Rayen's message Robert's message

We are now Firewise!

This morning Firefighter Matt talked to us about what to do if there was a fire in our house. We practised getting down, getting low and getting out to our family's safe meeting place outside.

What is Matt showing us on the video? Tell Mum and Dad.

Matt Evans, the FireWise co-ordinator, has offered to our families  a fire safety check of homes and give advice about the placement of smoke alarms. Please leave your name, address and phone number at the office if you would like to take up this offer from Matt.

Make sure your family talks about exits and safe meeting places and smoke alarms. The book and DVD every child brought home today helps you to get it right.

Auckland Zoo - What an awesome place!

Lots of sunshine, walking, exploring, excited children, learning, noise, laughter and silly stuff. We had such a fantastic time today! Many, many thanks to all the parents (and teachers) who came with us. Aren't we lucky to have such a wonderful zoo!

Watch a video of our zoo trip. (Click here, then the small black screen)

     Or click this link to see just the photos.

Bachelors Walk in the Bush

Today we went on our walk through the Chatswood Bush. We are lucky to have such a wonderful native bush so close to our school. We found lots of interesting things. We took photos to show what we found. Click the link below to see our photos.



                         View a slide show of our walk today here.