Small Ball Skills

Sonja and Greg came to teach us how to throw a small ball.

It was a lot of fun.

So...

We decided to practice with hoops on the fence as a target.

Step 1: Stand side on to my target and point where I want the ball to go.

Step 2: Use a muscle arm action

Step 3: Step into the pass

Step 4: Follow through arm moves down and across

Bullseye!

Harvest Festival

Our School celebrated our wonderful class gardens 

by having a Harvest Festival.  

We made pizza with our special sauce recipe!

Ms Bobsien gave us a watermelon.

We cut it into ½’s  and then into ¼’s

Then we had the most terrible job.

We had to be taste testers to make sure the pizza and watermelon

 were good enough to eat!

Check out the smiles on our faces!

Eating!!! on PhotoPeach

  

All the classes took their food to the hall to share.

We got to taste all the different dishes.

There were lettuce sandwiches, potatoes, salsa, 

spinach bread and zucchini loaf.

What a feast!

Harvest Festival on PhotoPeach

 

Our Butterfly Story

Once upon a time...

Mrs McKenzie bought two swan plants

We searched and searched for some caterpillar eggs

finally we found our first small caterpillar,

 it got bigger...

and bigger!

then....

we waited 10 days

the chrysalis went black and ...

Our butterfly stretched and stretched it's wings

then decided to fly...

it landed on Scania's head!

Oh my goodness!

It stretched it's wings again, 

and flew out the open door!

Making Pizza Sauce

When we checked our garden 

we discovered some of our tomatoes were ready 

and some had started to go rotten from a bug!  

We decided it was time to harvest our garden.  

We collected our vegetables.  

Look at our fantastic, large capsicums, spring onions, 

tomatoes and delicious smelling basil.

We washed our vegetables,

then we made our Pizza Sauce.

Step 1: Peel the tomatoes.  

Do you know how to peel tomatoes?  

First cut a criss cross through the skin, on the top of your tomato

Then get an adult to pour on some boiling water

 

Leave to soak for a few minutes then drain the water off.  

The skins will peel off easily.

 Step 2: Chop the capsicums

 Step 3: Slice the spring onions

Step 4: Tear up the basil

 Step 5:  Heat the olive oil

 Step 6: Saute the capsicums and spring onions

 Step 7: Add the tomatoes and simmer

Step 8: Stir in the basil

Step 9: Taste test!!!!

  Delicious!  

We can't wait to make our pizza 
for the Harvest Festival.

Our Waikato Museum Day

On Wednesday we walked to our Waikato Museum.
We learnt how to make an animated movie with Gabrille.

 Nathan the storyteller shared three Taniwha legends

and we created a play called
Waiwaia the Taniwha


Then we discovered how movie makers
create their monsters.

 

These movie monsters were huge!!!

Scary!!!

The next day we made special 'Thank You' cards
for our wonderful parents who spent the day with us.

Swimming

Read our swimming stories

Statistics

We have been learning how to 

count

graph 

and compare data.

We made a Pictograph with our shoes.

Which type of shoes has the most?

Which has the least?

What else can you compare and find out?

We sorted ourselves into groups of clothes.

Then we made a Bar graph.

How many children are wearing shorts?

How many children are wearing 3/4 pants?

How many children are wearing  trousers?

How many children are wearing skirts?

Which group has the most?

Which group has the least?

How many more children are wearing shorts than trousers?

What else can you find out?