Try following the numbers. Press the reindeer noses to play the Christmas songs.

Today we celebrated with the children who were finishing the Early Words Programme. They have worked very hard and are now confident readers. Well done for all your hard work. We were lucky that Mrs Woodhouse was able to join us. She gave each of the children a special pencil to go with their certificate. We played musical chairs and then ate yummy cupcakes Mrs Paterson made us. We had to say the word on our cupcake before we were allowed to eat it.
Early Words Celebration on PhotoPeach

Today we finally planted our beans in the school garden. We had 8 beans that had grown their second lot of leaves. When we emptied out the pots we found 2 more beans that had started to grow roots, so we planted them too. We watered them to give them a good start.We also covered over some carrot seeds. then we checked the sunflowers we planted a few weeks ago and planted some cosmos plants. The wild flower garden is going to look great when we come back from the holidays. And we might have beans to eat as well. YUM!
Our beans find a new home in the garden on PhotoPeach

Today we tried using kidpix to draw the life cycle of a sunflower seed. Our goal was to draw the dirt and add several seeds. Then we had to add roots, then shoots, then some leaves and finally a sunflower. Although some of us didn't get all the steps in our picture, Mrs Paterson thought we did very well. If you click on one picture then press play, each picture will pop up for you to see.

Growing sunflowers on PhotoPeach

Today was the first day of clubs and here is what we did.

String Things:
Daemon: We were making poi pois, you have to balance them on your hands and follow the instructions so they don't pop.

Dylan: We had to put wool dipped in PVA around the balloons.

Tayla: I liked when we made the balloons and pom poms.

Daniel: I liked the end of it when we played a game:

Decorated Boots

Hunter: We had to decorate our boots and shoes. We put newspaper and white paper over them.

Rylie: We needed to use our hands and I had the bestest time of my life.

Hannah Grace: We are going to paint our boots next time.

Jaxson: I liked packing up and doing the stuff I was told to do.

Christmas Crafts

Emire: I got to make a crepe paper candy cane and lots of other things.

Christmas Crafts and music

Amelia: I made a rainbow fish and the mouth is prickly.

Christmas crackers

Devon: At the end of Christmas crackers, we put bows to stop the lollies, toys and jokes falling out.

Jacob: We made crackers and we cut out some jokes and we put some poppers in.

Arty Fun

Blake: I liked painting my frame and I made a frame with jigsaw pieces.

We have been learning about how beans grow. Our beans are starting to sprout. We hope they will all grow big and strong so that we can plant them in our school garden.
The life cycle of a Bean on PhotoPeach

Jump Rope Fun on PhotoPeach

http://youtu.be/pf9cVnfyhjM

We have been watching different versions of the story "Jack and the Beanstalk". We have really enjoyed this one. The song is really catchy and we love the part where the giant roars "Fee Fi Fo Fum ........" Have a listen. I bet you end up singing along too.

Our Fun Athletics Day

I liked the hurdles because you had to jump over them. Emire.
I liked winning the race. Hunter
I liked winning the boys race. Jacob
I liked when I won the girls race. Rylie
I liked the parents race. Savanna
I liked my mum winning the race. Dylan
I liked watching the parents race. Devon
I liked the long jump and Grandma and Grandad were watching. Hannah Grace
I liked the parents racing. Daniel
I liked trying to jump over the sawdust. Jaxson
I liked the parents running. Amelia
I liked the long jump with Mrs Paterson. Tayla

Parent fun at Athletics day on PhotoPeach

Fun Athletics Day on PhotoPeach

Click the map to follow my travels.

What a week! I was so looking forward to my last week with you before I head overseas but when you are sick.. what can you do but try to get better. I now know how some of you have been feeling lately. Not nice is it.I hope those of you who have been sick, are starting to feel better.
I am sure you will have a lovely time with Mrs Boyce over the next 4 weeks. Keep an eye on my blog to see "Where in the world Mrs Paterson is." I will try to put some photos for you to see some of the exciting things I am seeing ( as well as ET of course).
Lots of love
Mrs Paterson

http://patersonsontour.blogspot.com

Rippa Rugby with Greg on PhotoPeach

Kahunrangi Dancers share their Toanga-Treasures on PhotoPeach

Congratulations Gracie for coming 3rd in the year 1 girls race at our Cross Country last week. What a lovely surprise at assembly on Tuesday when you were presented with your bronze medal. Well done.

We have had 4 great Rugby Skills Lessons with Greg Knowles and have learnt lots of the skills involved with playing Rippa Rugby. Hunter was given a mini Makos t shirt for scoring 2 tries in our first game of Rippa. Well done Hunter and all of the class for getting so involved.

Riverlands School Cross Country on PhotoPeach

Soccer Skills with Hayden & Blake on PhotoPeach

Our Birthday Pictures on PhotoPeach

Yesterday we were lucky to go to the Boathouse Theatre to see a special show put on by the big children from our school called "Snow White and the Seven Punks".

I liked the dancing. Paige
I liked when the handsome Prince kissed her and she didn't wake up but she did when the other boy kissed her. Maggie
I liked when she ate the poison hotdog. Emire
I liked when they were singing. Jaxson
I liked the part when they danced. The music was really loud. Hunter
I liked when they gave chocolate to the helpers to say thank you. Jacob
I liked watching the singer with the microphone. Riley
I liked the woodcutter dancing. He was good. Blake

Jacob and Jaxson have been practicing writing sentences. Didn't they do well.

Last night "Star Bear" went home with Jacob because he had a such a wonderful day at school . When Star Bear came back... wow, how beautiful a clean and white he looked. Jacob's mum wrote this wonderful poem.

Star Bear was dirty, in need of a wash,
So into the washing machine he went with a splosh.
In went the powder and down with the lid,
Round and round, bear came out like a new kid.
Sparkling clean and white, Bear sat by the fire.
Mum said Bear might shrink in the drier!

This morning the power went out in Room 2 and it was really dark. Mr Parsons was passing by and came in to tell us what was happening. He decided to stay and join in our shape games. We really liked showing him the cool things we do in Room 2 to learn all about Geometry.

This afternoon we helped Mrs Hepburn and some of the TAB team, plant olive trees. The boys dug holes and we helped to fill them in. In a few years time we will be about to help harvest the olives.

Stepping Out with Constable Frost on PhotoPeach

Have fun learning about Road Safety with Ruben the Road Safety Bear.

Fun at Pollard Park on PhotoPeach

Visiting the Children's Library on PhotoPeach

Click on the kite and sing along to "Let's go fly a kite".

Click on this picture to try these games about being Sneeze safe.

Today we were set a challenge... to rid our class of Nasty Cold BUGS!

We learnt how germs spread through the air when we sneeze and when we cough into our hands, we can spread our germs to others. We learnt how to use a tissue. If a sneeze or cough came on suddenly we learnt to use our elbow. We should always bin our tissue after use and wash our hands with soap. A reporter from the Marlborough Express came and took photos of us. Look out for us in the paper.

Ask us about what we have learnt. Hopefully it will help us keep healthy at school.

Today was Global Wind Day. Mrs Robinson gave us some little wind mills and it was so windy that some of them blew away. It was hard to work out which way the wind was blowing as it kept changing direction.

Our big friends from Room 10 make lovely books for all the Room 2 children to help them remember their first few months at Riverlands School. Today Hayden received his special book.
I hope you will enjoy looking back at your special book in years to come Hayden.

Yesterday we let go a beautiful monarch butterfly that had hatched in our classroom. We were really surprised to find another butterfly had hatched during the day. Because it has been so cold, the butterflies took a lot longer to hatch than normal so we were very excited.

Today we had fun learning basketball skills with Mike Fitchett. Mike is a player in the Nelson Giants. We had lots of fun learning all sorts of things we can do with a basketball. Some of us were really good.

We had a wonderful Harvest Festival today to celebrate Arbor Day which is early next week. We made 2 different types of muffins using things harvested from our orchard. We made Feijoa, walnut and sultana muffins and Feijoa muffins. They all sold out quickly. Thanks to Mrs Boon for helping us make and bake our delicious muffins. There were lots of fun things to do and different things to taste. We raised over $300 to go towards new plants for our Edible Garden. Well done everyone.

Today Rylie, Emire and Blake came for their first school visit. They were lucky that Friday is PuMP day. We had lots of fun.

Room 2's Healthy Eating Assembly on PhotoPeach

Food for Energy with Harold on PhotoPeach

Making Gingerbread Men on PhotoPeach

Yummy Healthy Lunches on PhotoPeach

Our wonderful self portraits.

We have finally finished our scarecrow. Thanks Hayden for letting us have your scarecrow dress up. I hope the birds stay away from our newly planted vegetables.

We have had such a busy few weeks. Last week Room 1 harvested some more vegetables from the garden. We got to cook our own roasties. Mrs Hepburn had cut the veges up and we put them all in a roasting pan. We even cooked some of the radishes that we grew. When they were all cooked we eat them all. They were delicious.

Watch this great movie as many times as you can. The more times we watch it, the more votes we can get for our school. Imagine what we could do with $10,000!!! Well done guys, you look and sound fantastic. You should win just for that.

This is a great website to go to to make healthy lunch choices. The children had fun seeing how healthy they could make their lunchbox. How well can you do?

http://www.goforyourlife.vic.gov.au/hav/articles.nsf/html/index.html
http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/flash/a_healthy_lunchbox_intro.swf

"Ten Apples Up On Top" an Animated Reading!

Yesterday we were very lucky to learn some hockey skills. We were very good at dribbling.

Paige jumping in to the pool with Mike.

Group 2 learning arm action with Nicky.

Go Jonty.

Paige jumping in with a life jacket and flipping to her back.

Fundamental Skills Fun on PhotoPeach

Cate jumping in all on her own.

Sophie and Sidney showing how to jump into the water wearing a life jacket.

Group 2 with Mrs Robinson and Ricky at Futsal

How to make Pocket Plots on PhotoPeach

Last week we had time learning football skills with Paul. We learnt lots of ways to move the football. We used the inside and outside of our feet. We used our toes, knees, foreheads,top of our foot to control the ball. We know we need space around us to stop other people taking our ball away. It was lots of fun.

Jump Jam