Being creative at Mitre 10

It was lovely to see these photos on facebook of Avatar and his family having fun together and learning new skills. I hope you are able to use some of the upcoming holiday time to have fun together having great experiences.

Wild Wet Fun Afternoon

On Thursday we had a wonderful time at school when all the other classes were away. We were in 4 mixed groups and we had fun doing water relays, blowing bubbles, playing "dry,dry,wet" and bouncing on the bouncy castle.

Unfortunately there was a bush fire so Mr Hayles had to leave with the fire truck before our water obstacle course. Ben and Tom did a great job wetting us with the fire hose as we went around the course. 

What happened?

We were able to answer most of our wonderings but decided not to try out Hendrix's wondering!!!could have been a quiet afternoon if he had been right!!!!!

Thinking like a scientist

On Friday we read "Bartholomew and the Oobleck". We decided that we would make some ourselves. 

We needed cornflour , water and something to colour it ? We used limd jelly ".

We each asked a discovery question before we started.

Ten Apples up on top

Fred uses "Ida Ideas" to solve our problem

Working with our Thinking Buddies

Today we read a story called "Quiet!"

Pa Lion told the animals that if they woke up baby Leo, he would eat them.

We decided to use Ida Ideas to come up with a way to keep the animals safe from Pa Lion.

Hudson's motorbike race meeting

In the weekend Hudson's family went to Nugget for motorbike race. He got a special medal for competing.

 On Thursday we went outside and looked at the Room 2 sunflowers. Mrs Tibble showed us how to sketch the flowers with pencil. When we went back to class we used pastel to colour our flowers.
On Friday we used tissue paper to make a nice frame for our flowers. We think they look wonderful.

Look at the sunflowers last years Room 2 children grew from seed. They didn't grow very high but they made a lovely display. They are starting to die off now and this year's Room 2 noticed the seeds that were starting to form in the middle of the flowers. We decided to try and "harvest" (Fred's idea)the seeds so we can grown more sunflowers. We put a paper bag over the biggest one to stop the birds getting the seeds.

Meet the teacher evening.

Learning in action

On Friday Mrs Paterson gave each of us a small plastic bag with white play dough in it. We talked about what we could do to change the colour to make it look better. Mrs Paterson told us it was "Magic play dough". She showed us how to knead the dough and look what happened !! It was magic. We all made different colours then made our names.

I wonder how she did that?

Do you know?

Signing our Class Treaty

Today we planted our sunflowers in our Butterfly Garden.We hope that it will be sunny enough that they will grow tall and strong.

Jack's beanstalk

We have been listening and acting out stories. We really loved Jack and the Beanstalk so we planted our own beans from seeds that Mrs Hepburn had collected from last years bean crop in the school garden. Only 2 didn't grow, so we will plant some new ones for those children and see who's grows fastest. Today we compared who had the tallest, shortest. Even though they were all planted on the same day, they all grew differently, just like the children in Room 2.We have taken them home to grow in our gardens.

Jack's beanstalk - Kizoa Online Movie Maker

"Have a go"athletics day. November 6th 2015

We had a lovely day at school while the older children were at the rural athletics. Lots of parents came to watch ups, run, jump and throw. Here are some photos of us doing the long jump and the high jump.

"Have a go" athletics day. - Kizoa Online Movie Maker

Fun at the Spooky Disco - Kizoa Online Movie Maker

Cruz competing at the Nelson Mini MX Champs

Room 2