Merry Christmas

We have had a busy few weeks and it is hard to believe the year has come to an end. In class we have been enjoying creating different Christmas art works and participating in various Christmas activities.


Among many things over the last month we:

* sold all our herbs at family fun night

*nurtured and cared for grass heads and our special rocket seedlings

*attended prize giving where some of us did a special dance

Wishing you all a safe and happy Christmas, please drop by and say hi to me next year. I will  miss my Room 3 kiddies over the break :)

Recycling and reusing

We have been talking about how important it is to recycle and reuse things. Today we made special wind 'chimes' to hang in our gardens, we used old bottle tops, containers, buttons and beads. Threading these items onto nylon was helping us to develop our fine motor skills and our pincer grip.
hanging them in the garden will hopefully keep birds away from any growing seedlings.

Our Assembly

On Friday it was our class assembly and the children were all FANTASTIC!

I was so very proud of everyone :)

It was very exciting dressing up and dancing to Hey baby lets rock and roll, talking on the microphone, choosing the songs and being in charge of the whole assembly.

A big thanks to Mrs Purdie who helped us with our dance.

Measurement

Today we talked about measurement and about measuring how tall we all were. We carefully stood next to each other and decided who was the tallest/shortest.

Then we lined up in height order.

Look who was the tallest, shortest and right in the middle.

Planting has begun

Last week we planted up our herb garden using recycled materials. As we watch our seeds grow we will be learning about the plant life cycle and how to take care of plants.

Once our herbs are all grown we will be selling them at the upcoming Family Fun night.

Happy Holidays

I hope that everyone is having a great break and have been making the most of the weather.

Here is a snapshot of us on mufti day with our crazy hair and stunning smiles :)

New Art on display

This week we have been inviting in whanau to view our classrooms for the Art Exhibition. 
Room 3 have been very busy creating some different pieces for you all to enjoy. 

Our Cowboy pictures:

Our newspaper cats:

Torn wallpaper landscapes:

And the pieces we created at Corbans Art Centre. 

The Junior School Production

Last week was a huge week for the Junior School and a highly successful one too.. Everyone participated in the Junior School production, performing in front of an audience for 3 different shows to rave reviews and huge applause.

We did a Country and Western dance to the song Boot Scootin Boogie. We had been practicing our dance lots and had it perfected by show day. I was extremely proud of every single one of my children standing up on the stage and doing the dance confidently and with style. They looked awesome!

There was a bit of time waiting before we had to go on the stage and then again before we went back for the finale and we spent that time doing things in Room 25. It was very exciting for all, sitting on big chairs and feeling like big kids.

A big thanks to the lovely mummies who came along to help us get changed and ready for each performance, without your help things would have been a lot more stressful!

To celebrate our success and as a special treat, we all had iceblocks on Friday :)

A Boot Scootin Boogie sneak preview

We have been practicing hard and we are ready!!

Here we are at the dress rehearsal. Looking forward to our performance day on Wednesday.

Our Corbans Art Centre trip

We had a great day at Corbans Art Centre; it started with a highly exciting ride on a double decker bus and finished with us producing some fantastic card relief images.

While at the Arts Centre we used our "tools" (our hands ) to cut out geometric shapes from different cardboard and create a picture, we then used the printing press to produce our prints. We also had time to do some crayon rubbings, exploring the different textures of the cardboard. 

 Thanks to all our lovely parent helpers, you certainly helped to make the whole day a success.

I will be hanging up more photos in the classroom, so feel free to come and have a look at the photos and the awesome prints your children created.