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 :)