Room 13 sketching in the sunshine

Today the sun shone and we enjoyed spending some time sketching bare trees on the courts.

 

 

Tane Mahuta Day

Room 15 made a fantastic movie about Tane Mahuta.

Our class (Room 15) learnt about the giant Kauri tree called Tane Mahuta.  It is very old but we don't know exactly how old it is.  Tane Mahuta is somewhere between 1,250 and 2,500 years old!!!!  It lives up north in the Waipoua forest.
We did some measuring to see how long Tane Mahuta would be if it was lying along the ground.
Here is a video showing what we found out.

Room 6 visits Putikitiki

We went to Putikitiki to sketch the cabbage trees and after we had finished we explored the putikitiki playground. There were lots of things we could do.

                            

       

Harvest Festival Room 12

On the last day of term the whole school had the harvest festival. Room 12 used pumpkins from our garden to make mini pumpkin muffins. We thought they were delicious. We also got to try lots of different food that other classes had made using the produce from our school garden.

Harvest Festival on PhotoPeach

Life cycles of Monarch Butterflies by Room 6

Monarch Butterfly Life Cycles on PhotoPeach by Room 6

We have seen caterpillars and chrysalis in very funny places around our school. 

Have you seen any in an unusual place lately?

Finding feijoa's by Room 4

FINDING FEIJOAS!

Our gorgeous garden is filled with delicious feijoas at the moment, so we took a trip down to collect some. They are on our windowsill while they finish ripening. We can't wait to eat them!

Harvest Festival - Room 9

Room 9 made crispy potato chips with yummy kiwi dip.

Most of the food prepared and eaten was taken from the school garden.

All of the food was prepared by the kids in the school.

It was fun to try new things and enjoy the yummy food.