Goodbye Nanas

It's time for Nanas to go back to his class in Christchurch so we decided to give him a farewell party.  We had a treasure hunt and played some games then we made banana splits! Yum!  We will miss Nanas, but we are looking forward to seeing Wally again.

Welcome Kiet

Kiet is the newest student in A3. We are looking forward to getting to know you Kiet,  welcome to A3.

Rachel's first movie!

Take a look at Rachels first movie.  I think she did a great job reading her story, well done Rachel.

The museum. By Jasraj

After our trip to the museum Jasraj was keen to write a story about what he saw.

Nanas Big day at the museum!

Yesterday A3 and A4 took Nanas on his first adventure into the big city.  He went with us to the museum and he got to see lots of interesting things, like dinosaur bones. 

Nanas on looking at the motorway on the way to the museum

Nanas looking at some cockroaches in the weird and wonderful exhibition 

Take a look at this slideshow to see what else Nanas and A3 got up to:

Here are some stories that the children wrote about their trip to the museum.  It is Tevita's first video since starting in our class, well done Tevita! 

The Kittens have arrived!

The kittens have arrived.  They are staying in Mrs Compston's office until they feel safe and happy at our school.  A3 and A4 got to go and meet them and they are very cute! 

Here are some kitten inspired stories.

The kittens don't have names yet.  Please let us know your suggestions. 

First Contact

Yesterday we had our first ever skype call with the Springston Explorers in Christchurch.  We got to see Wally and ask them questions about what he was doing down there.  They asked us some questions too!  It was very exciting.

Nanas is waving hello to his class.

Asking questions about Wally

A3 and A4 go bananas for Nanas

Nanas has arrived and everyone is very excited.  He has spent the day meeting the children, reading books and playing games.  It's been great and he even came out to fitness with us.

Wally Wonderings

The children are still thinking and writing about Wally.  Here are a couple of children reading their stories about what they think Wally might be getting up to in Christchurch.

Where's Wally?

Yesterday our class mascot, Wally left us to go on a trip to Christchurch.  He is going to be staying with a class who we meet through blogging!  We are a little sad, but we can't wait to see what he gets up to while he is down there!  The Springston Explorers are going to send us their mascot, hopefully he gets here in time to go on our trip to the museum!  

Celebrations

Over the weekend lots of the children had fireworks at home for Diwali and Guy Fawkes night.  When they came back to school they were very excited to share their experiences.  Some of the students chose to write stories about it.  Two of the stories are true and one is not.  Can you guess which story is made up?

Happy Diwali

On Friday it was Diwali, the Indian festival of light.  We decided to celebrate it by making Barfi and Rangoli patterns.  Take a look at our video to see the what we did.

Free Falling

Last week Miss Mac brought in some little parachute people.  We couldn't wait to get outside and try them.  A3 and A4 waited downstairs while two people went to the second floor to launch the parachuters.  We had races to see which one made it to the ground first.  One of the parachute people got caught in the hanging flower basket and we had to ask Mr Heihei to get it out for us! 

Getting ready to launch our parachuters. 

In the afternoon some of the children wanted to make something to try and catch the parachute before it hit the ground.  Have a look at the video to see what happened.

Trick or Treat

It was Halloween last week.  We decided to make some scary halloween food.  We got together with A4 and made marshmellow ghosts and fingers covered in blood!  It was fun making them but even better when we got to eat them.