Do not open this book!

Room 5 loved a book Anna read us called "Do not open this book".

We even wrote our own stories about it.
Click on the photo to read our book only if you feel brave.

Don't forget if you're scared you can close the book.
If you aren't scared keeping turning the pages.

Road Building

Room 4 heard a lot of noise coming from outside our classroom. We went outside to take a look. They were breaking up the road to try and fix it. We loved watching the machinery doing their jobs. We watched it for a long time.

Here is some of our writing about what we saw.

  

I  like  the  digger.  It  was  awesome.  It  was  digging  the  rocks. 

 By Katelyn

I  like  watching  the  digger.  It  was  lifting  up  the  sand. 

By Raedence

I  like  watching  the  digger.  It  was  loud. 

By Maria

 

I  like  the  digger  because  it  fixes  the  road.

By  Mia

I  like  the  digger  and  truck.  They  put  the  stones  on  the  road.  

By Cruz

  It  was  so  noisy  I  had  to  cover  my  ears.  It  was  fun. 

By Sky

 

I  was  watching  the  roller.  It  was  squashing  the  road. 

By Kayden

I  watched  the  digger  dig  the  road. I  watched  the  roller  roll  the  rocks. 

By Noah

The  machinery  was  noisy.  It  was  fixing  the  road. 

By  Mathew

Here are a couple of photos of our published writing.

 

Superheroes

We wrote about what our super powers would be if we were superheroes. Then we drew ourselves as SuperKids using Kidpix. 

You can read our book by clicking on the cover.

Baby Charlotte

We had a visit from Jen and baby Charlotte. They brought us some delicious mandarins from their garden.

We loved having a baby to visit us in Room 4.

We had a lot of questions about her. She slept for nearly the whole time she was in Room 4. Lucky we are so good at being quiet.

Here is some of our writing about our sleeping visitor.

The baby is sleeping. The children are happy.

By Abshir

I like the baby.

By Cruz

The baby is sleeping.

By Joey

Baby Charlotte poked her tongue. I love baby Charlotte.

By Katelyn

I am watching the baby wake up.

By Mia

I liked it when the baby was asleep.

By Chloe

Baby Charlotte is sleeping.

By Raedence

The baby is poking her tongue.

By Noah

A Bad Day

Anna shared a story with us about she had a bad day when she thought she had lost her keys. Luckily they were in the school office. 

We talked a lot about bad things that had happened to us. Then we wrote and published our own stories about when we had a bad day. 

Click on the cover to start reading our book.

Autumn Leaves

We like it when the leaves change colour and fall to the ground. Look at all the leaves outside Room 4. We have loved playing in them. We have walked in them and jumped in them too.

The leaves are falling down from the tree.

By Raedence

I am throwing the leaves in the air.

By Mia

I am throwing the leaves.

By David

I am throwing the leaves up high.

By Caylee 

I threw the leaves up into the air. They fell down.

By Katelyn

The leaves fell down.

By Shay

I love my Mum

On Sunday it will be Mother's Day in New Zealand. Earlier in the week we wrote about some of the great things our Mums do for us and why we love them.

Anna published our writing onto a whiteboard and then took a photo of us.

We have made a frame for a copy of our photos to go in so we can give it to our Mums.

Have a look at our photopeach -

I love my Mum on PhotoPeach

What do you love about your Mum?

Imagine 100

A game we like to play in Room 4 is called Imagine 100. We try to use our imagination and think about something. Then we think about what 100 of those things would be like.  

After playing this game for a little while we wrote some of our favourite 100 ideas. We were quite excited because we learnt to write 100. 

Here is a look at some of our writing. 
(If you click on the photo you will be able to see our writing)

  

 

 

 

Room 4 knows Anna is afraid of mice so sometimes they think it is very funny to imagine 100 mice and laugh about what Anna would do! 

What can you imagine 100 of?

Feijoa Cake Book

Read our book about making the Feijoa Cake.
Click on the cover. 

Baking

Today we made a feijoa cake. We got the feijoas from the Kitchen Garden at school.

 

 We cut the feijoas in half and scooped out the insides with a teaspoon. 

 

Next we mashed a banana. This bowl has 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 1 mashed banana.

This is what it looked like after we mixed it.

Next we mixed it with 2 1/2 cups of flour and 2 teaspoons of baking powder.

Finally we mixed in 1 1/2 cups of feijoas. The mixture smelt delicious.

 

We poured the mixture into a cake tin. The baking paper stops the cake sticking to the cake tin.

 

We cooked it in the oven at 180C for about an hour.

 

The best bit was eating the cake in the sun outside. 

Delicious!

Looking after Nature

We went for a walk on our Nature Trail. 

When we got through the gate we could hear so many cicadas and we could even see some cicada shells up high on the trees.

When we walked along the path we were surprised to see lots of rubbish on the top part of the track. Anna told us that some of the Nature Trail helpers had collected a whole lot of rubbish just last week.

Look at all the rubbish we saw.

When we walked back to class we picked up more rubbish from all around the school.

 

 We want our Nature Trail area to be full of birds, insects and trees. We want everyone to put their rubbish in the right place.

Take a look at our video to help you remember what to do - 

Tutaekuri Potatoes

We harvested some potatoes from our garden. These potatoes are called tutaekuri which means dog poo in maaori. The shape of the potatoes does look a little bit like dog poo.

The tutaekuri were in the dirt. We had to dig with our hands to get them out. We got to hold them in our hands and then put them in the container. Looking for them was like finding treasure. They have dark skin and the inside is purple.

Look at all the potatoes we got.

Do you know how many potatoes there were? 

We counted them and there were over 140 tutaekuri potatoes.

What do you think we should do with our potatoes?

Helping the Environment

We have been thinking of ways to look after our environment.

Have a look at our brainstorm - 

What could you do to care for the environment?