Fun at the Botanical Gardens

Ready to plant our seeds.

We have to get it just right....

Waiting patiently

We used our fingers, just as we were told.

At one point we thought we might have to walk in the rain.  Brooke and Hollie working hard.

Samantha and Sophie planting, with Jocelyn watching them.

Jackson has planted his seed.

Waiting to do some planting in the vege garden. 

Elisa working hard.

Brooke planting some seedlings.

Jocelyn concentrating hard to get her seedling out.

Shanae has done a good job.

Dylan, watering the plants.

That's it, my plant needs lots of water to grow.

Jackson carefully watering his plant.

Room 15 , very busy in the garden.

Sophie, working with a smile on her face.

Good job, Keanen.

Samantha having fun.

This is hard work.

Wow, that is a big hole.

Well done Ethan and Kyrus.

Wow look at the lovely flowers, they look so real.

That water looked so nice on such a hot day.

Ohh, how lovely it was to discover water on such a warm day.

We had so much fun.

Some of us could not get enough of the water.

Taking a break...

Dylan practising his climbing skills.

It was a long, very hot day.

EOTC TIMETABLE  TERM 4

Event	Date	Day	Time
Bike Day	22 November	Tuesday	11am to 12.30pm Bike Parade at 2pm
Morning Walk   and	28 November	Monday	10.00am Children will need hats, sunscreen and drink bottles as well as some snacks for a picnic.
Safety in the community	28 November	Monday	1.30pm onwards. In the afternoon some of the officers from our local police station will come in and talk to the kids about “safety in our community.
Drumming Show	1 December	Thursday	11.30am in the hall
Teddy Bear’s Picnic	2 December	Friday	2.00pm
Botanical Gardens	5 December	Monday	09:15am on the day and will only return to school at 14:00pm

The Letter Sounds Song

Fun at the market day, look what we have bought!

Some of our great picture plans that helped us getting ideas down in our recount about the pools.

Dylan having fun.

Fun at the pools

Shanae in her cool outfit

Sophie taking a break

A big thanks to all the parents who helped us with transport and supervision  to and at the pools.  We had so much fun.  Here are a few photo's.  Of course we had to write about our experience.  Some of us are now using our picture plans to help us writing more of our ideas down.

Tristan and Samantha

Manukau Leisure - Next Week

As part of our EOTC ( Education Outside The Classroom) program

 for Term 4 we are going to the Sykes Road Pools. This will give the students the opportunity to gain confidence around water. We require Parent helpers and transport. Unfortunately if you have to bring preschoolers we can’t accept your offer as we require you to be responsible for a group of children.

Monday 14 November 2011
Rooms	Leave School	Back at School
Room 15 and Room 9	12.45pm	2.00pm

Monday
Today 3 of our friends, Caitlin, Nicklaus and Cameron had their last day in our Room and we wish them all the best in Room 9.  We would also like to welcome Brooke, Shanae, Jackson and Hollie, who just started today, to our Room.  We hope this will be the start of a very exciting time at Reremoana School for you all.    
Look out for news about Education outside the Classroom, coming up.

                                                                                        

Growing seedlings

This morning we wrote for a new purpose that we haven't done before.  We learnt how to write an information report.  We did this as part of our inquiry process.  Later we got the opportunity to go and plant our seeds.  This is what some very eager gardeners had to say.

How do plant grow at www.gudli.com

Welcome back to a new and very short term.  I would like to welcome our new students - Ethan, Dylan and Sophie who has started school recently.  We hope that your time at Reremoana school will be very special!


Inquiry
This term we are looking at our living world.  We have started looking at the book "The sunflower that went flop."  In writing our purpose was to write a recount on the book.  We now know that a recount means that you have to tell what happened.  We also got to illustrate our stories on Kidpix. Through this we discovered that we would now like to grow seedlings and we are in the process of learning what they will need to grow.  I will keep you updated with the process.  Don't forget about our special trip to the Botanical Gardens coming up in Week 7.

Between the Lions: If You Can Read "at"

Our lovely learners.

Writing in Room 15

n room 15 we were writing to describe.  We have learnt that we also write to an audience.  Here are some of our wonderful ideas that we had about our "Dads"

My Dad works at Fischer and Paykel Healthcare.  He has black and spiky hair.  He likes me because I help him.  He is 10 times taller than me.  I need to look up to him.  By Nicklaus

My Dad works in the Westfield shops.  He sells lots of chicken and stuff.  He has short black hair.  I like him and I like going with him to Westfield mall.  By Keanen

When my Dad sleeps with me I snuggle up to him.  He has straight spiky hair and spiky prickles on his chin.  I call him Papa

By Jocelyn

My Dad is taller than the roof.  He goes in his truck dropping big rocks off.  He loves me because I am doing good things.  By Dylan

When I stand next to Dad I jump but it is still no good.  He is bigger than the branches.  I like him because he keeps me warm, he holds me sooo tight!  By Pawan

My Dad is so tall he goes up to the sky.  He likes building with me and we play Monopoly.  I love him because he gives me hugs.  By Logan

I have a dad.  His hair looks like mine.  He helps me with word games on the computer.  My Dad loves me because he always says that to me.  By Cameron

My Dad has spiky black hair.  He is much bigger than me.  He likes to ride on a scooter and he lets me ride on it too.  

By Jayden

My Dad likes drawing butterflies.  He is much bigger than me.  His hair is brown and straight.  He gives me cuddles. By Caitlin

My dad has little dots on his face.  He needs to shave them. We play pretend sword fighting together.  I love him because he is my Dad.  By  Tristan