Our Amazing Amaryllis

We are so excited! Our first flower on our amaryllis is almost completely open and it has only taken one day. I wonder what it will look like after the weekend?

Amaryllis

Yesterday Dylan, from room 10, and his Mum and Dad came to visit Miss B after school. They asked if she would like an amaryllis to have in the classroom. Miss B was so excited because she had seen one in room 10 and thought it was beautiful. We had a lot of questions about our amaryllis, so we did some investigating and found out that they are a kind of lilly. We are waiting for our amaryllis to flower and thinking of ways to describe what it looks like. We made a wordle out of our descriptive language.

Busy Bees

Last Monday Anna's Grandad came to our classroom to talk about bees.
First he showed us the queen bee inside the glass frame then he told us to pass around the honey comb where the bees lay their eggs. Then we got to look at the bee larvae in some photographs, when the first queen bee grub hatches it goes and kills all the other queen bee grubs so she is the queen of the hive. He gave us some fresh honey and we had a delicious, nutritious honey sandwich.

By Room 2

Sensational Swimmers

 
This term we are lucky enough to have swimming lessons with the fantastic instructors from JC Swim School. We have all been working very hard and showing amzing improvement in our swimming since our lessons at the beginning of the year. Congratulations to Chloe who got an award at this weeks assembly for her focus and concentration at swimming this week.

Star Handwriting

 
Today we are celebrating Meihana's work. He is working hard at making flicks on his letters before he starts learning to link his handwriting. What a beautiful, tidy example of handwriting Meihana. Ka pai to mahi.

Confident Kids

 
Today with Constable Somerfield we have been learning to be confident kids. We have been working on knowing what to say and do if someone is doing something to us we don't like. We are confident kids who can keep ourselves safe.

Spelling Superstars

 

All of these fabulous children have scored 100% in this weeks spelling test. Tino pai to mahi tamariki!

Keeping Ourselves Safe

 
This week we have been working with Constable Somerfield on strategies for keeping ourselves safe in different situations. Today we talked about the parts of our body and learnt that no one touches our bodies without our permission. This made us also think about the way we treat other people.