Friday, 11 May 2012

Our Lovely Autumn Writing


My favourite learning we have done so far is our writing - we have delved into the world of poetry and what a fun time! First we started with exploring language, which gave the children opportunities to engage their senses through different items such as bubblewrap and playdough. 

Here are some groups writing their ideas down...


I love the way that they are all engaged in using their senses and in the activity. It was an amazing way to get some rich language and similes from them and they didn't even know they were coming up with such amazing ideas!

Once we did a bunch of 'explore' type sessions, we moved onto the writing. This came easily because of all our fantastic work in the beginning. Of course then we published and made them all pretty with Autumn colours using dye (The children take great delight in saying things like 'Can I dye now?', and 'Miss BT, I dyed, but I'm still alive'!).

Here's some of our published Haiku poems..


I can't wait to get the leaves up...and show you how we display them! Keep tuned for that in the next week or pop into the class to see the lovely writing...

Miss B-T

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Orana Park Postponed

Unfortunately the weather is not good enough for the trip to go ahead today. We will postpone the trip until next Thursday.

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Orana Park Trip




At this stage the Orana Park trip tomorrow is on. We remain hopeful that the bad weather will hold off so remember your warm clothing and a jacket.
If it is raining at 7AM the trip will be postponed until next Thursday.
Check here at 7AM for an update. Fingers crossed for good weather!

Sunday, 6 May 2012

Springston Explorers Newsletter

Springston Explorers Newsletter T2 W2

Click on the picture above to see the class newsletter bigger. 

Maya's amazing musical email!

Maya sent Mrs Watson an email with a youtube link in it. 


To Mrs Watson,
I like this song lots because it has 5 people playing guitar, so I thought it would be cool for you to check this song out !

From Maya Woods



Click here to watch it. Leave us a comment telling us what you think about the video!


Duck shooting season has begun!


Lachie sent Mrs Watson an email with this photo.

Lachie said he went out with his dad duck shooting and they shot 2 ducks.
Lachie said that the gun was loud but he had lots of fun.

Do you have any questions for Lachie about duck shooting? 

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Whio: A New Zealand endangered bird

Click here to watch a video about the endangered Whio.

We did lots of thinking about this video.

We asked ourselves questions using these thinking hats.




Challenge: Watch the video then choose one of the questions and answer it in a comment to us.