Christmas Fun

These photos are from two special events Kaipara Flats children have been a part of this Christmas season. Ako, the pukeko is sitting in the punga tree on the float in the Warkworth Santa parade and Santa is arriving at the Kaipara Flats Children's Christmas party driven on the quad by Bob.
Here are some Christmas activities, just in case you're looking for some entertainment over the holiday. (There are more activities on the sidebar too.)
Ten Little Snowmen
Reindeer Orchestra
Build Your Own Snowman
Decorate a Gingerbread Man
Santa's Secret Village
Advent Calendar
Snowline

National Jandal Day

Today we are celebrating National Jandal Day. We have dressed up in our beach clothes and jandals and some of us have brought beach toys. We are making gold coin donations for the Surf Life Saving Club at Omaha. Here we all are, dressed up and having fun.

Properties of Plastic and Glass

We have been learning to work together using a programme called Kidspiration to organise our ideas. We were looking at the properties of plastics and glass.
You will notice that some of us used post it notes and card instead of the computer. We could still organise our ideas this way.
We have also been learning to use words like transparent, translucent, opaque, dull and shiny to describe what we see.
If you have trouble reading our work, click on the picture and it will zoom in.

Scatter Cat by Lynley Dodd

We have been learning to use words like in, on, under and behind to describe where things are. Here we have made a voice thread recording our stories about Hairy Maclary chasing all the cats in Scattercat by Lynley Dodd.

What is rubbish?

We spent some time this morning thinking about what rubbish is. Ms Donnell was very impressed with our thinking. Have a look.

Last term we looked in the dictionary to find out what food is.
What does a dictionary say about rubbish?
This came from: http://dictionary.reference.com
worthless, unwanted material that is rejected or thrown out; debris; litter; trash.

Telling Our Own Stories

Is it made from wool?

We have been thinking about...
where we go to find the answer to a question.
Our question was: Is it made from wool?
We looked at the label on our clothes.
We looked in a book called "Wool" by Annabelle Dixon to find out about tests you can do to tell the difference between man-made fibres and wool.
The tests we did were:
The Feeling Test The Pulling Test
The Dampness Test The Ice Cube Test
Tomorrow we plan to go to see an expert, (Monty's dad) to find out about how you get the wool from the sheep. Monty's dad will shear a sheep at the shearing shed while we watch.

Counting in twos

We have been learning to count in twos. We know the twos pattern but we get muddled up when we have pairs to count.
Today we got the pattern tiles and Ms Donnell told us to get all the blues and put them separately in twos.
Jared counted 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22

Skittle People for Show Day

This morning in Room 2 we all made skittle people.
The skittle people were made out of plastic bottles and they are for bowling.
First we poured sand in the bottles.
Next some of the children used sandpaper to sand the bottles so the paint would stick to the plastic.
After that we painted the bottles.
Finally we gave them faces and dressed them up and decorated them.
Now we are going to take a photo so everyone can look at our skittle people.

Get Ready for Show Day

Welcome back to school for Term 4. It's time to get ready for Show Day.
Have a listen to this voice thread made by kindergarten children in America. You might get some ideas for your Vegetable Creations.
Click on the picture to go to their class blog.