Mrs Pang, our Bible in Schools Teacher

Mrs Pang's lesson on Thursday was all about Springtime and we helped her fix "blossoms" in the form of paper tissues to a branch.  Then we attached a paper circle over another page and fixed this with a split pin.  The circle turns to reveal the various seasons.  

Poetry Recital

All the wonderful children in our class prepared a poem that they learned by heart and presented to their peers.  Everyone chose a different poem which made it very interesting for the audience and we all enjoyed listening to the words and giving positive feedback.  Finally we narrowed the children down and Lara and Jayden were our finalists.  They were very brave to recite their poems at the assembly.  Well done to them.

Slippery, sloshy shaving foam

Tactile experiences are great learning and talking opportunities!  We so enjoyed playing around with some lovely fragrant shaving foam, using our fingers to slip and slide, to make patterns and to write...we thoroughly enjoyed the tactile, olfactory and visual process.  In no time at all, though, the foam would disappear and we would need another supply.

Artists at work

We have such talented children in our class and are always so impressed by their confidence to create and try new things.  Look at some of our latest art creations -

Our cakes were modelled on the story "The King's Cake".

Our snowflake and koru patterns were fun to make.  We learned to blend warm and cool colours when doing the koru patterns.

These are our bright Buzzy Bees - we drew them and wrote interesting descriptions about them.

Our lovely daffodils are to celebrate Spring - they look great!

Our symmetrical stars are a riot of colours.

Just for Jayden

We are thrilled that Jayden received a certificate this week.  He is enthusiastic about reading and enjoys the challenge of a new book to read and discuss each day.  

Our Volcano Dioramas

Volcanoes are fascinating and we have learned interesting facts about them.  We also enjoyed making a diorama to show a scene of a volcano erupting.  Using a square card, we folded and painted it to form the sky in the background and the earth below. The mountain was made by adding layers of paper mache on a paper cup which we painted brown.  Red paint was added to depict the lava and orange, red and yellow cellophane was glued on top. The addition of some bark and paper grass with a little dinosaur made the diorama look more authentic.  We enjoyed showing these at our Junior Assembly on Friday.

Making our volcanoes by coating a paper cup with strips of icky sticky glued paper.  Messy but fun!

Baking Chocolate Cupcakes

Days like today are the ones we keep as special memories!  With the help of Mrs Blakeman we made and iced the most delicious choc cupcakes.  There was a list of ingredients, some instructions to follow and in no time at all we had the cake mixture all ready to bake!  Most of us got a chance to do some hands on preparation - adding, beating, mixing, pouring or stirring. 

Once the cupcakes were cooked, we iced them with sweet icing and decorated them with m and ms.  They looked, smelled and tasted just wonderful! Such a lovely treat!