What Is It? Think like a Scientist

“Have you ever heard of a vegetable caterpillar fungus?”

“No, I didn’t think so.”

Vegetable caterpillar fungus is really hard to find. But once when Mrs Bryant was out walking with her friend they saw one. It looked like a stick but it wasn’t. It was a vegetable caterpillar fungus. So what happened to the caterpillar was the caterpillar was infected by the fungus and took its body.

Lily

In our class we found out that a caterpillar used to live in this object. But a fungus grew from inside it where the caterpillar was. Sadly the fungus killed the caterpillar and now the object is called vegetable caterpillar fungus. The caterpillar is now mummified. You can find vegetable caterpillar fungus in the North Island too.

Elizabeth

Today our teacher Mrs Bryant showed the class something small and brown. I had no idea what it was. It was skinny at the bottom and a bit wider at the top. It was very unusual. Then Mrs Bryant told us that it was a caterpillar that a fungus had eaten. I had a fascinating morning.

Isabella

Fun Day at Teapot Valley

Our Irish Dance Star

Elizabeth gained full marks in a Traditional Irish Step dance exam.

Congratulations. Be proud of your achievement Elizabeth.

Weka Calendar Art 2015

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Today in Weka Class we were introduced to Constable Garland. Constable Garland is going to be visiting us over the next two weeks to talk to us about keeping ourselves safe.

Today we told him our names, phone numbers and addresses. 

Parents can you please check that your child knows their address and phone number and practices this at home, especially if the details have changed recently.

Today with our homework book we are bringing home a letter about the programme and some pamphlets with extra information. If you have any further questions please come in and speak to us.

Under the Sea - Book Parade

We had a wonderful Book Week Parade last week, a lot of thought and effort went in. Well done to everyone for coming in with fabulous costumes. Many thanks to all our wonderful parents who helped get the costumes ready for the event. Weka Class I am sorry if I missed you in the photos (it was a little hectic). Please email me any photos you have and I will upload them as well. 

Terrific Balancing Teamwork

Jupiter

We made models and wrote about Jupiter.

Jupiter is/ has …

an interesting planet to learn about

lots of storms

The thick clouds make stripes on Jupiter

a powerful Great Red Spot

powerful spooky storms

lightning zipping and zapping

tornadoes twisting and turning

76 moons

Bianca

Jupiter Is …

the biggest planet

the fifth planet from the sun

terribly windy and stormy

vast

Has a moon called Io

Has a terribly humungous storm called the Red Spot

Has thick clouds

No one can stand on Jupiter

Elizabeth

Welcome Back to Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3 Weka Class and a very big welcome to Sean who is joining our class. Sean we hope you will be very happy here at St Pauls. We hope you all had a very happy holiday and had lots of fun.

This term we will be beginning a new Science and Art topic about ‘Fabric and Fibre'. We will have lots  of fun finding out about the properties of different materials and where they came from, as well as exploring ways that we can create with them. We will be sending home a list of bits and pieces that we need help collecting for this unit, but in the meantime if you have any scraps of wool at home we would love you to bring it in for us to use. We will also be learning about our Parish Church and what it means for us to belong to and be part of this community. We hope to make links to people within the parish and visit the Church.

Following up from last terms Space Topic - Google are running a 'Space Camp' this week with lots of interesting activities online. Click on this link beginning Monday 20th to have a look: https://camp.withgoogle.com/activities/week2

We are looking forward to another great term in Weka Class.
Mrs McTague & Mrs Bryant

Flotsam

Before we shared a wonderful wordless book by David Wiesner that begins with the picture above we wrote our own stories that follow from the picture. Our stories all begin with:

“Hey, look what I’ve found,” I shouted to anyone who could hear me. “I wonder what it is?” I thought.

“Hey, I think I know what it is. It’s a crunchy big fish bone and very slimy,” said Peter. “Look at that, it’s a paua shell,” said Peter. “It’s very shiny!”

“I can see a seal,” I said.

“It’s staring at us,” said Peter.

“It’s after us,” I said.

“Run” Peter said.

“I think we’ve lost him,” I said.

Spencer

One or two people came in to look at what I had found. It was a starfish. All of a sudden the starfish jumped up and started to run away. She ran to the little ice-cream shop then seven more starfish came running after it. When they entered the shopkeeper screamed and ran out of the shop.

Scarlet

There was a sparkling object, seaweed, cans and a kettle then I found some pancake rocks with a pebble on them. It is just like that legend about if you touched the pebble you would turn into something. Then I found a pearl then mum and dad called “It is time to go now”. What a good day.

Elizabeth

It might be a crab but it doesn’t have sharp claws and it looks bigger and as red as a stop sign. Let’s take it home but how would we put it in the bucket. Let’s just let it go. That’s a good idea. It’s time to go home.

Freddie

It might be a line shark skeleton that fought with a whale shark. It must have been a very dangerous battle. When it was washed up it was very scary and terrifying. As he walked across the beach he saw some interesting things. There were bones everywhere and he also found a swordfish’s mouth and all sorts of things.

Elijah