Daffodil Day

Thanks for helping the Cancer Society. We enjoyed playing Capture the Daffodil.

Understanding Plants

A few of the things we learnt about plants:

Plants like stinging nettle can be used for medicine. You cook it and it’s good for eczema. Evie

Seven stings from a stinging nettle can kill a guinea pig. Ruby

Rafflesia grows on other plants. After seven years it grows above the ground then it attracts flies. Gabriel

A type of butterfly lives on stinging nettle. Hamish

The most fascinating thing I learnt was that with wind pollinated plants not all of the pollen lands on the other plants. Cordelia

Flax can be used to heal cuts on your body. Agnes

Some plants can be a little bit harmful and some can be helpful.  Nic

Some seeds are designed to fly so they spread out further. One seed is a bit like a helicopter and if you find one and drop it, the seed will twirl down to the ground. It is called a sycamore. Luke

Gold Medal

I went to the Canterbury Junior champs in Christchurch at Olympia Club on Sunday. The Step 2s from Nelson, Greymouth, Olympia and CSG were competing on vault, beam, bar and floor. I came first overall: first on beam and my team came second over all. I won a gold medal and received ribbons.

I’m really proud of myself.

Rod Dixon Marathon

Smart Number Line Subtraction

Clever Subtraction Strategy

Brightening Our Classroom

Balloon Fun

When it was my turn I started off on a testing paper. The first decoration I did was some dabbing.

Then I went onto my real painting. My first decoration was a swirl.  We had to use primary colours. I started off with blue. Then the next day I did yellow and red. It’s really cool how you can paint with the balloons. After I did some single colours I mixed the two colours together. You start with one colour and you go all over the edges. After you do the painting you stick a weka on. It is really fun.

Maisie

Our class Weka did placemats for our desks. We had to swirl our balloons in paint then we did more swirling, swirling, swirling and swirling.

Gabriel R.

 “Pretty patterns,” I thought as I dabbed some more paint on my placemat. I watched the blue paint swirl. Soon everyone else had to have their turn. The next day I used two colours. They were red and blue. It made more patterns. We used a balloon to paint the placemats. I washed my balloon and chose two other colours. They were blue and yellow so when I made more patterns it turned out sort of green. I smudged the paint, pressed and turned the paint and dabbed the paint. It made so many lovely patterns on the placemat.

Ruby