Happy holidays everyone!

Please check out the 4 new maths games I've added for holiday fun:

• Park the pod
• Post the letter
• Number seqence tree
• Ball addition

Junior School Talent Quest

On Tuesday we watched lots of children perform songs and dances in the talent quest.

The winners were some boys from Room 15 who performed 'Crazy frog'.

Here they are with their certificates

Congratulations boys!

Broad bean master chefs

Today we picked and prepared our broadbeans  for a bean feast.

1. We washed our hands

2. We picked the beans from the plant and put them into a bowl.

3. We took the beans out of the bean pod.

4. We boiled the beans for 1 minute and then cooled them down in cold water.







 5. We then peeled off the whitish skin which can sometimes be tough and chewy to eat.

6. We boiled the bright green beans for 3 minutes and then cooled them in cold water again.

 We each ate a few beans and scored their deliciousness out of 10.

No-one gave them a score lower than 10! Yummy, scrumptious, tasty beans!

Aotearoa Christmas song

Diablo and juggling

Today Room 12 went and watched Xavier's dad (from Room 8), do some juggling and diablo tricks.

He did anti-gravity tricks and flung the diablo high in the air.

 He also juggled some cones and some balls.

He told us this was his hobby and that it takes a lot of practice to get really good at it. 

Thank you very much!

Confident swimmers and floaters

b and d song

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

Today we had some visitors from the ChCh Symphony Orchestra come to show us how to use their instruments.

They showed us a violin,

A cello,

and a harp.

Here is our reflection:



Week two at the pool

Today is the 6th day of December.
There are 19 more days until Christmas.
Hugh went to the Santa parade on Sunday.

Ilam
Tuesday
Australia
Christchurch

12 Months in a year

Christmas Angels

Glitter, glue and muffin cases,

sprinkle, stick and draw the faces.

Our angels are a beautiful sight,

who'll make our Christmas trees so bright.

The letter d

Helping with the garden

We helped look after our garden today. Our sunflowers, corriander and wild lettuce are growing well. Our beans are big and nearly ready to be picked and boiled up. 

We planted five peas into our brightly painted pots.
How long will it take for them to grow?

Consonant blends