Planting our minions to feed bees

We planted our minions this week.
We put herbs in one minion. That was rosemary, sage and thyme. These herbs have blue flowers and bees like blue flowers the best.
We put lavender in one minion. Lavender is one of the bees favourite foods. It is like chocolate cake for bees.
The last minion we planted with flowers. Some blue/purple and white petunias and some blue lobelia. Naomi says the lobelia will grow and come out of the minion like blue hair.
We cant wait for the plants to grow. We will water them every day to help them get everything they need.

What we know about bees and our questions

Bee Rap

Term 4

Hi!
Welcome back to Term 4!
We have another fun filled term starting with CAMP in week 1!!!!!!

Curriculum Overview

Reading/Writing: Focus on writing explanations and recounts

Maths: Focus on multiplication and division strategies, as well as maintaining our addition and subtraction knowledge. Our strand is Algebra looking at patterns and predicting 

Learning Pathways: Our big question is “A world without bees - should we care?” We will look at bees, pollination, working as a team, the hive etc. and come up with our questions. We will have a visit from the bee lady and have some hands on activities with honey and wax.

Science: We are learning about electricity and circuits

Sports: The focus is athletic skills of run, jump and throw.

Arts: We will be learning to sketch bees, use pastels and dye to create bee artwork.  We will be learning to communicate using dance (like bees do) 

We will look at music appreciation listening for and identifying different instruments in an orchestra.

Languages: We will continue to learn Maori with Whaea Jo on a Tuesday afternoon.

NEW: I am super excited to announce we will have Chinese lessons on a Thursday with a Chinese tutor in Bejing via skype !!

Homework

Students bring home reading, spelling and basic maths to practice each week. Please remind your child to complete a little each day so they form good habits.

Marvelous Minion Gardens

Today we built the minions. We filled them with soil. We got a spade and wheelbarrow. We had to dig the soil from the pile to put it in the wheelbarrow. We wheeled it to the minion tyres and used out spades to put it in the minions. It was really hard work. Leo, Oliver, Brooklyn, Caleb and me did the most work. Check out Samuel's pictures of what we did.
By Rieley

Jasmine is a science star!

Jasmine scored so well in the recent science ICAS. She passed with credit! 

Sumdog Champions!!

This week Room 12 have participated in the Sumdog contest for schools in the whole of North Island.  Everyone tried really hard to correctly answer as many questions as they could with some of our students answering more than 1,000 questions!

Check out where we placed!!!!!

Jasmine also placed as an individual in 48th place (out of 1,583 participants!)

Ice Skating

This Week Room 12 went Ice Skating..... In our own school hall!! Don't worry, it wasn't real ice it was a special plastic ice. We had to put on ice skates and try our best to balance. We had to make sure we bent our knees to help. Some people fell over but it was still fun! Even our teacher Naomi was ice skating and she helped us if we fell over. There was dancing and some bubbles too. You should try ice skating it was really fun! Check out the fun we had!

Are you a bucket filler?

Grandparents Day & Book Parade

Check out our Grandparents day and Book parade photos!

Mr Muthoo

       Our new principal
Today on Monday 20 July our new principal Mr.Muthoo came to green Bay school. M.r. Muthoo came from Block house Bay intermediate.We had powhihi to welcome Mr.Muthoo the kapa haka  group from Block house Bay school did some songs so did our school.I hope we get school uniforms and Mr.Muthoo will be happy here. 

Term 3

Hi

Welcome back to Term 3!!

We have lots happening this term.
Firstly we are welcoming our new principal Mr. Muthoo. We will have a special powhiri welcome for him on Monday at 10am.

This term our focus is on Hauora - health and well being of our whole body.  We will look at our values, feelings and emotions, friendships, food, nutrition and exercise.
I will keep you updated with trips, diary dates, and of course all the amazing things that happen in our class.

There has also been a change with our class blog as this term we are trialing individual class blogs!! You can locate these down the right side of this blog. My students have so loved writing for the blog and for others to read that we ended up with too much for one blog! I look forward to supporting them as they create their blogs and write about things that are meaningful to them. We will also update the class blog with things we are doing. It is so nice for the students to receive comments on their work from their friends and family and makes their writing more meaningful. Please feel free to look at the different blogs and make comments. (All comments are moderated so may not appear immediately!)

I look forward to meeting with you at our up coming students conferences next week. Naomi

Stunning Saskia

Saskia won a medal for being the runner up in the Kowhai poetry competition!

WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!

Stardome

I went stardome on tuesday with the year 3s. we learned about space we learned about the sun and the moon.we  watched a movie about the planes and we learned about stars It  was fun  watching the movie becoz the aliens didnt No about the planets. the movie was my favrit part  

Ice on the slide

This morning we found ice on the slide. It was so cold last night that the water on the slide turned into ice! There was frost on the ground that made the grass look white. When I came to school I stepped on the grass and it went crunch! The grass was so frosty even the ducks didn't want to walk on it. My breath looked like I was puffing out smoke because it was so cold my breath was freezing. Lots of my friends came to school wearing hats and gloves and scarfs. Even my teacher. I hope it warms up soon because I don't want to be freezing.

Anjalee

Anjalee

Last night anjalee the asian Elephant came to Auckland zoo. Anjalee is from Sri-lanka. She is 8 years old.She was in an orphanage because her mum died. Anjalee flew from sri-lanka to Fiji then Auckland zoo.She arrived at night. hope she is a good friend to burma.

Anjalee

Elephant.

Last night Anjalee the elephant arrived in Auckland.

Anjalee came from sri-lanka. It took 12 hour! She lived for 3 Months in Niue Anjalee is 8 years old.Anjalee came from the orphanage because she was born there.

Anjalee was in Sri-lanka and she came to Niue for 3 Months.

she  has been 1 whole day at auckland zoo.

I hope Burma enjoys company.I didn’t know there was a new elephant

because I don’t have a T.V.

I hope  she enjoys Auckland zoo!

A new elephant called Anjalee

A new elephant came to Auckland zoo.it came from srilanka. her mum was hunted by a hunters. Anjalee was born from that mum .Anjalee came on a plane to go to auckland zoo.I hope she has a good day.                                   

Anjalee the elephant

Anjalee the big elephant arrived at Auckland zoo. Anjalee is from Sri-lanka. She is 8 years old. Anjalee is a girl.She came from Sri-lanka from there she went to Nuei. This is why she traveled that far because Auckland zoo needed comperne for burma. The zoo hopes that in a few more years they'll get another one. I hope Anjalee has a good life at Auckland zoo.

Anjalee

This year a new elephant is coming to Auckland zoo. It came  from Sri -lanka  now she is coming to Auckland zoo to support Burma who is 32 years old wow!. Anja-lee,s dad died in a earthquake and anja-lees,s mum got hunted down by hunters. The orphanage in sri lanka helped Anja-lee,s mum and that's how Anja-lee came alive. Do you know that Anja-lee is 8 years old Anja-lee,s mum's 29.