Recycled art!

WOW! There is so much you can do with what we would usually throw away! Room 10 has been helping reduce the amount of rubbish in our class by reusing things like chip packets, cardboard and much more, to make recycled artworks.

With the help of one of our parents, we have been making recycles flowers. some of the flowers are made with aluminium cans, and some with chip, lollie, or muslie bar wrappers.






We are hoping to have decorated holders and more flowers to make a posie and we will share our finished product with you.

Term 2!

Welcome back everybody. We hope everyone had a great relaxing holiday!

We have got lots on this term, including junior and senior sport afternoons starting up, some morning jump jam fitness, kapahaka, Te Reo lessons are starting, and our theme for this term is reduce, reuse, recycle.And of course our normal numeracy and literacy programmes are continuing as usual. Whew!

Room 10 has talked about what we think reducing, reusing and recycling means, and we are looking forward to furthering our knowledge about this!
Here is a cool website that gives you some facts about reducing, reusing and recycling, as well as some games and animations for students to watch (you will need to use sound when looking at the site). Go to the following link if you would like to visit it- http://www.kidsbegreen.org/

Rockin' Rocky Shore!

This term we visited the Kawaroa rock pools! It was a fantastic trip, with much excitement and lots of creatures were found.

We found creatures such as chitons, tube worms, crabs, sea weed (Neptunes necklace and others), cat's eyes, starfish and many more!

It was fantastic fun to search through the rock pools! After our exploring we got to go to the Aquatic centre and have a swim!

We had a great day. Thank you to all the parents that came and helped!

AMERICARNA!

Last Friday Turuturu School went out to look at some of the Americarna cars that were driving through Hawera! There were so many cars of all shapes and sizes! Here is just a small selection of some of the cars we saw:

Beautiful butterflies!

This week Room 10 had a special visitor!
Last week Mr Bradley had found a chrysalis that had fallen from its plant so he brought it to Room 10 for us to take care of it.

The chrysalis stayed green for most of the week, but by Tuesday it had turned black and we could just see the colour of the butterfly's wings inside it.

Just after we had been discussing the chrysalis the butterfly began to emerge. It happened very quickly and Miss Gubb had to get the butterly on to some paper and take it outside to find a plant to hang on. We needed to find a plant so the butterfly could dry out and pump up its wings.
After being checked on at morning tea and lunch our new friend seemed just fine and almost ready to take off. We wish it the very best for its journey =)

Here a few pieces of writing from our class about the butterfly:


"A few days ago Mr Bradley brought in a chrysalis. It was green and gold.Then it went black. Finally today it hatched. When it came out its colours were orange and black. Mr Bradley was the one who rescued him" By Tayla Prestidge


"The chrysalis was black!!!The wings came out wet and crunched up. Its wings were saturated!!" By Kayla Vujcich


"I was shocked! We put it in the garden on a dead sunflower. It just about fell off again but luckily it stuck to the bottom of the leaf" Devin Thomas


"Its wings were saturated. It can't fly because it is too heavy and it needs to pump its wings. At the moment the wings are crunched up. On the plant it hangs upsidedown. I think it is having a rest" Shakaia Woodhead

Good times gardening!

Room 10 has been busy in the garden!This week we got to plant some yummy new vegetables in the gardens around the school.

Some of the vegetables we planted are brussel sprouts, raddishes and cabbages, mmmm mmm! First we dug a hole, then added sheep pellets to help the plants grow. Then we carefully placed the plant in the hole and packed the dirt back around it. Then it was time for the final touch-giving them some much needed water! We look forward to watching our plants grow over the year!

Welcome back!

Welcome back for 2012 everybody!

Room 10 is filled with 22 awesome year 3's and their new teacher, Miss Gubb. We have been getting to know each other over the past week. Swimming is always a highlight, and we are now working on self-portraits to show off our artistic sides.