Monarch Caterpillars

In Room 8 we have 2 monarch caterpillars, we used to have 3 but one died.  A monarch caterpillar sheds its skin.  When it hatches it eats the egg shell. Butterflies fly to hot places like Mexico.  The butterfly dies after it lays its eggs.  They have to dry their wings before they can fly.  They hibernate.  Butterflies have a very long tongue to get nectar from flowers.  It is called Proboscus.  The skin falls off when the caterpillar makes a cocoon.  The caterpillars take about two weeks to turn into a butterfly.

Super Hero Pictures

Yesterday we made backgrounds for our super hero pictures by drawing clouds on our paper with white crayon.  We dyed over the top with blue dye and magically the clouds appeared.  Next weput on super hero capes and lay on the floor in our best super hero pose while Miss B took our photo's.
Today we have to make buildings for our pictures and add on our super hero photo's.

Starting School

We have been doing lots of writing.  We wrote some stories about Mr Tickle.  Mr Tickle has long arms and he is orange.  Mr Tickle gets in trouble for tickling everyone.  The people all got mad and locked him out!
We have been learning jump jam.  William's favourite so far is who let the dogs out and Dylan likes the witch doctor.
We have been playing lots of tag games.  Abby likes toilet tag the best.  Tawera likes hospital tag.
Bethany likes line tag.

We were so excited because Tony was coming to school to show us his vintage car.  It was a 1917 Dodge Tourer made in the USA.  We had lots of questions about Tony's car.  We found out it uses regular petrol, it has no key, there are only windows at the front, it only has back brakes, its roof goes off and on, it was restored by someone else, it can't go in the rain because the brakes get wet and won't work, where the petrol went, the floor was wooden and could come out, there is a spare wheel on the back in case you got a puncture, and it had wooden wheels with metal rims.
The thing we loved the most was we got to sit in it and honk the horn.  We also liked seeing the roof go on and off.

Logan Park High School Sports Day

On Friday some Year 12 students from Logan Park High School came to our school.  They came to teach us sports.  We had a go at indoor and outdoor hockey, soccer, basketball, touch rugby, running and netball.  We played octopus, duck duck goose, fruit salad, candle sticks, ladders and rats and cats.  We loved sports day our favourite things to do were playing outdoor hockey, playing indoor hockey, playing rob the nest, basketball, hot potatoe and a game where we sat in a circle and we ran around and squeezed a cool whistle.  Next year we would love to learn cricket, table tennis, softball and badminton.

New World Mini Collectables

The children at North East Valley Normal School are very excited because today we are having a mini collectables swap.  We love mini collectables because they are so cute, they are well made, they are fun to play with, they are realistic, you can play shops and you get to use play money.  The best thing about having a swap is we will be able to help each other to collect a whole set.  Lots of kids in our class are close to having a whole set.  Riley only needs 4 things, Jack needs one it is potatoes, Lola needs three, Lochlan needs the fruit and tomatoes, hopefully someone in our school has what we need.

Sound Paintings

The music started softly we dipped our paintbrushes in the paint and splashed paint softly on our pages.  The music got louder we made hard, scary looking strokes with the paint.  The music got faster we painted faster.  The music got higher and scarier we tried to use our brushes in different ways to show how the music sounded.  We turned the brushes upside down and used them to draw in the paint.  We made sound paintings.  Today we are going to use our paintings to do some weaving for our calendar art work.