A foggy start for Tuesday

On Tuesday it was a foggy morning. We walked down to the field, and the Sky Tower and other buildings had disappeared!

Ashton explained to us that the moisture comes down from the sky, then the clouds come down and it gets foggy.
 

Welcome Salolo and Aarav!

Room 2 is pleased to welcome Salolo to our class. Salolo comes from Tuvalu and has only been in New Zealand for a few weeks. He has a sister Melanie in Room 13, and his cousin Ruby also attends WHS. We are looking forward to helping Salolo learn English. 
Salolo likes swimming and to play games on the mobile phone. 

Tuvalu means 8 cultures or "8 standing together", which refers to the 8 traditional islands of Tuvalu.
"Talofa" is the greeting (this is the same greeting as Samoa)
 You would need to fly to Suva (Fiji) and then another flight to Tuvalu.
Most people use a motorbike as transport.
                    





Room 2 also welcomes Aarav.  His older brother Aryan was in Ms Boyd's class last year, and is now a Year 2.
Aarav likes to climb trees. At home he likes to play with his hot wheel cars!

Mr Maindonald's gift

On Friday Mr Maindonald came to our class and gave each of us a Love to Learn to Lead band. He shook our hand as he put the band on us, and said we were part of the of the Western Heights School family.
THANK YOU Mr Maindonald for our lovely gift! In our class we LOVE to LEARN to LEAD! 
(it won't fall off if we wear it around our ankle!)

 

 

 

Measure Me Up!

This term we are learning about measurement. We can find out

how tall or short someone or something is.

Here we are having fun measuring our buddy class using non standard measurement (glue sticks, cubes, vivids, ice block sticks, rods)

 

 

 

ICT day with Mr McLay

Our wordfotos (yes this is the spelling I'm told)
On Friday we had ICT with Mr McLay. Most of us have an ipad at home, so we were familiar with using them. We got to play a few games at the end of the day. One of the coolest things was taking photos... and well you can see what we did with them. They are super!

West Lynn Garden

On Wednesday we went on a trip to West Lynn Garden.
We got to look inside the exiting butterfly house

and this is what we found...

butterflies

look closely - can you spot the fish?

a black chrysalis - why do you think this one is black?

a green chrysalis or pupa



lots of caterpillars

 

a tree with lots of butterlies

 

We then went on a nature walk and explored the gardens 

 

 

along the way we sketched some trees and leaves

 

 

we also found a banana tree

 

and some of us thought this was an apple tree

 

while others made a pizza - hope it's cheese flavour!







Learning through Play

Most of us said on our goal sheets that we wanted to play nicely with  our friends.
So when Ms Boyd said we could have a fun Friday afternoon, that's exactly what we did! We learnt to play nicely, share and help our friends. Even Jordan's Mum came to class and helped us.

Harini making star biscuits

Hazel, Paige, Jordan, Blair taking turns on the computer

Jayden and Salolo helping each other build a house

John playing with the blocks

Lucas enjoying the cars on the road mat

Andy and Ashton like playing with the cars and garage

Ashriya is making pictures in the writing centre

Jordan, Mikaere, Ekansh, Aarav enjoy playing in the water tray

Paige, Hazel, Ashriya making more biscuits to share with

Ms Boyd and Jordan's Mum

Jordan's Mum helping Lucas paint Rainbow Fish

and helping Ashriya