Fia Fia Day - Friday 28 November

Last Friday we had Fia Fia Day at Grey Lynn School. The weather was rainy and cold. In class we shared our learning with our families. Some of us made a candy cane mouse to take home. When the weather cleared a little, we all went out to perform The Pohutukawa Tree as a team. We all enjoyed the teachers funky dance! It was a great day!

Snag Golf

We have been enjoying Snag Golf this term with Snag Dog. Here are a few shots of us learning how to use a golf club correctly and hit the ball.

Athletics Day Highlights

Zoo Trip 2014

The best part of the the trip was seeing the lions. 

-Sam

I liked the meerkats.

-Lily

The flamingoes can stand on one leg.

-Molly

The meerkats were huddled up.

-Toby

The meerkats were cute.

-Anya

The cheetahs were cool.

-Katie

Tigers can camouflage into bamboo with the fur.

-Charlotte

I liked the bamboo.

-Shaq

I liked going down the egg slide.

-Eloise

I liked going into the meerkat tunnels.

-Jojo

I liked how the seals were swimming gracefully.

-Olive

I liked the zebras stripes.

-Shya

A seal swimming by

Sue telling us about the tigers

Sue telling us about the Red Panda

Room 4 watching the frogs

John showing us a tiger and a rhino skull

Term 4!

Welcome back to Term 4. I hope you all had a lovely holiday and are looking forward to another exciting and busy term! Keep watching here for any updates, photos or notices!

Melissa

Production Practice - learning to rock n roll!

Doing the moves!

Doing the Shimmy Shake!

Partner Dancing!

Twisting!

Doctor Elaine Visits Room 4

Today Dr Elaine came to visit our class to explain her role as a lung doctor. We have been learning about The Body so we were very clever at pinning the right  body parts onto Spider-Man. We asked Elaine lots of questions about the body and she told us all about her job. Elaine showed us some special tools that doctors uses and we were able to try them out on each other.

Here are some photos that we took of the visit today....

Dr Elaine showing us a bandage

Talking about Spiderman's body parts!

Shaq & Taangaroa listening to each others hearts!

Rangitoto Erupts

Toby and Sam (Rm 14) pouring the vinegar & baking soda into the volcano

The volcano slowly starting to erupt....

Rangitoto Erupts!

Today we got together with Room 14 to create our volcano explosion. During the holidays Toby with the help of his family made this fabulous volcano. We decided that it was time for our volcano to erupt so we mixed together vinegar and baking soda to make an explosion. Wow - look at all that lava! Both classes thoroughly enjoyed themselves and we're sure that Room 5 nearby could hear all our screams!

Writing of the day

Shaq wrote an amazing piece of writing today at school. Here is a photo of his work. 

Life Education

Room 4 listening attentively

Putting our foods into the right food groups

We have been learning about how to stay healthy. Claire and Harold talked to us about the importance of eating a balanced diet. We need to eat a variety of foods from the different food groups. Here are some photos that we took of our visit.

A balanced diet

The Food Pyramid

Learning about Fractions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMWa6dDoicc

Photosynthesis Stories & Dioramas!

Kids Can Cook

Yesterday we watched a cooking demonstration. We learnt how to cook crepes using flour, egg, milk, apple and silverbeet. Crepes come from France. Taangaroa was lucky to be chosen as the Sous Chef. He was second in charge and was able to help the master cook the crepes.

Lily, Jojo, Katie, Tate and Jett

Ziggy, Sam and Kasey

Olive, Lily, Jojo, Katie, Tate and Jett

Room 4 enjoying the demo!

Arbor Day

Last Thursday it was Arbor Day. We went down into the forest to plant some trees with Dean. We each took turns to help put soil around the tree to help it grow. We are learning about helping plants to survive at Grey Lynn School. Here are some photos that we took of our planting experience.