Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Our Pet Store


Jack bought along his pet kitten Rocket as Interest talk last Tuesday. jack has had Rocket since Christmas time. Rocket was preet excited about being in our class with all the children around and was quite happy wandering under the teachers desk away from the staring eyes of the children.

Duffy Hero




On Monday we had a special Duffy Heroes Assembly. Our guest speaker was Sioasi Mulipola frpm Christchurch. He works in ther performing arts as a choreographer. He spoke about the imprtance of reading to the school and then presented Duffy books to a child from each of the classes. Here is Justin recieving his book as well as others from our class with their Duffy Books. We are very lucky to be a Duffy School we enjoy getting the books.


Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Great Race




Alice and Mitchell made boats from their recycled items. We decided to race them in the school pool. their ingenuity was the winner on the day.

Homework Project - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.


Our homework project was to design a toy and pencil holder out of recycled materials. Kaya was the first to finish

Interest Talk - Benson

Last week Mitchell's Dad brought in their pet dog Benson to show to the class. Benson is a Golden Labrador. He is nearly two years old. Mitchell has had Benson in his family since Mitchell was seven. They got Benson from the SPCA. Benson was very friendly in our class and seemed to look very happy around the children, as the photo shows