Our First Aid Training

This week we were very lucky to have some First Aid training from St Johns. We learnt about the 3 different emergency services we have in NZ and when we might need them. We looked at some photos and worked out whether we would need the Police, Fire or Ambulance to help us in that situation.

Then we learnt how to ring 111 and what to say to the operator. We even got to practise.

We are going to be learning our address and our phone number in class. We finished our learning off with a story.

Thanks for teaching us how to call for help in an emergency St Johns. You were great.

We've been writing letters to Santa!!

I'm sure he will be very excited when he gets all of Room 5's letters. Have a read and let us know if you can answer any of the questions we've asked Santa.

The Colouring Competition

On Friday when we weren't completing our testing we entered a colouring in competition. Mrs Scott was so proud of the way we tried colouring it in. Some of us have come a long way with our colouring. Here's a sneaky peek of them. What do you think?

Look at 'what' and 'who' visited us on Friday

We will be sharing our learning about 'Fire Safety' with you soon!!

Our writing about Powelliphanta Snails

Haki brought along a Powelliphanta snail shell. We all thought it looked very neat but none of us really knew anything about the Powelliphanta snail. We did some research and found out that these snails are not snails that you will find in your garden but you will find them on the West Coast of New Zealand where we live. For writing we wrote about something we learnt about the Powelliphanta snail and we would like to share our writing with you. I'm sure you will all learn something too. Thanks for bringing the shell along Haki.

Water Play for our Behaviour Reward

Today was our Behaviour Reward for the 1st half of Term 4. The reward was water play. Room 5 were very excited about this and all of us got the reward. Well done Room 5. Here we are before we begun.

And after..........still with smiles on our faces!!

We're getting ready for athletics

We started off PE today with a game of stuck in the mud. We all enjoy this game and there's always lots of smiles.

Then we practised our high jumping. Too easy for Room 5!!

Our tadpoles and frogs

Deegan brought some tadpoles along to school for us. We wrote down the things we already knew about tadpoles.

Then we wrote a question that we each wanted to find the answer to.

We have found out what tadpoles like to eat so that we can keep them well fed while they are in our class. We also learnt about the life cycle of a frog. Here it is.

We have been watching our tadpoles grow. We have another froglet. I spotted him/her (we still have to find out how we know the difference between males and females) climbing up the tank today. Can you spot the froglet?

We have 1 frog so far that we have named Frank. Can you spot him? This is his favourite place in the tank. We hope he's not looking for a way out.

When we have answered our questions we'll put them on the blog so that you might learn something that you didn't already know about tadpoles and frogs.

We made bird feeders

Last Friday Room 5 made bird feeders to feed all those hungry birds around our school. We used a pine cone to make a bird feeder. We mixed some fat(dripping) and bird seed together and then we pushed it onto the pine cone.

We hung the bird feeders on the trees around our school. We put some wire on the top of the pine cone to hang them up.

On Friday we went to check out how much the birds had eaten. Some had fallen off the tree so we hung them back up. Ben found his pine cone and all the bird feed was gone. We hope some hungry birds have filled their tummies. Someone said it could be a hungry weka. We all enjoyed making them for the birds around our school.