Christmas Songs for Borough Prizegiving

You can sing along at home!

Away in a Manger

Rocking Around the Christmas Tree

We Wish you a Merry Christmas

Aotearoa Christmas

Here is our Christmas song for the Prize giving!  You could practice singing at home. Click on the link below:
AOTEAROA CHRISTMAS SONG

Paradise by Waimarie Smith

Please click on the link below to hear this beautiful song.
Paradise by Waimarie Smith

Hockey Skills

Tania has been teaching us Hockey skills on a Thursday.  Eleanor's Mum Sally has been teaching us too.  We have really enjoyed learning how to control the hockey stick correctly.

BOOK WEEK

We enjoyed having Albertine and Chelsea visit today from Ashburton College to read us stories :-)

Season Changes

We noticed on Monday that it was much colder than last week.  Last week we were swimming and this week we have had to use the heater!   Check out Mt Hutt this morning!!

We observed some changes in our environment and we wrote about it.  Autumn is here! Enjoy our stories below :-)

This leaf was green but it turned brown because the wind got colder and colder.  That's why it is brown.
By Jun Jun Mamuad

The leaf is dry.
By Chloe Peck

This leaf was green.  The leaf is brown.
By Kaira Wright

Leaves are green, yellow and brown.  Leaves fall off trees.
By Blake Morresey

The leaf feels like a tree.  It looks like a dress. It looks upside down.
By Lillian Snowden

I like the leaf.
By Angus Robin

This leaf is brown.  It is Autumn.
By Bailey Ward

The leaf is Autumn.
By Jack McLaren

This leaf is brown.
By Alice Johnson

Today leaves are turning brown.  They are crunchy.
By Tyler Tuki

The leaf falls down from the tree.
By Anna McFarlane

I got this leaf from the ground.  It is crunchy.  The leaf is brown.
By Loki Churchward

The tree isn't a tree.
By Luke Saunders

Today I learned about Autumn also and winter.
By Isaac Wright

This leaf fell off a tree and it's wrinkling up.  Soon it's going to be compost for your garden to help the plants grow.
By James Johnson

Monarch Caterpillars

~**UPDATE**~ scroll down to see our first butterfly!!

Mrs Polson planted some swan plants over the holidays.  We are observing the changes to the Monacrch caterpillars.  We are counting them and watching how they change.  We will keep a diary on here.

Some of the fatter caterpillars have started to make their chrysalis.  Here is a caterpillar making the 'j' shape ready to build the cocoon. This was taken before school.

By morning tea time, he had build the whole chrysalis.
He is a different caterpillar in the chrysalis.

Monday 16 Feb - Today we went out and surveyed the caterpillars.  We used tally marks to count the caterpillars, chrysalis's and butterflies.  There were only 2 caterpillars left.  Last week we counted up to 30 caterpillars!  Today there were at least 12 chrysalises. 

Tuesday 2 March - We noticed that the chrysalis was looking black and brown and we could see the butterflies wings through it.

Today was a VERY exciting day!  The first butterfly hatched!!!!  We watched it pump its wings and then fly away.