Green Day

On Friday the 29th of October is was green day. Room15 all dressed up in green and the whole school did too. We got quite a lot of money because we had to bring a gold coin. We all walked around the court. I you dressed up creatively, you got a green card and chocolate. Check out our collage of Green Day below!

In Term 3, the Turanga Team went to the Village Valley Center for gymnastics on a Wednesday afternoon. It was heaps of fun and we learnt new ways to use our most amazing machine and practiced our gymnastics skills. Check out our video to see some of our moves.

Last term we had a goal in Room 15 for everyone to have natural food for brainfood. We had to have nuts, fruit, or vegetables. We learnt what was really in our brainfood that was in packets. They had so much added sugar! Yuck! It was great when we all had natural food for brainfood!!

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Last week, Arnya bought in her new little pet to show us. It was a tiny piglet named Blackberry! Her family found it in the bush and it didn't have a mother to look after it, so they took it home. It is so little they have to give it a bottle to drink and feed it. It made lots of little snorting noises and it really liked snuggling Arnya! Thank-you Arnya for bringing him in to meet us!

Stu Duvel - the story teller

Today Stu Durval, an artist and story teller, came to Ashhurst school. He showed us some of his secrets for drawing cool cartoons by using numbers and letters. He told us story about a beach, a pirate, pudding, a Kauri tree, and love. He drew an awesome picture to set the scene for his story. He was able to put images in our minds as he was telling the story. He used lots of expression, movement, and different types of audience to get us interested in the story and excited about the ending. He enjoyed it so much, we came back to class and drew our own pirate scenes, and tomorrow we are going to write our own stories to go with our drawings. Thanks Stu Durval, the children of Room 15 really enjoyed your show!

Watch this space!

Miss Davidson made a video about her cat, Oscar. The children in Room 15 are learning how to make their own videos that retell in their own words a story they have read. Keep a look out in our 'Reading Response and Book Review' page to view our review of books and watch our mini videos we have made!

Oscar the Cat