Discovering Rabbits!

We discover lots of things during Discovery time on Friday mornings but our group of students in the garden were very surprised to discover 3 baby rabbits. After having a pat and sharing their discovery with the other students, our gardeners returned them to the bushes by the garden where they had hopped out from. Hopefully they dont eat all the plants in our garden!

Discovering Salt Crystals

Last term Austin showed us some salt crsytals he had grown at home. This term we thought it would be interesting to grow our own at school. During Discovery time we mixed up a solution of water, salt and food colouring. We then soaked a piece of string in the salt water solution and tied it around a pencil, leaving the end of the string dangling in the salt water solution. We left them in Room 2 for two weeks and would look at them each day to see how the crystals were growing. After two weeks, we broke the crystals off the string and pencils and used the crystals to make some fantastic looking art. This is a fun project to try at home!

Telling the Time!

This week we are learning to read time to the hour on an analogue clock.  Miss Reissmann is back for the first four weeks of term and has been teaching us how to tell the time by looking at the big minute hand and the little hour hand on the clock.

Welcome back for Term 4!

It is the last term for the year and Room 1 and 2 are making the most of sunny mornings by getting outside to do fitness circuits on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Check out some of the action below as we improve our skills with balls, hula hoops, skipping, bars, movement, and balancing.

Firewise!

At the end of Term 3, Rooms 1, 2 and 3 completed the firwise programme. In week 10 we had Firemen Alan and Woody visit us with their fire truck to talk to us and answer questions about some of the equipment they use and their job as firefighters.

The Real Art Roadshow

This week we had The Real Art Roadshow parked at school. The Real Art Roadshow is a collection of real New Zealand art that travels to schools throughout the country. The mobile art gallery unfolds to form a 80 square metre space and displays over 60 original artworks by some of New Zealand’s leading artists.  To find out more follow the link : http://www.realartroadshow.co.nz/index.html

Room 2 loved visiting the gallery and below are some pictures of the students viewing and sketching the art, and some of the amazing sketches Room 2 completed.

Room 2's TV appearance on Campbell Live!

On Friday the 5th of September, Room's 2 and 5 appeared on the 3 News show Campbell Live as part of the report on the KidsCan Lunchbox Day collection. Students were asked to bring a can of food to school to donate to the KidsCan charity and reporters filmed students from all over New Zealand who took part in the collection. Room 2 performed their waiata Whakaronogo Ake Au and Room 5 helped load the cans we collected into the van.

You can watch the report on the 3 News on Demand link below. Lower Moutere School is featured at 12.12 mins into the report.

Campbell Live Fri 5th Sep KidsCan Report