Auckland Botanic Gardens Trip

Room 12 were very lucky to have lots of lovely Mums and Dads to help keep us safe on our trip to the Botanic Gardens.  We couldn't do these trips without our parent helpers. 

Thank you so much for your support!!

Learning how to plant seeds correctly.

Getting prepared to plant seedlings into the gardens.

Kaya

Andreas, Mrs Barden  and Kiera.

Daniel

Mrs Harding and Tayla

Matthew

Mr Long, Sophie and Natasha

Srinitha

Ms Luo and Evan

Kiera and Valentina

Rhys

Ms Cox, Liam and Ethan

Liam, Ethan and James

Ethan

Matt, Mrs Harding and Tayla

Terry

                                               

Aayush

                                                                                 

Tidying up!

Using the spades to turn the soil.

Meredith talks about the broad bean plant.

Naming the parts of the plant.

Now which part of the plant did this come from?

Mr Long and Mrs Barden asking questions to help us put the food on the right plate.

Flower? Stem? Tuber? Leaf? Fruit? Root?

                   

Looking awesome!

Great thinking Room 12!

Running up the hill to get eat our lunch.

                                                                                                                      I am so tired!  I am going to relax here for a little while!

Patterns

WALT: Create, complete and talk about patterns
What we did: 

• Learn our colours
• Learn the names of shapes
• Started a pattern and asked a buddy to continue the pattern
• Completed a pattern started by a buddy

  

  Kaya made a colour pattern and Liam continued it.

                             
  

  

  Natasha made a colour pattern using counters and Ethan continued the pattern.

  
  

  

  Daniel made a colour pattern for Rhys to continue.

  
  

  

  "Green, black, green black......."

Learning about Shapes

WALT: Name and describe 2D shapes
What we did:

• Played the 'feely' bag shape game
• Counted the number of sides, points and angles different shapes had
• Talked about straight sides, curved sides, long sides and short sides
• Described shapes for our friends to guess the name of
• Made shape patterns
• Made a shape ice creams

Yummy!!  

You can see our shape ice creams hanging in our classroom. Ask us to challenge ourselves and name the shapes.  We have written the number of sides the shapes have to help us.

Firemen and a Fire Engine at Sunnyhills!

The Junior School were very lucky to have the local fire fighters visit Sunnyhills in their red fire engine.  We had fun walking through the inside of the fire engine and looking at all the switches,hoses and fire safety equipment.  

Room 12 enjoyed sharing their Firewise ideas and looking at all the different clothes and tools that protect the fire fighters.

Remember:

• Make sure you have smoke alarms in your house that are working
• Get down, get low, get out fast
• Have a meeting place to go to if there is a fire
• Learn your address in case you need to call 111 in an emergency

Jacket 

Radio

   

Helmet

Oxygen Mask

Get down below the smoke! Don't be afraid if you see a fireman in his protective clothes. They are there to keep you safe!

Wow!!

Walking through the fire engine.

                                                           

                                       

That was choice!!

Safe Journeys

                                           Constable Hotter explaining what we should do

                                          Giving our friends the 'thumbs up' for good choices

"Remember to Stop, Look and Listen"

                                                 Thinking about safe choices!

Let's try!

                                                             Using the inquiry process

                                              What does traffic look like at Sunnyhills?

                                              Look at the different parts of the road.

                                                        What do we need to do?

How can you stay Firewise at home?

                                          Give any matches or lighters you find to an adult

                                          Plan a safe place to meet if there is a fire at home

                                                      Get down, get low and get out!!

                                 If you are in bed find a safe way to get to your meeting place

Valentina is helping fireman Matt to teach Firewise. 

Digger Day at Sunnyhills School

WALT: Write about our experiences

What we did: 

• Watched the workers using the digger, drill and jack hammer
• Brainstormed ideas about what we could see, hear and feel
• Shared two ideas with a buddy before writing our stories
• Created a mural to share with the Junior School at assembly

You can see our Digger Mural hanging high in our class. We hope you like it!

Do You Want To Build A Snowman?

WALT: Use a variety of materials and tools to create a mixed media piece of art

What we did: 

• Watched the movie ' The Snowman' 
• Sang songs about Winter
• Brainstormed our ideas about Winter
• Drew a small circle for the head and big head for the body using the whole space
• Held our paintbrush like a pencil and painted the outline of our snowman
• Dabbed the background with a sponge and paint
• Filled the inside of our snowman with paste and cotton wool (our fingers got really sticky!)
• Used pastel to draw snowflakes in the background
• Worked with Mrs Jackman using the glue gun to stick the nose, scarf, arms, buttons and eyes on our snowman

Thank you Mrs Jackman for the special foam snowflakes you shared with us for our backgrounds :)