Walking in Spring

Room 12 have been using the inquiry process to investigate what happens in Spring.

Room 12 worked with Mrs Barden and Mrs Nagpal to create a 'Spring Mural'

We used a variety of materials and tools to help make the mural.

We hope you like our 'Spring' mural. 

Kelly Sports

Rooms 12, 22 and 23 spent some time with the team from Kelly Sports. Kelly Sports runs an after school sports programme for Sunnyhills pupils on Tuesday afternoons. 

We had to use our aiming, running, throwing, catching and dodging skills to take part in a variety of fun activities the team from Kelly Sports had organised for us. We had a lot of fun!!!

If you are interested in having your child take part in the Kelly Sports sessions, please contact the school for further information.

We hope you like our photos!  

Thank you Ms Yang!

Room 12 has been very lucky this term to have had an additional member to our teaching team. Ms Shirley Yang has spent four weeks at Sunnyhills School working alongside Miss S in planning, teaching, assessing and evaluating Room 12's learning.  Ms Yang's smile, encouraging words and willingness to take risks with her own learning will be greatly missed as she returns back to The University of Auckland to continue her teaching studies.  We wish Ms Yang the very best for her future endeavours and hope she visits us again soon!

Patch to Plate- Fruit Kebabs

As a part of our 'Patch to Plate' unit, Room 12 worked with Ms Yang to prepare the ingredients for fruit kebabs.  We had to wash our hands and put on a shirt to protect our school uniform. We washed, peeled and chopped up apples, oranges, grapes and bananas. Then we worked in our table groups to put the fruit onto our kebab sticks.  Miss S said we could eat our fruit kebabs outside in the warm sun. We are glad it is finally Spring and we loved eating our kebabs!!

Patch to Plate- Growing Alfalfa Sprouts

WALT: Identify and supply the needs of a living thing

What we did:  

• Put alfalfa seeds into a jar
• Soaked the seeds in water overnight with a cloth on top
• Drained the old water out and rinsed the alfalfa in clean water
• Emptied all the water out and left the seeds over night
• Watched our seeds change into sprouts
• Used our alfalfa sprouts to make a salad
• Grated carrot, washed and sliced tomato, broke up lettuce, sliced cucumber, chopped up grapes and mandarins for the salad
• Ate the salad ALL up!!

    

    

    

 

 

 

 

 

Rainbow Fish Calendar Art

WALT: Use a variety of materials & tools to create a piece of art

What we did: 

• Listened to the story The Rainbow Fish
• Retold the beginning, middle and end of the story
• Talked about 'sharing is caring'
• Used paste and newspaper to create a background
• Used dye and a brush to add colour to our background
• Talked about the parts of a fish
• Tried to use all the space to draw a big fish using a Vivid
• Used dye and cotton buds to dye our fish staying inside the lines
• Painted corrugated cardboard to make seaweed
• Displayed our art in the corridor for parents to see

Order forms have been sent out today, so you can order your calendars, cards or diaries for Xmas!