Friday discovery time at Aranui School video!

Today we had fun discovering lots of things including:

• critter creatures
• iPads
• dressups
• musical instruments
• blocks
• computers

We love doing junior school discovery every Friday afternoon!
Take a look at our video.

P is for Penguin (and lots of other P words!)

Our letter of the week is Pp

We made some Penguins today because Penguin starts with the letter P

Other words that begin with Pp are:

• pirate and panda - Sebastian
• pig and popcorn - Lueqis
• pizza and princess - Bella
• potato and parrot - Masi
• peas and pen - Samantha

Fun friends - making our houses using natural materials

We have been talking about how although we are all different, we do some things and have some things that are the same as others.
Here are the houses we made using things we could find under the big tree by our playground. We all have a roof and a mailbox, some of us have a tramp and a garden.

Room 7 Flower Petal Counting

We are learning to match symbols and words for numbers in the range 1-10 to objects in a set.
Here we are doing the Flower Petal activity.

Long lost iMovie from 2013

Here is a link to our 2013 entry to the Pegasus Digi Awards - we won a prize for the 'Celebrating our Community' category for Years 1-3.

This shows how we like to connect with our local preschools and kindergartens.

Valentines Day Activities

To celebrate Valentines Day on Friday the children in Room 7 made a Valentines Card in a heart shaped collage and some 'Love Bugs' made with a footprint and some extras!
Here are some pictures of our creations:

Room 7 busy in the garden!

We had a busy day planting our vegetable seedlings on Monday. We finished weeding our plot then planted broccoflower, beetroot, roly poly carrots, silverbeet and cabbage. We made sure we gave our seedlings a big drink of water as well.
We have also planted out some herbs in the central herb garden including rosemary, lemon balm mint, catmint and chives.

Please check out our school gardening blog here: Aranui School Garden Blog

Thank you to Mitre 10 Mega Ferrymead for supporting our school garden project!

Helping set up our new school Worm Farm

Our school garden is being renewed this year. Each class has been given a plot that they will have to take care of by weeding, feeding, planting and harvesting a selection of vegetables that we will then use to cook and eat later in the year.

Craig, our SWIS (Social Worker in School) helped us set up our Worm Farm today with some special Tiger Worms and a 'Worm Blanket'.

We put newspaper in the different layers of the worm farm this morning with some worm castings from Craig's own worm farm at his house. Then this afternoon we put some worms in and gave them some apples to begin munching on. We will make sure our worms have just a little bit to eat each day so they can make some nutrient rich worm juice we can use on our large garden.

Fun Friends teacher Training

Today Mrs Derrick, Mr Harris, Miss Brown and Mrs Redden took part in teacher training for the Fun Friends programme that we will be starting soon.
It is a fantastic programme and we are very excited to implement it throughout the school, with the middle and seniors taking part in 'Friends for Life' as well.

Please check out http://www.funfriends.org.nz for more information about Fun Friends!