Special visitor - Dr Colin

Today we were very lucky to have a visitor come in to talk to our children.  Dr Colin brought it a selection of rocks to share and let us look at and wonder about.  This was very hands on and the kids LOVED asking questions. 

A few of the children in Team Maunga had been collecting rocks prior to him coming, so listening and asking Colin about these was fantastic.  Nakita had brought in some special rocks from home and this was exciting for the rest of the class as Colin told us all that it contained "fools gold".  

Following the visit from Colin, we wrote stories about what we wanted to do when we get older.

We had such a great morning.  

 

 

 

Captain Cashtastic

On Wednesday we had a very special visitor come to our school... 

Captain Cashtastic! 

He taught us all about the different types of money and their values. we also learnt the difference between a want and a need. Some things we need to buy to help our lives like food or clothing. Some things we want to buy but we don't really need like toys. 

We can't wait for this savings superhero to come back again!

          

Butterfly Lady

We were so lucky to have a special visit from the Butterfly Lady today! We loved her hat and her bright butterfly top!
We learnt all about the different stages of the life cycle. We didn't know the first thing a caterpillar eats is the egg it hatches from. We also learnt about how the caterpillar makes the shape of the letter J when it begins to change into a chrysalis.
Mrs Stevenson dressed up into a butterfly outfit. She had 6 legs, 2 long antenna, many eyes, beautiful wings, and a long tongue called a proboscis.

Can you remember all the different stages of the life cycle?

Visiting Harold

Last week our class had a visit from our very special friend, Harold. He taught us to be safe, kind, caring and sharing friends. We also learnt about being bucket fillers to keep our friends and teachers happy.

Visitor from the US

Today we had a visitor in our school who enjoyed seeing how we learn and interact with each other.  She was interested in how we link our inquiry into all aspects of our learning and how we work with each other.  Nice meeting you Sherry!

We are 'World Famous!'

Today we had a special visitor, so we decided to have a quick assembly in Room 2.  He talked to us about how we are 'world famous' and 'world leaders' with the use of our iPads and Chrome books.  We thought this was really exciting as we know we are learning lots with our iPads and enjoy sharing our learning with others.

Mrs C also gave our some certificates to some of our class who have been working on Lexia and who have moved up a level.

Duffy Assembly

Today we had our schools Duffy Assembly.  Mollie and Jake had to collect their books from the visiting musician who came to present this terms books.  He played us some cool songs on his phone and sang for us too.    He was very inspiring and we enjoyed meeting him.

At the end of the day we all got 2 books, so, we will have some great reading to do over the holidays.  Mrs G said she wanted to borrow lots of our books for the holidays but we all were keen to take them home to share with our families.  Mrs G made us a deal that we should email her photos of us reading our books in the holidays.