Term 3, Week 7

Once again we had a wonderful start to last week in Room 3 with a special trip to the Nelson Museum to see the Save Our Snails (Powelliphanta) exhibition. Many thanks to the wonderful mothers who provided transport and assisted our learning at the museum – we loved handling the shells, meeting Ferdinand, and learning about predation, trapping and conservation. We have enjoyed thinking about different animal species this week and how they are different from, and exist in balance with each other to make up the amazing biodiversity of the earth. We had a great time on Thursday playing with rakau (short sticks) for te ao kori, brainstorming our mythical characters, and practising skip-counting in twos.

This week we’ll look more closely at character description and definition in our myths, legends, nursery rhymes and fairy tales, begin our tennis lessons with the Grasshopper Tennis programme ($5 to Miss Driver please if you have not paid already :)) and wrap up the week with our Junior Masterchef Pizza Challenge on Friday. If you are available to help us with our Pizza Challenge between 11am and 12.30pm on Friday we would really appreciate your support. We’ll be working in teams in the staffroom kitchen to  design, top and bake some pizzas to share, but we’ll need some tough adult fingers for chopping and grating (and some keen adult eyes for supervision)! Please let Miss Driver know of any food allergies – we will keep the toppings simple, but will not be able to accommodate preferences.

We are excited about finishing off our koru and kowhaiwhai patterns with Mrs Jessop on Wednesday :)