Roadworks at School

We had roadworks outside of our school this week. We went out to watch them and wrote these stories.

Video to come.

Roadworks

The truck shot tarseal. The truck looked like it had flat tires. The truck was like a crane. The tarseal looked like chocolate. The truck was really dirty. The truck was cool.

William P

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The tarseal is going into the truck.

Zadyn

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The smell was like it smelt like the tarseal.

Oliver

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The tarseal came off the conveyer-belt like a waterfall.

Angelique

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I saw a truck that had a conveyer-belt with lines in the conveyer-belt. It shot tarseal out of it. It looked like woodchips.

Tyne

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The tarseal flew into the truck.

Vigo

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The tarseal shot into the truck.

William G

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The truck went back, beep, beep, beep.

Ryan

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We looked at the roadworks. They sounded like stones falling in a bucket and it was really noisy and it was fun. The ground was shaking and we came into our room.

Leena

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I looked at the truck and it was amazing.

Tarrah-Bramble

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I like the truck and sometimes we miss the truck.

Charlotte

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The man went in the truck and ran over the tarseal.

Joe

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I saw the trucks today. They were growling.

Tinaania

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I like the roadworks.

Fergus

The Starlab in our Hall

The Starlab came to our school hall. 

Read some of our writing about the visit.

Starlab was fun and it was dark. It smelt like stars. 

By Oliver

I saw Starlab today and I went into Starlab in the tunnel. 

By Tinaania.

We went to Starlab. We crawled through. 

By Fergus.

We went in the Starlab one at a time. There was a person who got stung in the stars (a constellation). ByWilliam P

I went to Starlab. I climbed down the hole like a squirrel. By Zadyn

Space Art

We have made some beautiful pictures of space to hang in our classroom. We made them like a spray-paint artist would by colouring our planets and making some planet covers to protect them. Spray-paint artists use plates or potlids. We watched them on youtube.

Then we used sponges to put black all over our pictures. It was messy and our room was smelly.

The last step  was to peel off the covers we made and throw them away. You can see our beautiful planets that were protected underneath.

Now the fun part, we flicked white paint all over the room and some of it landed on our space pitcures. Mrs Walker has a star covered jacket to wear on duty.

You can see all of our finished pictures on our Art Gallery page. See the page menu along the top of our blog or just click here.

Seed Pods

We have been working on lots of observational drawings of lots of natural objects. We are using these to focus our talking and thinking about these objects. We are trying to improve our observation skills and use lots of interesting describing language. We write about our observations after we have worked with each natural object. These are some photos of us looking at seed pods from the harakeke (flax) plants outside our classroom. Ryan noticed a dried pod on the ground one day at fitness, we wondered what it was and where it had come from. When we looked up we saw the other pods, they are the flowers of the flax. We thought we could learn a lot from looking at it. We thought the lines on the pods were very beautiful.

Some of our observations are below.

We looked at seed pods. I noticed the seed pods were shaped like a banana. By Leena.

I had a seed pod and we drew them. By Joe.

We looked at seed pods. I saw it was brown. By Angelique.

The Room 2 Team

Swimming

Swimming lessons have been lots of fun. Here are some pictures of us at our swimming lessons. Thank you so much to all of the parents who have joined us at the pool and helped us keep track of most of our bits and pieces. Swimming lessons this Friday have had to be changed; there is no swimming this week. Our last session for Term 1 will be next Thursday the 21st March.