iPads in the Classroom

Here is a very small snapshot of the children using iPads in the classroom. Some of the apps used are Sock Puppet, Fotobabble, Photochop, PuppetPals, WilderQuest, Camera and DoodleBuddy.

Wacky Hair and Hat Day

Road Safety with Constable Adele White - NZ Police

This is our mural. We have labelled the pedestrian crossing, no-stopping lines, grass verge, driveway, walkway, curb, gutter and road. We have drawn ourselves and glued them on in safe places.

Joshua and Alvin's Comic Life

Alex's Comic Life

Book week as it happened - Stu Duval, Chris Gurney and Clifford the Big Red Dog

Proboscis Discovery

A bee’s tongue, called a proboscis is long and pointy, so is yours if you stick it out as far as you can. Their tongue is soft like yours too. Bees need long tongues so that they can reach into flowers to where the nectar is.

Their tongue works like a straw. The bee unrolls it's tongue and dips it into a flower. Then sucks up the nectar like you would drink from a straw.

Bees will also use their tongues like a cat to lick their fur to keep themselves clean. They lick and clean each other and their mother the queen. Their tongues are also used like brooms to lick the inside of their hive to keep it clean.

Click on this link for more bee information.

Here we are using straws to experiment what it would be like be a bee using a proboscis. 

We had a competition to see which group could suck up the most water in 2 minutes.

It was a lot of fun!

Students blown away with landscape

Here are the results of the working bee led by Botany Life Community Trust.

We can't thank them enough for their hard work, generosity and community spirit.

ROOM 3 LOVE IT!!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU

Community Project 2011 - Walkthrough from BotanyLife Community Church on Vimeo.

We wrote letters to the Botany Life Community Trust to thank them.

Dear BotanyLife Community Church

I like how you made the gardens look nice at our school. From Zana

I like the maze because it is fun and I like walking around in the maze and I wanted to get to the middle. Thank you for making the maze. From Dykie

Thank you for building the sandpit and the maze. I really like it because the maze is very long and I got to the middle before someone else got to the middle. The sandpit is awesome! From Aum

Thank you for your help with building the garden. I like the sand. From Alex

Thank you for helping in the secret garden. I liked the maze and the sandpit most of all. From Krishant

Thank you for helping to plant our flowers in our corner. My favourite part is the sandpit. What is your favourite part? Did you help each other to work on all the things in the secret garden? From Benny

Thank you for the work. We are so lucky. From Mallika