Beau's weta

Today Beau brought to school a weta that he had found at his home. We released it into a Weta house that lives by the school creek. Regan helped us.

Ipads

We have just got 10 new ipads at our school. We have been learning how to use different apps.

We really like using toontastic and puppetpals.

Rural Life photos

We have been learning how to take fantastic photos with a rural theme. These photos have been entered into the CHB A and P show photo competition.

Our Vegie Gardens

Cam, Charlie, Max C, Rhys and Riley planted beetroot, celery,broccoli, lettuce and spring onion

Robi, Beau, William and Cali planted celery, lettuce, peas, cabbage and spring onion

Flynn, Kingston and Alex planted broccoli, spring onion, cabbage and lettuce. Max W and Tyrone were away when we planted.

Lucas, Cai, Rose, Gabriella and Eryn planted spinach, broccoli, spring onion and lettuce.

Riley and Kingston

We are very excited to have had Riley and Kingston start in our class last week.

We hope you both enjoy yourselves at Argyll East School.



HONEY POPCORN

Today we made honey popcorn and it was yummy!!!!!

FUN FRACTIONS

WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT FRACTIONS. TODAY WE LEARNT ABOUT QUARTERS. HAVE A LOOK AT OUR YUMMY ICE-CREAM FLAVOURS AND HOW MANY WE HAVE EACH.

SOCK PUPPETS

Beau read us a cool story about Boris and in the back their were instructions of how to make a sock puppet. We made them at Discovery Time on Friday.

Robi and his sock puppet.

Eryn and her sock puppet.

Cali and his sock puppet.

Space Discovery Time

We had great fun on Friday making and creating things that are in space.

 We had lots of fun on Friday making ourselves into astronauts with newspaper. Cali found it really hard to walk with all of that newpaper wrapped around him.

Rose and Gabriella did a great job of making a model of the solar system. All the planets could spin around the sun. 

Term 3

Great to be back at school today. Everyone was very excited to begin the term with Mr Jamieson as principal. We had a really busy first day in the junior room and it was great to see that everyone could still follow rules and routines after two weeks off.

Buddy Writing

The wait is nearly over until we meet our new Principal- Mr Jamieson!!! Check out our stories we wrote about Mr Jamieson with our buddies.

Here comes Mr Jamieson in a stripy car. He has big orange glowing glasses. He looks like Harry Potter and he looks magic too. He likes fish and chips, pizza, and lamb from the farm.

From Max C, William L and Jayden

Mr Jamieson used to work at Onekawa Primary School in Napier. Now he is coming to phenomenal Argyll East School to teach and be our principal. We think he will be a great and cool principal and we can’t wait to meeting and have him at Argyll East School. We are sure he will bring lots of new and exciting thing to our school and the seniors will enjoy having him as their new teacher.

By Jaime, Connor, Lucas and Gabriella

Yay its Mr Jamieson!! Mr Jamieson will be welcomed to AEDS by a hangi, presentation and mihi whakatau. He will be the senior room teacher and principal. We hope he has many happy years at Argyll.

By Jonty, Jacob and Rose.

Discovery Time 15th June

Today during Discovery Time we made fishing rods out of bamboo, string and paper clips. We then made fish and put magnets on them. We had to try and catch them. It was quite tricky.

Beau and Robi made a really big robot out of all the boxes we have at the craft table and Rhys and Tyrone designed a really long race track. It took them a long time.

We are learning to use Voicethreads

We have been learning to say Good Morning in different ways. Click play to hear how we can say it.

Reading Feedback

Some of the Year 2's have been reading in front of the class and we have been learning to give feedback to their reading. Check out Deluca's reading and then her feedback. 

Beau- she had a nice voice and she read even fixed up some words.

Rose- Deluca read fluently

Rhys- I like the way she read clearly

Max C- She read really good and she showed us pictures in the book. Deluca said that she thinks she needs to speaker louder so everyone can hear her.

Minibeast models

Check out out models of our minibeasts. Can you guess what they are???

OUR ARGYLL SONG

This is our Argyll East Song that  we need to teach to our parents and families for the  mihi whakatau.

Phonics Song

Our 5 year olds are enjoying learning their alphabet with this song

3 new students

We are very excited to have 3 new students in our class this week.

Tyrone Smith, William Carter and Gabriella Olsen.

We hope you have a great time at Argyll East School.

The Gruffalo - One of our favourites

Collage Writing

Flynn wrote a story using magazine letters.

Rose made different words with the letters.

Boy Band

During discovery time today the boys decided to make a band with the musical instruments we had.

LADYBUGS

We have been learning to write descriptions. This week we have described ladybugs. First we had to research information and then brainstorm. Then we put all our information together to write a description.

Ladybugs are red with black spots.

They have six legs.

Ladybugs fl y with their little wings and crawl with their little legs. They like to eat aphids and mites and other little bugs alive.

A Ladybug has four stages of a lifecycle – egg, larvae,pupa and an adult.

By Deluca

Ladybugs have six legs. They are black and red. They have black spots and red skin.

Ladybugs fly with their little wings. They crawl with little legs. They like to eat lots.

Ladybugs like to eat aphids, mites and any other insects alive.

Ladybugs have four stages of their lifecycle. It stars as an egg, larva, pupa and then an adult.

By Cameron

Ladybugs can fly. Ladybugs lay eggs, then turn into larva and then turn into pupa and then into an adult ladybug. When they are not flying they tuck in their wings.

By Rose

Ladybugs rest on leaves. They have red skin and black spots.

By Max Chadwick

 

HUHU GRUB

We are learning all about Minibeasts this term. Cam brought to school a huhu grub to show us that was found in some wood. We are excited about going exploring to find more minibeasts and identifying them.

Thanks Cam for showing this to us.

WACKY HAIR DAY

On Tuesday 3rd April we had a wacky hair and mufti day to raise money for our sponsor child Adama. There were some very wacky hair styles!!!