We went to a road safety lesson outside by the school driveway. We had cars and scooters to drive and pedestrian crossings to practise on. Did you know that pedestrian crossings are sometimes called zebra crossings? We learnt more about road safety and it was really good fun.

On Friday we all walked around Mauao because we are studying about Walking and Exploring places in our neighbourhood. We went to the Mount because it is an important place to us. Some Mums, Grandmas and Dads came too. We saw three shags' nests, Matakana Island, some boats, the statue who guards the harbour, the buoys that tell the ships the safe place to pass, we saw a man diving at Pilot Bay and lots of other interesting things.

It was cool fun.

We are going to learn about the legend of Mauao this week.

Does anyone know the legend?

Kerb Drill

On Monday the police lady, Constable Sarah came to teach us about road safety and kerb drill. Kerb drill is how to cross the road safely. We practised crossing over Ranch Rd. We also practised crossing sneaky driveways. We learnt heaps of safety rules.

By Kaden and Will.

Working with the Student Teachers

Today Lily Kate, Liam, Will and Maddy worked with the student teacher to make tornados. We used two bottles each, we chose which colour dye to have in our bottles and we also had glitter to make it look sparkly. We put coloured beads and hearts and stars in too. We used selotape to stick the bottles together. It was exciting listening to the noise it made when we tipped them upside down. We had an interesting happy time working with the student teacher.

Working with Student Teachers

Christian, Caleb, Kaden, Lily May and Hope worked with Ms Nightingale. First she read us a story about the Quangle Wangle's Hat. Next we made animals out of playdough. We made puppies, dragons, dogs, fish, spiders, a person and caterpillars. We liked working with Ms Nightingale and we liked the bright colourful playdough.

Working with Student Teachers

Mr Needs worked with Rylee, Shayden, Benjamin and Matt. First we had a story about a boat then we made some boats using cardboard, tin foil, paper and a straw. We had to test them to see if they would float. We had an interesting time and lots of fun.

Working with Student Teachers

Ollie, Ryan, Sophie, Emillie, Ashton and Haydon worked on mixing milk, dish washing liquid and dye. It turned into all sorts of shapes like sea horses and squids and things. Sophie saw a turtle and Emillie saw some brains. We wrote stories about the things we saw. It was fantastic fun.