Monday, May 30, 2011

Our VISY Recycling Centre trip

This is a video from our visit to the VISY Recycling Plant. We watched the trucks come in and dump the recycling in a pile. The pile was so big it needed to be pushed around by a front end loader! We also learned what we can recycle and what we shouldn't put in the recycling bin.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Stepping Out

Last term we had a visit from Sergeant Deane. He taught us how to cross the road safely and took us on a walk around the block to practice.
We remembered to stop at the curb, take a step back from the curb, use our eyes and our ears and look both ways to check for cars, then walk safely and briskly across the road.
Look at us Stepping Out!

Developmental Play

Our play sessions are based on the philosophy of child initiated learning, through play. Children have the opportunity to choose developmentally appropriate outdoor and indoor activities, between the four, year two classrooms.  Teachers provide a wide range of activities that include manipulative play, fantasy play, and real world play, as well as play which extends spacial, mathematical and scientific thinking. These sessions also give our teachers a chance to extend children’s emotional and social intelligences, whilst they are interacting and participating with a larger range of children.  (Balmoral School Developmental statement).

Auckland Art Gallery Trip

Here we are at the Education Centre at the Auckland Art Gallery. We are learning how to show who we are through portraiture. In our portraits we drew things, places and people that were special to us and we used ink to stamp our hand and fingerprints on our art. We were learning about Turangawaewae for our Term One Rich Task.

Red and Black fundraising day for the Canterbury Earthquake

Here are some photos of us on our fundraising day for the Canterbury Earthquake appeal. All the proceeds from us wearing red and black and bringing in a gold coin went to the Red Cross!
After a long day we took the sprinkler out to cool off and take the red and black face paint off our faces :)